Sing Up
Sing Up

Author: Finbar Boyle

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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"Sing Up! is a collection of comic and satirical songs that comment on recent changes and developments in Irish society. Sex, National Politics, Drink, Fast Food, Traditional Music, Religion, Recreation, Agriculture and the Weather - all are analysed in depth herein through the medium of the direct slag, the obtuse dig, the dry remark. It is, in the editor's own words "a gather-up of intolerance, irreverence, slagging and sedition" - and all the more welcome for that."--BOOK JACKET.

A History of Irish Working-Class Writing
A History of Irish Working-Class Writing

Author: Michael Pierse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1107149681

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"Michael Pierse is Lecturer in Irish literature at Queen's University Belfast. His research mainly explores the writing and cultural production of Irish working-class life. Over recent years this work has expanded into new multidisciplinary themes and international contexts, including the study of festivals, digital methodologies in public humanities and theatre-as-research practices. Michael has contributed to a range of national and international publications, is the author of Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin after O'Casey (2011), and has been awarded several Arts and Humanities Research Council awards and the Vice Chancellor's Award at Queen's"--

Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy
Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy

Author: S. Colleary

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-19

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1137343907

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One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy from the perspective of the narrated self, through the prism of the fabricated comedy persona, including Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran and Maeve Higgins.

'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream

Author: W. H. A. Williams

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780252065514

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The image of the Irish in the United States changed drastically over time, from that of hard-drinking, rioting Paddies to genial, patriotic working-class citizens. In 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, William H. A. Williams traces the change in this image through more than 700 pieces of sheet music--popular songs from the stage and for the parlor--to show how Americans' opinions of Ireland and the Irish went practically from one extreme to the other. Because sheet music was a commercial item it had to be acceptable to the broadest possible song-buying public. "Negotiations" about their image involved Irish songwriters, performers, and pressured groups, on the one hand, and non-Irish writers, publishers, and audiences on the other. Williams ties the contents of song lyrics to the history of the Irish diaspora, suggesting how ethnic stereotypes are created and how they evolve within commercial popular culture.

Iona
Iona

Author: Mairi MacArthur

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2007-03-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0748673474

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Eight rare poems, written at Iona monastery between 563AD and the early 8th century, translated from the original Latin and Gaelic and fully annotated with literary commentary.