| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"From the Famine to political hunger strikes, from telling tales in the pub to Beckett's tortured utterances, the performance of Irish identity has always been deeply connected to the oral. Exploring how colonial modernity transformed the spaces that sustained Ireland's oral culture, this book explains why Irish culture has been both so creative and so resistant to modernization. David Lloyd brings together manifestations of oral culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how the survival of orality was central both to resistance against colonial rule and to Ireland's modern definition as a postcolonial culture. Specific to Ireland as these histories are, they resonate with postcolonial cultures globally. This study is an important and provocative new interpretation of Irish national culture and how it came into being"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: a history of the Irish orifice; 1 Irish hunger: the political economy of the potato; I; II; III; 2 Closing the mouth: disciplining oral space; I; II; III; 3 Counterparts: the public house, masculinity and3 Counterparts: the public house, masculinity and temperance nationalism; I; II; III; IV; 4 'Going nowhere': oral space in the cell block; I; II; III; IV; 5 The breaker's yard: from forensic to interrogation modernity; I; II; III; IV; 6 O on extorted speech: back to How It Is; Notes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National characteristics, Irish.
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National characteristics, Irish. |
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Ethnicity -- Ireland.
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Ethnicity. |
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Ireland. |
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Oral tradition -- Ireland.
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Oral tradition. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lloyd, David, 1955 December 20- Irish culture and colonial modernity, 1800-2000. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9781107008977 (DLC) 2011020304 (OCoLC)727702097 |
| ISBN |
9781139145268 (electronic book) |
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1139145266 (electronic book) |
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9781139028523 (electronic book) |
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1139028529 (electronic book) |
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9781139137935 |
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113913793X |
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1283316773 |
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9781283316774 |
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9786613316776 |
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6613316776 |
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1139141945 |
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9781139141949 |
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9781107008977 |
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1107008972 |
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9781139141949 |
| Standard No. |
9786613316776 |
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