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Making myth: the image of 'Big Jim' Larkin in Plunkett's 'Strumpet city'
No full textJames Larkin is a revered figure in Irish history, remarkably so in view of his associations with revolutionary syndicalism and communism. Among the contributions to the creation of the myth of ‘Big Jim’, James Plunkett’s novel Strumpet City takes pride of place. The book’s treatment of Larkin is examined here as an outstanding example of Gramsci’s call for the emergence of a popular culture that challenges the hegemony of the ruling classes. By getting into the desperate lives of the Dublin poor in the bitter industrial struggles prior to the First World War, Plunkett affirms the Gramscian idea of developing a new way of conceiving the world by presenting Larkin as the mythical embodiment of social justice and solidarity. Although the events are now in the distant past, images developed with the great affective power of this novel may jolt modern readers to a greater awareness of present-day global struggles
James Larkin
Full text linkNotice de James Larkin (1876-1947), grande figure du mouvement ouvrier irlandais, revue et augmentée dans le cadre du projet de mise à jour du dictionnaire en ligne Le Maitron (Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier international - Grande-Bretagne et Irlande). http://maitron-en-ligne.univ-paris1.fr/spip.php?article75691&id_mot=125
James Larkin : the socio-economic context
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James Larkin and the Workers' Union of Ireland
No full textThis article looks at the formation of the Worker's Union of Ireland (WUI) in 1924. It is concerned with the events that led the WUI to split from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) and with the conflicts that followed the split. It rejects the normal reasons given for the split, that of personal disagreements between James Larkin of the WUI and William O'Brien of the ITGWU. Instead the argument is made that the split reflected political differences inside the Irish labour movement about the function of trade unions in society.Cet article explore les origines et les séquelles de la scission au sein du Irish Transport and General Workers' Unioin (ITGWU) qui a débouché sur la création en 1924 du Workers' Union of Ireland (WUI) . Il rejette les raisons habituellement avancées pour expliquer cette scission, à savoir, l'existence de différends personnels entre James Larkin du WUI et William O'Brien du ITGWU. D explique au contraire que la scission reflète des divergeances politiques au sein du mouvement ouvrier irlandais quant à la fonction des syndicats au sein de la société.Farmer Mark. James Larkin and the Workers' Union of Ireland. In: Études irlandaises, n°26-1, 2001. pp. 101-115
James Larkin and the Jew’s Shilling
No full text The relationship of Irish radicals and socialists to Jews in the decades before Irish independence was an ambivalent one. Neither political activists nor trade union leaders were immune to infection by anti-Semitic tropes. An influx of poor Jewish immigrants to Ireland around the end of the nineteenth century threatened the identity of Irish nationalists and workers, at a time when many Irish were forced by economic circumstances to emigrate. The article concludes that statements by James Larkin and other Irish labour activists and reformers about Jews, expressed in print in the early twentieth century, reflected a mixture of attitudes. </jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Castle gates (a book of poems) through which the knowing ones are admitted into some of my castles in Spain, by James Larkin Pearson.
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