Foilsiú volume 1

Foilsiú

Volume 1. Number 1

Spring 2001

Introduction                                                                                 vii

I.  Insular Identities

Nature, Nostalgia, and Nation                                                           3

    Oona Frawley

Beyond the “Three Rs”                                                                    11

Education and Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland House

    Mary Caffrey

Made in the City                                                                             23

Irish Catholic Gentry of the 19th Century

    Sophie Sweetman McConnell

Irish Identities in Thomas Kinsella’s Writing                                       37

    Derval Tubridy

II. Political Inscriptions

Homophobia and Gender in Táin Bó Cúalnge                                      47

Translation as a Technology of Adaptation in Irish Literature

    Lahney Preston-Matto

Science, Culture, and the Economy                                                   57

From the Famine to the Celtic Tiger

    David Attis

Dietary Practice and the Cultural Construction of Irish Identity              67

    Linda Schlossberg

III.  Surrogate Actions

Sex and Popular Culture in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto            77

and Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

     Moira E. Casey

The Statue Moves                                                                            87

Isadora Duncan, W.B. Yeats, and the Reimagining of the Body

     Bruce Bromley

“Newer” Irish in New York                                                                95

Technology and the Experience of Immigration

     Sara Brady

IV.  Engineered Histories

Surveillance Techniques, Memory, and History in a Northern               107

Ireland Town

     William F. Kelleher, Jr.

“Remembering the Celtic Past”                                                         117

Translation and History as Identity Creation in Cuchulain

of Muirthemne

     Elizabeth Gilmartin

 The Cracked Camera Lens of a Servant                                            125

 Photographing the Post-Modern in McCann’s Songdogs

 and Bolger’s A Second Life

     Will Hatheway

Mapping the Sacred                                                                         133

Time, space, and politics in the stories of the saints

    Karen Eileen Overbey