Saint Casement

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Alison Garden
Keyword(s):  
Irish History ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Radio Play ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores Casement’s afterlives in drama, arguing that the intermedial recycling of various aspects of Casement’s life, legacy and politics continue to fascinate dramatists. The first play discussed is George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan (1923) and, reading Shaw’s play alongside copious archival sources, this chapter seeks to assess the extent of the relationship - political, historical and imaginative - between Shaw and Casement. David Rudkin’s radio play, Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin, uses the power of voice and accent to eruditely and creatively stage Casement’s contradictory and evolving sense of identity. Finally, this chapter explicates how Martin McDonagh’s use of Casement in The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) is glancing but powerful, testifying to the power that Irish history can continue to hold on contemporary politics, even if it is misunderstood and misplaced.

Writings on Irish history, 1970

1971 ◽  
Vol 17 (68) ◽  
pp. 549-576
Author(s):  
Ludwig Bieler ◽  
R. Dudley Edwards ◽  
Patrick Henchy ◽  
J. F. M. Lydon ◽  
T W Moody
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Contemporary Politics

The following list includes books and articles on Irish history in which the year 1970 is given in the work itself as the date of publication, together with Addenda for 1965-9. The list excludes current works of reference, parliamentary publications, writings on contemporary politics, and items in newspapers; reports of archaeological finds and literary and linguistic studies, presented without reference to their historical context; and writings of little scholarly value. Reviews or short notices of many of the items listed will be found in this journal.

Indecipherable Lostness

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-179
Author(s):  
Benedict Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
American Character ◽  
Ethical System ◽  
System P ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the play with genre in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010), a film which troubles the relationship between many familiar signifiers of the western genre—including its mute characters—and their customary significations. The film does not simply rearrange meanings; binary Manichaeism is not replaced by an alternative ethical system, female characters do not become active narrative drivers, and the Native American character does not become heroic. Instead, meaning is complicated, as inarticulate silence disrupts the settlers’ sense of identity and the Native American becomes an inscrutable signifier for both salvation and destruction. This chapter argues that genre is used as a critical (rather than textual) apparatus for marshalling films into pre-arranged significance that relies on the seamless operation of genre signifiers. Meek’s Cutoff makes visible the complications at work in all westerns, invites a reappraisal of these eccentric films, and critiques genre as an ideological knowledge system.

scholarly journals The ground trembling under our feet : truth, politics and solitude.

Soft Power ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-129
Author(s):  
Mirko Alagna
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Point Of No Return ◽  
The Relationship

Fake news, Post-Truth are now entries into the ordinary language of contemporary politics to denote - with anxiety and concern - the definitive rupture of the relationship between truth and politics. A relationship that has never been idyllic and that cannot be, constitutively, idyllic, but which now seems to have reached a point of no return. Glossing the reflections of Hannah Arendt in Truth and Politics and pointing out two areas of “political licence” - that is, two areas where, inevitably, politics cannot be judged on parameters of truth - this contribution aims to treat the weakness of shared truths not as a cause of the crisis of democracies, but as a symptom of a more radical problem, an extreme subjectivism that leads to loneliness and intolerance towards any relationship based on trust.

scholarly journals Significance of the Correlation in Turn-taking Dialogues

2013 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Lourembam Surjit Singh ◽  
R.K. Brojen Singh
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Information Functions ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Radio Play ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This piece of work investigates the relation between characters in a play based on turntaking dialogues. As the dialogues are related to each other in the play, numbers of turn-taking are significant of the characters’ relationship and the utterances give indication about the information content of the interaction. In this Manipuri radio play, the sequence of turns taken by the characters convey different amount of information with different functions. Numbers of dialogues oscillate significantly with a period of 2 scenes during the play. The degree of oscillation present in turn-taking dialogues carries significant information functions. The nature of the relationship between the characters involved and the theme of the play may be characterised by calculations on turn-taking dialogues.

Creative Personality and Identity

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1103-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Dellas
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Functional State ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Resolution Of The Identity ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Identity Task

Assuming that particular personality configurations would encounter particular situations and problems which affect their approach to and resolution of the identity task, this article considers the relationship of the concept of identity proposed by Erikson to those characteristics that distinguish highly creative individuals. Several hypotheses are advanced regarding the conditions encountered by these individuals in the process of identity formation as a function of their characteristics. On the basis of these conditions, it is suggested that their sense of identity is tentative and tenuous, involving a series of configurations, each more complex and comprehensive and reflecting a deeper penetration of their constituent elements. It is also suggested that this is a functional state compatible with their creative orientation.

The Romance of Canada: Nationalism and Canadian Historiography

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (s4) ◽  
pp. s907-s976
Author(s):  
Paul Litt
Keyword(s):  
Historical Review ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Nationalism ◽  
The Relationship

This is a short overview history of the relationship between Canadian historians and Canadian nationalism. It maps the historiography of Canadian nationalism against its significant manifestations in Canadian society and developments in nationalism scholarship internationally. Three conjunctures when the fate of the nation loomed large in Canadian historiography are featured. Evidence from the Canadian Historical Review (chr) is highlighted throughout, and, for each conjuncture, relevant articles from the chr are provided for further reading. In reflecting on this history, this article considers Canadian historians’ accomplishments and failures in understanding Canadian nationalism as well as the contemporary politics and praxis of their relationship with nation.

scholarly journals Experience – Information – Image: A Historiography of Unfolding. Arab Cinema as Example

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura U. Marks
Keyword(s):  
Information Age ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Information Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Triadic Relationship ◽  
Do So

Why do certain images of history reach us, while others remain seemingly forgotten, in the infinite breadth of the past? Why do only certain events seem to matter? I suggest those experiences are not forgotten but enfolded. The contemporary politics of historiography can be conceptualized according to the relationship between Experience, Information, and Image; a triadic relationship I have proposed to understand the nature of the image in the information age. While Experience is infinite, the vast majority of experience lies latent. Few Images ever arise from it. In our age, those that do tend to be selected, or unfolded, by political and economic interests that deem them to be useful as Information. Nevertheless, anyone can unfold any aspect of Experience to become a public image, and artists (and others) do so in order to allow other aspects of Experience to circulate, before they enfold, back into the matrix of history. I will show an animated diagram that illustrates this concept of history as a flow of unfolding and enfolding, influenced by concepts from Charles Sanders Peirce and Gilles Deleuze. Many artworks can be illuminated by this process. My examples will be drawn from contemporary Arab cinema. In the heavily politicized Arab milieu, the Image world is constructed as a selective unfolding of only those aspects of Experience that are deemed to be useful or profitable. Some Arab filmmakers, rather than deconstruct the resulting ideological images, prefer to carry out their own unfoldings:  explicating hitherto latent events, knowledges, and sensations. Thus what official history deems merely personal, absurd, micro-events, or no events at all, becomes the stuff of a rich alternative historiography. This process characterizes the work of, among others, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Nisrine Khodr, Mohammed Soueid, and Akram Zaatari (Lebanon), Azza El-Hassan, Elia Suleiman, and Sobhi Al-Zobaidi (Palestine), and Mohamad Khan (Egypt).

“Irish First”: Daniel O’Connell, the Native Manufacture Campaign, and Economic Nationalism, 1840–44

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Nationalism ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Public Comment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Land Question ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between nationalism and the land, observes Philip Bull in his recent study of the Irish land question, “formed a nexus which was so strong that the one issue became effectively a metaphor for the other.” Any student of nineteenth-century Irish politics can appreciate the force of this eloquent conclusion. Nevertheless, the preoccupation with the land by contemporaries and historians alike has relegated an important strand of economic nationalism devoted to manufacturing industry to a footnote in Irish history. The fate of manufacturing industry in the aftermath of the Union of 1800 is the subject of controversy among scholars suggesting, at the very least, substantial regional and sectoral variations. Contemporaries, however, were in little doubt that Irish manufacturing industry was suffering from terminal decline, a perception that had formed a regular reprise in public comment throughout the previous century. As John O’Connell wrote in 1849 “the question of Irish manufacturing has been, for more than a century and a half, one of the chief grounds of bitterness and bickerings” between Ireland and England.

De Gente Scottorum Monachi

2020 ◽  
pp. 388-406
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Picard
Keyword(s):  
Seventh Century ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Similar Role ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Relationship

The Irish played an important role in the remarkable development of monasticism in seventh-century Merovingian Gaul. Merovingian rulers sponsored the foundation of monasteries not only for religious motives but also as an element in their settlement strategy for liminal areas and newly conquered territory. The Irish monastic foundations on the continent (e.g., Luxeuil, Péronne, Fosses) were in fact the result of close cooperation between Frankish kings or magnates and Irish individuals who, while preserving a certain independence, as was the custom in Ireland, contributed to the reorganization of lands conquered by the Franks. The cooperation between Irish ecclesiastics and Frankish warlords was not the result of chance encounter and must be understood in the wider context of early commercial contacts between Ireland and Merovingian Gaul and Frankish interests in the British Isles. The relationship between the Irish and the Frankish aristocracy was a privileged one but not unique, as other groups from the insular world, Bretons and Anglo-Saxons, played a similar role in the foundation of monasteries as part of the Frankish settlement strategy. Within that larger context, the Irish managed to preserve a strong sense of identity throughout the Merovingian period and established a positive reputation that lasted well into the Carolingian era.

For the Boys in the Family: An Investigation Into the Relationship Between “Honor”-Based Violence and Endogamy

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1332-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne L. Payton
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Cousin Marriage ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Alternative Position ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
The Relationship

Germaine Tillion’s classic work of ethnology My Cousin, My Husband related so-called “honor”-based violence (HBV) to the institution of cousin marriage as a response to women’s entitlement to inheritance within the Greater Mediterranean Region. This article will scrutinize Tillion’s position using original survey data gathered in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, finding that although there is a correlation between HBV and cousin marriage, Tillion’s association of this with inheritance laws is inadequate. An alternative position is proposed, in which the relationship between HBV and cousin marriage is situated in coercion around marriage, intergenerational tensions, and in-group exclusivity, exacerbated by the contemporary politics of nationalist neopatrimonialism and an economy based in oil rentierism.

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