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Item "[H]e daren't show his nose with the Molly Maguires looking for him to let daylight through him for grabbing the holding of an evicted tenant": Ulysses, the cattle economy, and the unwritten agrarian code(University of Tulsa, 2022) Laird, HeatherWhile considerable scholarly attention has been paid to the many references to official law in James Joyce's writing, allusions to alternative legal concepts and structures in these works have been largely ignored. The essay seeks to address this omission by teasing out the relevance of the unwritten agrarian code to Ulysses, linking it to the novel's broader themes. More specifically, it argues that viewing what is often considered to be a quintessential urban text through this particular rural lens draws our attention to tensions over land and resources at the time of the novel's setting and composition and complicates our understanding of its treatment of colonialism and anti-colonial nationalism, including its critique of both.Item Swift’s Bare Platform(Clutag Press, 2024-01) Connolly, ClaireItem Racializing the Irish: the discursive production of race and nation by the young Ireland movement(Taylor & Francis, 45390) Molloy, Edward; Irish Research CouncilThis essay will analyse the ways in which definitions of race in nineteenth-century Ireland were not only, nor simply set by British colonizers, but rather were produced and determined by Irish people themselves. This long history of Irish engagement with concepts of race shaped how the Young Ireland movement understood how the Irish nation was (racially) constituted. Additionally, the multi-racial history of the Irish nation inflected Young Ireland's understanding of how history structured the construction of an Irish nationality. This paper then will show how the Young Irelanders understood race and, more particularly, how they recognized themselves as racialized subjects. Their own adoption of a racialized Irishness was important to their vision for Ireland's revolutionary future. Placing race centrally within the writings of Young Ireland, highlighting its essential role in a historical account of Irish nationality, this essay will thereby cast new light on the difficulties inherent in Young Ireland's nationalist project. In particular, it will underscore the anxieties experienced by Young Ireland about the potential impossibility of the nationalist project with reference to its production and experience of racialized but ambiguous subject positions.Item Shakespeare and early modern Europe: A critical survey(Routledge, 2018-02-12) Semple, Edel; Vyroubalová, Ema; Wood, NigelThis survey examines the history of criticism on Shakespeare and early modern Europe. With major sociopolitical European events in mind, the article reviews scholarship on this topic from the early twentieth century to the present day. Particular emphasis is placed on studies of Shakespeare’s own treatment of European characters and settings. The related topics of the changing meaning of “Europe” of Shakespeare’s European afterlives are also briefly discussed.Item Review of 'The Ruthwell Cross: Papers from the Colloquium Sponsored by the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, 8 December 1989', ed. by Brendan Cassidy(Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, 1994) Ó Carragáin, Éamonn