{"title":"“Whiskey vs. Lager Beer— Bejabers”: The Irish, the Bête Noire of Lincoln’s Republican Party","authors":"G. Koos","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the experiences of Irish immigrants in Bloomington, Illinois, a railroad and agricultural center whose population had reached seven thousand by 1860. 4 It recounts their arrival in the 1850s as common laborers working to construct the Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR) line, which ran north and south through the state","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"26 1","pages":"123 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41890071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable by Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus (review)","authors":"Ellen Scheible","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"26 1","pages":"143 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42062214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unraveling the Thread of Tradition: Between History and Memory in Melatu Okorie's \"If George Could Talk\"","authors":"Sara Martín-Ruiz","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Melatu OkOrie is a NigeriaN-bOrN, Irish-based author who had to endure the harsh reality of the Direct Provision system firsthand as an asylum-seeker in Ireland. In her short story “If George Could Talk,” she presents a female narrator, Jumi, who finds herself doomed to a liminal existence, from her comingof-age ritual in Nigeria to her eventual arrival in Ireland as an asylum-seeker, never actually fitting in. The only thing that remains with her throughout this process is the George, a traditional Nigerian cloth that figuratively reflects her family story as well as the history of a transnational, colonial past, the consequences of which are still very much felt in the present. In the short story, the George becomes a metaphor for Jumi’s inability to ascribe meaning to her own life, a dilemma that reaches its climax when she and her children become asylum-seekers in Ireland. Hence, a constant attempt to understand what the George signifies takes place throughout the story, as the narrator tries to make sense of the different circumstances she has to face. Clothing has a history of being read as a signifier for alienation. Eleonora Chiavetta, in discussing the fiction of female migrant authors, argues that “Clothes are a way to externalize the internalized conflict of the families, and later on . . . express the internalized exile of the character.” Ketu H. Katrak uses the term “internalized exile” to describe a process by which, as a consequence","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"40 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48184840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernism, Empire, World Literature by Joe Cleary (review)","authors":"L. Lanigan","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"149 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46984397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding Home","authors":"Geraldine Mills","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0046","url":null,"abstract":"Only for you today! Discover your favourite finding home book right here by downloading and getting the soft file of the book. This is not your time to traditionally go to the book stores to buy a book. Here, varieties of book collections are available to download. One of them is this finding home as your preferred book. Getting this book b on-line in this site can be realized now by visiting the link page to download. It will be easy. Why should be here?","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"22 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42265981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knock and the Heraldic Arms of the Archdiocese of Tuam","authors":"Paul Carpenter","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0051","url":null,"abstract":"In a prevIous edItIon of thIs journal, I examined the apparition alleged to have occurred on the night of August 21, 1879, in the remote County Mayo village of Knock. Unlike other nineteenth-century Marian apparitions, at Knock the Virgin did not appear alone. Facing inward toward Mary’s right was her husband, St. Joseph. Much like his portrayal in devotional artwork, Joseph was observed to have been bearded and wearing long robes. On Mary’s left was St. John the Evangelist, who was dressed as a bishop and holding a book of gospels in his left hand. Curiously, although nearly all the witnesses testified to seeing the Virgin Mary, their accounts varied on certain details. Some witnesses claimed to have seen an altar upon which stood a lamb in front of a cross. Others mentioned that they saw either some or none of these liturgical symbols. Considering the profound spatial/sensory experiences described by the witnesses, coupled with their use of photographic-like references when relating what they had seen, I suggested that the contention about a magic lantern being present at Knock was essentially true. However, my article contended that","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"112 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43504317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kenmare: History and Survival. Fr John O'Sullivan and the Famine Poor by Colum Kenny (review)","authors":"C. Kinealy","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"153 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44791192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Magical Whiteness of Being Irish: Language and Song in American White Nationalism","authors":"Sean Williams","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0044","url":null,"abstract":"The use of “CelTiC”-Themed imagery—in clothing, tattoos, and business logos—has a long history in the United States. Its usage has generally been a simplified identifier of affiliation with Irish and/or Scottish heritage, and it is often uncritically adopted at the same level by tourists who visit Ireland and tell Irish people, “We’re Irish.” While white supremacists have also periodically drawn from Celtic imagery to support a claim of Celtic “whiteness,” that usage was fairly diffuse until recently. The public rise of white nationalism since the US presidential election of 2016, however, has led to adherents’ more public usage of Celtic symbolism. Three statements from Irish/Celtic Studies institutions in the United States publicly reject such appropriation. In early 2020, members of the Harvard Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures posted these words on the home page of their website: “There is no essential genetic ‘Celtic’ identity, nor is any ethnicity or group of ethnicities entitled to a privileged position within the field. Certain symbols associated with medieval Ireland and loosely identified as ‘Celtic’ have been appropriated by groups asserting the supremacy of persons with white skin. We repudiate this appropriation in the strongest possible terms.” Similarly, the Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University’s “Anti-Racism Statement” includes the following language: “Too often have white supremacists","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"134 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48311957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}