Foilsiú volume 2

Foilsiú

Volume 2. Number 1

Spring 2002

Introduction                                                                         5

Heads Up!                                                                           7

The Traditional Music Revival, Irish National Identity,

and Cultural Cringe

    Fintan Vallely

The Irish Hour                                                                      19

Irish Radio Programs in America and the

Fostering of Tradition

    Meaghan Dwyer

Abstract Communities                                                             31

Performativity and the Press in the Late 19^th- and

Early 20^th-Century Ireland

    David Dwan

Matters of Time                                                                    43

Manipulation of Memory in Early Irish Hagiography

    Diane Peters Auslander

The H-Blocks Protest and Performances of Abjection                     53

    Jessica Scarlata

A Whiter Shade of Pale                                                            65

Kinship, Tradition, and Race

    Veerendra P. Lele

      Plus:Poetry:  “Cill Éinne’s Walls”                                            77

      SeÁn Roantree

      Translated into Irish by MÍchÉal Ó Goill

Reading and Writing ‘Irishness’                                                   81

Beyond the Imperial Divide

    Will Hatheway

Fiction

Excerpt from Dubliners:  Sketches on Immigration                          91

    Oona Frawley

Finding Double A                                                                      97

    Sara Brady

Book Reviews

Sacred Traditions:  New Work on Saints, Irish, and Otherwise           103

 Review of Studies in Irish Hagiography:  Saints and Scholars

 edited by John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Pádraig Ó Riain

 and Medieval Hagiography:  An Anthology, edited by Thomas Head

    Karen Overbey

The Art of Life                                                                        111

Review of Voices from a Journal by Bill Naughton

    Jason Drake