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Conrad Baker wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 4 months ago

The documentary we saw in class didn’t say much about Bernadette Devlin, the Catholic civil rights activist in Northern Ireland who was a major political opponent to Ian Paisley. I was curious about her role in […]
Conrad Baker wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 5 months ago

The Atlantic put out this article on Yeats January 28 this year. Besides their shameless plug that Yeats had 3 poems published in their magazine the month of his death, their gloss of his career touches “Man and […]
Conrad Baker wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 6 months ago

Yeats poems are full of raptors, full of birds in general, really. There are so many bird moments and bird poems that it’s easy to forget just how much these collections use bird images or symbols. It can be […]
Conrad Baker wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 6 months ago

The Arthurian language in “The Fisherman” threw me off a little. Medieval chivalry, Arthurian legend, and the dueling tradition of calling someone out as “knave” and “craven” is about as English as it gets. When […]
Conrad Baker wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 6 months ago

Yeats gives extremely specific stage directions in The Only Jealousy of Emer, which is unusual in the plays that I’ve read. Now I’m not a drama expert, but I found it strange that the stage directions were so […]
Conrad Baker wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 12 years, 7 months ago

Some Context: Tommy Tiernan is one of Ireland’s most highly awarded standup comedians, winning international awards every 2 or 3 years since 1996. He’s still a huge mainstream act. I was amazed by the common ideas […]

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