6258 Eire-Ireland Journal of the Irish American Cultural Institute
Volume 41, Number 1 & 2 Earrach/Samhradh/Spring/Summer 2006 €10.00
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Editors' Introduction 5
“Our Nuns Are Not a Nation”: Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film by Elizabeth Butler Cullingford 9
Embodied Ideals and Realities: Irish Nuns and Irish Womanhood, 1930s-1960s by Yvonne McKenna 40
The Manliness of Parnell by Joseph Valente 64
Words as Weapons: Speech, Violence and Gender in Late Medieval Ireland by Dianne Hall 122
Maureen O'Hara: Pirate Queen, Feminist Icon? by Ruth Barton 142
Roasting a Man Alive: The Case of Mary Rielly, Criminal Lunatic by Pauline Prior 169
Women Writers and the Death of Rural Ireland: Realism and Nostalgia in the 1940s by Clair Wills 192
Cycling and Gender in Victorian Ireland by Brian Griffin 213
The Sons of Cuchulainn: Violence, the Family and the Irish Canon by Geraldine Meaney 242
Gender, Citizenship and the Future of the Northern Ireland Peace Process by Margaret Ward 262
Cover Notes by Vera Kreilkamp 284
Contributors 288
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