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Item Fathers and Sons, Mothers and Daughters: The family romance in Katherine Cecil Thurston's The Fly on the Wheel(Cork University Press, 2023-06) Ó Gallchoir, ClíonaItem 'Whole Swarms of Bastards’: A Modest Proposal, the discourse of economic improvement and Protestant masculinity in Ireland, 1720–1738(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019-01-22) Ó Gallchoir, Clíona; Barr, R. A.; Brady, S.; McGaughey, J.This chapter analyses how masculinity figures in the attempts to claim and legitimate authority in the contested space of eighteenth-century Ireland. Focusing on Irish economic discourses and the ideology of improvement in the period from 1720 to 1738, the chapter argues that economic underperformance threatens the Anglo-Irish self-image of effective leadership and governance. It shows how Ascendancy masculinity was challenged by its own imaginings of agricultural sterility, Catholic super-fecundity, and female unruliness. The essay reads Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal (1729) as a satiric response to a contemporary body of pamphlet literature, but also as an influence on economist Samuel Madden, whose Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland (1738) provides an example of satire influencing the very forms it parodies.Item A liturgical interpretation of the Bewcastle Cross(D. S. Brewer, 1987-04-30) Ó Carragáin, Éamonn; Stokes, Mary; Burton, T. L.The present paper argues that the Northumbrian liturgy of the late seventh and early eighth centuries provides contexts within which the coherence of the Bewcastle Cross can begin to be appreciated. The Bewcastle monument is remarkable in its unstrained beauty. Compared with it, the Ruthwell Cross (erected by the same school of sculptors some thirty miles to the west) seems somewhat crowded, as though its designer wished to use every inch of surface to elaborate the theological ideas which preoccupied him. [1] The primary impression the Bewcastle Cross makes is one of balance: balance between the design of the two broad sides; between the two narrow sides (based on a different design principle from that of the broad sides); and between the three related figural panels on the broad west side.Item Natural history and historical nature: The project for a natural history of Ireland(Cambridge University Press, 1994) Coughlan, PatriciaItem Counter-currents in colonial discourse: The political thought of Vincent and Daniel Gookin(Cambridge University Press, 2000-06) Coughlan, Patricia