HASTAC Commons | Cathal Pratt | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/cathal_pratt/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Cathal Pratt is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:39:29 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a4d40499ec9873e919eb78ed1043374a Lloyd Graham deposited “Unhappily ever after…”: Three tales with dystopian endings from the Schools’ Collection in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900150/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:10 +0000 Three folktales with unhappy endings were identified via targeted browsing of the NFC Schools’ Collection. The first two stories have here been translated (for the first time) from Irish, while the third – the only one present in two versions – was recorded in English. The first tale is a poignant tragedy; the second has an abrupt and defla…[Read more]

]]> 0 40305c2fe4718926ad2f9f8bb39bcbb0 Lloyd Graham deposited “Paper shoes and thick milk socks:” Some distinctively Irish types of oral colophon used to end folktales in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900149/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:06 +0000 This paper presents three distinctively Irish formulae that a seanchaí (story-teller) can use to signal the end of a folktale. Colophons 1 and 2 are in Irish, Colophon 3 in English; there is little evidence of any of these paradigms jumping the language barrier. Colophon 1, which is a sober and defensive, is strongly associated with Munster.…[Read more]

]]> 0 8eae1539bc8304977d0dec836092537e Lloyd Graham deposited A magical Irish-language folktale: A first translation and analysis in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900148/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:02 +0000 This paper provides a translation, structural analysis and commentary for an Irish-language wonder-tale in Ireland’s National Folklore Collection; the story describes the marvel-laden adventures of Neart (“Strength”), the only son of a southern Irish king. The complex yet coherent tale consists of eight largely independent narrative modules split…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc1484e59741fb2ae2dd1a4112eb0bae Lloyd Graham deposited “Nessie”: An uncannily apt name for a serpentine water-monster in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878838/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:01:29 +0000 The fabled water-monster of Loch Ness has been designated a member of the putative genus Nessiteras and is referred to affectionately in media reports by the feminine diminutive “Nessie.” This paper points out that, by pure serendipity, such Nessi- appellations recall the name of the Slavic nežit of eastern and central Europe and the Latin ness…[Read more]

]]> 0 435bcd2e05089fca196e558870b4e2ba Anna June Pagé deposited Deirdre and the Story World of the Ulster Cycle in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877410/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:31 +0000 Three main questions are considered in this article. First, there is the question of how Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach (OCU) draws on and feeds into the story world of the Ulster Cycle. Second, there is the question of how Deirdre’s character, specifically, contributes to linking OCU with the wider story world of the Ulster Cycle. Finally, there i…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1d37c986ab0765c9964f0f947d9e6fb Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816645/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:24:11 +0000 This note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]

]]> 0 560e0daa3616bbceaef852183002b120 Jack Walker deposited James Joyce's Ulysses and the Philadelphia Inquirer in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783520/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 02:23:46 +0000 This article shows that James Joyce drew inspiration from the Philadelphia Inquirer for the period 1903-1904, particularly when writing the Aeolus episode of Ulysses. The 11 Jan 1903 Sunday edition of this newspaper is shown to have inspired the “crossed keys” of Leopold Bloom in the Aeolus episode, while leading Joyce to connect Shakespeare’s “…[Read more]

]]> 0 7aef22092a0f431bf7e1d009578140d6 Lloyd Graham deposited From Isis and Horus in the Delta to Mary and Jesus in Ireland in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769490/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 02:25:28 +0000 The historiola of an ancient Egyptian spell (AEMT 90) describes how Isis becomes a fugitive to protect her unborn/young son Horus from Seth, the murderer of her brother/husband Osiris. As her travel-group seeks refuge in the Nile Delta, a noblewoman’s inhospitality to the unexpected visitors results in her young son being stung by Isis’s sco…[Read more]

]]> 0 e498094449db4ff96719eb2f075d228b Lloyd Graham deposited Consanguineous unions in the archaeology and mythology of the Neolithic passage-tomb at Newgrange, Ireland in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750478/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 02:24:10 +0000 A recent genetic study has revealed that the adult male buried in the most elaborate recess of the Neolithic passage-tomb at Newgrange was the child of a first-degree incestuous union, suggesting that the complex was built as a burial monument for an endogamous family elite who may have been regarded as “god-kings.” The present paper shows how clo…[Read more]

]]> 0 4900e642d073b875c5a2ab84d949b7ac Malin Lidström Brock deposited Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby Homes in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726094/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:24:32 +0000 This chapter examines the portrayal of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes in Stephen Frear’s film Philomena (2013) and the biography on which the film is based, the British journalist Martin Sixsmith’s account of Philomena Lee’s life and search for her son, who was given up to an American couple for adoption under coercive circumstances. Enforced a…[Read more]

]]> 0 aad01e52e874e59dd043622316212c65 Edmundo Murray deposited The Irish Road to South America: Nineteenth-Century Travel Patterns from Ireland to the Río de la Plata region in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690010/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:26:46 +0000 Nineteenth-century Irish emigration to Argentina has been studied from different perspectives. There is a growing number of historical, demographic and cultural studies focusing on diverse aspects of this migration, which together with Quebec and Mexican Texas, produced the only Irish settlements in non English-speaking territories. However, with…[Read more]

]]> 0 27b90c61ee498e1a96dc30d02f96cb84 Edmundo Murray deposited Ireland and Latin America: a Cultural History in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690007/ Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:26:38 +0000 According to Declan Kiberd, “postcolonial writing does not begin only when the occupier withdraws: rather it is initiated at that very moment when a native writer formulates a text committed to cultural resistance.” The Irish in Latin America –a continent emerging from indigenous cultures, colonisation, and migrations– may be regarded as…[Read more]

]]> 0 11e69faf9a8e1f3ef5fd45eb2dd1a856 James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/groups/irish-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/online-summer-reading-group-on-joyce-and-schmidt-6/ Sat, 09 May 2020 19:17:47 +0000 Announcing a reading group on the limits of the novel

June 6 – August 29

I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e182294da6abcb193479fd2746cf7c6 Guy Beiner deposited Forgetful Remembrance (Preface) in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627222/ Mon, 24 Dec 2018 16:25:30 +0000 Preface to Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press, 2018)

]]> 0 bbe5c52b1ceff1ed416f41a14e775b74 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 3: Assembled in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604669/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:26:56 +0000 Assembled cigar box fiddle. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 688510d016e146ff2a4913a6d501bff1 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 2: Disassembled in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604664/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:16:29 +0000 The label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 dbe47f260d468fab5ec6913dd865610a Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 1: Disassembled in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604652/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:52:23 +0000 Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 38e01b164e87930c30851aeb6c3086a8 Guy Beiner deposited Probing the Boundaries of Irish Memory: From Postmemory to Prememory and Back in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601502/ Thu, 22 Feb 2018 04:14:43 +0000 Through a critical redefinition of the term ‘postmemory and the introduction of the corresponding term ‘prememory’, two different directions are proposed for advancing the historical study of memory in Ireland and beyond: Regenerative prememory and postmemory, which broadly surveys cycles of remembrance that range over extended periods of time.…[Read more]

]]> 0 e384482bfb9ccb6c522bf59819b1f09c Guy Beiner deposited Disremembering 1798?: An Archaeology of Social Forgetting and Remembrance in Ulster in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1601496/ Thu, 22 Feb 2018 04:12:34 +0000 On the face of it, the legacy of the 1798 rebellion in the northeastern Irish counties of Antrim and Down seems to be a paradigmatic case of “collective amnesia.” Over the course of the long nineteenth century, growing identification of the Protestants of the area with unionism, loyalism and Orangeism, fortified through opposition to the rise of…[Read more]

]]> 0 9aad1c50eca650872f48622072254343 Anna Kijas deposited (MLA) Providing Open Access to Irish Music: The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music at Boston College in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1600289/ Sat, 10 Feb 2018 04:12:32 +0000 In this presentation, we provide an overview of the contents and development of The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a recently-launched open access collection of over 330 tunes and songs. The audio, sheet music, stories, and essays can be viewed and/or listened to on mobile devices, tablets, and computers. Through Omeka and SoundCloud,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a646e945f3d104d31724b0730a6bbe Cathal Pratt posted an update in the group Irish Literature and Culture: Hi all! Fordham's Institute of Irish Studies is arranging […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593682/ Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:07:05 +0000 Hi all! Fordham’s Institute of Irish Studies is arranging an Irish Studies get-together during MLA this year! We will be meeting at The Irish Pub, January 6th, from 8-11 P.M.! Hope to see you there!

]]> 0 f1679b8b0ab70a497c86df61150b8f3e Caroline Magennis started the topic CFP: #Agreement20 / Deadline 15 August, 2017 in the discussion Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/groups/irish-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/cfp-agreement20-deadline-15-august-2017/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:04:09 +0000 Please find our CFP for a conference on the 1998 Agreement here

]]> 0 4f4bf918c9af589bc729724ffb2b080a Todd Comer deposited A Mortal Agency: Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1563457/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 01:00:03 +0000 In addition to showing how politically oriented Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds remains despite its playful exterior, this essay constitutes an extended reflection on issues of power and agency within the postcolonial Irish context. It demonstrates that Irish identity is constructed and controlled via a god-like architecture of temporal and dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 94a869ca1967a07502bed050ceaa674f Nicky Agate started the topic Seamus Heaney materials? in the discussion Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/groups/irish-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/seamus-heaney-materials/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:26:15 +0000 April 13th would have been Seamus Heaney’s 78th birthday. I wonder if any Humanities Commons users have scholarship or teaching materials on Heaney that they’d like to share in the repository for others to use?

]]> 0 3c3e3070dc0a8c73b248a149aa61b2ef Nicky Agate created the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1563423/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 14:21:04 +0000 0