Colm Tóibín's narrator in "The Pearl Fishers" (The Empty Family, 2010) is a middle-aged homosexual man who shares dinner with two friends from school, Gráinne and Donnacha, a married couple and faithful representatives of the Irish laity. To the narrator's surprise, Gráinne announces her intention to publish a book detailing her sexual abuse by Father Moorehouse when he was her teacher. Gráinne's husband, Donnacha, is the man with whom the narrator had a passionate love affair during their adolescence. Donnacha enforces silence on this issue, so their story remains unspoken and consigned to secrecy. Tóibín's short story deals with the consequences of an Irish legacy of ignorance and taboos concerning sex. This essay will thus delve into que...
Anonymous sexual exchange between men is a common practice in various public spaces. The practice fl...
This thesis is concerned with the changing cultural attitudes towards sexuality in contemporary Ire...
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The present study focuses on two of Colm Tóibín’s gay short-stories – “Entiendes” (1993) and “One Mi...
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Summary This dissertation studies the historical development of the Irish Catholic bildungsroman f...
En Irlanda, la creación del Estado Libre Irlandés en 1922 dio lugar a la institucionalización de una...
The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable von Joseph Valente und Ma...
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, ...
When Thomas Kilroy adapted Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts in 1989, he relocated the action of the play to an ...
Anonymous sexual exchange between men is a common practice in various public spaces. The practice fl...
This thesis is concerned with the changing cultural attitudes towards sexuality in contemporary Ire...
In the 1990s, a new relationship emerged between the market, gender and sex, and –by extension—betwe...
The present study focuses on two of Colm Tóibín’s gay short-stories – “Entiendes” (1993) and “One Mi...
This essay explores two key interventions in the twentieth-century urban history of Irish LGBTQ+ pro...
This article examines Celia de Fréine’s re-imagining of Brian Merriman’s canonic text The ...
Esta tesis doctoral observa la narración no fiable y su aplicación a la literatura contemporánea de ...
Through an analysis of diaries, memoirs, and folklore narratives, this essay analyzes the containmen...
El objetivo de este estudio es plantear un estado de la cuestión sobre el tratamiento que recibe un ...
This article examines the novels Holy Pictures by Clare Boylan and Blessed Art Thou A Monk Swimming ...
Summary This dissertation studies the historical development of the Irish Catholic bildungsroman f...
En Irlanda, la creación del Estado Libre Irlandés en 1922 dio lugar a la institucionalización de una...
The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable von Joseph Valente und Ma...
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, ...
When Thomas Kilroy adapted Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts in 1989, he relocated the action of the play to an ...
Anonymous sexual exchange between men is a common practice in various public spaces. The practice fl...
This thesis is concerned with the changing cultural attitudes towards sexuality in contemporary Ire...
In the 1990s, a new relationship emerged between the market, gender and sex, and –by extension—betwe...