Objects and artifacts are potent signs of cultural values, and in popular media they are often used as external signs of racial identity. This dissertation investigates how certain objects and settings come to be identified as characteristic of particular racial groups, and how …
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This study sets out to investigate the impact and implication of a discreet quantum of Irish, responding to nineteenth century urban life, in a small sized city, which had not been inundated by a disproportionate influx of Irish-born from the later 1840s. It seeks to understand …
The thesis examines the cultural and political significance of the formal and stylisticstrategies in the work of Jonathan Swift; particularly the early prose satire A Tale of aTub. Given his Irish origins and the largely colonial basis of England's relationshipwith Ireland, Swif…
The main focus of this thesis is the Irish population of Bristol from 1938 to 1985. Up to now, the twentieth century Bristol Irish have been largely absent from the historical and sociological discourse on both Bristol and the Irish in Britain. This thesis seeks to address their…
The Catholic Church in recent times has had to look more and more towards the Churches of the South for its missionary personnel. Thanks largely to the Igbo Catholic Church of southeastern Nigeria, which is the pride of the Irish Holy Ghost Fathers' (Spiritans) missionary aposto…
Out of Egypt investigates the privileged place of the biblical trope of Exodus in religious, political, and cultural rhetoric in Ireland, particularly during the anti-colonial struggles of the last century. From the metaphoric identification of the Irish with enslaved Israelites…
From the middle of the eighteenth century through the first decades of the nineteenth, British and Irish literature teemed with minstrels, bards, improvisers, troubadours, and harpers. Minstrel literature (my shorthand term for writing about all these performers, especially the …
Reading and viewing twentieth-century Irish drama means repeatedly encountering Irish songs and traditional musical instruments. While music is an element in most theatre performance, Irish Traditional Music (ITM) figures centrally in much Irish theatre, signaling the cultural a…
This project examines the life of my grandfather, John Robert McGowan, fondly known to me as Pop Pop. His stories follow him through a childhood growing up in the Great Depression in a working class family, to serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and to working three jobs i…
In his 1893 poem, "To Ireland in the Coming Times" Yeats claimed to have shared a particular literary heritage with Ferguson, Davis, and Mangan, writers commonly understood as predecessors to the Irish literary revival. As this study demonstrates, however, these writers had oppo…