#irishstudies — Public Fediverse posts
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Irish Studies & Cultural Theory Summer School
for whom: students of all levels (BA, MA, PhD)
theme: "Resistance and Adaptation"
where: Uni Flensburg
when: 19-25 July, 2026incl. intro class to Irish language
ECTS-accredited!more info: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/?id=55878
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"Seekers of Wonder" by Elena E. Sottilotta pioneers the comparison of women's roles in Italian & #IrishFolklore & #FairyTales 1870-1920 collected / written by #WomenWriters Laura Gonzenbach, Grazia Deledda, #JaneWilde & #AugustaGregory
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"Otherworld" collects 9 tales from #MedievalIreland - composed over 1000 years ago in monastic libraries of #Ireland, inspiration for later 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷 #fairytales, are retold by historian & novelist Lisa M. Bitel
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1886557160
#IrishStudies #IrishLiterature #MedievalLiterature #folklore
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2 new books in our collection - today on the theme of #Ireland!
"Death in Irish #Prehistory" by Gabriel Cooney is a massive yet approachable volume with lots of illustrations & photos from 8500 years of tracing life & death in #IrishHistory - 8000 BC - 400 AD.https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1872314457
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In her book "Through Her Eyes", Clodagh Finn explores the lives of 21 women who were instrumental for #IrishHistory - crossing 5600 years from #StoneAge to our present day
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1898219222
#WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #Ireland #IrishStudies #IrishHistory #History #WomensStudies
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Our final book for the #YearOfTheSnake series is this 1989 case study by Mary Condren on #Ireland under the advent of the Catholic Church and its effects on #CelticMythology, from a #feminist perspective.
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=018274463
#IrishCulture #IrishStudies #Mythology #folklore #ReligiousStudies
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"Irish Materialisms" by Colleen Taylor provides 5 original case studies on nonhuman agents in Irish colonial culture, in #IrishLiterature: on coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, and the pig 🐖
#nonhuman #materiality
#PostcolonialStudies #IrishStudies #LiteraryStudies #Irishness -
"The Routledge History of Irish America", edited by Cian T. McMahon & Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan, collects 41 essays on Irish migration to the US from the 1600s, during & past the Great Famine, until the present
#IrishDiaspora #IrishStudies #AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory -
Here are 3 new arrivals on #Ireland & Irish-American relations! ☘️
Examining the image of #Irishness in the US 1890s-1960s, Marion R. Casey's "The Green Space" looks at the transformation of Irish identity in #PopularCulture ☘️
#CulturalStudies #IrishStudies #AmericanStudies
