racial program for the twentieth century pdf

This focus on alternative forms of development persists in Seán Ó Riada’s 1962 radio program, Our Musical Heritage, as mid-century multinational investments rapidly changed rural communities. O’Brien’s novel invokes competing understandings of nature from medieval Irish-language poetry to assert alternative possible modernities existing in the Irish language, music, and material environment. The persisting influence of imperial-era notions of progress on an independent Ireland amid the protectionist policies of the 1930s become the point of saitirical critique in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman (1940). The framing conventions of these photographs rework picturesque depictions of Irish landscapes to visualize what modernity in rural Ireland should look like in the Irish Literary Revival, as well as in Eamonn De Valera’s 1930s policies to decolonize Irish ways of life through the Irish Land Commission.

My initial explorations of land-reform projects after the death of Charles Parnell in 1891 reveal how narratives in documentary photography influenced modernizing fisheries, agriculture, and energy infrastructure. Drawing on literature, film, and archival photography and radio, “Re-mediating Ireland: The Nature of Modernization in Twentieth-Century Irish Culture” demonstrates how Ireland’s wide-ranging cultural representations of modernization and natural resource extraction across the twentieth century revise conceptions of race, gender, class, and postcoloniality amid globalizing environmental justice movements. Ireland’s long history as a British colony raises questions in postcolonial studies about race, class, and gender that an ecocritical lens helps to answer.

Racial program for the twentieth century pdf