In this article, Reinisch examines the motivations and ideology of teenagers and young adults involved in dissident republican activity with a focus on Na Fianna Éireann, a dissident republican youth organization in…
In this chapter, Richard Parfitt examines the use of music by different nationalist factions in Ireland during a period of intense revolutionary activity and civil unrest between 1913 and 1921. He analyses music’s…
This article examines the role that the popular Irish sporting organization, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), played in the construction of an Irish identity and promotion of ‘Irishness’ during the Gaelic…
In this article, Margaret O’Callaghan takes a closer look at the creation of an Irish national identity in the early years of the Free State. She examines the need to establish an individual identity, separate from…
Through a comparison of the internet to the typology of the city, this article argues that social media mimics the problematic urban condition of sprawl. This criticism is twofold: one, that like urban sprawl, social…
This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common in Austrian film from the 1910s until the 1950s and 1960s. These appearances were partly…
Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed by the characters in the film, allowing blame to be pushed off of Israeli soldiers and government officials.…
In this book chapter, Rick McCormick discusses Ernst Lubitch’s 1942 comedy To Be Or Not To Be, a film about a small theatre troupe living in Poland during the Nazi occupation. McCormick analyzes Lubitsch’s…
This article examines the failings of the Dayton Agreement and how the formalized peace accord has perpuated conflict in an increasingly fragile region. The text goes further by seeking to apply the lessons learned…