This issue of Studi irlandesi serves to provide a wide selection of different forms and interpretations of resistance in Irish history and culture. This is merely a humble effort to provide insight into several case studies of modern Irish resistance. For this special issue, we were looking for papers that examine the various forms and interpretations of resistance in Irish history and society since the late 18th century. We received a wide range of thematic topics, covering many disciplines and periods of modern Ireland. A selection of these proposals is published in this edition. The contributions range from an analysis of non-violent resistance in the work of Samuel Beckett, and political Folk music in contemporary Republicanism, to an examination of the LGBTQ equal rights movement and one of Ireland’s most recent social movement, the Occupy movement.
Table of Contents
Issue InformationIssue Information (pages 1–8) Version of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-0
Monographic Section
Introduction (pages 11–15) Dieter ReinischVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20748
No Rent, no Rates: Civil Disobedience Against Internment in Northern Ireland, 1971–1974 (pages 19–43) Rosa GilbertVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20749
From State Terrorism to Petty Harassment: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Repression of Irish Republicans (pages 45–64) Robert W. WhiteVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20750
‘Homosexuals Are Revolting’ – Gay & Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland 1970s – 1990s (pages 65–91) Patrick James McDonaghVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20751
From Solidarity to Disillusionment (pages 93–112) Frédéric RoyallVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20752
“Young Men of Erin, Our Dead Are Calling”: Death, Immortality and the Otherworld in Modern Irish Republican Ballads (pages 113–144) Seán Ó CadhlaVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20753
Clowning as Human Rights Activism in Recent Devised Irish Theatre (pages 145–164) Molly E. FergusonVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20754
A Politically Committed Kind of Silence. Ireland in Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe (pages 165–184) José Francisco FernándezVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20755
Elegant Resistance: Dermot Healy’s Fighting with Shadows (pages 185–200) Neil Murphy, Keith HopperVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20756
Troubles Women: A Creative Exploration of Experience of Being a Woman in the Provisional IRA (pages 201–222) Tracey IcetonVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20758
Interview with Former Political Prisoner, Irish Republican Activist, and Play Writer Laurence McKeown (pages 223–239) Dieter ReinischVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20759
Miscellanea
Enlightened Deception: An Analysis of Slavery in Maria Edgeworth’s Whim for Whim (1798) (pages 243–260) Carmen María Fernández RodríguezVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20760
Brian O’Nolan, the Conspirator (pages 261–282) Giordano VintaloroVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20761
The Uncanny Mother in Edna O’Brien’s “Cords”, “A Rose in the Heart” and “Sister Imelda” (pages 283–300) Ann Wan-lih ChangVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20762
Satire and Trauma in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (pages 301–319) Melania TerrazasVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20763
“That name is a wealth to you”: The Necropolitics of the Great Famine, and the Politics of Visibility, Naming and (Christian) Compassion in Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea (pages 321–341) Danijela PetkovićVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20764
Writings
Shades of a Writing Life. Encounter with Mary O’Donnell (pages 345–348) Giovanna TalloneVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20765
Four poems and two stories (pages 349–365) Mary O’DonnellVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20766
Voices
The Forgotten (Irish) History of the Mexican-American War: An Interview with Pino Cacucci (pages 369–280) Carlos Menendez-OteroVersion of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20767
Book Reviews (pages 381–412)Version of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20768
Books Received (pages 413–416)Version of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20769
Contributors (pages 417–421)Version of Record online: 15 JUN 2017 / DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20770