• Contents: Nicholas Grene: Irish English as a Literary Language: Authority and Subversion - Brigitte Bastiat/Frank Healy: Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty. From Written Translation to Stage Interpretation - Bertrand Cardin: Authorities in Crisis and Intertextual Practice: The Example of Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin - Audrey Robitaillie: "Come Away, Stolen Child": Colum McCann's and Keith Donohue's New Readings of the Yeatsian Motif - Mehdi Ghassemi: Authorial and Perceptual Crises in John Banville's Shroud - Virginie Girel-Pietka: Looking for Oneself in Denis Johnston's Plays: Authorities in Crisis and Self-Authorship - Chantal Dessaint: "Suffer the little children ...": Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Strategies of Subversion - Mathew D. Staunton/Nathalie Sebbane: Authority and Child Abuse in Ireland: Rethinking History in a Hostile Field - Valerie Peyronel: The Banking Crisis in Ireland and its Resolution: Authority(ies) in Question? - Marie-Violaine Louvet: Challenging the Authority of the Irish State on the Question of the Middle East: The Two Gaza Flotillas of May 2010 and November 2011 - Michel Savaric: The IRA and 'Civil Administration': A Challenge to the Authority of the State? - Fabrice Mourlon: The Crisis of Authority in You, Me and Marley - Claire Dubois: "Through Darkest Obstruction": Challenging the British Representation of Ireland (1880-1910) - Ciaran Brady: An Old Kind of History: The Anglo-Irish Writing of Irish History, 1840-1910.
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This volume sets out to investigate how various forms of authority in Irish culture and history have been challenged and transformed by a crisis situation. In literature and the arts, a reappraisal of the authority of canonical authors - and also of traditional forms, paradigms and critical discourses - principally revolves around intertextuality and rewriting, as well as the wider crisis of (authoritative) representation. What is the authority of an author, of a text, of literature itself? How do works of fiction represent, generate or resolve crises on their own aesthetic, stylistic and representational terms? The Irish Republic has faced a number of serious crises and challenges since it came into existence. In recent years, the collapse of the Celtic Tiger has acted as a catalyst for change, revealing various structures of political, religious and economic authority giving way under pressure. In Northern Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement has led to major developments as new authorities endowed with legislative and executive powers have been set up. In its focus on the subject of authority and crisis in Ireland, this book opens up a rich and varied field of investigation.
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A selection of extracts from the work of James Joyce, accompanied by photographs of Ireland.
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• What we did or tried to do, by W.B. Yeats. - Irish coinage past and present, by J.J. McElligott. - Summary of the proceedings. ...

• Settlement in the West
• London Irish.

This is a biography and critical analysis of Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), best-known as one of the "Glasgow Boys" and one of the most "French" of the British impressionists. Born in Belfast in 1856, he studied at Haldane Academy in Glasgow, and from there he travelled to France where he came under the influence of Bastien-Lepage. In 1885 he achieved international recognition for "The Tennis Party", a rendition of the sons and daughters of late-Victorian industrialists at play. After the International Exhibition at Glasgow in 1888, Lavery took on commissions as a portraitist and "visual reporter". He was a highly skilled on-the-spot sketcher as well as a painter of carefully planned ceremonial portraits which reveal the profound effect of Whistler's influence. His sitters were members of the aristocracy, leading politicians and personalities from three generations covering the period from 1880 to 1940. Ever versatile, Lavery produced memorable images on his sojourns in Tangier and his travels to France, Switzerland and the United States. Despite advancing years he was a daring official war artist and a recorder of the struggle for Irish independence. Two notable trips to Hollywood and Palm Springs, just before his death, introduced him to the world of cinema.
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