Detailed Description
Alcobia-Murphy, S., Milligan, L., and Wall, D. (2010) Founder to Shore, Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Culture, pp.217+ xvi. ISBN: 978-1-906108-15-1
Maintaining the collarborative and interdisciplinary ethos of the series, Founder to Shore is an absorbing collection of essays showcasing original and innovative research by emergent scholars in the area of Irish and Scottish Studies. Articles in this volume derive from papers given at the 2009 Cross-currents conference at the University of Aberdeen.
Introduction
‘The Earth Has Done Its Time’: Death in the Work of Medbh McGuckian
Shane Alcobia-Murphy
What Might Have Been: Ciaran Carson and the Politics of Memory
Neal Alexander
James Macpherson in Finnegans Wake
Richard Barlow
On the road In the Congested Districts with John Synge and Jack Yeats: Visual and Textual Shaping of Irishness
Giulia Bruna
Orientalism, Hospitality & Empire in The Talisman
Kang-yen Chiu
Textualising Trauma: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s James X
Victoria Connor
Mapping Place in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow
Christy Di Frances
‘Just Like You’d See It on a Film … ’: The Representation of Memory in the Work of Willie Doherty
Emma Grey
'A Tale Too Often Told’: The Question of Historical Authority in the ‘Nestor’ Episode of Ulysses
Erik Hillskemper
‘White-Faced Upon His Own Empty Road’: Going Beyond The Freudian Politics of Communion in The Serpent
K J Keir
The Decline of the Gaelic Literary Order and Its Implications for the Highland Warrior Image
Danielle McCormack
I’m in with the out Crowd: Nationalist Identities and Young Gaelic Learners
Lindsay Milligan
Remnants of Jacobitism? An Approach to the Study of Culture, Language and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Cork
Niamh Ní Shiadhail
Reading the Highlands of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Social Criticism in Fear Tathaich nam Beann
Ashley M. Powell
Scottish and Ulster Presbyterians, 1660 – 1714: Loyal Protestants or Religious Radicals
John Sherry
“No Abiding City”: Elizabeth Bowen and the Orphan Eva Trout
Anna Teekell
Sligo Co-operative Movements (1895 – 1905); the Birth of an Irish Political Activist
Sonja Tiernan
Music, Gender and Power in Janice Galloway’s ‘Sonata Form’
Mhairi Urquhart
Good Shepherds? Literature, Religion and Society in O’Hagan and Galt
Dan Wall
