{"title":"Perseverance, Resistance, and Community: An Introduction to the History, Heritage, and Archaeology of Great Blasket, County Kerry, Ireland","authors":"Christopher P. Barton","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Though less Than Three kilomeTers from the mainland, at times the distance could have been three thousand, as the sound separating Great Blasket Island from Dunquin in County Kerry has always been a treacherous passageway that has claimed countless lives. Why would anyone want to live on an island that had limited land for farming, no church, no infrastructure, and no public house? Why, on the most westerly frontier of Europe, would anyone want to call this island home? There are no simple answers to these questions, which are intertwined with the social structures of society and the realities of everyday practice. To answer these questions, we must contextualize the history of the Blaskets and its people. In this article, I provide a brief history of the island. I am most interested in periods of strife there, particularly during the Great Famine (1845–52) and the decades leading up to the evacuation of Great Blasket in 1953. During the Famine, Ireland, as well as the Blaskets, experienced rapid population decline. But though I am curious about why people left, I am more interested in why people stayed. Through this work I seek to answer the underlying questions about why, despite numerous hardships, the Islanders decide to live on the Blaskets, and what led to the evacuation and subsequent demise of the community. Embedded in this evolving way of life is the juxtaposition of economic class, gender, and modernity.","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"113 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43177601","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 Life and Work of Samuel Beckett","authors":"J. Montague, R. Mackenzie","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"23 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41736722","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":"\"That Deep Relationship with the Locale\": Community and Place in Dún Chaoin, County Kerry","authors":"Dáithí De Mórdha","doi":"10.1353/nhr.2021.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2021.0049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"25 1","pages":"55 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49338268","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":"Les imaginaires du dragon : des mythologies à la botanique","authors":"Le dramatique, G. Durand, Catarina Sant’Anna","doi":"10.35562/iris.2050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35562/iris.2050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83551513","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":"Ilas et Solvas. Fragments d’un roman (en vers) de la Table ronde inconnu","authors":"J. Berthet","doi":"10.35562/iris.2267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35562/iris.2267","url":null,"abstract":"L’objet de cet article est de publier une traduction inédite en français moderne avec, en regard, le fragment original, décrit en détail par Ernest Langlois en 1913, et d’en donner une analyse linguistique et philologique. Ce fragment ouvre d’intéressantes perspectives pour la compréhension de la littérature arthurienne tardive.","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75638085","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":"Imaginaire et politique","authors":"Jean-Pierre Sironneau","doi":"10.35562/iris.2102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35562/iris.2102","url":null,"abstract":"L’imaginaire et le politique ont des relations aux multiples aspects et il n’est pas possible de tous les aborder dans le cadre de cet article. Nous choisirons de nous concentrer sur le rapport entre le mythe et l’idée nationale, d’une part, et le mythe et les idéologies politiques, d’autre part. Avant d’envisager ces questions, nous présenterons d’abord les travaux de Gilbert Durand issus de ses articles « Le social et le mythique » et « La cité et les divisions du royaume » ; puis nous nous intéresserons précisément à l’étude des deux axes annoncés. Cet article met ainsi l’accent sur l’importance de l’imaginaire dans la politique et dans la société. Nous conclurons sur l’évolution actuelle, en particulier en Europe occidentale, où le mythe ne joue plus son rôle fédérateur pour la société.","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77978090","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":"Renversement européen du dragon asiatique","authors":"Chaoying Sun, G. Durand","doi":"10.35562/iris.2159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35562/iris.2159","url":null,"abstract":"En Europe, la liste des saints sauroctones, tueurs de dragons, est longue : depuis l’archange Michel, saint Georges, saint Marcel jusqu’au capitaine Nemo du célèbre roman de Jules Verne. Il en va différemment en Asie continentale et spécialement en Chine, où le dragon jouit d’une valorisation extrêmement positive. Quelles sont les causes d’un tel renversement symbolique ? C’est ce que nous tentons d’élucider dans cet article. Le dragon, si chargé de malignité en Occident et nécessitant un héros pour le combattre et restaurer, contre la perversité multiple, la solidité de l’être, est, en Orient chinois, une image bénéfique qui s’enrichit de toutes les richesses de la multiplicité : assimilé au « Fils du Ciel », empereur de l’ici-bas terrestre, au moyeu du monde changeant, il assure la bonne ordonnance des pluralités politiques, géographiques, calendaires et anthropologiques. Deux visions du monde se trouvent dressées face à face : l’une qui sauve l’être-un en pourfendant le dragon, l’autre qui reconnaît la valeur des changements et transformations.","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78402824","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":"Draco flammivomus, holophagus, draco : les dragons dans les plus anciennes sources historiques polonaises","authors":"Adrien Quéret-Podesta","doi":"10.35562/iris.2205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35562/iris.2205","url":null,"abstract":"La première apparition du dragon dans les sources historiques polonaises est relativement précoce, puisque le motif du combat contre un dragon est visible sur une monnaie dès la seconde moitié du XIe siècle, soit quelques décennies seulement après la réalisation des plus anciennes sources numismatiques et textuelles du pays. Au siècle suivant, la plus ancienne chronique polonaise connue contient deux cas de comparaisons d’un protagoniste à un dragon et les cas de représentations de dragons dans les sources numismatiques augmentent. Enfin, au début du XIIIe siècle, la première trace de la légende du dragon du Wawel à Cracovie apparaît dans la Chronique des Polonais de Vincent Kadłubek.","PeriodicalId":87413,"journal":{"name":"New hibernia review = Iris eireannach nua","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73213821","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}