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Aalto, Alvar, 286, 295–6 Daniel O’Connell’s strategy, 30 Abbey Theatre, 326–31 Politics and Society in Ireland, 1832–1885, see also Deevey, Teresa; Dublin Trilogy by 29–30 Sean O’Casey; Yeats, W. B. flexibility of Gladstone’s politics, 32–3 Casadh an tSug´ ain´ , 327, 328 implications of Home Rule, and colonial administration, 329 32–3 Lionel Pilkington’s observations on, W. E. Vaughan on advanced reforms 329 and, 31–2 The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet, 329 relation to Belfast Agreement, 39–40 Gabriel Fallon’s comments on tradition Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, of, 332–3 The, 310 George Russell on creation of medieval administration, colonial. See colonial theatre, 327–8 administration and theatre new building for by Michael Scott, 333 Adorno, Theodor, 168 Playboy of the Western World, 328–9 affiliation, religious, see power and religious as state theatre, 329–31 affiliation Thompson in Tir-na-nOg´ ,328 Agreement, Belfast. See Belfast Agreement Abhrain´ Gradh´ Chuige´ Chonnacht. See Love-Songs Agreement, Good Friday, 199–200 of Connacht All Souls’ Day,221 abortion alternative enlightenment, 5–6 Hush-a-Bye-Baby,217–18 America, United States of. See race, ethnicity, The Kerry Babies’ case, 218 nationalism and assimilation About Adam,221–2 Amhran´ na Leabhar,272 Absentee, The,255 Amongst Women,263 assimilation, cultural, 49 An Beal´ Bocht, 250 Academy, Royal Hibernian, 305 An Chead´ Chloch,248 activism for Gaeltacht,54 Anderson, Perry, 164, 226 Act of Union, 25–40 An Chulb Drama´ ıochta,´ 331 See also architecture and national identity An Claidheamh Soluis,248 consequences of, 27–8, 29 An Comhar Dramu´ ıochta,´ 331 James Barry’s drawings representing, 309, An Crann Faoi Blath´ , 186 310 Anderson, Perry, 163–4, 226 longevity of, 29–39 An Duanaire, 175 adaptability of Tory politics, 33 Angel,213 and architectural influence of British Angela’s Ashes,215 state, 36–7 Anglo-Irish ascendancy, 192–4 basis for popularity of Irish Republican see also Yeats, W. B. Brotherhood, 30 Anne Devlin, 213

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An Taibhdhearc, 331 arts, visual. See visual arts An tAthair Nioclas´ Mac Sıthigh:´ Caoineadh do Arts and Crafts movement, 160, 292–3 Chum a Dheirfiur´ ,97 Ascendancy,219 antebellum America, 123 ascendancy, Anglo-Irish, 192–4 anthologies. See Field Day Anthology of Irish see also Yeats, W. B. Writing, The; folk culture; poetry ‘As I Roved Out’, 277 anti-Catholicism assimilation. See race, ethnicity, nationalism Ian Paisley’s cultural unionism and, 91 and assimilation John Brewer and Gareth Higgins on, association football, 193–4 71 see also political and religious division in An Tine Bheo,279–80 sports anti-revivalism. See counter-revivalism; establishment of Belfast Celtic Football Joyce, James Club, 196 An tOileanach´ ,249–50 popularity of despite bans on, 196 Appeal of One Half of the Human Race, Women Athletic Association, Gaelic, 147–51, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, 194–201, 204–5 Men,99 Atlantean, 212 Aran Fisherman’s Drowned Child, The, 307–8 At Swim-Two-Birds, 260 Aran Islands, The,232 authenticating history. See theatre archbishops. See Catholicism autobiographies. See Blasket architecture, moderation in, 295 autobiographies architecture and national identity, 285–301 see also contemporary architecture and Bailegangaire, 334 national identity; Dublin; Irish Free ballads, 274 State; New York World’s Fair; Ballroom of Romance, The,215 Republic of Ireland; Trinity College Balls, Granard, 268 Museum Banim, John, 256 after Act of Union, 289–93 Banim, Michael, 256 Belfast’s City Hall, 291 banks. See Dublin Herman Muthesius on English Arts Banville, John, 261 and Crafts movement, 292–3 Barker, Thomas, 309–11 influence of British state, 36–7 Barnacle, Nora. See Nora Irish Industrial Village at Chicago Barnett, Anne, 264 Exhibition, 292 Barrett, Cyril, 312 after independence, 293–6 Barry, James, 305 nationalism and modernism in, Eylsium and Tartarus or the State of Final 285–9 Retribution, 307 Adrian Forty’s comments on, 289 see also Act of Union ‘Character and Composition’, 288 Bateman, Colin, 264 The International Style, 287–8 ‘Battle of two Civilisations’, 159 Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe’s design, Bean na hEireann´ ,103 286–7 Beckett, Samuel Space, Time and Architecture, 287–8 comparison between O´ Cadhain and, The Stones of Venice,288–9 168 Arensberg, Conrad modernist English language prose fiction, Family and Community in Ireland and, 259–60 240 Theodor Adorno on Beckett’s Ecce Homo, The Irish Countryman,240 168 arms, nation in, 86 Waiting for Godot, 332 Army, Irish Citizen, 103 Belfast Agreement Army, Irish Republican. See Irish Republican and cultural identity politics, 90–3 Army relation to Act of Union, 39–40 army of Britain, 35, 36 Belfast Banking Company, 290, 291 Arrah-na-Pogue,325 Belfast Celtic Football Club, 196, 203 Arthur, Paul, 132 Belfast City Art Gallery, 306

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Belfast Harp festival, 229–30 Bowen, Elizabeth, 262 and United Irishmen, 268–70 Brah, Avtar, 119 Granard Balls, 268 Brewer, John, 71 research by Edward Bunting, 269 Britain Theobald Wolfe Tone’s views on, 268 see also Act of Union, longevity of; race, Belfast Harp Society, 270 ethnicity, nationalism and Belfast’s City Hall, 291 assimilation Bell, Desmond, 74 army of, 35, 36 Bell, Sam Hanna, 264 relationship of state and Catholic church, Benjamin, Walter, 166 64–5 Bennet, Edward, 219 British Broadcasting Company, 221 Bennett, Louie, 107 British School of art, influence on Bennett, Tony, 240 nineteenth-century visual arts, 304–5 Besant, Annie, 101 A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 305 Beside the Fire,233 Daniel Maclise, 305 Birth of a Nation, The,206 James Barry, 305 bishops. See Catholicism Sir John Lavery, 305 Bishop’s Story, The,215 British state, bureaucracy of, and longevity Black, Cathal, 215, 218 of Union, 37 Black Atlantic, The, 20, 119 Joseph Chamberlain’s complaints over, 37 ‘Blackbird of Derrycairn, The’, 180 Margaret O’Callaghan conclusions on, 37 Black Day at Blackrock, 222–3 Brooke, Charlotte, 229 Blacklist, Section H,260–1 Brotherhood, Irish Revolutionary. See Irish Blackwood Golf Centre, 300, 301 Revolutionary Brotherhood Blair, Les, 220 Brown, Terence, 159, 164, 297 Blasket autobiographies, 249–50 Bruckheimer, Jerry, 221 Fiche Blian ag Fas´ ,249 Buckstone, John Baldwin, 324–5 parody of in An Beal´ Bocht,250 Budawanny, 215 Peig,249 Bunting, Edward, 269 An tOileanach´ , 249–50 A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Blau, Eve, 292 Ireland,230 Bloody Sunday,219 relationship with Thomas Moore, 271 Blythe, Ernest, 331 Burke, Peter, 150–1 Boehmer, Elleke, 169–70 Burning of Bridget Cleary, The,102,237 Bogwoman,219–20 Burton, Frederic William, 307–8 Bolg an Tsolair, 230 Busaras. See Central Bus Station for Dublin Bolger, Dermot, 263 Butcher Boy, The, 216, 265 Bonnett, Alistair, 127 Butler, Eleanor, 100 Boorman, John, 221 Butler, Josephine, 101 Bord Scannan´ na hEireann´ , institutional Byrne, Patrick, 270 support for film production by, 212, 213–14 Cahill, Martin. See urban gangster films Angel, 213 Cailın´ ı´ Beaga Ghleann na mBlath´ , 252 Anne Devlin,213 Cal,213 Cal,213 Callanan, Jeremiah, 179–80 Eat the Peach, 213–14 Caoineadh Airt Uı´ Laoire, 212 The Outcasts, 213 caoineadh oral lament poetry, 97–8 Roddy Doyle’s works, 213 see also Nı´ Chonaill, Eibhlın´ Dubh Bothy Band, The, 280 Caoineadh Sheamuis´ Mhic Choitir,97 Boucicault, Dion impact of Great Famine on, 141–3 The Colleen Bawn, 325 An tAthair Nioclas´ Mac Sıthigh:´ Caoineadh do on lack of originality in Irish plays, 325 Chum a Dheirfiur´ ,97 nationalism in Arrah-na-Pogue,325 Carleton, William, 256–7 Bourdieu, Pierre, 62 Carrigan Commission, 145 Bourke, Angela, 102, 237 Casablanca,324

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Casadh an tSug´ ain´ , 327, 328 Folk Song Movement, 275 Castle Rackrent, 254–5 rejection of Thomas Moore, 276 categorisation, diasporic, 119–20 and Charles Villiers Stanford, 276 Cath Cheim´ an Fhia,272 and oppression of women writers, 169 Cathleen ni Houlihan,328 and prose fiction in Irish language, 247–9 Catholic–Dissenter alliance, 86 Oireachtas competition, 247–8 Catholicism Seadna´ ,249 see also cinema, contemporary issues in; Terence Brown’s account of Devotional Revolution; Penal Laws; counter-revival, 159 Republic of Ireland Celtic Tiger economy, and cinema, 220–3 Margaret O’Callaghan’s comments on, see also About Adam 106 All Souls’ Day,221 challenges to in Republic of Ireland, 72–4 Black Day at Blackrock,222–3 influence on feminism in Irish Free State, Family, 221 105–7 Flick,221 statement by Archbishops and Bishops, Guiltrip, 221 106 Into the West, 221 W. B. Yeats’s arguments against This Is My Father,223 discrimination, 107 When Brendan Met Trudy, 222 in Kate O’Brien’s fiction, 262 Celtic Twilight, The,232 lack of emancipation under Union, 28, 29 censorship. See cinema and culture, Liam Ryan on church as moral conscience, romanticism and censorship in 68 Censorship of Films Act, 210 and longevity of Act of Union, 37–9 Central Bus Station for Dublin, 296 John Hutchinson’s arguments on, 38 Ceoltoir´ ı´ Chualann,280 role of Royal Irish Constabulary, 38 Chamberlain, Joseph, 37 Senia Paseta’s research on, 37–8 Charabanc theatre company, 336 loyalty to Catholic Church, 63–4 ‘Character and Composition’, 288 see also Protestantism character types, Irish. See play, birth of Irish effect of Penal Laws on, 64 Chicago Exposition, 292 Max Weber’s view of churches as Chieftains, The, 280 compulsory organisations, 63 Child Jesus and Other Stories. See Iosagan´ agus recusancy, 63–4 Scealta´ Eile and national identity, 8, 12–13 Chiva, Isac, 241, 244 in Northern Ireland, 71–2 Christiansen, Reidar Th. Eamonn Phoenix’s description of, 72 establishment of Folklore of Ireland John Brewer and Gareth Higgins on Society, 235 anti-Catholicism, 71 Types of the Irish Folktale and, 235 and race, ethnicity, nationalism and Church, Catholic. See Catholicism assimilation issues, 128–30 Church of Ireland. See Protestantism and revival of Irish language, 50–1 Churchyard Clay. See Cre´ na Cille and shift to English language, 44–5 cinema, contemporary issues in, 214–18 strength of, 63–6 see also homosexuality and gender structure, 65–6 abortion and relationship with British state, Hush-a-Bye-Baby,217–18 64–5 ‘the Kerry Babies’ case, 218 Celtic football club, 201 Angela’s Ashes,215 Celtic mystique in visual arts, 315 The Ballroom of Romance, 215 Celtic Revival, 157–70 The Butcher Boy,216 see also Hyde, Douglas; Joyce, James; controversy over Catholic church modernism; O´ Conaire, Padraic;´ Budawanny and The Bishop’s Story,215 Pearse, Patrick; Yeats, W. B. Dear Daughter,215 and Gaelic music, 274–7 Lamb, 215 The Dance Music of Ireland,276–7 The Magdalene Sisters,216 English Folksong, 275 Our Boys,215

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Sinners, 216 Clandillon, Seamus,´ 277 States of Fear, 216 Clarke, Austin, 175, 182–3 The Crying Game, 214 class, middle, 312 Disco Pigs, 216 classical music. See music fatherhood clerical political power, 66 In the Name of the Father,217 codification of sports, 148–50 The Snapper, 217 Cohen, Robin, 119–20 The Field,214 Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis,229 How Harry Became a Tree, 214–15 collective consciousness, 60–1 A Love Divided, 216 Colleen Bawn, The,208–9, 325 My Left Foot,214 Collegians, The,256 cinema, resurgence of, 211–14 Collins, Michael. See Michael Collins see also Bord Scannan´ na hEireann´ Collins, Tom, 219–20 experimental films of Vivienne Dick, 212 colonial administration and theatre, 323 films by Bob Quinn Abbey Theatre, 329 Atlantean,212 Lionel Pilkington’s observations on, Caoineadh Airt Uı´ Laoire,212 329 Poitın´ ,212 and The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet,329 films by Joe Comerford Alan Fletcher’s comments on, 323 Traveller,212 John O’Keeffe’s observations, 323 Withdrawal and Down the Corner, 212 colonialism, 158–60 John Huston’s version of Joyce’s The Dead, Comerford, Joe 214 Traveller, 212 and Pat Murphy’s work Withdrawal and Down the Corner,212 Maeve,212–13 Comhaltas Ceoltoir´ ı´ Eireann´ , 278–9 Nora,214 Fleadhanna competition, 278 Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s On a Paving Stone Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann´ ,278 Mounted,212 Labhras´ O´ Murchu’s´ report on traditional cinema and culture, 206–23 music, 278–9 see also Celtic Tiger economy; cinema, Commission, Carrigan, 145 contemporary issues in; cinema, Commission on the Status of Women, Report of resurgence of; Jordan, Neil; Northern the, 108 Ireland; silent films; urban gangster compulsory organisations, churches as, 63 films Connolly, Fintan, 221 conflict with Hollywood, 206–8 Connolly, James, 103 D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, conscience, moral, Catholic Church as, 206 68 Miriam Hansen’s arguments on, 207 consequences of migration, 117 and Irish Civil War Constabulary, Royal Irish, 38 The Devil’s Own, 219 Constitution of Republic of Ireland, 107 Korea,218 constitutional republicanism, 89 romanticism and censorship in, 210–11 consumerism, 74 Irish Free State’s Censorship of Film Contagious Diseases Act Act, 210 Ladies National Association for the Repeal Man of Aran,210 of the Contagious Diseases Act, The Quiet Man, 210–11 100 The Woman Who Married Clark Gable,211 and prostitution, 100 Cinnlae Amhlaoibh UıSh´ uilleabh´ ain´ ,246–7 repeal of, 100 Citizen Army, Irish, 103 contemporary architecture and national City Hall, Belfast, 291 identity, 296–301 ‘Civilisations, Battle of Two’, 159 see also Lemass, Sean,´ Taoiseach of Republic civil rights. See feminism; Northern Ireland of Ireland; Scott, Tallon and Walker Civil Rights Association; Northern partnership Ireland Civil Rights Movement Kenneth Frampton’s critical regionalism, Clancy Brothers, 277–8, 280 299

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contemporary architecture (cont.) Crafts movement, Arts and, 160, 292–3 Group 91’s contextualism and ﬁgurative Crawford Gallery, 306 architecture, 300 Cre´ na Cille,251–2 Niall McCullough’s A Lost Tradition, cricket, 193 299–300 criticism: of Irish language poetry Northern Ireland’s relation to English, Austin Clarke’s Poetry in Modern Ireland, 299 175 O’Donnell and Tuomey’s Blackwood Golf Flann O’Brien’s mocking of, 175 Centre, 300, 301 in Irish Poetry,175 Scott, Tallon and Walker partnership, in Literary History of Ireland, 175 298–9 Croker, Thomas Crofton, 230–1 contemporary ﬁction, 262–5 The Keen of the South of Ireland, 230 Anne Barnett’s The Largest Baby in Ireland Researches in the South of Ireland, Illustrative of after the Famine,264 the Scenery, Architectural Remains, and by Anne Enright, 264 the Manners and Superstitions of the Bernard MacLaverty’s work, 265 Peasantry, 230 by Colin Bateman, 264 translation of Fairy Legends and Traditions of by Colm Toib´ ın,´ 263 the South of Ireland by Grimm by Deirdre Madden, 264 brothers, 230 Dermot Bolger, 263 Cronin, Mike, 190 Eil´ ıs´ Nı´ Dhuibhne’s The Dancers Dancing, Crossroads Conference, 281 263–4 Crying Game, The,214 by Emma Donoghue, Stir-fry,264 homosexuality in, 217 Jennifer Johnston’s works, 263 Cuchulain of Muirthemne, 159 by John McGahern Cuirt´ an Mhean-O´ ıche´ ,97 Amongst Women,263 Cullen, Paul, archbishop of Armagh, 273 The Dark,263 Cullen, T. J., 295 by Julia O’Faolain culture The Judas Cloth, 264 cultural absorption, 49 Women in the Wall,264 cultural identity politics, 90–3 by Mary Dorcey, 264 Belfast Agreement, 90–3 A Noise from the Woodshed,264 republicanism Biography of Desire,264 Orange Order’s antagonism towards, Mary Leland’s The Killeen, 264 91–2 Mary Morrissey’s The Pretender, 264 Provisional Republican movement, 91 Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy, unionism 265 Duncan Morrow on fundamentalist Protestantism in Sam Hanna Bell’s work, Protestantism and, 92 264 Ian Paisley’s anti-Catholicism and, 91 Roddy Doyle, 263 Norman Porter on evangelism of, 91–2 role of Northern Ireland’s Troubles in, cultural process, 241 264–5 cultural reconversion, 241 contemporary modernisation, 13–20 culture, folk. See folk culture; subaltern folk and feminism, 15–17 culture role of Mary Robinson, 16–17 culture and cinema. See cinema and culture Field Day enterprise and, 17–19 Cumann na mBan Seamus Deane’s writings, 17–18 and female nationalism, 103 conversion, religious, 69–70 franchise rights for women in Irish Free Cor´ Chuil´ Aodha,280 State, 104 Cork School of Art, 305–6 Cumann na nGaedheal. See Sinn Fein´ Corkery, Daniel, 177 Curtin, Jeremiah, 231 counter-revivalism, 159 Cusack, Michael, 147–51 see also Joyce, James founding of Gaelic Athletic Association, Flann O’Brien’s version, 168–9 194–95 Country Girls, The, 108 cyclicalism, historical, 83

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Da, 333–4 building programme of, 294–5 Dail´ Eireann´ ,103–4 Michael Scott’s Port Laoise Hospital, dance 295 suppression of, 278 T. J. Cullen’s Galway Central Hospital, transformations due to Great Famine, 295 143–5 Vincent Kelly’s projects, 295 Carrigan Commission and, 145 constitutional republicanism of Fianna Dance Hall Act, 145 Fail´ and, 89 Fionan´ MacColuim’s role in, 144 Devil’s Own, The, 219 Gaelic League-sponsored schools, devotional revolution , 138–40, 272–3 145 Diary of Humphrey O’Sullivan, The. See Cinnlae Cardinal MacRory on urban sex Amhlaoibh UıSh´ uilleabh´ ain´ predators, 145 diaspora, 117–34 Patrick Reidy’s search for Irish forms of, see also migration; race, ethnicity, 144 nationalism and assimilation Dance Hall Act, 145 deﬁnitions and typologies of, 118–21 Dance Music of Ireland, The,276–7 Avtar Brah’s arguments on, 119 Dancers Dancing, The,252,263–4 Paul Gilroy’s study of The Black Atlantic, Dark, The,263 119 Davis, Thomas, 274 Pnina Werbner’s critiques of, 120 de Burca,´ Cait,´ 97 Robin Cohen’s categorisation, ‘Dead, The’, 165 119–20 Dead, The, 214 persistence of identities of, 131–2 ‘Dead at Clonmacnoise, The’, 180–1 Paul Arthur on, 132 Deane, Seamus Breda Gray’s research on, 132 and Field Day enterprise, 17–18 Toni Morrison’s comment on racial The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, estrangement, 132 178–9 Khachig Tol¨ olyan’s¨ comments on on ‘Troubles play’, 334–5 ethnicity and, 131 Deane, Thomas, 292 Mary Waters’ arguments on, 131 Dear Daughter,215 Dick, Vivienne, 212 December Bride,219 Dictionary of Irish Artists, A,305 Deevey, Teresa Disciple, A, 330 Abbey Theatre as state theatre and works Disco Pigs,216 by, 330 Discovery of the Potato Blight, The, 311 A Disciple, 330 discrimination. See Catholicism The King of Spain’s Daughter, 330 diseases. See Contagious Diseases Act Katie Roche, 330 Dissenter–Catholic alliance, 86 Defenders’ organisations, 86 divorce ban, 110 Delargy, J. H. Doheny, Michael, 147 comments on folk culture as national Doherty, Willie, 319 tradition, 237 Donnybrook Fair, 193 directorship of Irish Folklore Donoghue, Emma, 264 Commission, 234, 236 Dorcey, Mary, 264 and folklorist C. W. von Sydow, Double Cross, 335 235 Douglas, James, 104–5 Leabhar Sheain´ I´ Chonaill,236 Down the Corner,212 ‘The Gaelic Storyteller’, 236 Doyle, Henry, 306–7 Deoraıocht´ ,248 attempts to establish Irish National Department of Folklore and Ethnology, Portrait Gallery, 306–7 University College Cork, 236 Doyle, Roddy, 213, 263 Department of Irish Folklore, University About Adam by Gerry Stembridge and, College Dublin, 235 221–2 De Valera, Eamon, 297 critique of by Tom Humphries, see also Republic of Ireland 221–2

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Doyle, Roddy (cont.) emigration. See diaspora; feminism; Family series by Mike Winterbottom and, migration 221 England. See Britain When Brendan Met Trudy by Kieran J. Walsh English architecture, 299 and, 222 English Arts and Crafts movement, 292–3 Dracula, 257 English Folksong,275 Dublin English football, 201 architecture and national identity in Manchester United football team, 201 Belfast Banking Company’s branch, English language and culture 290, 291 see also contemporary ﬁction; languages; Hibernian Bank, 290 modernism; nationalism; poetry; J. P. Mahaffy’s description of, 290 prose ﬁction; realism; Romanticism; Michael Scott’s Central Bus Station, 296 Victorian Ireland National Irish Bank, 290 shift to, 42–6 Hugh Lane’s bequest of paintings to city, attitude of Catholic Church towards, 312 44–5 Dubliners, 165, 259 Helen and Mairt´ ın´ O´ Murchu’s´ Dubliners, The, 280 comments on, 43 Dublin Harp Society, 270 English sporting revolution, 193–4 Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, 305–6 and ideology of Gaelic Athletic Dublin Trilogy by Sean O’Casey, 330 Association, 195 The Plough and the Stars, 330 popularity of association football or The Shadow of the Gunman and Juno and the soccer, 193–4 Paycock, 330 spread of rugby and cricket, 193 Christopher Murray’s comments on, enlightenment, alternative, 5–6 330 Ennui, 255 Dublin University Magazine,257 Enright, Anne, 264 publication of works by Charles Lever, epochalism versus essentialism, 293–4 257 estrangement, racial, 132 Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas,257 ethnicity. See diaspora; race, ethnicity, Duddy, Tom, 315–16 nationalism and assimilation Duffy, Rita, 316, 317 ethnology and ethnography, 226 Duncan, James, 268 see also Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork Eagleton, Terry, 164 European Romanticism. See Romanticism ‘Eanach Dhuin’´ ,272 evangelism ‘Easter 1916’, 162 J. H. Murphy on failure of Protestant, 64 Eat the Peach,213–14 Norman Porter on unionist, 91–2 Ecce Homo, 168 Evans, Emyr Estyn, 228 Eco, Umberto, 324 study of subaltern folk culture by, 238–9 economy. See Celtic Tiger economy; Lemass, establishment of Ulster Folklife journal, Sean´ 238 Edgeworth, Maria Gwyneth Evans comments on, 238 Castle Rackrent, 254–5 Irish Folk Ways, 238 Ennui and The Absentee,255 Irish Heritage,238 Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 34–5 revival of The Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Edwards, Hilton 238 Gate Theatre, 331 Ulster Folklife Society, 238 An Taibhdhearc, 331 Evans, Gwyneth, 238 Elam, Keir, 332 Evans, Marc, 219 Elections, Politics and Society in Ireland, exhibitions, Rosc, 314 1832–1885,29–30 Exile. See Deoraıocht´ Elliot, Marianne, 69–70 Exposition, Chicago, 292 emancipation, of Catholicism. See Eylsium and Tartarus or the State of Final Catholicism Retribution, 307

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Fahy, Desmond, 199 Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Ancient Order Fair, Donnybrook, 193 of Hibernians, 104 Fair, New York World’s. See New York Ruth Taillon and Diane Urquhart’s World’s Fair study on, 104 Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 232 Saidie Patterson, 105 Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ulster Women’s Unionist Council, 104 Ireland,230 and reform, 110–12 Faith Healer, 334 Mags O’Brien on divorce ban, 110 Fallon, Gabriel, 332–3 Mary Robinson’s career and move Family, A, 319–20 towards, 111–12 family, royal. See royal family sensationalism in media, 111 Family and Community in Ireland, during struggle for national 240 independence, 102–4 Family series, 221 Constance Markievicz’s political stance, famine. See Great Famine 103 fantasy, 262 Inghinidhe na hEireann’´ s Bean na hEireann´ , fatherhood. See cinema, contemporary 103 issues in in Irish Citizen Army, 103 Fealsunacht´ Aodha Mhic Dhomhnaill,247 The Irish Citizen suffrage newspaper, 103 feminism, 96–115 Irish Women’s Franchise League, 102 see also Catholicism; Contagious Diseases James Connolly’s acceptance of, 103 Act; Cumann na mBan; Land War; participation in Dail´ Eireann´ , 103–4 liberation, women’s; wrongs of Fenian, The, 325–6 women Fenian movement. See Irish Republican and contemporary modernisation, Brotherhood 15–17 Ferguson, Samuel role of Mary Robinson, 16–17 ‘Lament for Thomas Davis’, 180 current concerns of, 112–15 translation of ‘Macnamh an Duine early women’s rights activities, 98–102 Doilıosaigh’,´ 181–2 Angela Bourke’s The Burning of Bridget festival, Belfast Harp, 229–30 Cleary, 102 Festival of Lughnasa, The,235 Anna Doyle Wheeler and William Fianna Fail´ ,89 Thompson’s Appeal of One Half of the see also Lemass, Sean,´ Taoiseach of Republic Human Race, Women Against the of Ireland; Republic of Ireland Pretensions of the Other Half, Men,99 Fiche Blian ag Fas´ ,249 Anna Haslam, 100–1 fiction. See contemporary fiction; prose Isabella M. S. Tod, 100 fiction participation as poets in The Nation, 101 Field, The, 214, 333 participation in United Irish Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, The, 178–9 movement, 98–9 representation of women in, 236 Una´ Nı´ Fhaircheallaigh on Field Day enterprise participation in Gaelic League, 102 and contemporary modernisation, 17–19 and emigration, 100 Seamus Deane’s writings, 17–18 of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Field Day Theatre company, 335–6 100 Brian Friel’s Translations, 335 in Irish Free State, 105–7 Thomas Kilroy’s Double Cross, 335 Margaret O’Callaghan’s on female figurative architecture, 300 work restrictions, 107 Filı´ Amhranaithe´ agus Ceoltoir´ ı´ Eireann´ , 281–2 Senator Jennie Wyse Power and Louie films. See cinema and culture; silent films; Bennett’s position, 107 urban gangster films in Kate O’Brien’s fiction, 262 Finck, F. N., 234 in Northern Ireland, 104–5 Finnegans Wake,259–60 Betty Sinclair, 105 Finnish Pavilion at New York World’s Fair, James Douglas’s The Unpardonable Sin, 286 104–5 First Stone, The. See An Chead´ Chloch

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Flaherty, Robert, 210 Free State, Irish. See Irish Free State Fleadhanna competition, 278 Friel, Brian, 334 Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann´ , 278 Translations, 335 Fletcher, Alan, 323 Fulton, John, 72 Flick,221 fundamentalist Protestantism, 92 folk culture, 225–42 future of folk culture, 240–2 see also folklore studies; future of folk Antonio Gramsci’s observations on, 240 culture; subaltern folk culture Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak’s comments Han Vermeulen on ethnology or on, 241–2 ethnography, 226 Isac Chiva on language and, 241 and Romanticism Lauri Honko’s description of, 241 Bishop Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Nestor´ Garcıa´ Canclini on, 241 Poetry, 225 Stuart Hall on cultural process, 241 James Macpherson’s appropriation of Ossian poems, 225 Gaelic Athletic Association, 147–51, 194–201, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s idea of, 225 204–5 Johann Gottfried von Herder’s see also Republic of Ireland; sports Naturpoesie,225–6 impact on modern sports, 194–6 Volksgeist,226 control by Irish Republican Folklore of Ireland Society, 234 Brotherhood, 194–5 Reidar Th. Christiansen’s role in founding of by Michael Cusack, establishment of, 235 194–5 folklore studies, 226–9 and ideology of English sporting Edward Tylor’s Primitive Culture, 227 revolution, 195 Ernest Gellner’s arguments, 226 invented tradition of Gaelic football Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Kinder und and hurling, 145–51, 195 Hausmarchen¨ ,227 and nationalist groups, 194–5 Perry Anderson on romantic nationalism in Northern Ireland, 199–200 and, 226 Desmond Fahy’s study of nationalism Raymond Williams and genesis of terms, and, 199 226–7 effect of Good Friday Agreement on, Renato Ortiz’s comments on, 227 199–200 Robert Redﬁeld and folk society, 228 Gaelic culture. See Irish language work by E. Estyn Evans, 228 Gaelic football, 195 Folk Song Movement, 275 Gaelic League football. See association football; Irish see also subaltern folk culture Football Association dancing schools sponsored by, 145 Ford, John, 210–11 efforts to restore Irish language, 47–50 Forty, Adrian, 289 D. P. Moran’s description of cultural Foster, R. F., 64 absorption, 49 Frampton, Kenneth, 299 Eoin MacNeill’s´ emphasis, 48–9 Franchise League, Irish Women’s, 102 Oireachtas competition, 247–8 franchise rights, for women, 104 opposition to ‘County Ceilidhe’ radio freedom from theatrical heritage, programme, 277 333–7 Patrick Pearse as editor of An Claidheamh see also Field Day Theatre company Soluis, 248 Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, 334 Una´ Nı´ Fhaircheallaigh on female Charabanc theatre company, 336 participation in, 102 Hugh Leonard’s Da, 333–4 Gaelic Magazine. See Bolg an Tsolair John B. Keane’s The Field, 333 Gaelic poet singers, 271–2 Seamus Deane on ‘Troubles play’, Maire´ BhuıN´ ı´ Laoghaire’s ‘Cath Cheim´ an 334–5 Fhia’,272 in Tom Murphy’s plays, 334 Raftery’s ‘Eanach Dhuin’´ ,272 Bailegangaire, 334 Tomas´ Rua OS´ uilleabh´ ain’s´ ‘Amhran´ na Fintan O’Toole’s comments on, 334 Leabhar’,272

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Gaelic popular music, 272–7 Gregory, Lady Augusta, 159 see also Celtic Revival; Petrie, George; comments on purpose of Abbey Theatre, Young Ireland movement 326 Catholic opposition to and devotional folklore research by, 232, 233 revolution, 272–3 Mairt´ ın´ O´ Cadhain’s admiration of, 233 role of Paul Cullen, Archbishop of translation by, 178 Armagh, 273 Griffin, Gerald, 256 collection of by P. W. Joyce, 274 Griffith, Arthur sean-nos´ singing, 275 feelings on British royal visits, 35 union or uilleann pipes, 276 United Irishman on militant nationalism in Na Pıobair´ ı´ Uillean, 276 theatre, 326 ‘Gaelic Storyteller, The’, 236 Griffith, D. W., 206 Gaeltacht,54 Grimm, Jacob Gailey, Alan, 239 Kinder und Hausmarchen¨ , 227 galleries. See Belfast City Art Gallery; translation of Croker’s Fairy Legends and Crawford Gallery; Irish National Traditions of the South of Ireland,230 Portrait Gallery; National Gallery of Grimm, Wilhelm Ireland Kinder und Hausmarchen¨ , 227 Galway Central Hospital, 295 translation of Croker’s Fairy Legends and Games, Tailteann, 197 Traditions of the South of Ireland,230 gangster films. See urban gangster films Grimm’s Fairy Tales. See Kinder und Garcıa´ Canclini, Nestor,´ 241 Hausmarchen¨ Gate Theatre, 331 Group 91, 300 gCopaleen, Myles na. See O’Nolan, Brian Guerin, Veronica. See urban gangster films Geertz, Clifford, 293–4 Guests of the Nation,261 Gellner, Ernest, 226 Guiltrip,221 gender. See Catholicism; feminism General, The,221 H3,220 General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Hall, Stuart, 241 A,230 Handbook of Irish Folklore, A,234–5 Geoghegan, Patrick, 28 Hansen, Miriam, 207 George, Terry, 219 Harkin, Margo, 217–18 Giedion, Sigfried, 287–8 harp music Gilroy, Paul, 20, 119 see also Belfast Harp festival; Moore, Gilsenan, Alan, 221 Thomas Gladstone, W. E., 32–3 Belfast Harp Society, 270 Goldring, Maurice, 232–3 Patrick Byrne, 270 Gonne, Maud, 162 Dublin Harp Society, 270 Good Friday Agreement, 199–200 Hartnett, Michael, 185 Graham, Brian, 83 Harvey, Clodagh Brennan, 236 Gramsci, Antonio, 240 Haslam, Anna, 100–1 Granard Balls, 268 Hayes, Joanne, 218 Grand, Sarah, 101 Hazlitt, William, 271 Gray, Breda, 132 Heaney, Seamus, 49, 169 Great Britain. See Britain Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 225–6 Great Famine Hibernian Academy, Royal, 305 see also caoineadh oral lament poetry; Hibernian Bank, 290 dance; Devotional Revolution; Hibernians, Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Ancient hurling; radical memory Order of, 104 cultural effects of, 137–52 Hidden Agenda,220 impact on Irish language and literature, Hidden Ireland, The, 177 246 Higgins, Gareth, 71 Green Bushes, The,324–5 ‘Historical Essay on the Irish Stage, An’, 322 Greengrass, Paul, 219 historical map, 163–4 Gregg, Colin, 215 ‘Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards’, 322

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historiography, of modernity, 2–3, 5–6, ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising 7 Ireland’, 46–8, 233 history, authenticating. See theatre and Gaelic music, 275 History of Ireland, Vol.One,159 translation by, 178 history of political groups hydroelectric plant on River Shannon. See Brian Graham’s comments on Ulster River Shannon hydroelectric plant unionists, 83 importance of in modern politics, 82–4 identity. See cultural identity politics; Joe Lee’s description of, 83 diaspora; national identity Oliver McDonagh’s historical cyclicalism ideology of sports, 195 argument, 83 imperialism. See nineteenth-century visual Sean O’Faolain’s remarks on republican arts story, 82 independence, national. See architecture Ulster unionists, 83–4 and national identity; feminism; history of sports. See sports Irish Free State; Northern Ireland; Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 287–8 Republic of Ireland Hollywood. See cinema and culture Inghinidhe na hEireann´ , 103 ‘Holy Office, The’, 164 Innti poetry group, 184–5 Home Rule, 32–3 influence of Sean´ O´ Riordain´ on, 185 homosexuality, 217 Nuala Nı´ Dhomhnaill’s participation in, Honko, Lauri, 241 185 Hoppen, Theo, 29–30 instability of middle class, 312 hospitals. See De Valera, Eamon institutional support for film production. How Harry Became a Tree,214–15 See Bord Scannan´ na hEireann´ Hroch, Miroslav, 147 institutions, art. See nineteenth-century Humphries, Tom, 221–2 visual arts Hunt, William Holman, 311 International Style, The,287–8 hurling In the Name of the Father,217,220 see also invention of tradition In the Shadow of the Glen, 159 impact of Great Famine on, 145–51 Into the West,221 codification of sports, 148–50, 193 invention of tradition, 150–1 and Fr. Matthew’s temperance see also Abbey Theatre campaign, 146 of Gaelic football and hurling, 195 and James Joyce’s focus in Ulysses,151 in theatre, 326–33 Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa on police An Chulb Drama´ ıochta,´ 331 intervention, 147 An Comhar Dramu´ ıochta,´ 331 Michael Cusack’s Gaelic Athletic Gate Theatre, 331 Association, 147–51, 194–201 Keir Elam on perpetual present of Michael Doheny on killing of, 147 stage, 332 Miroslav Hroch’s development of Lyric Theatre, 332 nationalism, 147 Mac Lıamm´ oir,´ Edwards and O´ Briain’s Hurrish, 257–8 An Taibhdhearc, 331 Hush-a-Bye-Baby,217–18 Pike Theatre, 332 Huston, John, 214 Iosagan´ agus Scealta´ Eile, 248–9 Hutchinson, John, 38 Ireland, National Gallery of, 306 Hyde, Douglas Ireland, Northern. See Northern Ireland Casadh an tSug´ ain´ ,327,328 Ireland a Nation,209 criticism in Irish Poetry,175 Ireland and modernity. See modernity Flann O’Brien’s mocking of, 175 Ireland movement, Young. See Young folklore studies, 233–4 Ireland movement Beside the Fire,233 Irisches Elfenmarchen¨ . See Fairy Legends and Love Songs of Connacht, 233, 275 Traditions of the South of Ireland and participation in Gaelic League, Irish, United. See United Irish movement 233–4 Irish character types. See play, birth of Irish Literary History of Ireland, 175 Irish Citizen, The,103

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Irish Citizen Army, 103 Fealsunacht´ Aodha Mhic Dhomhnaill,247 Irish Civil War. See cinema and culture Great Famine, 246 Irish Comic Tradition, The, 174 Irish Literary Theatre. See Abbey Theatre Irish Constabulary, Royal, 38 Irish Melodies,270 Irish Countryman, The,240 Irish music. See music Irish Fairy Tales,232 Irish National Portrait Gallery, 306–7 Irish Film Board, The. See Bord Scannan´ na Irish National Theatre Society, Ltd. See hEireann´ Abbey Theatre Irish Folklore Commission, 234–6 Irish Parliament. See Dail´ Eireann´ directorship of by J. H. Delargy, 234, 236 Irish partition, consequences of, 88–90 and folklorist C. W. von Sydow, 235 De Valera and Fianna Fail´ ’s constitutional Leabhar Sheain´ I´ Chonaill,236 republicanism, 89 ‘The Gaelic Storyteller’, 236 Irish Republican Army, 89 Maire´ Mac Neill’s The Festival of Lughnasa, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement, 235 89–90 Sean´ OS´ uilleabh´ ain’s´ participation in, Sinn Fein´ ,89 234 Irish Pavilion at New York World’s Fair, A Handbook of Irish Folklore, 234–5 285–6 Laimhleabhar´ Bealoideasa´ , 234 Irish play. See play, birth of Irish Types of the Irish Folktaleby Christiansen Irish Poetry,175 and, 235 Irish Popular Superstitions,231 transfer to Department of Irish Folklore Irish Republican Army in University College Dublin, 235 consequences of partition on, 89 Irish Folk Ways, 238 mobilisation of, 86 Irish Football Association, 200 Irish Republican Brotherhood Irish Free State basis for popularity of, 30 see also Abbey Theatre; feminism; control of Gaelic Athletic Association, Republic of Ireland; River Shannon 194–5 hydroelectric plant mobilisation of, 87–8 architecture and national identity in, alliance with Sinn Fein´ ,87 293–4 Patrick Pearse’s role in, 87 W. B. Yeats’s comments on importance use of English language in politics of, of, 293 44 Censorship of Films Act, 210 Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, 86 revival of Irish language in, 49–51 Irish sports. See sports and Catholicism, 50–1 Irish theatre. See theatre Irish Heritage,238 Irish Women – Chains or Change?, 108 Irish Industrial Village, 292 Irish Women’s Franchise League, 102 Irish Land League, 101 Irish Women’s Liberation Movement, Ladies’ Land League, 101 108–9 Irish language influence on subsequent women’s groups, see also Celtic Revival; Gaelic League; Irish 109 Free State; languages; poetry Irwin, Thomas Caulfield, 181 current politics behind support of, 57 Islandman, The. See An tOileanach´ Douglas Hyde’s ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’, 46–8 Jameson, Fredric, 2–3 Ernest Blythe’s efforts to employ in Abbey Job of Journey Work, A,277 Theatre, 331 Johnson, Philip, 287–8 F. N. Finck’s folklore studies in, 234 Johnston, Jennifer, 263 prose fiction in, 245–53 Jones, Thomas Alfred, 311 revival of, 46–56 Jordan, Neil Irish language literature, challenges to, see also homosexuality 246–7 Angel,213 Cinnlae Amhlaoibh UıSh´ uilleabh´ ain´ , The Butcher Boy, 216 246–7 The Crying Game, 214

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Jordan, Neil (cont.) Knobel, Dale, 123–4 Michael Collins Knocknagow, or the Homes of Tipperary,257 and conflict with Hollywood, 207–8 Korea, 218 and Irish Civil War, 218–9 Joyce, James Lad from Old Ireland, The,208 anti-revivalism and modernism in works Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of of, 163–7, 258–60 Hibernians, 104 Dubliners, 165, 259 Ladies’ Land League, 101 Finnegans Wake,259–60 Ladies National Association for the Repeal A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 165, of the Contagious Diseases Act, 259 100 Terence Brown’s arguments, 164 Lafontaine, Oskar, 1–2 Terry Eagleton’s comments, 164 Laimhleabhar´ Bealoideasa´ , 234 ‘The Dead’, 165 Lamb,215 ‘The Holy Office’, 164 Lament for Arthur Leary. See Caoineadh Airt Ulysses, 151, 164, 165–7, 259 Uı´ Laoire Walter Benjamin’s comments on, 166 ‘Lament for Thomas Davis’, 180 John Huston’s film The Dead,214 lament poetry. See caoineadh oral lament A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,259 poetry Thomas Kinsella’s rewriting of works by, Land War 168–9 see also Irish Land League Joyce, P. W., 274 and early women’s rights activities, 101 Jubainville, Henri d’Arbois de, 47 Josephine Butler and Annie Besant’s Judas Cloth, The,264 views, 101 Juno and the Paycock, 330 Sarah Grand’s New Woman, 101 Lane, Hugh Kalem Company, silent films see also Municipal Gallery of Modern Art The Colleen Bawn,208–9 bequest of paintings to city of Dublin, The Lad from Old Ireland,208 312 Katie Roche, 330 languages Kavanagh, Patrick, 168 see also English language; Irish language; Keane, John B., 333 nationalism Keane, Roy, 190–1 Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville’s definition keen. See caoineadh oral lament poetry of, 47 Keen of the South of Ireland, The,230 importance of translation, 55–6 Keeper’s Recital, The,282–3 Isac Chiva on folk culture and, 241 Kelly, Vincent, 295 and national identity, 42–58 Kennedy, Patrick, 231 in Northern Ireland, 49 Kenny, Kevin, 124–6 debate over, 54–5 ‘Kerry Babies, The’, 218 political consequence of, 56–7 Kiberd, Declan, 168 Seamus Heaney’s description of, 49 Kickham, Charles, 257 in Republic of Ireland, 51–4 Killeen, The, 264 Largest Baby in Ireland after the Famine, The, Kilroy, Thomas, 335 264 Kimball, Solon, 240 Larminie, William, 181, 231 Kinder und Hausmarchen¨ , 227 Last September,The,262 Kindness, John, 316, 318 Lavery, Sir John, 305 King Edward VII of Great Britain, 34–5 Lawless, Emily, 257–8 King of Spain’s Daughter,The, 330 Laws, Penal, 64 Kings, Lords and Commons, 186 Leabhar Sheain´ I´ Chonaill,236 Kinsella, Thomas League, Gaelic. See Gaelic League An Duanaire anthology by O´ Tuama and, League, Irish Land. See Irish Land League 175 League, Irish Women’s Franchise, 102 rewriting of works by Joyce, 168–9 Leahy, William, 180 on shared poetic tradition, 173 Le Brocquy, Louis, 319–20

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Lee, Joe MacNeill,´ Eoin, 48–9 description of historiography of political Mac Neill, Maire,´ 235 groups, 83 Macpherson, James, 225, 267–8 on leadership of Sean´ Lemass, 297 Mac Reamoinn,´ Sean,´ 186–7 Le Fanu, Sheridan, 257 MacRory, Cardinal, 145 Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,231 Madden, Deirdre, 264 Leland, Mary, 264 Maeve,212–13 Lemass, Sean,´ Taoiseach of Republic of Magdalene Sisters, The,216 Ireland Mahaffy, J. P., 290 architecture and economic expansion Makem, Tommy, 280 under, 296–7 Man of Aran, 210 Joe Lee describes leadership of, 297 Manchester United football team, Terence Brown on national 201 self-conﬁdence and, 297 Mangan, James Clarence, 177–8 T. K. Whittaker and programmes for and importance of context of poetry, economic expansion, 296–7 178–9 comparison to Eamon De Valera, 297 translation of ‘Macnamh an Duine Lennon, Neil, 203 Doilıosaigh’,´ 181–2 Lentin, Louis, 215 Markievicz, Constance, 103 Leonard, Hugh, 333–4 Marshall, George, 277 Lever, Charles, 257 Martin, Violet, 258 liberation, women’s, 107–10 Martyn, Edward, 326 Literary History of Ireland, 175 Mass by Sean´ O´ Riada, 280 Literary revival. See Celtic Revival Matthew, Fr, 146 Little Girls of Gleann na mBlath,´ The. See Cailın´ ı´ Maturin, Charles, 256 Beaga Ghleann na mBlath´ McCabe, Patrick, 265 Lloyd, David, 312 McCarthy, Denis Florence, 173–4 Loach, Ken, 220 McCormack, W. J., 176 Longley, Edna, 186 McCullough, Niall, 299–300 Long Note, The, 277 McDonagh, Oliver, 83 Lost Tradition, A, 299–300 McGahern, John, 263 Love Divided, A,216 McGovern, Jimmy, 219 Love-Songs of Connacht, 233, 275 McGuinness, Frank, 335–6 loyalism. See unionism Observe the Sons of Ulster, 235–6 Lucas, A. T., 237 Mutabilitie, 336 Lynch, Patrick, 230 media, sensationalism in, 111 lyrics of folk songs. See folk culture medieval theatre, creation of, 327–8 Lyric Theatre, 332 Melmoth the Wanderer,256 melodies. See Society for the Preservation Mac Adam, Robert S., 230 and Publication of the Melodies of Mac Anna, Tomas,´ 333 Ireland Macartney, Sidney, 216 memory, radical, 151–2 MacBride, John, 162 Mercier, Vivian MacColuim, Fionan,´ 144 The Irish Comic Tradition, 174 MacDonald, Daniel, 311 on styles of English language poetry, MacLaverty, Bernard, 265 179–80 Mac Lıamm´ oir,´ Micheal´ Merriman, Brian, 97 Gate Theatre, 331 Merriman Summer School concert, 281 An Taibhdhearc, 331 Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, 305–6 Maclise, Daniel, 305, 307 Michael Collins,207–8, 217, 218–19 Macnamara, Gerald, 328 middle class, 312 ‘Macnamh an Duine Doilıosaigh’,´ Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 286–7, 298 translations of, 181–2 migration, 117, 134 by James Clarence Mangan, 181–2 see also diaspora; race, ethnicity, by Samuel Ferguson, 181–2 nationalism and assimilation

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Miles, Robert, 127 Murphy, Maeve, 220 militant nationalism. See nationalism; play, Murphy, Pat birth of Irish Anne Devlin, 213 Mise Eire´ ,279–80 Maeve,212–13 missionaries, 140 Nora, 214 modernism, 157–70 Murphy, Tom, 334 see also architecture and national identity; Bailegangaire, 334 Beckett, Samuel; Celtic Revival; Joyce, Fintan O’Toole on works of, 334 James; Moore, Brian; O’Brien, Flann; Murray, Christopher, 330 Synge, John Millington; Yeats, W. B. Murray, Patrick, 66 Elleke Boehmer’s comments on museums. See Bennett, Tony; National nationalism and, 169–70 Museum; Trinity College Museum; naturalism in works of O’Faolain and Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Kavanagh, 168 Ulster Folk Museum; Ulster Museum and oppression of women writers, 169 music, 267–83 and prose fiction in English language, see also Belfast Harp festival; Comhaltas 258–61 Ceoltoir´ ı´ Eireann´ ; Gaelic poet singers; and Seamus Heaney’s work, 169 Gaelic popular music; harp music; Terence Brown’s account of O´ Riada, Sean;´ radio counter-revival, 159 academic study of by Micheal´ O´ modernity, 1–20 Suilleabh´ ain,´ 282 see also contemporary modernisation; Comhaltas Ceoltoir´ ı´ Eireann´ , 278–9 national identity debates over authenticity of Macpherson’s historiography of, 2–7 Ossian poems, 267–8 Fredric Jameson’s description of, diversification of, 280–2 2–3 Bill Whelan’s Riverdance,281 United Irishmen’s alternative The Bothy Band, 280 enlightenment, 5–6 Crossroads Conference, 281 Oskar Lafontaine’s remarks on, Filı´ Amhranaithe´ agus Ceoltoir´ ı´ Eireann´ , 1–2 281–2 Molly Macree, 311 and Merriman Summer School concert, Moloney, Paddy, 280 281 Moore, Brian, 260–1 Raidio´ na Gaeltachta, 282 Moore, George, 258 The Dubliners, 280 Moore, Thomas, 177 Harry White’s The Keeper’s Recital,282–3 harp music by, 270–1 Oireachtas competition, 278 Irish Melodies, 270 Paddy Moloney’s formation of The and relationship with Edward Bunting, Chieftains, 280 271 rise of Clancy Brothers and Tommy William Hazlitt’s comments on, 271 Makem, 280 prose fiction by, 254 and suppression of dancing, 278 rejection of during Celtic Revival, and United Irishmen, 268–70 276 Muthesius, Herman, 292–3 moral conscience, Catholic Church as, My Left Foot,214 68 mystique, Celtic, in visual arts, 315 Moran, D. P., 49, 159, 295 myths. See subaltern folk culture Morrison, Toni, 132, 152 Morrissey, Mary, 264 Na Gopaleen, Myles. See O’Brien, Flann Morrow, Duncan, 92 Na Pıobair´ ı´ Uillean,276 Mulholland, Rosa, Lady Gilbert, 257–8 nation, concepts of state and, 80–1 Mullan, Peter, 216 Nation, The, 101 Municipal Gallery of Modern Art National Gallery of Ireland, 306 Hugh Lane’s opening of, 311 national identity, 7–13 John Butler Yeats’s donations to, 311 see also architecture and national identity; William Orpen’s contribution, 311 Catholicism; languages; religion; Murphy, J. H., 64 Romanticism and, 10–13

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national independence. See architecture and Belfast City Art Gallery or Ulster national identity; feminism; Irish Museum, 306 Free State; Republic of Ireland Cork School of Art, 305–6 National Irish Bank, 290 Crawford Gallery, 306 nationalism Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, see also architecture and national identity; 305–6 play, birth of Irish; race, ethnicity, National Gallery of Ireland, 306 nationalism and assimilation; Royal Hibernian Academy, 305 republicanism nativism versus imperialism in, 307–11 Cumann na mBan and female, 103 The Aran Fisherman’s Drowned Child, in Dion Boucicault’s Arrah-na-Pogue,325 307–8 Elleke Boehmer’s comments on The Discovery of the Potato Blight, 311 modernism and, 169–70 Eylsium and Tartarus or the State of Final and feminism in The Triumph of Prudence Retribution,307 Over Passion,98 Marriage of Strongbow and Eva, 307 Gaelic Athletic Association and, 194–5, Molly Macree, 311 199 Robert Ker Porter’s panorama painting, Mike Cronin’s observations on sports and, 309 190 Secret of England’s Greatness,309–11 Miroslav Hroch’s scenario for ‘The Shadow of Death’, 311 development of, 147 Nolan, Brian. See O’Brien, Flann Perry Anderson on folk culture and Nora,214 romantic, 226 Northern Ireland use of English language in politics, 43–4 see also Catholicism; feminism; Gaelic Daniel O’Connell’s views of, 44 Athletic Association; Irish partition, Irish Republican Brotherhood, 44 consequences of; languages; political Young Ireland movement, 44 and religious division in sports; radio and W. B. Yeats’s project, 161–3 in art of Willie Doherty, 319 National Museum cinema dealing with events in, 218–20 collection of Irish folk material, 237 see also O’Sullivan, Thaddeus folklife collection, 237 Ascendancy, 219 National Portrait Gallery, Irish, 306–7 Bloody Sunday, 219 national self-conﬁdence, 297 Bogwoman,219–20 national tradition, folk culture as, 237 H3,220 nation-in-arms, 86 Hidden Agenda,220 nativism. See nineteenth-century visual arts In the Name of the Father,220 naturalism, 168 Resurrection Man,219 Naturpoesie,225–6 Silent Grace,220 ‘Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland, The’, Some Mother’s Son,219 46–8, 233, 275 Sunday, 219 New Woman, 101 and English architecture, 299 New York World’s Fair religions in, 69–72 Finnish Pavilion designed by Alvar Aalto, Desmond Bell’s comments on, 74 286 effects of consumerism and Irish Pavilion designed by Michael Scott, sexualisation, 74 285–6 John Fulton’s research on, 72 Nı´ Chonaill, Eibhlın´ Dubh, 97–8, 141 Marianne Elliot on conversion, Nı´ Dhomhnaill, Nuala, 185 69–70 Nı´ Dhuibhne, Eil´ ıs,´ 252, 263–4 Orange Order, 71 Nı´ Fhaircheallaigh, Una,´ 102 political unity among Protestants, Nı´ Laoghaire, Maire´ Bhuı,´ 272 70–1 Nic Eoin, Mair´ ın,´ 98 Presbyterianism, 69–70 nineteenth-century visual arts, 304–11 similarities between communities, 72 see also British School of art; Doyle, Henry; sports in, 199–203 Municipal Gallery of Modern Art troubles in contemporary ﬁction of, institutions for, 305–7 264–5

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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, O´ Duilearga, Seamus.´ See Delargy, J. H. 109 O’Faolain, Julia Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement, The Judas Cloth,264 89–90 Women in the Wall, 264 Northern Star’s Bolg an Tsolair,230 O’Faolain, Sean, 82, 168 Nothing Personal,219 O’Flaherty, Liam, 251, 261 novels. See prose ﬁction O’Grady, Hubert, 325–6 O’Grady, Standish, 159 O´ Briain, Liam, 331 O´ Grianna, Seamus,´ 251 O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 174 O´ Grianna, Seosamh, 251 O’Brien, Edna, 108 Oireachtas competition, 247–8, 278 O’Brien, Flann, 168–9 O’Keefe, John, 323–4 satire of Douglas Hyde’s criticism, 175 O´ Laoghaire, an tAthair Peadar. See O’Leary, modernist works by, 260 Father Peter O’Brien, Kate, 262 O’Leary, Father Peter, 249 O’Brien, Mags, 110 O’Malley, Ernie, 313 O’Brien, Sissy, 142–3 O´ Murchu,´ Helen and Mairt´ ın,´ 43 Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the O´ Murchu,´ Labhras,´ 278–9 Somme, 335–6 On a Paving Stone Mounted,212 O´ Cadhain, Mairt´ ın,´ 251–2 O’Neill, Francis, 276–7 admiration of Gregory’s and Yeats’s use of O’Neill, Terence, 108 folklore, 233 O’Nolan, Brian, 250 comparison between Beckett and, 168 oral poetry. See caoineadh oral lament poetry; Cre´ na Cille,251–2 poetry position on Irish language revival, 52 Orange Order, 71, 91–2 O’Callaghan, Margaret O´ Rathaille, Aodhagan,´ 175 on British state bureaucracy, 37 Order of Hibernians, Ladies’ Auxiliary of on feminism in Irish Free State and the Ancient, 104 female work restrictions, 107 Ordinary Decent Criminal, 221 inﬂuence of Catholic church on, 106 O´ Riada, Sean,´ 279–80 O’Casey, Sean. See Dublin Trilogy Ceoltoir´ ı´ Chualann, 280 OC´ eileachair,´ Donncha, 251, 252 and Cor´ Chuil´ Aodha’s Mass, 280 O´ Coileain,´ Sean.´ See ‘Macnamh an Duine Mise Eire,´ Saoirse, and An Tine Bheo, Doilıosaigh’´ 279–80 O´ Conaire, Padraic,´ 248 ‘Our Musical Heritage’ radio series, 279 An Chead´ Chloch,248 originality, lack of in Irish plays, 325 Deoraıocht´ ,248 O´ Riordain,´ Sean,´ 185 Seacht mBua an Eir´ ı´ Amach, 248 Ormrod, Peter, 213–14 O´ Conghaile, Mairt´ ın,´ 234 Orpen, William, 311 O´ Conghaile, Mıche´ al,´ 252–3 Ortiz, Renato, 227 O’Connell, Daniel OS´ e,´ Sean,´ 280 strategy of, 30 Ossian poems, 225, 267–8 views on shift to English language, 44 OS´ uilleabh´ ain,´ Eoghan Rua, 176–7 O’Connor, Frank OS´ uilleabh´ ain,´ Micheal,´ 282 Guests of the Nation, 261 OS´ uilleabh´ ain,´ Muiris, 249 Kings, Lords and Commons, 186 OS´ uilleabh´ ain,´ Sean´ O’Connor, Pat participation in Irish Folklore The Ballroom of Romance,215 Commission, 234 Cal,213 A Handbook of Irish Folklore,234–5 O´ Criomhthain, Tomas,´ 249–50 Laimhleabhar´ Bealoideasa´ ,234 An tOile´ anach´ ,249–50 Types of the Irish Folktale by Christiansen O’Curry, Eugene, 273 and, 235 O’Doherty, Brian, 315 OS´ uilleabh´ ain,´ Tomas´ Rua, 272 O’Donnell and Tuomey, 300, 301 O’Sullivan, Thaddeus O’Duffy, Eimar, 262 December Bride,219

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Nothing Personal,219 poetry, 173–87 Ordinary Decent Criminal,221 see also caoineadh oral lament poetry; On a Paving Stone Mounted, 212 criticism of Irish language poetry; The Woman Who Married Clark Gable,211 Gaelic poet singers; Innti poetry O’Toole, Fintan, 334 group; Kinsella, Thomas; Mercier, O´ Tuama, Sean,´ 175 Vivian; translation Our Boys,215 anthologies of, 183–4 ‘Our Musical Heritage’ radio series, Austin Clarke’s view on role of Yeats’s, 279 182–3 Outcasts, The,213 dual tradition of in Irish and English Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan, Conor Cruise O’Brien’s contestation of, 255–6 174 Denis Florence McCarthy’s description, Paisley, Ian, 91 173–4 Pakula, Alan J., 219 Michael Hartnett’s work, 185 Parker, Alan, 215 in English language parliament, Irish. See Dail´ Eireann´ by Thomas Caulﬁeld Irwin, 181 Partition of Ireland. See Irish Partition Thomas Moore and European Paseta, Senia, 37–8 Romanticism, 177 Paskaljevic, Goran, 214–15 William Larminie’s proposal on, 181 Patterson, Saidie, 105 in Irish language Pavilions, Irish and Finnish. See New York by Aodhagan´ O´ Rathaille, 175 World’s Fair Edna Longley’s views on, 186 Pearse, Patrick, 248–9 Sean´ Mac Reamoinn’s´ The Pleasures of An Claidheamh Soluis,248 Gaelic Poetry, 186–7 Iosagan´ agus Scealta´ Eile,248–9 James Clarence Magnan and context of, and mobilisation of Irish Republican 178–9 Brotherhood, 87 politics, popular songs and oral tradition, Pedersen, Holger, 234 176–7 Peig,249 Daniel Corkery’s The Hidden Ireland, Penal Laws, 64 177 Percy, Bishop, 225 as seen in OS´ uilleabh´ ain’s´ case, perpetual present on stage, 332 176–7 Petrie, George, 273, 274 Seamus Deane’s work in The Field Day Philosophy of Hugh Mac Donald, The. See Anthology of Irish Writing, 178–9 Fealsunacht´ Aodha Mhic Dhomhnaill W. J. McCormack’s anthology, 176 Phoenix, Eamonn, 72 women’s participation in The Nation,101 Pike Theatre, 332 Poetry in Modern Ireland,175 Pilkington, Lionel, 329 Poitın´ ,212 pipes. See union or uilleann pipes police, intervention in hurling matches, play, birth of Irish, 323–6 147 Dion Boucicault’s works political and religious division in sports, The Colleen Bawn, 325 200–1, 203 generic form of, 325 interest in English teams, 201 nationalism in Arrah-na-Pogue,325 Irish Football Association, 200 Irish character types in plays by O’Keeffe, Manchester United team, 201 323–4 Neil Lennon and Belfast Celtics, 203 John Baldwin Buckstone’s The Green support for Scotland’s Celtic and Rangers Bushes, 324–5 clubs, 201 and militant nationalism political groups, mobilisation of, 84–8 Theobald Wolfe Tone,325–6 Charles Tilly on wars and state, 85 United Irishman on, 326 Irish Republican Army, 86 Playboy of the Western World, 157, 159, 328–9 Irish Republican Brotherhood, 87–8 Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry, The, 186–7 alliance with Sinn Fein´ ,87 Plough and the Stars, The, 330 Patrick Pearse’s role in, 87

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political groups, mobilisation of (cont.) in English language, 253–4, 265 Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, 86 in Irish language, 245–53 Theobald Wolfe Tone’s nation-in-arms see also Blasket Autobiographies idea, 86 Donncha OC´ eileachair,´ 251, 252 United Irish movement, 86–7 Liam O’Flaherty, 251 enlistment of Defenders organisations, Mairt´ ın´ O´ Cadhain, 251–2 86 Seamus´ and Seosamh O´ Grianna, 251 role of Catholic–Dissenter alliance, 86 Sna Fir,252–3 politics prostitution, 100 see also cultural identity politics; Protestantism feminism; nationalism; poetry; see also Presbyterianism political and religious division in in contemporary fiction by Sam Hanna sports; republicanism; unionism Bell, 264 change and continuity of, 78–9 domination of Catholics, 64 consequences of Northern Ireland’s Duncan Morrow on unionism and language debate, 56–7 fundamentalist, 92 flexibility of Gladstone’s, 32–3 J. H. Murphy on failure of evangelism, 64 Patrick Murray on clerical power in, 66 in Northern Ireland support of Irish language in current, 57 Orange Order, 71 Tory adaptability during Union, 33 political unity within, 70–1 unity among Northern Ireland in Republic of Ireland, 63, 66 Protestants, 70–1 Provisional Republican movement, 91 Ponsonby, Sarah, 100 Poor Mouth, The. See An Beal´ Bocht Queen Victoria of Great Britain, 34 popular songs. See poetry Quiet Man, The, 210–11 Porter, Norman, 91–2 Quinn, Bob Porter, Robert Ker, 309 Budawanny and The Bishop’s Story,215 Port Laoise Hospital, 295 films by Portrait Gallery, Irish National, 306–7 Atlantean,212 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, 165, 259 Caoineadh Airt Uı´ Laoire, 212 post-World War II visual arts, 314–20 Poitın´ , 212 Brian O’Doherty on Celtic mystique in, Quinn, Paul, 223 315 A Family, 319–20 race, ethnicity, nationalism and Northern Ireland in Willie Doherty’s assimilation, 121–2 work, 319 in Britain, 127–30 Rosc exhibitions, 314 Alistair Bonnett’s comments on, Sectarian Armour, 316, 318 127 Segregation, 316, 317 and Catholicism, 128–30 Tom Duddy’s arguments on, 315–16 Robert Miles’s comments on, 127 Power, Jennie Wyse, Senator, 107 in United States of America, 122–7 power, and religious affiliation, 61–2 Dale Knobel’s description of, 123–4 Max Weber’s analysis of, 61–2 David Roediger on, 124 Pierre Bourdieu’s study of, 62 Kevin Kenny’s arguments on, 124–6 power triangles, 79–80 Richard Williams’ study of antebellum Presbyterianism, 69–70 period, 123 Pretender,The,264 radio, 277–8 Primitive Culture,227 A Job of Journey Work and The Long Note,277 process, cultural, 241 in Northern Ireland, 277–8 prose fiction, 245–65 Andrew Stewart’s oversight of ‘As I see also Beckett, Samuel; Celtic Revival; Roved Out’, 277 contemporary fiction; Irish language Clancy Brothers’ concert, 277–8 literature, challenges to; Joyce, Gaelic League’s opposition to ‘Country James; modernism; realism; Ceilidhe’, 277 Romanticism; Victorian Ireland George Marshall’s directorship of, 277

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O´ Riada’s ‘Our Musical Heritage’ series, Gaelic Athletic Association and sports in, 279 196–9 Seamus´ Clandillon’s role in, 277 foreign games, 196–8 Raftery, 272 Tailteann Games, 197 Raftery, Mary, 216 influences on Constitution of, 107 Raidio´ na Gaeltachta, 282 languages in, 51–4 Rangers football club, 201 and Gaeltacht activism, 54 realism Mairt´ ın´ O´ Cadhain’s position on Irish fantasy in Eimar O’Duffy’s books, 262 revival, 52 feminism and Catholicism in Kate religions in, 63, 66, 72–4 O’Brien’s fiction, 262 Researches in the South of Ireland, Illustrative of in Guests of the Nation,261 the Scenery, Architectural Remains, and in The Last September,262 the Manners and Superstitions of the and prose fiction in English language, Peasantry,230 261–2 Resurrection Man,219 satire in Mervyn Wall’s novels, 262 Revival, Celtic. See Celtic Revival in works by Liam O’Flaherty, 261 revolution. See devotional revolution; reconversion, cultural, 241 English sporting revolution recusancy, 63–4 Revolutionary Brotherhood, Irish. See Irish Redfield, Robert, 228 Revolutionary Brotherhood. reforms, 31–2 Ricoeur, Paul, 293 see also feminism rights, civil. See feminism; Northern Ireland regionalism, critical, 299 Civil Rights Association; Northern Reidy, Patrick, 144 Ireland Civil Rights Movement religions Riverdance,281 see also affiliation, religious; Catholicism; River Shannon hydroelectric plant, 294 Devotional Revolution; Northern Robinson, Mary, President of Republic of Ireland; political and religious Ireland , 16–17, 111–12 division in sports; Republic of Roche, Anthony, 332 Ireland Roediger, David, 124 and national identity, 59–75 Rolleston, T. W., 180–1 religious affiliation, 59–61, 62 Roman Catholicism. See Catholicism Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,225 Romanticism Reliques of Irish Poetry, 229 see also Edgeworth, Maria; folk culture; rememoration, 152 Maturin, Charles Report of the Commission on the Status of Women, and folklore, 226 108 and national identity, 10–13 republicanism and prose fiction in English language, see also cultural identity politics; history of 254–7 political groups; Irish partition, The Collegians, 256 consequences of; Irish Republican historical novels by John and Michael Army; nationalism; political groups, Banim, 256 mobilisation of short stories and novels by William and unionism, 78–93 Carleton, 256–7 change and continuity of, 78–9 by Sydney Owenson, 255–6 concepts of state and nation, 80–1 Thomas Moore, English poetry and, 177 power triangles, 79–80 Rosc exhibitions, 314 Republic of Ireland. See also Bord Scannan´ na Rossa, Jeremiah O’Donovan, 147 hEireann´ ,294–6 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 225 Alvar Aalto on debate over modernism in, Rowe, Colin, 288 295–6 royal family, visits by and longevity of Act of D. P. Moran on need for moderation, 295 Union, 34, 35 Michael Scott’s Central Bus Station for Royal Hibernian Academy, 305 Dublin, 296 Royal Irish Constabulary, 38 church–state relations in, 66, 69 RTE´ Administration building, 298–9

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rugby, 193 Ireland a Nation,209 Ruskin, John, 288–9 The Lad from Old Ireland,208 Russell, George, 327–8 Silent Grace,220 Ryan, Liam, 68 similarities, religious, 72 Simmons, Robert Wynn, 213 Said, Edward, 161 Sinclair, Betty, 105 Saoirse, 279–80 Sinners, 216 satire, 262 Sinn Fein,´ 87, 89 Sayer, Peig, 249 Sna Fir, 252–3 schools. See British School of art; Cork Snapper,The, 217 School of Art; dance; Dublin soccer. See association football Metropolitan School of Art; society, folk. See folk culture Merriman Summer School concert Society for the Preservation and Publication Schumacher, Joel, 221 of the Melodies of Ireland, 273 Scott, Michael Society of United Irishmen. See United Irish Central Bus Station for Dublin, 296 movement Irish Pavilion at New York World’s Fair, Some Mother’s Son, 219 285–6 Somerville, Edith, 258 new building for Abbey Theatre by, 333 songs. See folk culture; music; poetry Port Laoise Hospital, 295 Space, Time and Architecture,287–8 Scott, Tallon and Walker partnership, 297–9 Spiers, Edward, 35 influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Spirit of the Nation, The, 274 on, 298 Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorti, 241–2 RTE´ Administration building, 298–9 sports, 190–205 Scottish football clubs, 201 see also English sporting revolution; Gaelic Seacht mBua an Eir´ ı´ Amach,248 Athletic Association; hurling; Seadna´ ,249 political and religious division in sean-nos´ singing, 275 sports; Republic of Ireland Secret of England’s Greatness, or Queen Victoria of Anglo-Irish ascendancy, 192–4 presenting a Bible in the audience chamber codification of, 148–50 at Windsor,The, 309–11 Donnybrook Fair, 193 Sectarian Armour, 316, 318 early history of, 192–3 Segregation, 316, 317 Football Association of Ireland, 190 self-confidence, national, 297 establishment of Belfast Celtic Football sensationalism in media, 111 Club, 196 Seven Victories of the Rising, The. See Seacht mBua Gaelic Athletic Association bans, an Eir´ ı´ Amach 196 sex predators, 145 popularity of association football sexualisation, 74 despite, 196 ‘Shadow of Death, The’, 311 Mike Cronin’s observations on Shadow of the Gunman, The, 330 nationalism and, 190 Shannon hydroelectric plant. See River in Northern Ireland, 199–203 Shannon hydroelectric plant public interest in Roy Keane’s career, Sharp, Cecil, 275 190–1 Shaw, George Bernard, 329 Stanford, Charles Villiers, 276 Sheehan, Canon, 140 state, 80–1, 85 Sheridan, Jim see also Abbey Theatre; Britain; Irish Free In the Name of the Father,217,220 State; Republic of Ireland The Field, 214 States of Fear, 216 My Left Foot, 214 ‘Statues, The’, 162–3 Sheridan, Kirsten, 216 Stembridge, Gerry, 221 Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet, The,329 and About Adam,221–2 significance of migration, 117 Black Day at Blackrock,222–3 silent films, 208–9 Stewart, Andrew, 277 The Colleen Bawn,208–9 Stoker, Bram, 257

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Stones of Venice, The,288–9 The Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 230 storytellers. See folk culture West Irish Folk-tales and Romances,231 Strickland, Walter, 305 Clodagh Brennan Harvey’s comments on, styles, poetic, 179–80 236 subaltern folk culture, 229–40 The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 236 see also Arensberg, Conrad; Evans, Emyr suffrage. See feminism Estyn; Gregory, Lady Augusta; Irish Sunday,219 Folklore Commission; Ulster Folk Synge, John Millington Museum; Yeats, W. B. The Aran Islands,232 anthologies by Lady Jane Wilde, 231 In the Shadow of the Glen,159 The Aran Islands, 232 Playboy of the Western World, 157, 159, 328–9 Belfast Harp festival, 229–30 The Burning of Bridget Cleary,237 Taillon, Ruth, 104 Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis,229 Tailteann Games, 197 Department of Folklore and Ethnology, Taisce Duan, 186 University College Cork, 236 Tallon. See Scott, Tallon and Walker F. N. Finck’s Irish language studies of, partnership 234 taoiseach. See Lemass, Sean,´ Taoiseach of Gaelic League’s Folklore of Ireland Republic of Ireland Society, 234, 235 temperance campaign, 146 A General Collection of the Ancient Music of theatre, 322–37 Ireland,230 see also Abbey Theatre; Beckett, Samuel; Irish Popular Superstitions,231 colonial administration and theatre; Jeremiah Curtin’s collections of myths, lack of theatrical heritage; invention 231 of tradition; play, birth of Irish; J. H. Delargy’s comments on as national Walker, Joseph Cooper tradition, 237 absence of authenticating history, 322–6 Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,231 Theobald Wolfe Tone, 325–6 Maurice Goldring’s comments on, 232–3 This Is My Father,223 Museum of Irish Country Life, 237 Thompson, William, 99 National Museum’s collection, 237 Thompson in Tir-na-nO´ g,328 Northern Star’s Bolg an Tsolair, 230 Tilly, Charles, 85 Patrick Lynch’s compilation of folk song TOd,´ Isabella M. S., 100 lyrics, 230 Toib´ ın,´ Colm, 263 Reliques of Irish Poetry,229 ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’, 161 scholarship of Holger Pedersen, 234 Tol¨ olyan,¨ Khachig, 131 storyteller Mairt´ ın´ O´ Conghaile, 234 Tone, Theobald Wolfe studies by Douglas Hyde, 233–4 on Belfast Harp festival, 268 Beside the Fire,233 idea of nation-in-arms, 86 Love-Songs of Connacht,233 Theobald Wolfe Tone, 325–6 and participation in Gaelic League, Tories, 33 233–4 Torramh-Caoineadh´ Airt Uı´ Laoghaire,97–8, ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising 141 Ireland’, 233 tradition, invention of. See invention of Thomas Crofton Crocker’s works, 230–1 tradition The Keen of the South of Ireland,230 tradition, poetic. See Kinsella, Thomas Researches in the South of Ireland, translation, 55–6 Illustrative of the Scenery, Architectural see also ‘Macnamh an Duine Doilıosaigh’´ Remains, and the Manners and of Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the Superstitions of the Peasantry,230 South of Ireland by Grimm brothers, translation of Fairy Legends and Traditions 230 of the South of Ireland by Grimm of poetry brothers, 230 in An Crann Faoi Blath´ , 186 Tony Bennett’s comments on museums by Douglas Hyde and Augusta Gregory, of, 240 178

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translation (cont.) concepts of state and nation, 80–1 by Edward Walsh, 181 power triangles, 79–80 Ferguson’s ‘Lament for Thomas Davis’, Ulster Women’s Unionist Council, 104 180 union or uilleann pipes, 276 by Frank O’Connor in Kings, Lords and United Irishman, 326 Commons, 186 United Irish movement, 5–6, 86–7 by Jeremiah Callanan, 179–80 see also Belfast Harp festival Taisce Duan anthology, 186 enlistment of Defenders organisations, ‘The Blackbird of Derrycairn’, 180 86 ‘The Dead at Clonmacnoise’, 180–1 role of Catholic–Dissenter alliance, 86 work of James Clarence Mangan, and music, 268–70 177–8 participation in by women, 98–9 Translations, 335 United Kingdom. See Britain Traveller, 212 United Nations Commission on the Status Trinity College Museum, 292 of Women, 108 Triumph of Prudence Over Passion, The,98 United States of America. See race, ethnicity, Troubles. See Northern Ireland nationalism and assimilation ‘Troubles play’, 334–5 University College Cork, 236 twentieth-century visual arts, 312 University College Dublin, 235 see also post-World War II visual arts; Unpardonable Sin, The, 104–5 Yeats, Jack B. urban gangster films, 221 Cyril Barrett’s comments on, 312 based on life of Martin Cahill David Lloyd on instability of middle class The General,221 and, 312 Ordinary Decent Criminal,221 Hugh Lane’s bequest of paintings to Vicious Circle,221 Dublin, 312 based on life of Veronica Guerin Twenty Years a-Growing. See Fiche Blian ag Fas´ Veronica Guerin,221 Tylor, Edward, 227 When the Sky Falls, 221 Types of the Irish Folktale, 235 Urquhart, Diane, 104 typologies of diaspora. See diaspora Vallancey, General Charles, 229 Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Vaughan, W. E., 31–2 239–40 Vermeulen, Han, 226 Ulster Folklife journal, 238 Veronica Guerin,221 Ulster Folklife Society, 238 Vicious Circle, 221 Ulster Folk Museum, 237, 239–40 Victoria, queen of Great Britain, 34 Alan Gailey on time period reflected in, Victorian Ireland, English language prose 239 fiction in, 257–8 formation of Ulster Folk and Transport Bram Stoker’s Dracula,257 Museum, 239–40 Charles Kickham’s Knocknagow, or the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, The,230,238 Homes of Tipperary,257 Ulster Museum, 306 Emily Lawless’s Hurrish,257–8 Ulster unionists. See history of political Oscar Wilde’s, 258 groups; unionism by Rosa Mulholland, Lady Gilbert, Ulster Women’s Unionist Council, 104 257–8 Ulysses, 151, 164, 165–7, 259 success of George Moore’s works, 258 Uncle Silas,257 works by Edith Somerville and Violet Union, Act of. See Act of Union Martin, 258 unionism Village, Irish Industrial, 292 see also cultural identity politics; history of visits, royal. See royal family political groups; Irish Partition, visual arts, 304–20 consequences of; political groups, see also nineteenth century visual arts; mobilisation of twentieth-century visual arts and republicanism, 78–93 Volksgeist, 226 change and continuity of, 78–9 Von Sydow, C. W., 235

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Waiting for Godot, 332 and Northern Ireland Civil Rights Walker, Joseph Cooper Association, 109 ‘An Historical Essay on the Irish Stage’, Report of the Commission on the Status of 322 Women,108 ‘Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards’, Sean´ Lemass and Terence O’Neill’s beliefs 322 on, 108 Walker, Robin. See Scott, Tallon and Walker United Nations Commission on the partnership Status of Women initiative, 108 Wall, Mervyn, 262 Women’s Representative Association, Walsh, Aisling, 216 109 Walsh, Edward, 181 Women’s Representative Association, 109 Walsh, Kieran J., 222 Woodward, Benjamin, 292 wars and state, 85 Worlds’s Fair, New York. See New York Waters, Mary, 131 World’s Fair Weber, Max, 61–2, 63 World War II. See post-World War II visual Werbner, Pnina, 120 arts West Irish Folk-tales and Romances,231 Wheeler, Anna Doyle, 99 Yeats, Jack B., 313, 314 Whelan, Bill, 281 Yeats, John Butler, 311 When Brendan Met Trudy,222 Yeats, W. B., 293 When the Sky Falls,221 and Anglo-Irish ascendancy, 160 Whitbread, J. W., 325–6 arguments against Catholic White, Harry, 282–3 discrimination, 107 Whittaker, T. K., 296–7 Austin Clarke’s view on role of, 182–3 Wilde, Lady Jane, 231 Cathleen ni Houlihan, 328 Wilde, Oscar, 258, 259 Celtic revivalism and modernism in Wilde, Sir William, 231 works of, 157–64 Williams, Raymond, 226–7 and colonialism, 158–60 Williams, Richard, 123 connections to arts and crafts, 160 Winterbottom, Mike, 221 and D. P. Moran’s Battle of two Withdrawal,212 Civilisations, 159 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 96 ‘Easter 1916 ’and marriage of John Woman, New, 101 MacBride and Maud Gonne, 162 Woman Who Married Clark Gable, The, 211 Edward Said’s comments on, 161 women and History of Ireland, Vol.One,159 see also caoineadh oral lament poetry and nationalism, 161–3 Cuirt´ an Mhean-O´ ıche´ ,97 riots over Playboy of the Western World, Mair´ ın´ Nic Eoin on gender in Gaelic 159 Ireland, 98 Terence Brown’s arguments, 164 Mary Wollstonecraft on, 96 Terry Eagleton’s comments, 164 and nationalism in The Triumph of Prudence ‘The Statues’, 162–3 Over Passion,98 ‘To Ireland in the Coming Times’, 161 See also feminism; Irish Women’s views on Cuchulain of Muirthemne,159 Franchise League; modernism; comments on purpose of Abbey Theatre, subaltern folk culture 326 Women in the Wall,264 interest in folklore, 232 women’s liberation The Celtic Twilight, 232 Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls trilogy, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, 108 232 Irish Women’s Liberation Movement, Irish Fairy Tales,232 108–9 Mairt´ ın´ O´ Cadhain’s admiration of, inﬂuence on subsequent women’s 233 groups, 109 Romantic view of national identity, 12–13 Irish Women – Chains or Change?, 108 Young Ireland movement, 44