From Brigit to Bailegangaire : The Development of Tom Murphy's Mommo Trilogy

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-339
Author(s):  
Shaun Richards
Keyword(s):  
Causal Chain ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Irish Famine ◽  
Abbey Theatre ◽  
Relationship Of

Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire, premiered by Druid Theatre, Galway, in 1985 has its origins in a three-part TV drama which Murphy started planning in 1981. Of the three scripts only one, Brigit, was screened by RTÉ in 1988, The Contest became A Thief of a Christmas which was staged by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1988, and Mommo, the last of the projected trilogy, became Bailegangaire. In 2014, nearly 30 years after its premiere, Druid staged Bailegangaire in tandem with Brigit which Murphy had reworked for the theatre, a pairing which, in bringing the fraught relationship of Mommo and her husband, Seamus, to the fore, helped clarify the grounds of the trauma informing her endless, but never completed narrative. This essay uses Murphy's notebooks and drafts, along with a comparison of Brigit in both its TV and theatre forms, to show how Murphy progressively refined Bailegangaire into a drama whose causal chain stretches back to psychological states forged under the stresses of the Irish Famine.

scholarly journals The specifics of interpretation of the history in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine»

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
S. V. Sheyanova ◽  
◽  
N. M. Yusupova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction: at present the reader’s audience is particularly interested in creative experiments in which the historical fate of the Russian peasantry in the «turning» eras is artistically comprehended. The article is devoted to the study of the problem-thematic range of modern Mordovian historical prose. The subject of analysis is the peculiarity of the reception of the period of collectivization and dekulakization in the story by Erzyan prose writer A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine». Objective: to reveal the features of the artistic reconstruction of the events of the 1930s, the modeling of the relationship between a man and society in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine».Research materials: the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine». Results and novelty of the research: the historical story « A Wolf Ravine » for the first time becomes the object of scientific understanding and is introduced into the context of Finno-Ugric literary criticism. A. Doronin artistically interprets the real events and circumstances of the resettlement of dispossessed peasants of the Volga region to the uninhabited steppes of Kazakhstan. As a result of the study, we conclude that the actualization of this problem-thematic cluster is due to the creative concept of the historical writer; the individual author’s approach to the reconstruction of historical narrative can be traced in the writer’s desire to realistically reveal the relationship of personality and society in the tragic 1930s; to analyze intentions of people and of the psychological states of the characters. Problems of a sociopolitical nature, actualized in the story, are filled with philosophical, axiological content, and lead to a multi-faceted understanding of the «man and history» problem.

‘It was then I knew life’: Political Critique and Moral Debate in Teresa Deevy's Temporal Powers (1932)

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-355
Author(s):  
Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Free State ◽  
Abbey Theatre ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Moral Debate ◽  
Irish Free State ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article argues that Teresa Deevy's early plays for the Abbey Theatre deliberately intervened in the cultural politics of the Irish Free State. While the focus here is on Temporal Powers (1932), Deevy's first two Abbey productions, The Reapers (1930) and A Disciple (1931), are also considered. Taken together, this article demonstrates how these plays present a striking critique of the new state under the Cumann na nGaedhael administration. Set in 1927, during the Land Annuities crisis, Temporal Powers meditates on the relationship of poor tenant labourers to the land and society they inhabit. In it, Deevy explores themes such as eviction, homelessness, emigration, justice, religion, grief, and poverty. This article introduces this little-known play, contextualises it, and discusses her treatment of key themes through an examination of characters, Shavian influences, dramatic structure and form.

scholarly journals The Relationship of Oral Health between Psychological States in Adults of South Korea

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong-Keum CHOI ◽  
Yoonhee KIM ◽  
Jung-Hui SON ◽  
Jin-Sun CHOI
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

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Inter-Relationship of Body Disease and Psychological Disorder

2016 ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Body Tissues ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

In this chapter, Winnicott summarises diseases of the soma (body), which are in origin hereditary, congenital, intake deficiency, accident, infestation and infection, and the effect on the body tissues of psychological states. He then summarises illness of the psyche, which for Winnicott is clinically a disorder of emotional development. He summarises again the neuroses, psychoses, and schizophrenia, and adds that these distinctions between psyche and soma then enable him to make interconnections between the two, leaving out for the moment the impact of the environment on each.

Unlikely Heroes: Katharine Tynan's The Story of Bawn, the Irish Famine, and the Sentimental Tradition

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Roos
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Sentimental Fiction ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Irish Famine ◽  
Abbey Theatre ◽  
Extended Analysis ◽  
Gender Inequities ◽  
And Gender

In this article, I argue that the effort to write the ‘unwritten’ Famine is not only visible in canonical Irish writers of the Modernist moment, but also in its less canonical writers and genres – particularly, in this essay, the sentimental fiction of Katharine Tynan. This essay functions to recuperate Tynan's fiction from a qualified reputation understood through her friendship with W.B. Yeats, and informed by his assessment of her work. In particular, an extended analysis of Tynan's The Story of Bawn demonstrates the narrative strategies through which Tynan's sentimental romances offered scathing critiques of Ireland's politics, economics, and gender inequities. Through these strategies, Tynan sought not only to entertain, but to educate middle-class women about their world in a method comparable to the satires produced by the Abbey Theatre and anticipating the strategies that would be taken up by the avant-garde Modernists on the Continent.

scholarly journals Dealing with Rejection: Post-Event Processing in Social Anxiety and Paranoia

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-563
Author(s):  
Marilyn L. Piccirillo ◽  
Richard G. Heimberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Anxiety State ◽  
Event Processing ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Time Points ◽  
State Anger ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Relationship Of

Social anxiety and paranoia both involve a ‘fear of others’ and often co-occur. Post-event processing (PEP), the mental replaying of social events after their conclusion, may be related to both psychological states, although there has been little test of this premise for paranoia. This study examined PEP after social exclusion as a function of social anxiety and paranoia and the potential moderating role of state anger at three time-points. PEP predicted PEP at later time-points, social anxiety and paranoia predicted greater engagement in PEP, and paranoia amplified levels of PEP at higher levels of social anxiety. State anger moderated the relationship between paranoia and PEP, but not between social anxiety and PEP. These results corroborate the transdiagnostic nature of PEP and underscore the co-occurring relationship of paranoia and social anxiety. Future research is necessary to elucidate shared mechanisms between social anxiety and paranoia to advance models, treatments, and prevention efforts.

Pantriadic Wonder

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Lord Of The Rings ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Temporal Profiles ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter focuses on the wider cultural and psychological ramifications of chromaticism in film music. It is argued that pantriadicism strives for a specific affect: wonderment, and with it two subsidiary psychological states, frisson and awe. Both literary and cognitive/psychological accounts are given for this affect’s connection with harmony, with particular emphasis on the relationship of emotion and musical expectation. Frisson and awe have distinctive temporal profiles, leading to an evaluation of theoretical and empirical work on subjective temporality in connection with chromaticism. The analytical ramifications of this theory of chromatic temporality are examined with respect to a single large-scale case study, Howard Shore’s music for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In the process, the author finds ways of integrating two traditionally separate analytical approaches: transformational networks and cognitive models of musical expectation.

scholarly journals Technostress and Employee Performance Nexus During COVID-19: Training and Creative Self-Efficacy as Moderators

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farida Saleem ◽  
Muhammad Imran Malik ◽  
Saiqa Saddiqa Qureshi ◽  
Muhammad Faisal Farid ◽  
Sabeen Qamar
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
University Instructors ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Technostress, a stressor, has implications for employee’s psychological states; however, flexibility like work from home can have positive outcomes, especially for instructors who have to teach and ensure social distance during COVID-19. The present study examined the relationship of technostress and employee performance while taking training and creative self-efficacy as boundary conditions. A sample of 222 university instructors, who worked from home or hybrid (home and workplace) during COVID-19 lockdown, was selected from Pakistan. The responses were recorded using a closed-ended questionnaire. Stepwise linear regression and PROCESS Macro by Hayes (2013) was used to analyze the data. It was revealed that technostress, instead of having adverse effects, had a positive effect on employee’s performance and both training and one’s creative self-efficacy significantly moderated the relationship. As the main finding, it was revealed that the employees continued to perform well despite the prevalence of technostress. The training and one’s creative self-efficacy were useful to control the technostress and maintain the performance of instructors during COVID-19. The university administrators and employees must take technology as a positive tool for performance. The training, along with creative self-efficacy, adds to the working capacity of employees and enhances their performance.

scholarly journals Homicidal Act Commited by an Elderly Person With Sexual Dysfunction. Case Report

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3sup1) ◽  
pp. 08-19
Author(s):  
Sebastian Ionut Toma ◽  
◽  
Barabas Barna ◽  
Daniel Tabian ◽  
Calin Scripcaru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Causal Chain ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric

Sexual dysfunctions (SDs) are highly prevalent with aging. Studies reported an interactive correlation between psychiatric morbidity and SD. Also, SDs have significant influence on patients` self-esteem, body image, interpersonal relationships, and physical health in general. The aim of the present research is to present an intimate partner homicide case and to discuss a possible correlation between SDs of elderly patients and their inclination towards aggressive behavior from intimate partner violence (IPV). A forensic psychiatric assessment was performed on a married male patient, aged 61. He was diagnosed and treated for BPH and he could no longer have sexual intercourse. Using a knife, he provoked over 20 stab wounds to his wife, who died following the attack. He admitted that he was jealous, due to his wife having an affair. The psychiatric forensic expertise found that the killing was committed with discernment. Psychological states found in IPV perpetrators are partly like those met in SDs patients. The relation between SDs in older adults and aggressive behavior, especially IPV, requires further research. In the case discussed, a complex of negative emotions and aggressiveness could be determined equally by infidelity of the spouse or by the perpetrator’s SD, but we can assume that SD played a relevant role in the causal chain.

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