Cú Chulainn and Expressions of Foster Fatherhood

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom C. O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Foster Children ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Foster Fathers ◽  
Medieval Ireland

This chapter introduces the concept of fosterage in medieval Ireland, who was fostered, by whom and the terminology that was used to express these relationships. How fosterage was practiced will have an effect on the emotions within fosterage were created and expressed. Taking the figure of Cú Chulainn as a case study, we see that maternal kin were usually used as fosterers and so the practice allowed a continued emotional connection to remain with the mother’s family. Cú Chulainn’s multiple fosterage is used to examine how prevalent that practice was in medieval Irish society and what impact it had on the bond between foster fathers and their foster children.

“It Both Is and Isn’t My Life”

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Leah Anderst
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Emotional Connection ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Autobiography Studies

From the perspective of autobiography studies and theory, the musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s important graphic memoir Fun Home is a fascinating case study. What of one’s life and experiences can one represent in words and in images? How much “fiction” might creep in given the imprecise nature of memory? How can one sign one’s name as the sole author of one’s life story when the often myriad people surrounding one contributed important pieces within one’s life—when all life writing is in fact relational? How, then, do these questions shift, in what new light can we see them, when an autobiographical text is adapted into another medium, by new writers, and performed nightly by actors? In particular, how does the musical and theatrical performance, experienced collectively, communicate experiences and feelings to an audience differently than does a book that one consumes alone? By comparing particular scenes and songs from the musical with their “source” scenes in Bechdel’s graphic memoir, this chapter will explore these questions paying close attention especially to scenes and strategies in each text that seem to call out for affective response and emotional connection from the audience and the reader.

Constructing ageing and age identities: a case study of newspaper discourses

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERARD FEALY ◽  
MARTIN McNAMARA ◽  
MARGARET PEARL TREACY ◽  
IMOGEN LYONS
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Age Identity ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
Media Event

ABSTRACTPublic discourses concerning older people are available in a variety of texts, including popular media, and these discourses position older people with particular age identities. This study examined discursive formations of ageing and age identities in print media in Ireland. Constituting a single media event, newspaper texts concerned with revised welfare provision for older people were subjected to critical discourse analysis and revealed particular ways of naming and referencing older people and distinct constructions of ageing and age identities. The use of nouns and phrases to name and reference older people positioned them as a distinct demographic group and a latent ageism was discernible in texts that deployed collective names like ‘grannies and grandads’ and ‘little old ladies’. Five distinct identity types were available in the texts, variously constructing older people as ‘victims’; ‘frail, infirm and vulnerable’; ‘radicalised citizens’; ‘deserving old’ and ‘undeserving old’. The discourses made available subject positions that collectively produced identities of implied dependency and otherness, thereby placing older people outside mainstream Irish society. The proposition that older people might be healthy, self-reliant and capable of autonomous living was largely absent in the discourses. Newspaper discourses betray taken-for-granted assumptions and reveal dominant social constructions of ageing and age identity that have consequences for older people's behaviour and for the way that society behaves towards them.

The use of public houses as a collective representation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 079160352110292
Author(s):  
John O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Other ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Collective Representation ◽  
Land War ◽  
Moral Duties

Pubs have served as a collective representation through which the collective identity of ‘Irish society’ has been articulated during the crisis of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As such they offer a case study of how meaning making occurs in contemporary periods of social crisis. While the neoliberal era is widely interpreted as period involving a process of desymbolisation in which meaning giving traditions are undermined, in this period of social crisis long-established and authoritative narratives drawn from collective memory circulated to articulate the meaning of the pandemic for the collective identity in the sense of its nature, character, boundaries, ‘others’, and moral duties and sacrifices that membership implied. Highly stereotyped images of the sacred moral core of the collective as represented by publicans who embodied qualities of age and maturity, rural, cultural-nationalist identity and a post Land War ideal of community-oriented owner-proprieters appeared. Similarly conventional representations of the immoral enemies within, who threaten to morally and literally infect the community, can be seen in representations of venues and drinkers who embody youth, the urban crowd and mixing. The ‘other’ through which identity is articulated against was represented through Britishness, which was shown as the source of the undesirable aspects of modernity.

‘Y Ganrif Fawr’? Piety, Literature and Patronage in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Wales

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 107-123
Author(s):  
Katharine K. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
Lay Piety ◽  
History Of ◽  
Welsh Literature ◽  
Medieval Ireland

This essay offers a reconsideration of the idea of ‘The Great Century’ of Welsh literature (1435–1535) and related assumptions of periodization for understanding the development of lay piety and literature in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Wales. It focuses on the origins of these ideas in (and their debt to) modern Welsh nationalist and Protestant and Catholic confessional thought, and their significance for the interpretation of Welsh literature and history. In addition, it questions their accuracy and usefulness in the light of contemporary patterns of manuscript production, patronage and devotional content of Welsh books of poetry and prose produced by the laity during and after this ‘golden age’ of literature. Despite the existence of over a hundred printed works in Welsh by 1660, the vernacular manuscript tradition remained robust; indeed, ‘native culture for the most part continued to be transmitted as it had been transmitted for centuries, orally or in manuscript’ until the eighteenth century. Bardic poetry’s value as a fundamental source for the history of medieval Ireland and Wales has been rightly acknowledged. However, more generally, Welsh manuscripts of both poetry and prose must be seen as a crucial historical source. They tell us much about contemporary views, interests and priorities, and offer a significant window onto the devotional world of medieval and early modern Welsh men and women. Drawing on recent work on Welsh literature, this paper explores the production and patronage of such books and the dynamics of cultural and religious change. Utilizing National Library of Wales Llanstephan MS 117D as a case study, it also examines their significance and implications for broader trends in lay piety and the nature of religious change in Wales.

Kingship, Society, and Sacrality: Rank, Power, and Ideology in Early Medieval Ireland

Traditio ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 45-75
Author(s):  
N. B. Aitchison
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Medieval Ireland

Early medieval Irish society was highly stratified, possessing a formalized ranking structure, and ritual played an important part in legitimizing the possession of rank and office, especially kingship. Power was ultimately dependent on physical force, but was maintained through the control of land, agricultural production, exchange, and—in particular—livestock. The basis of power, however, was inherently unstable. Although some kingdoms and dynasties exhibited powerful centralizing tendencies, political power was essentially transitory, a product of the pattern of royal succession and the segmentary nature of royal dynasties. According to Ó Corráin, “great overkingdoms are dismantled by fission and segmentation, and are built up again by later dynastic expansion and reconquest.”

Animal Fosterage: A Bestial Parallel?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom C. O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Human Society ◽  
Central Case ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Medieval Ireland

Fosterage was used as a metaphor to describe relationships between humans and animals. This chapter takes the Life of Saint Ailbe as its central case study to trace how human and animal relationships were thought of and described in medieval Ireland. Ailbe is taken in as a child by a wolf in the wilderness and raised with her pups. Unlike other tales of this type, the relationship between Ailbe and the wolf continues after Ailbe is taken back to human society, modelled as it is on fosterage. This study highlights the permeable boundary between humans and animals and the use of fosterage as medieval tool for thinking.

scholarly journals UPAYA PANTI ASUHAN PUTRI AISYIYAH BABAT LAMONGAN SEBAGAI STRATEGI MENCAPAI KEMANDIRIAN FINANSIAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1509
Author(s):  
Rembrant Shella Gustami ◽  
Muhammad Nafik Hadi Ryandono
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Foster Children ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Financial Strategy ◽  
Financial Independence ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Financial Management System

The background of this study is a financial surplus situation at the Aisyiyah Female Orphanage Babat in the last 4 years. This phenomenon encourages researchers to raise research that discusses the financial independence strategy that is implemented until the manager can fund the needs of the orphanage without prioritizing donation funds. This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study strategy. Data collection is done through interview techniques with relevant parties and related documents. The data analysis technique used is making explanations. The results of this study indicate that Aisyiyah Female Orphanage can be said to be financially independent. Independence is achieved by implementing a number of strategies including conducting several business ventures, implementing an independent financial management system, fostering entrepreneurial spirit of foster children, determining the priority of sources of income and fostering a spirit of sharing with others in foster children.Keywords: financial, strategy, financial independence, Aisyiyah Female Orphanage, Babat

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