Irish Republican Army

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politics Constance Countess Markievicz
On the first morning of action, James Connolly announced the formation of the Irish Republican Army ; in it, CCM served as Staff Lieutenant. She first delivered medical supplies to the City Hall station with...
Publishing Maud Gonne
MG occasionally contributed to the Workers' Republic (1898-1916), founded by James Connolly , with whom she wrote and distributed a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property, 1897. She also...
Reception Edna O'Brien
The production and reception of this text was heavily influenced by the political climate of the time. EOB 's preparations for writing it included interviewing Dominic McGlinchey , the imprisoned former leader of the INLA...
Residence Betty Miller
After IRA death threats against BM 's father , her mother took her children from Ireland to Sweden for two years, after which the parents decided on London as a permanent home.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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Textual Features Catherine Byron
Once again she returns to her experience on the penitential pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. She revisits her complaints about Heaney 's depiction of the feminine, but this time she focuses on Francis Hughes
Textual Features Lettice Cooper
This novel touches on the squatters theme which LC had used in Desirable Residence. Here the police receive an anonymous tip-off that unusual behaviour is going on at two large, dilapidated and divided Victorian...
Textual Features Seamus Heaney
In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
It appeared in the Gollancz Detection series.
Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz, 1986.
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The title comes from a police announcement dating from 1981, requesting members of the public to report any unusual behaviour in the interests of catching IRA terrorists.
Cooper, Lettice. Unusual Behaviour. Gollancz, 1986.
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Textual Production Seamus Heaney
Heaney, as a Catholic , came under political pressure to denounce British rule in Northern Ireland and to celebrate the IRA . But he continued to see two sides to the question, to admire certain...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Katharine Tynan
She barely mentions her husband or her extreme feelings of loss she felt at his death. She spends more time discussing her children in this volume than in any before: she writes of her sons...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Devlin
The play's title is a near-translation of the phrase Sinn Féin (we ourselves, name of the political party committed to ending British rule in Ireland). AD emphasises the relationship between the political and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Betty Miller
Her daughter quotes from the radio play a passage about a child listening at night to the noises made by an IRA crowd in the street: the singing and cheering . . . . an...
Travel Dervla Murphy
The Irish DM had difficulty trying to correct the local opinions on Northern Ireland: ironically, the fiercely anti-Russian Romanians implicitly believed the Soviet depiction of the IRA as freedom fighters and Northern Ireland as another...

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