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Eoin O'Duffy: A self-made hero
No full textEoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader and protege of Michael Collins, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the republican movement. By 1922 he was chief of staff of the IRA, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's Supreme Council, and a Sinn Fein deputy in Dail Eireann. As chief of police, O'Duffy was the strongest defender of the Irish Free State, only to become, after his emergence as leader of the Blueshirt movement in 1933, the greatest threat to its survival. Increasingly drawn to international fascism, he founded Ireland's first fascist party, and led an Irish Brigade to fight under General Franco in the Spanish Civil War. O'Duffy died in wartime Dublin, a Nazi collaborator and a broken man. This study, the first biography of Eoin O'Duffy, draws on unpublished archival and personal papers to trace his journey from revolutionary republicanism to fascism. It examines the importance of cultural forces, including the legacy of the Irish-Ireland movement, Catholicism, anti-communism, and O'Duffy's ideas on sports, morality, and masculinity to explain his descent into extremism. The author peels away the public persona to reveal a complex picture of the motives which drove this extraordinary career. A crusading moralist and advocate of teetotalism who was obsessed with the need to counter public immorality and who was at the same time a closet homosexual and alcoholic, O'Duffy's remarkable life was characterized by self-aggrandisement, fantasy, and contradiction.</p
Eoin Colfer's magical fairies : the depiction of fairies in Artemis Fowl compared to folklore and other literature
No full textThe name fairy has been surrounded with mystery and excitement for as long as people have been telling stories about strange and supernatural beings. This essay endeavours to find similarities and differences in the magic and portrayal of fairies created by a present day author, Eoin Colfer, compared to the fairies of Celtic legends and Victorian beliefs. In order to fully understand the length of Colfer’s imagination his fairies will be compared to creations from a few of the fantasy genres biggest names: J.R.R Tolkien, James Barrie and William Shakespeare. In addition this essay aims to discover peculiarities and other distinguishing features in an advanced technological society living just a few kilometres below our feet, where the fairy residents do everything they can to keep mankind from knowing they exist.Validerat; 20101217 (root
The Elephant in the Room (Clinical Image)
No full textPackaging is an important part of transfer medicine. Appropriate packaging in a “layered” manner is widely accepted as a safer way to move patients who may have various cables or tubes attached.In our practise we use modified ventilator airway tubing, approximately 0.5 metres in length with a slit down the longitudinal axis to contain these cables and/or tubes. This tubing has become colloquially known as “Elephant tubing”This tubing is typically used to contain ECG wires and medication giving sets. The Oxygen saturation probe wires and one intravenous access is typically left out during the transfer process in order to be able to access same.
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Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier
No full textRecovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier is a bilingual compilation of stories by Eoin Ua Cathail, an Irish emigrant, based loosely on his experiences in the West and Midwest. The author draws on the popular American Dime Novel genre throughout to offer unique reflections on nineteenth-century American life. As a member of a government mule train accompanying the U.S. military during the Plains Indian Wars, Ua Cathail depicts fierce encounters with Native American tribes, while also subtly commenting on the hypocrisy of many famine-era Irish immigrants who failed to recognize the parallels between their own plight and that of dispossessed Native peoples. These views are further challenged by his stories set in the upper Midwest.
His writings are marked by the eccentricities and bloated claims characteristic of much American Western literature of the time, while also offering valuable transnational insights into Irish myth, history, and the Gaelic Revival movement. This bilingual volume, with facing Irish-English pages, marks the first publication of Ua Cathail’s work in both the original Irish and in translation. It also includes a foreword from historian Richard White, a comprehensive introduction by Mahoney, and a host of previously unpublished historical images
Novel truths and post-troubles fiction : Eoin McNamee's The Ultras
No full textWriting in The Guardian newspaper in 2004, Northern Irish author Eoin McNamee comments: 'There is something out there in the world of fiction, not defined enough to be a trend, a genre or even a subgenre - It is writers looking to engage with real people and real events, and stitch them into their fiction in a way that is hard-nosed and relevant and edgy'. These words are part of a broader artistic manifesto, one that pertains to McNamee's own fictional project, which, for over two decades, has used 'real people and real events' to interrogate some of the most 'hard-nosed and relevant and edgy' aspects of Northern Irish history. For McNamee it is this versatility, the ability to combine the real and the imaginary, which distinguishes and elevates his own brand of fiction. He continues: 'In fiction of this kind you get the sense of a kind of truth being displayed. And you're not going to get it any other way. Even if journalism wasn't more part of the consensus than ever before, and documentary makers weren't hunkered down in their trenches, you feel that they'd never find a way into this'. For McNamee such fictions put the reader in a position of privilege, allowing them access to certain 'kind[s] of truth' that remain hidden and obscure within other modes of discourse. The following essay is a critical examination of these claims. It asks: how exactly does McNamee combine fact and fiction? And moreover, what 'kind of truth' does such a hybrid form enable his work to realise? The author's claims for the truth-value of this form of fiction are rendered more significant when we read them alongside notions of transitional justice and the importance attached to truth recovery as a mechanism for reconciliation and social healing. In the foreword to Patricia Hayner's book, Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions (2010), Kofi Annan writes: 'national healing can be a halting and painful process. But ultimately, it seems our natural instincts are confirmed: while the truth is painful, burying the past is much less likely to lead a country to a healthy future'. In what follows I will argue that McNamee's fiction offers a timely riposte to the very possibility of such redemptive truth-seeking in the context of post-Troubles Northern Ireland. The title of this article, 'novel truths', is to be read in a double sense: as a gesture to both the literary locus of McNamee's own truth claims and his assertion that particular works of fiction are capable of containing new truths about the world. It is the exact nature of these new truths that the following essay aims to outline and discuss
"A Land Poisoned": Eugene McCabe and Irish Postcolonial Gothic
No full textWhile many of Eugene McCabe’s works adhere to the recognisable features of literary naturalism, including a fraught exposition of character, realist narrative language and pessimistic tone, it is my intention to spotlight the formal Gothic dimensions of these literary fictions. I will address, primarily, his most accomplished work to date, the novel Death and Nightingales and his acclaimed, and later televised, short story trilogy, ‘Cancer’, ‘Heritage’ and ‘Victims’. Land and violence are at the core of these narratives and, while the later novel is set in a pre-partition context, many of the same political strains surface across the stories. Appropriation, division, loyalty, and threat are pivotal to the narrative momentum of McCabe’s tales, as the author seeks to relate the indelible traumas that stain the physical and cultural landscape of both a pre-partition Ulster and post-partition borderland.Ye
Beyond corporate incapacity, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the ultra vires doctrine
No full textTHESIS 8866.1THESIS 8866.2The research contained in this thesis was conducted by employing the conventional techniques of academic legal research, drawing on a variety of primary and secondary legal materials. The law governing the principal topics addressed is primarily judicial in origin. The author therefore identified and studied relevant legal authorities, of which most were cases from the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom as well as authorities from a number of common law jurisdictions. She also researched the relatively small number of relevant statutory provisions in all the common law jurisdictions considered. In parallel, the author conducted a comprehensive search for relevant secondary materials. These materials included textbooks, edited collections, and journal articles from many jurisdictions. A number of theses held at other universities were located and considered. Official government reports on corporate capacity proved to be an important source. The research process was aided by the use of electronic databases, which facilitated access to domestic and international case law, statute and journals, as well as the materials available in the Berkeley Library of Trinity College Dublin
"A Land Poisoned": Eugene McCabe and Irish Postcolonial Gothic (Pre-published)
No full textWhile many of Eugene McCabe’s works adhere to the recognisable features of literary naturalism, including a fraught exposition of character, realist narrative language and pessimistic tone, it is my intention to spotlight the formal Gothic dimensions of these literary fictions. I will address, primarily, his most accomplished work to date, the novel Death and Nightingales and his acclaimed, and later televised, short story trilogy, ‘Cancer’, ‘Heritage’ and ‘Victims’. Land and violence are at the core of these narratives and, while the later novel is set in a pre-partition context, many of the same political strains surface across the stories. Appropriation, division, loyalty, and threat are pivotal to the narrative momentum of McCabe’s tales, as the author seeks to relate the indelible traumas that stain the physical and cultural landscape of both a pre-partition Ulster and post-partition borderland.Ye
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