Joan Denise Moriarty

Joan Denise Moriarty

Author: Ruth Fleischmann

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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This is the biography of Joan Denise Moriarty, the Irish ballerina who founded the first professional ballet company in the country. She choreographed over a hundred original works, drawing on themes from Irish mythology and legend, fusing traditional dance forms with ballet.


Dancing at the Crossroads

Dancing at the Crossroads

Author: Helena Wulff

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781845455903

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Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people ́s opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland - until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish cultural and political life, ́dancing at the crossroads ́ also crystallizes the argument of this book: Irish dance, from Riverdance (the commercial show) and competitive dancing to dance theatre, conveys that Ireland is to be found in a crossroads situation with a firm base in a distinctly Irish tradition which is also becoming a prominent part of European modernity. Helena Wulff is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Publications include Twenty Girls (Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1988), Ballet across Borders (Berg, 1998), Youth Cultures (co-edited with Vered Amit-Talai, Routledge, 1995), New Technologies at Work (co-edited with Christina Garsten, Berg, 2003). Her research focusses on dance, visual culture, and Ireland.


Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972

Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism, 1848–1972

Author: Richard Parfitt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-19

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1000517632

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Musical Culture and the Spirit of Irish Nationalism is the first comprehensive history of music’s relationship with Irish nationalist politics. Addressing rebel songs, traditional music and dance, national anthems and protest song, the book draws upon an unprecedented volume of material to explore music’s role in cultural and political nationalism in modern Ireland. From the nineteenth-century Young Irelanders, the Fenians, the Home Rule movement, Sinn Féin and the Anglo-Irish War to establishment politics in independent Ireland and civil rights protests in Northern Ireland, this wide-ranging survey considers music’s importance and its limitations across a variety of political movements.


Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture

Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture

Author: Sabine Egger

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1498594271

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A collection of scholarly articles and essays by dancers and scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture, Dance and Modernism in Irish and German Literature and Culture: Connections in Motion explores Irish-German connections through dance in choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, dance documentation, film, and architecture from the 1920s to today. The contributors discuss modernism, with a specific focus on modern dance, and its impact on different art forms and discourses in Irish and German culture. Within this framework, dance is regarded both as a motif and a specific form of spatial movement, which allows for the transgression of medial and disciplinary boundaries as well as gender, social, or cultural differences. Part 1 of the collection focuses on Irish-German cultural connections made through dance, while part 2 studies the role of dance in Irish and German literature, visual art, and architecture.


Mná Na HÉireann

Mná Na HÉireann

Author: Nicola Depuis

Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1856356450

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From Queen Medbh to Mary McAleese, Constance Markiewicz to Nell McCafferty, this is a collection of profiles of women who have shaped Ireland. For too long when people discuss Irish heroes and important figures, only men have been cited. Mn na hireann addresses that tendency and offers an impressive array of women who have brought change and progress to Ireland. From the mythical era, through the Middle Ages, the Plantation, the Famine, the struggle for independence and the early years of the state, right up to the twenty-first century, Mn na hireann profiles over 50 formidable Irish women.


The Hidden Lives of Brahman

The Hidden Lives of Brahman

Author: Joël André-Michel Dubois

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2014-02-12

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1438448074

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Finalist for the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions presented by the American Academy of Religion Śaṅkara's thought, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a tradition focused on brahman, the ultimate reality transcending all particular manifestations, words, and ideas. It is generally considered that the transcendent brahman cannot be attained through any effort or activity. While this conception is technically correct, in The Hidden Lives of Brahman, Joël André-Michel Dubois contends that it is misleading. Hidden lives of brahman become visible when analysis of Śaṅkara's seminal commentaries is combined with ethnographic descriptions of contemporary Brāhmin students and teachers of vedānta, a group largely ignored in most studies of this tradition. Du bois demonstrates that for Śaṅkara, as for Brāhmin tradition in general, brahman is just as much an active force, fully connected to the dynamic power of words and imagination, as it is a transcendent ultimate.


Dance in Ireland

Dance in Ireland

Author: Sharon A. Phelan

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1443865575

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In Dance in Ireland: Steps, Stages and Stories, Sharon Phelan provides an in-depth view of dance in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial eras. She presents dance as an integral part of Irish life and as a signifier of cultural change. Central themes are documented and analysed. They include cross-cultural influences, the dance master and pantomimic dance traditions, dance during the Gaelic Revival, dichotomies in dance, and the theatricalisation of Irish dance. The book is illustrated with photographs and it is an indispensable resource for academics and artists alike, as they continue to foster dance, on the page and on the stage.


English Language Poets in University College Cork, 1970–1980

English Language Poets in University College Cork, 1970–1980

Author: Clíona Ní Ríordáin

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-27

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 3030385736

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This book looks at a cohort of poets who studied at University College Cork during the 1970s and early 1980s. Based on extensive interviews and archival work, the book examines the notion that the poets form a “generation” in sociological terms. It proposes an analysis of the work of the poets, studying the thematics and preoccupations that shape their oeuvre. Among the poets that figure in the book are Greg Delanty, Theo Dorgan, Seán Dunne, Gerry Murphy, Thomas McCarthy, Gregory O’Donoghue, and Maurice Riordan. The volume is prefaced by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.


Upstart

Upstart

Author: Ed Walsh

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2011-10-12

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 1848899459

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Ed Walsh returned to Ireland in 1970 to blunder into setting up an institute of education. He found a decaying mansion on a riverside site, gathered talented young people and secured funding from the World Bank and European Investment Bank to build what became the University of Limerick. Along the way, Ed made powerful enemies as he challenged official cant, traditional academics and clerical humbug. This is an inspiring, frank and often funny memoir by a passionate educational leader.