Ireland and Quebec: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Culture and Society - Hardcover

The essays in this volume bring together leading Irish and Quebecois scholars from eight different disciplines (history, literature, linguistics, design and material culture, ethnomusicology, sociology, theatre and music) to examine historical and contemporary aspects of the two societies.

As a collection, 'Ireland and Quebec: Multidisciplinary perspectives on history, culture and society' creates a dialogue between experts in a range of subject areas so that insights and discoveries from different fields can resonate with and inform each other. In their historical scope (sixteenth century to the present day) and thematic range, contributors provide nuanced and compelling perspectives on the continuities, transitions and adaptations that have characterized the social, cultural and political evolution of Ireland and Quebec. 
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Table of Contents

Memory in Irish history: 'early' Irish migration to France and North America (Éamon Ó Ciosáin, MU)

Catholicism and empire: Ireland and Lower Canada, 1760-1830 (Maurice J. Bric, UCD)

The forgotten patriots: Ireland and the Irish in Lower Canadian political discourse and anglophone historical consciousness (Louis-Georges Harvey, Bishop's U)

Detention and punishment in a time of legal reform: Lord Durham and the question of Lower Canadian political prisoners (Jean-Philippe Warren, Concordia U)

Fictionalized history: representation and identity in  Jan Henry Morgan's A chronicle of Lower Canada (Michael Kenneally, Concordia U)

Census, history and language in Ireland & Canada: the origins of the language question (Margaret Kelleher, UCD)

Tales of the Celtic Tiger: migrants' language use and identity (Vera Regan, UCD)

Post-101 Quebec and defining Québécois today: transformations and challenges from within  (Patricia Lamarre, U de Montréal)

Migration and domestic service: past and present trends in Quebec and Ireland (Linda Connolly, UCC)

Memory as food performance: the cookbooks of Maura Laverty  (Rhona Richman Kenneally, Concordia U)

The place of sound - the sound of place: Irish music and cultural memory in rural Quebec (Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Concordia U)

'Courtyards in Delft': identity, originality and the culture of musical practice in Quebec and Ireland (Harry White, UCD)

After the Celtic Tiger: performance, nation and Irish drama, 2008-10 (Patrick Lonergan, NUIG)

Impossible identity: character objects in two contemporary theatre productions: Jackie and Abraham Lincoln va au théâtre, Montréal, 2010 (Erin Hurley, McGill U) 


SUBJECT: Cultural Studies, History & Literature, Language, Music, Drama, Sociology, Ireland & Canada