IRISH STUDIES RESEARCH ABSTRACTS, 1998
 

EDWINA KELLY
Submitted for Doctor of Philosophy in English, Dept. of English,
University of Western Australia.
 

Thesis Abstract:
The aim of this study is to show how representations of domestic violence in contemporary discourse are underwritten by the imperatives of imperialism. This explanation is established using a clearly defined, hybrid postcolonial-feminist reading practice and through a careful comparative analysis of images of domestic violence in the novels of four contemporary Irish and Indian women writers—Edna O'Brien, Iris Murdoch, Anita Desai and Shashi Deshpande.
 

PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS

Outskirts: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Vol. 1&2, 1996. (Founding-Editor)

'Dead Metaphors and Domestic Violence'. Presented at Interdisciplinary Narrative and Metaphor conference, University of Auckland, May 1996.


DAMIAN GLEESON

 IRISH-AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITIES IN SYDNEY, 1860-1900.





This study focuses on the Irish in Sydney, inner city areas and stretching to Balmain in the inner west, Newtown to the south-west, North Sydney, and  Waverley and Randwick to the east. The focus is on the characteristics and growth of Irish communities in these areas in the second half of the nineteenth century. As a significant majority of Irish migrants in inner Sydney (but by no means an exclusive number) were Catholics, this thesis will focus on Irish Catholic communities.

The Centre would appreciate any information or comments on current research in Irish topics.

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