Shadows of the gunmen
Subtitle: violence and culture in modern Ireland
By: edited by Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell.
Contributors: Farquharson, Danine.; Farrell, Sean, 1966-
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cork
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781859184240
Subjects: Political violence -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Political violence -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Violence in literature; Politics and literature -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Literature and society -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century; Literature and society -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Danine Farquharson and Sean Farrell; title: On the necessity of violence in the Irish Revolution / Peter Hart; title: Sean O'Casey and the dialectics of violence / Bernice Schrank; title: Sexing the rising : men, sex, violence and Easter 1916 / Danine Farquharson; title: Dash and Daring : imperial violence and Irish ambiguity / Timothy G. McMahon; title: Writing an Orange Dolly's Brae / Sean Farrell; title: Symbolic and hyperreal violence in the Irish 'Troubles' Movie / Brian McIlroy; title: Undoing the fanaticism of meaning : Neil Jordan's Angel / Keith Hoppe; title: Ciaran Carson : the new urban poetics / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews; title: Memory, history, story : between poetics and ethics / Richard Kearney.