This article analyzes how in The Real Charlotte Edith Somerville and Martin Ross use idiomatic speech, dialect, and accent as means to challenge traditional notions of a unified Irish national identity or culture. While some critics read such code-switching in terms of class, this article pursues this phenomenon in terms of gender and colonialism. The multiplicity of different dialects and discourses within the novel and the ability for characters to move between them implies that it is almost impossible to impose a single interpretive strategy or rubric onto Irish experience or identity, thus illustrating the fluid nature of language. As a result, identity - individual or national - becomes a much more difficult project. For Somerville and...
The paper discusses the connections between gender, colonialism and nationalism by focussing on the ...
This thesis contends that a cr:itical approach to novels from the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and...
Almost 2 million people in the North and South of Ireland identify as Irish speakers and an estimate...
My article proposes to study the use of language by individuals to construct their identity under th...
Somerville and Ross have been categorized as reactionary colonial writers whose fictions fit neither...
This essay examines the ways in which Charlotte Brooke, in her 1789 Reliques of Irish Poetry, uses t...
The article discusses the pragmatic potential of the Irish emigrant ballads from the perspective of...
This paper first provides a short overview of the history of the Irish language and proceeds to exam...
Colonial domination has been exercised by many means, exhibiting varied forms and expressions, one o...
‘Plastic and proud’?: discourses of authenticity among the second-generation Irish in EnglandThis pa...
While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language spea...
Castle Rackrent (1800), accepted as one of the first (Romantic) regional novels, approaches the cult...
This article will argue that language revival movements, particularly those founded in the ethno-nat...
While language has been viewed as a traditional constituent of ethnic identity, it actually played a...
This paper explores the case of Ireland as an <em>anti-litteram </em>postcolonial contex...
The paper discusses the connections between gender, colonialism and nationalism by focussing on the ...
This thesis contends that a cr:itical approach to novels from the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and...
Almost 2 million people in the North and South of Ireland identify as Irish speakers and an estimate...
My article proposes to study the use of language by individuals to construct their identity under th...
Somerville and Ross have been categorized as reactionary colonial writers whose fictions fit neither...
This essay examines the ways in which Charlotte Brooke, in her 1789 Reliques of Irish Poetry, uses t...
The article discusses the pragmatic potential of the Irish emigrant ballads from the perspective of...
This paper first provides a short overview of the history of the Irish language and proceeds to exam...
Colonial domination has been exercised by many means, exhibiting varied forms and expressions, one o...
‘Plastic and proud’?: discourses of authenticity among the second-generation Irish in EnglandThis pa...
While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language spea...
Castle Rackrent (1800), accepted as one of the first (Romantic) regional novels, approaches the cult...
This article will argue that language revival movements, particularly those founded in the ethno-nat...
While language has been viewed as a traditional constituent of ethnic identity, it actually played a...
This paper explores the case of Ireland as an <em>anti-litteram </em>postcolonial contex...
The paper discusses the connections between gender, colonialism and nationalism by focussing on the ...
This thesis contends that a cr:itical approach to novels from the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and...
Almost 2 million people in the North and South of Ireland identify as Irish speakers and an estimate...