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“There’s No Getting Away From It If You’re Irish”: Gender, The Irish Diaspora, and Gone With The Wind
It might be the most famous rejection in literary history. Aware too late that she has made a horrible mistake for the past dozen years, Scarlett O’Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler runs through the mist to tell Rhett that she loves … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Gender, Gone With The Wind, Irish Diaspora, Land, masculinities, The Empire Strikes Back
Tagged American Civil War, crisis of masculinity, ethnicity, feminism, frankly my dear, Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind, Han Solo, Irish Catholicism, irish diaspora, literature, manliness, Margaret Mitchell, masculinities, Princess Leia, Reconstruction, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O'Hara, star wars, Tara, The Empire Strikes Back
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Empire is a Man’s Business: Unionist Loyalties, Imperial Masculinities and Ulster’s Campaign Against Home Rule
This is a somewhat edited (and also less formal) version of a paper I gave this past weekend at St Michael’s College, University of Toronto. The one-day symposium, hosted by the Celtic Studies Institute, was to mark the 100th anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, masculinities
Tagged 1912, Belfast, British imperialism, Canadian history, conferences, Edward Carson, Great War, Ireland, Irishmen, London, loyalty, manliness, masculinities, parliament, Paul Fussell, queen victoria, Sam Hughes, stereotypes, Ulster, Ulster Covenant, war
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