Type/Formats:
Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
Publisher:
University College Dublin
Contributor:
Sisson, Elaine (Elaine Sisson)
Abstract:
This lecture is focused primarily on the pre-revolutionary period in Ireland and looks at the cultural and visual significance of the image of the boy within Irish nationalist discourse.
Type/Formats:
Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
Publisher:
University College Dublin
Contributor:
Mackay, Peter, 1979- (Peter Mackay)
Abstract:
The relationship between the poetic and the national is crucial to how war poetry is perceived and interpreted. This essay looks at Second World War (and wartime) poetry from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and in particular at images of absence, cancellation, annulment and... [ … ]
Type/Formats:
Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
Publisher:
University College Dublin
Contributor:
Groom, Nick, 1966- (Nick Groom)
Abstract:
Nick Groom's study of the union, The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag, was published in 2006. In this paper, he brings that story up to the present day by surveying the past five years of Union Jackery, from Gordon Brown's initial enthusiasm for new definitions of Britishness through... [ … ]