By Lauren Cassidy Ireland has often been referred to as a nation of storytellers, and there is perhaps some validity to the claim. Throughout Irish canonical tradition, writers have consistently sought to evince the psychology of their nation; its culture; its idiosyncrasies; its identity. Although an island, Ireland has never been isolated. With a longContinue reading “Transnationalising the Irish Canon through Contemporary Feminist Psychoanalysis”
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A new Transatlantic Identity?
By Fiona Lyons In the latter half of the nineteenth century, many Irish people migrated to the United States [the US hereafter] from Ireland mostly due to the Great Famine of the 1840s-50s. Historians W. E. Vaughan and A. J. Fitzpatrick estimate that roughly 49% came from counties in Ireland where Irish was widely spoken.[i]Continue reading “A new Transatlantic Identity?”
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