Gerry Smyth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerry Smyth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Smyth |
| SIGNATURE | SMYTH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7922-4530 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Victims of rumour
After the entry of the United States into the Second World War, American psychologists undertook the first studies of rumour, in which they analysed and defined its social functions in a country at war. But rumours are themselves a useful lens through which to look at the societies which produced them, and in the German-occupied Channel Islands there is an opportunity to gain a much deeper understanding of a wartime society, whose experience of t…
Radio Caledonia
In June 1940, from somewhere in Scotland, a radio station named Radio Caledonia began to broadcast Scottish nationalist, anti-government and anti-war propaganda to Britain, on behalf of an organisation called the Scottish Peace Front. Its objective was to bring about Scotland's exit from the war, an end to the capitalist system, and the creation of an independent, socialist Scotland. The speaker and scriptwriter behind Radio Caledonia was Donald …
Nazi ‘black’ Propaganda to Britain
While many will be familiar with the British traitor William Joyce who, as Lord Haw-Haw, became infamous for his radio broadcasts to Britain on behalf of Nazi Germany during the Second World War, much less widely known and studied is the work of Büro Concordia, an organisation created by Joseph Goebbels to broadcast 'black' propaganda from Berlin to Britain. Between 1940 and 1945 five secret radio stations posed as the voice of British dissident,…
Denunciation in the German-Occupied Channel Islands, 1940–1945
Over the course of the German occupation of the British Channel Islands from 1940 to 1945, a number of letters of denunciation were sent by islanders to the German authorities, accusing fellow islanders of violations of occupation law or of anti-German activity of one sort or another. The German occupiers were ambivalent toward the denunciations. While recognizing their usefulness in maintaining order and the respect for German rule, they found b…
Across the margins
Contributors to this text discuss what it is to be British or Irish, and how people come to describe themselves as such. The study offers a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of the cultural formation of the Atlantic Archipelago, working across the disciplines of history, geography, literature and cultural studies. It also includes specific case-studies on contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, popular music and art. The essaye respond to…
Remapping Irish modernism
One of the strangest developments in recent Irish cultural criticism has been the proposition that contemporary Irish fiction has reconnected with the spirit of modernism from a century ago. In an
Shanty singing and the Irish Atlantic
In three major book-length contributions to the field during the 1960s and 1970s, leading folklorist Stan Hugill developed a peculiar understanding of the role of Ireland and Irish music in the international shanty tradition. Born on the Wirral peninsula, 15 miles from Liverpool, Hugill was deeply influenced by the port’s experience as a hub for the Irish diaspora. This article will examine Hugill’s characterisation of ‘Irish’ elements (lyrical, …
What the brother did in 1916
Man 1:Forty years, wha’?Man 2:I beg your pardon?Man 1:No, I was just saying: forty years, wha’?Man 2:I’m sorry: to what are you referring?Man 1:Forty years! Since, you know ... Connolly and Pearse
The Judas kiss
This book argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish society since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century. The author goes on to argue that the novel is the literary form most apt for the exploration of betrayal in its social, political and psychological dimensions. The significance of this thesis comes into focus in terms …
The Judas kiss
This book argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent throughout Irish society since the revolutionary period at the outset of the twentieth century. The author goes on to argue that the novel is the literary form most apt for the exploration of betrayal in its social, political and psychological dimensions. The significance of this thesis comes into focus in terms …
Two dramatic treatments of the ‘Déirdre’ legend
During the heightened cultural activity of the Celtic Revival, the moral ownership and utilisation of Ireland's literary remains became an important cultural issue. At the same time, many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish writers were concerned to ‘retell’ ancient stories in ways which explored their relevance to the modern world. One of the most retold tales from the period was the story of Déirdre and the Sons of Usnach. The story o…
The Irish novel 1960–2010
The ends of Ireland
Conor Carville, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011, 256 pp, no price, ISBN 978-0-7190-8383-9 I reviewed David Lloyd's Anomalous States for this journal in 1994. I recall the excitement o
Irish National Identity after the Celtic Tiger
A Lecture Delivered in the “New Perspectives on National Identity” Series. Liverpool, Thursday 15th March 2012 Both the biology and the life cycle of the so-called Celtic Tiger are by this stage familiar enough. From having been a drastically under-achieving state throughout much of the twentieth century, the Republic of Ireland experienced a miracle during
Hymns to the silence
Irish music
by Sean Crosso, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 302 pp., £34.99, ISBN 1-84718-569-X by John O'Flynn, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2009, 239 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-5714-9 by
Music in contemporary British fiction
A study of the role and representation of music in contemporary British fiction which also provides a theoretical account of the historical relationship between the two media
Tiger, Theory, Technology
Ireland unplugged
The Isle is full of noises
Across the margins
Liverpool John Moores
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
Chapter 1 provided a context within which a study focusing on issues of space, culture and identity in modern Ireland might be undertaken. In this chapter I want to take an overview of some of the ways in which discourses of place and space have been addressed in Irish critical, cultural and political practices over the years. Of the many potential areas of interest, I have chosen to focus on four: travel and tourism, mapping/naming, poetry, and …
‘Show Me the Way to Go Home’
This chapter offers an analysis of Irish rock supergroup U2 in terms of certain spatial practices and motifs that recur throughout their music. Before going on to look in some detail at these issues, I want to consider the theoretical and methodological contexts in which such an analysis might be undertaken. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning al…
Big Mistakes in Small Places
The critical systems through which a spatial analysis of the modern novel might be attempted are many and various. For convenience, however, they may be organised into three main groups: those that focus on the built environment, those emphasising apparently ‘natural’ outdoor environments, and those engaging with issues of aesthetic spatiality. This latter, most fully expounded by Joseph Frank in his book The Widening Gyre (1963), concerns what h…
The Location of Criticism, or, Putting the ‘I’ into ‘Ireland’
The material in this chapter arises from a concern with two related theoretical-methodological issues: 1) an emphasis on local and personal history in much late twentieth-century Irish culture; and 2) the possibility of developing new critical discourses. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual premise of an explosion of
Irish National Identity after the Celtic Tiger
A Lecture Delivered in the “New Perspectives on National Identity” Series. Liverpool, Thursday 15th March 2012 Both the biology and the life cycle of the so-called Celtic Tiger are by this stage familiar enough. From having been a drastically under-achieving state throughout much of the twentieth century, the Republic of Ireland experienced a miracle during
Across the margins
Liverpool John Moores
Nazi ‘black’ Propaganda to Britain
While many will be familiar with the British traitor William Joyce who, as Lord Haw-Haw, became infamous for his radio broadcasts to Britain on behalf of Nazi Germany during the Second World War, much less widely known and studied is the work of Büro Concordia, an organisation created by Joseph Goebbels to broadcast 'black' propaganda from Berlin to Britain. Between 1940 and 1945 five secret radio stations posed as the voice of British dissident,…
The ends of Ireland
Conor Carville, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011, 256 pp, no price, ISBN 978-0-7190-8383-9 I reviewed David Lloyd's Anomalous States for this journal in 1994. I recall the excitement o
Irish studies, postcolonial theory and the ‘new’ essentialism
(1999). Irish studies, postcolonial theory and the ‘new’ essentialism. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 7, Irish Studies and Postcolonial Theory, pp. 211-220
The Crying Game
The past, the post, and the utterly changed
(1995). The past, the post, and the utterly changed: Intellectual responsibility and Irish cultural criticism. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 25-29
Who's the greenest of them all? Irishness and popular music
Who's the greenest of them all? Irishness and popular music
The past, the post, and the utterly changed
(1995). The past, the post, and the utterly changed: Intellectual responsibility and Irish cultural criticism. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 25-29
Amateurs and Textperts’
The natural course of things’
(1996). ‘The natural course of things’: Matthew Arnold, Celticism and the English poetic tradition. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 35-53
The Location of Criticism
are, argues Young, the old refuse to die. 'They rather accumulate in clusters of ever-increasing power, resonance and persuasion' (83). I agree with him that 'race' will never let go of its sanguinary past, for it is indeed those physical differences, like sexual difference, which constantly have to be re-worked and re-imagined. But who says that the old meanings have ever more power, where, in what texts, amongst which groups? These assertions c…
The novel and the nation
The Crying Game
Irish studies, postcolonial theory and the ‘new’ essentialism
(1999). Irish studies, postcolonial theory and the ‘new’ essentialism. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 7, Irish Studies and Postcolonial Theory, pp. 211-220
The Right to the City
Dublin, claimed Augustine Martin in 1984, is ‘the most famous city in literary history, with the possible exception of Troy’.3 But which Dublin? It seems clear that Martin had not just a specific place but also a specific time in mind when he made his claim — the early twentieth-century town made famous in the work of James Joyce. It is true that the great writer ’s work has certainly come to represent one dominant image of the city, both within …
The Politics of Hybridity
This essay is offered as a corrective to the uncritical adoption of certain fashionable notions concerning the significance of border-crossing, or what I shall be referring to throughout as 'hybridity'. Great claims continue to be made for the project of unsettling the border, for breaking out of the prisonhouse of oppositionalist logic into some kind of radically emancipated, free-floating condition where the subject is free to move between the …
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
Chapter 1 provided a context within which a study focusing on issues of space, culture and identity in modern Ireland might be undertaken. In this chapter I want to take an overview of some of the ways in which discourses of place and space have been addressed in Irish critical, cultural and political practices over the years. Of the many potential areas of interest, I have chosen to focus on four: travel and tourism, mapping/naming, poetry, and …
‘Show Me the Way to Go Home’
This chapter offers an analysis of Irish rock supergroup U2 in terms of certain spatial practices and motifs that recur throughout their music. Before going on to look in some detail at these issues, I want to consider the theoretical and methodological contexts in which such an analysis might be undertaken. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning al…
Big Mistakes in Small Places
The critical systems through which a spatial analysis of the modern novel might be attempted are many and various. For convenience, however, they may be organised into three main groups: those that focus on the built environment, those emphasising apparently ‘natural’ outdoor environments, and those engaging with issues of aesthetic spatiality. This latter, most fully expounded by Joseph Frank in his book The Widening Gyre (1963), concerns what h…
The Location of Criticism, or, Putting the ‘I’ into ‘Ireland’
The material in this chapter arises from a concern with two related theoretical-methodological issues: 1) an emphasis on local and personal history in much late twentieth-century Irish culture; and 2) the possibility of developing new critical discourses. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Irish Cultural Studies and the Re-emergence of Spatial Analysis
The coalescing of a number of critical discourses in the closing decades of the twentieth century made the study of Irish cultural history amenable to spatial analysis. This included the rediscovery of the spatial imagination within the work of a number of established philosophical systems, a reinvigorated Marxist geography, the growth of environmentalism and the emergence of postmodern (often called ‘new’) geography. Together, these provided the…
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual premise of an explosion of
Across the margins
Liverpool John Moores
Ireland unplugged
The Isle is full of noises
Tiger, Theory, Technology
Music in contemporary British fiction
A study of the role and representation of music in contemporary British fiction which also provides a theoretical account of the historical relationship between the two media
Irish music
by Sean Crosso, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, 302 pp., £34.99, ISBN 1-84718-569-X by John O'Flynn, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate, 2009, 239 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978-0-7546-5714-9 by
Hymns to the silence
Irish National Identity after the Celtic Tiger
A Lecture Delivered in the “New Perspectives on National Identity” Series. Liverpool, Thursday 15th March 2012 Both the biology and the life cycle of the so-called Celtic Tiger are by this stage familiar enough. From having been a drastically under-achieving state throughout much of the twentieth century, the Republic of Ireland experienced a miracle during
Two dramatic treatments of the ‘Déirdre’ legend
During the heightened cultural activity of the Celtic Revival, the moral ownership and utilisation of Ireland's literary remains became an important cultural issue. At the same time, many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish writers were concerned to ‘retell’ ancient stories in ways which explored their relevance to the modern world. One of the most retold tales from the period was the story of Déirdre and the Sons of Usnach. The story o…
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