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Research paper thumbnail of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vol. IV: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions

Cork: Cork University Press in association with Field Day.––––(2002b) The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 2002

11 years in the making, featuring the work of over 700 individual writers and harnessing the skil... more 11 years in the making, featuring the work of over 700 individual writers and harnessing the skills and expertise of dozens of scholars, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes IV and V is without doubt one the most important publishing events in Ireland for many years. The most comprehensive corpus of Irish women's writing ever published. A lifelong resource, each encounter prompting fresh insights and new discoveries Features the work of over nine hundred familiar and undiscovered or unappreciated writers. Many of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the Role of Gender in 19th Century Fiction Through the Lens of Word Embeddings

Within the last decade, substantial advances have been made in the field of computational linguis... more Within the last decade, substantial advances have been made in the field of computational linguistics, due in part to the evolution of word embedding algorithms inspired by neural network models. These algorithms attempt to derive a set of vectors which represent the vocabulary of a textual corpus in a new embedded space. This new representation can then be used to measure the underlying similarity between words. In this paper, we explore the role an author's gender may play in the selection of words that they choose to construct their narratives. Using a curated corpus of forty-eight 19th century novels, we generate, visualise, and investigate word embedding representations using a list of gender-encoded words. This allows us to explore the different ways in which male and female authors of this corpus use terms relating to contemporary understandings of gender and gender roles.

Research paper thumbnail of Dead, White, Male

Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Nora

Pat Murphy's third feature film, Nora (2000), is based on Brenda Maddox's 1988 biograph... more Pat Murphy's third feature film, Nora (2000), is based on Brenda Maddox's 1988 biography of Nora Barnacle, the wife of James Joyce. The film is on one level a sumptuous historical romance, on another a feminist biopic, on yet another a complex meditation on the relationship between high modernist art and ordinary human relationships. It challenges the ways in which history and sexuality have been constructed in Irish film throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Both the literary biography and film of Nora explore the nature of sexual and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Discovering structure in social networks of 19th century fiction

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci '16, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Race, Sex, and Nation: Virgin Mother Ireland

Research paper thumbnail of Waking the Dead: Antigone, Ismene and Anne Enright's Narrators in Mourning

Research paper thumbnail of One True Dress?

The Irish Review (1986-), 1990

Dalsimer obviously did not try too hard to resist. She reads one novel after another as 'a m... more Dalsimer obviously did not try too hard to resist. She reads one novel after another as 'a mirror' reflecting the 'inner and outer experience' ofthe novelist. One is tempted to sur? mise that this critical study is for Dalsimer a poor substitute for the biography she would have written had the materials been made available to her. Dalsimer claims to have adopted 'no single methodology' ... Nonetheless her approach is readily identifiable with an Anglo-American ... Lavelle, the individual, in her quest for independence, ... Dalsimer, 'Helen's dread ...

Research paper thumbnail of Critical notices

The Rediscovery of the mind By John Searle MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xv+ 270. ISBN 0–262–19321–3£ 19.9... more The Rediscovery of the mind By John Searle MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xv+ 270. ISBN 0–262–19321–3£ 19.95 hbk. The Ethics of Authenticity By Charles Taylor Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. 152. ISBN 0–674–26863–6. 17.95Multiculturalismand'ThePoliticsofRecognition'ByCharlesTaylorPrincetonUniversityPress,1992.p.112.ISBN0–691–0878–65. 14.95 New books on feminism Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva By John Fletcher and Andrew Benjamin Routledge, 1990. Pp. 224. ISBN 0–415–04155–4.£ 35 hbk ...

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, Ireland, and cultural change: race, sex, and nation

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual and Aesthetic Dissidences: Women and the Gate Theatre, 1929–60

Studies in Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Producers and Consumers of Popular Culture, 1900–60

Studies in Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Reading the Irish Woman

Research paper thumbnail of A Dozen Lips

Feminist Review, 1994

... Press, 1994 ISBN 1 85594 060 4, £16.99. Megan Sullivan. Main navigation. Journal home; Curren... more ... Press, 1994 ISBN 1 85594 060 4, £16.99. Megan Sullivan. Main navigation. Journal home; Current issue; Archive: About 2010 issues; About 2009 issues; About 2008 issues; About 2007 issues; About 2006 issues; About 2005 issues; ...

Research paper thumbnail of (Un) Like Subjects: Theories and Practices of Contemporary Women's Writing

Research paper thumbnail of The Sons of Cuchulainn: Violence, the Family, and the Irish Canon

tion. Martin McLoone, Elizabeth Cullingford, and Cheryl Herr have all commented on the remarkable... more tion. Martin McLoone, Elizabeth Cullingford, and Cheryl Herr have all commented on the remarkable persistence of this theme in contemporary Irish culture. 2 This essay explores the nature of that persistence and the construction of Irish cultural canons, specifically the canons of modernist Irish drama and contemporary Irish film, in ways that mirror and refract this central theme. Commenting on Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, Cullingford notes Jordan's production diary entry that de Valera was “a father who will betray” Collins:“If de Valera ...

Research paper thumbnail of Rosamond Jacob and the Hidden Histories of Irish Writing

New Hibernia Review, 2011

The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the proce... more The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the process by which novels become, or fail to become, part of national and academic canons. The extraordinary diaries of the novel's author also offer an unusually detailed insight into the alchemical processes that transform historical events, personal stories, political activism, social milieu, friendship, love, and desire into fiction. Read today, it is hard to understand how such a wellwritten novel—one that concerns a defining moment in Irish ...

Research paper thumbnail of Rosamond Jacob and the Hidden Histories of Irish Writing

The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the process by... more The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the process by which novels become, or fail to become, part of national and academic canons. The extraordinary diaries of the novel's author also offer an unusually detailed insight into the alchemical processes that transform historical events, personal stories, political activism, social milieu, friendship, love, and desire into fiction.

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, ireland and cultural change (coll routledge studies in twentieth-century literature)

Research paper thumbnail of Penelope, or, myths unravelling: writing, orality and abjection in Ulysses

Textual Practice, Jan 1, 2000

Nineteenth-century realistic narrative was structured by an understanding of time as an infinite ... more Nineteenth-century realistic narrative was structured by an understanding of time as an infinite succession of distinct, unrepeatable moments, selfcontained but causally linked. Yet imprinted on it, in the trajectories of biographical and familial development, was another, organic sense of time, time on the human and biological scale of cycles of birth and death. Stephen Jay Gould, in his work on the emergence of a concept of geological time as infinite and expansive, has argued that there persists in Western thinking, even in scientifi c and ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vol. IV: Irish Women’s Writing and Traditions

Cork: Cork University Press in association with Field Day.––––(2002b) The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 2002

11 years in the making, featuring the work of over 700 individual writers and harnessing the skil... more 11 years in the making, featuring the work of over 700 individual writers and harnessing the skills and expertise of dozens of scholars, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volumes IV and V is without doubt one the most important publishing events in Ireland for many years. The most comprehensive corpus of Irish women's writing ever published. A lifelong resource, each encounter prompting fresh insights and new discoveries Features the work of over nine hundred familiar and undiscovered or unappreciated writers. Many of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the Role of Gender in 19th Century Fiction Through the Lens of Word Embeddings

Within the last decade, substantial advances have been made in the field of computational linguis... more Within the last decade, substantial advances have been made in the field of computational linguistics, due in part to the evolution of word embedding algorithms inspired by neural network models. These algorithms attempt to derive a set of vectors which represent the vocabulary of a textual corpus in a new embedded space. This new representation can then be used to measure the underlying similarity between words. In this paper, we explore the role an author's gender may play in the selection of words that they choose to construct their narratives. Using a curated corpus of forty-eight 19th century novels, we generate, visualise, and investigate word embedding representations using a list of gender-encoded words. This allows us to explore the different ways in which male and female authors of this corpus use terms relating to contemporary understandings of gender and gender roles.

Research paper thumbnail of Dead, White, Male

Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Nora

Pat Murphy's third feature film, Nora (2000), is based on Brenda Maddox's 1988 biograph... more Pat Murphy's third feature film, Nora (2000), is based on Brenda Maddox's 1988 biography of Nora Barnacle, the wife of James Joyce. The film is on one level a sumptuous historical romance, on another a feminist biopic, on yet another a complex meditation on the relationship between high modernist art and ordinary human relationships. It challenges the ways in which history and sexuality have been constructed in Irish film throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Both the literary biography and film of Nora explore the nature of sexual and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Discovering structure in social networks of 19th century fiction

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science - WebSci '16, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Race, Sex, and Nation: Virgin Mother Ireland

Research paper thumbnail of Waking the Dead: Antigone, Ismene and Anne Enright's Narrators in Mourning

Research paper thumbnail of One True Dress?

The Irish Review (1986-), 1990

Dalsimer obviously did not try too hard to resist. She reads one novel after another as 'a m... more Dalsimer obviously did not try too hard to resist. She reads one novel after another as 'a mirror' reflecting the 'inner and outer experience' ofthe novelist. One is tempted to sur? mise that this critical study is for Dalsimer a poor substitute for the biography she would have written had the materials been made available to her. Dalsimer claims to have adopted 'no single methodology' ... Nonetheless her approach is readily identifiable with an Anglo-American ... Lavelle, the individual, in her quest for independence, ... Dalsimer, 'Helen's dread ...

Research paper thumbnail of Critical notices

The Rediscovery of the mind By John Searle MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xv+ 270. ISBN 0–262–19321–3£ 19.9... more The Rediscovery of the mind By John Searle MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xv+ 270. ISBN 0–262–19321–3£ 19.95 hbk. The Ethics of Authenticity By Charles Taylor Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. 152. ISBN 0–674–26863–6. 17.95Multiculturalismand'ThePoliticsofRecognition'ByCharlesTaylorPrincetonUniversityPress,1992.p.112.ISBN0–691–0878–65. 14.95 New books on feminism Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva By John Fletcher and Andrew Benjamin Routledge, 1990. Pp. 224. ISBN 0–415–04155–4.£ 35 hbk ...

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, Ireland, and cultural change: race, sex, and nation

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual and Aesthetic Dissidences: Women and the Gate Theatre, 1929–60

Studies in Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Producers and Consumers of Popular Culture, 1900–60

Studies in Cultural Encounter and Exchange, 1714-1960, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Reading the Irish Woman

Research paper thumbnail of A Dozen Lips

Feminist Review, 1994

... Press, 1994 ISBN 1 85594 060 4, £16.99. Megan Sullivan. Main navigation. Journal home; Curren... more ... Press, 1994 ISBN 1 85594 060 4, £16.99. Megan Sullivan. Main navigation. Journal home; Current issue; Archive: About 2010 issues; About 2009 issues; About 2008 issues; About 2007 issues; About 2006 issues; About 2005 issues; ...

Research paper thumbnail of (Un) Like Subjects: Theories and Practices of Contemporary Women's Writing

Research paper thumbnail of The Sons of Cuchulainn: Violence, the Family, and the Irish Canon

tion. Martin McLoone, Elizabeth Cullingford, and Cheryl Herr have all commented on the remarkable... more tion. Martin McLoone, Elizabeth Cullingford, and Cheryl Herr have all commented on the remarkable persistence of this theme in contemporary Irish culture. 2 This essay explores the nature of that persistence and the construction of Irish cultural canons, specifically the canons of modernist Irish drama and contemporary Irish film, in ways that mirror and refract this central theme. Commenting on Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, Cullingford notes Jordan's production diary entry that de Valera was “a father who will betray” Collins:“If de Valera ...

Research paper thumbnail of Rosamond Jacob and the Hidden Histories of Irish Writing

New Hibernia Review, 2011

The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the proce... more The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the process by which novels become, or fail to become, part of national and academic canons. The extraordinary diaries of the novel's author also offer an unusually detailed insight into the alchemical processes that transform historical events, personal stories, political activism, social milieu, friendship, love, and desire into fiction. Read today, it is hard to understand how such a wellwritten novel—one that concerns a defining moment in Irish ...

Research paper thumbnail of Rosamond Jacob and the Hidden Histories of Irish Writing

The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the process by... more The case of Rosamond Jacob's The Troubled House raises fundamental questions about the process by which novels become, or fail to become, part of national and academic canons. The extraordinary diaries of the novel's author also offer an unusually detailed insight into the alchemical processes that transform historical events, personal stories, political activism, social milieu, friendship, love, and desire into fiction.

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, ireland and cultural change (coll routledge studies in twentieth-century literature)

Research paper thumbnail of Penelope, or, myths unravelling: writing, orality and abjection in Ulysses

Textual Practice, Jan 1, 2000

Nineteenth-century realistic narrative was structured by an understanding of time as an infinite ... more Nineteenth-century realistic narrative was structured by an understanding of time as an infinite succession of distinct, unrepeatable moments, selfcontained but causally linked. Yet imprinted on it, in the trajectories of biographical and familial development, was another, organic sense of time, time on the human and biological scale of cycles of birth and death. Stephen Jay Gould, in his work on the emergence of a concept of geological time as infinite and expansive, has argued that there persists in Western thinking, even in scientifi c and ...