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John BURKE, Auteur ; Kathi "Fatti" BURKE, Illustrateur | Dublin : Gill Books | Little Library | 2020
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Adventurers, explorers, inventors, dreamers.... for a small country Irish people have had a huge impact internationally. From helping street children in India, to saving Jewish children during World War II and exploring new worlds, their reach h[...]Article
Margaret O'NEILL, Auteur |This article reads Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle in a cultural historical framework of medicine and psychoanalysis to explore the significance of the heart condition angina pectoris in the text. The novel illuminates the complexities of the mind-b[...]
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From fearless aviator, Lady Mary Heath, the first woman in the world to parachute from an aeroplane, to Margaret Bulkley, the 18th-century surgeon who lived as a man, meet 28 remarkable Irish women who have taken the world by storm. You may have[...]Article
This essay views science as a creative mask for the poetry and philosophy of W.B. Yeats. It explores the changing worldview which occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century with the discovery of wave-particle duality by Max Planck in 190[...]
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Elizabethanne BORAN, Auteur |This article examines what was on the shelves of the medical marketplace in early eighteenth-century Dublin. It does so by analyzing the medical cohort in twenty-one auction and sales catalogues, printed in Dublin between 1695 and 1740. It explo[...]Article
Insects are central to Thomas Kinsella's poetic ecologies. First, they highlight Kinsella's interest in process and change. Many of his volumes thematize circularity and cyclicality, growth and decay, and insects' short lives make these metamorp[...]Article
Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said begins with the protagonist in a position where ‘she sees Venus rise followed by the sun.’ This opening indicates the direct relationship between the narrative and astronomical phenomena of Venus rising as the morning[...]
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Julia C. OBERT, Auteur |Ciaran Carson’s poetry collection Until Before After (2010), written while Carson’s wife Deirdre was seriously ill, turns and returns to sickness and the spectre of death. However, it finds some relief from anxiety and grief in the interweaving [...]
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Henry MCDONALD, Intervieweur ; Conor MURPHY, Intervieweur ; Gianpiero L. CAVALLERI, Personne interviewée |Professor Gianpiero Cavalleri is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and is the lead author of a 2017 study into the genetic structure of the Iris[...]
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This essay examines one of Joyce's references to new physics in Finnegans Wake: the allusion to Ernest Rutherford in the opening section of the third chapter of Book II. The composition of Finnegans Wake coincided with the development of the the[...]Article
Aoife LYNCH, Auteur |This paper views science through the prism of the Yeatsian mask, that is, as an appropriation of a willed creativity through the dynamics of opposition. It uses Jean-François Lyotard's philosophy of changing episteme in the twentieth century to [...]
