This study argues that it is only through its epistemological perspective that nationalism can be properly analyzed. It goes on to offer such an analysis, utilizing the work of Jacques Lacan. This study contents that the captation of the self by a reflected, two-dimensional imag…
This work explores the interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature. It discusses a host of unusual topics, from Shaw and science and Irish attitudes, to nature and the question of language, and a full-scale investigation of the Celtic revival.
When James Joyce called the Irish 'the most belated race in Europe', he stated a complex truth about the history of his people and the nation they had been creating since the eighteenth century. The Irish would, in Joyce's lifetime, write many of the masterpieces of modernism in…
Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the 'four obedient shires' and how this shaped English identity.
Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the 'four obedient shires' and how this shaped English identity. "Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the la…
