Ruth Barton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3766697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Barton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Barton |
| SIGNATURE | BARTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5161-3873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
History of science in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Down under Darwin: Australasian perspectives on Darwin Studies
Memories of Home: The Belfast Films of Mark Cousins and Kenneth Branagh
This article discusses Mark Cousin’s I Am Belfast (2015) and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast (2022) as autobiographical cinema. While acknowledging the multiple differences between each film, I argue that they also share many common themes and motifs. These include a determination to depict Belfast as a city shaped as much by a down-to-earth working class identified by their sense of community as by its official history of the Troubles. Both celebrate …
Covid-19, cultural policy and the Irish arts sector: Continuum or conjuncture
One of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Ireland as elsewhere, was the subsidised arts sector. In this article we examine one key aspect of this situation: the supports for artists. Specifically, we consider whether these supports are consistent with pre-pandemic policies in Ireland. We offer an overview of both the impact and responses to COVID-19 on the sector, and the historical narratives within Irish arts policy that inf…
The Poetry of John Tyndall
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman
Understanding the dynamics of inequity in collective bargaining: Evidence from Australia, Canada, Denmark and France
Unions and collective bargaining are generally considered to be the main vehicles for ensuring equity at work. This article questions this assertion by examining distinct forms of inequity between workers in unionised workplaces and, more specifically, the role of collective bargaining in creating, maintaining, reducing or avoiding them. Based on a study conducted in Australia, Canada (Québec), Denmark and France, the situations of inequity exami…
Trauma, Motive and the Post-Troubles Psychopath in The Fall
This article discusses the depiction of the serial killer, Paul Spector, in the BBC/RTÉ television series The Fall (2013–2016). It complements existing scholarship on the series’ female detective by considering how Spector’s construction as a Gothic villain and victim of institutional abuse inflects The Fall’s positioning as a transnational genre production. It focuses on the use of Belfast as a setting, taking into account its historical positio…
Dearly Beloved Relations’? A Study of Elite Family Emotions in Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Northamptonshire
Despite its reputation as an age of sensibility, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were periods in which prescribed codes of conduct and the constraints of polite societal expectations influenced elite behaviour. Consequently, emotions have often been considered in terms of what shaped their expression rather than on how or why they were expressed. This article, however, will look beyond these controls and examine the agentive na…
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter: The case of prominent Irish actors, directors and writers
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Irish cinema in the twenty-first century
Written by one of the leading authorities on Irish cinema, Irish cinema in the twenty-first century is an important contribution to debates on the possibility of a national cinema in the age of globalization. Designed to be accessible to students and to provide guidance to lecturers in structuring a course on Irish cinema, Ruth Barton’s book is divided by genre and theme. Chapters cover new areas in Irish film production, such as the creative doc…
Irish Film and Media Studies Publications – 2017
Another year has come and gone with little academic writing to show for Film and Media studies. I do appreciate that very interesting scholarly work on these topics is appearing in journals and collected editions. A search for “Irish cinema” in FIAF, for example, produced a listing of seventy results in the period 2010-2019. Interestingly
The X Club: Power and Authority in Victorian Science
Our Tarkine, Our Future”: The Australian Workers Union Use of Narratives Around Place and Community in West and North West Tasmania, Australia
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) represents the miners on the West Coast of Tasmania. When the future of mining on much of the West Coast was threatened by the environmentalists' proposed National Heritage listing of the Tarkine region, the union campaigned to prevent the listing. Through its embeddedness in place, the AWU was able to use a sense of place, memory and identity to construct a community campaign that moved beyond the West Coast in…
Irish Film and Media Studies Publications – 2016
It has been a sparse year for publications on Irish film and media, a phenomenon that is hard to reconcile with the prolific output of those industries. Of course, there is a time lag between the appearance of a film or TV show and its academic treatment, yet it is hard to see why so
Irish Film and Media Studies Publications – 2015
Another year, another four substantial contributions to scholarship on Irish cinema. As Lance Pettit notes in his review of Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts, it has also been a time of official retirements, notably those of Martin McLoone and Kevin Rockett. And, to plug a local event, both those luminaries of Irish film studies
Irish Film and Media Studies Publications – 2014
Welcome to the new “Irish Film and Media Studies Publications” section of Estudios Irlandeses! This section has been inaugurated as a response to the proliferation of new publications in this area. As you will see, certain of the books are dedicated specifically to the discussion of Film and Media, while others have been included by
Good Riddance to the Stinkin' Place: Deindustrialisation and Memory at Associated Pulp and Paper Mills in Burnie, Tasmania
As areas have deindustrialised, the factories that once symbolised prosperity and constancy are abandoned. These buildings are imbued with the memories of the workers and local people and can become the site of contest over visions of the past, present and future. In Burnie, Tasmania, the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills factory closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012. There was a sense of ambivalence around these buildings that had dominated Bu…
Spiritual Formation in the Church
Books
Screening the Irish in Britain: Introduction
The British ‘B’ Film
The State, Labour Management and Union Marginalisation at Electrolytic Zinc, Tasmania, 1920-48
While there has been considerable debate about arbitration's role in framing union strategy and tactics, its impact on managerial strategy and subordinating labour has been less explored. Electrolytic Zinc had a strategy of using the industrial regulation system, particularly the Tasmanian wages boards, and participative structures to marginalise trade unions for 15 years. However, these measures failed to completely suppress unionism and encoura…
Unions Facing the Future: Questions and Possibilities
The current circumstances of trade unions are subject to extensive debate. As a contribution to these debates, three sets of issues are ad dressed : how unions organize and operate in relation to members, how unions reposition and rebuild themselves against changing forms of ownership and different managerial practices, and how unions attempt to face the challenges of multinational capital. Unions have sought to renew and revitalize themselves by…
Irish National Cinema
From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, this book explores questions of nationalism, gender identities, the representation of the Troubles and of Irish history as well as cinema's response to the so-called Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. Irish National Cinema argues that in order to understand the unique position of filmmaking in Ireland and the inheri…
Huxley, Lubbock, and Half a Dozen Others: Professionals and Gentlemen in the Formation of the X Club, 1851-1864
Since Frank Turner's classic studies of the mid 1970s, social historians of science have appealed to the X Club as a paradigmatic example of the professionalizing impetus in mid-Victorian science and to members of the club, especially John Tyndall and T. H. Huxley, as exemplars of the challenge posed by men of science to the cultural authority of the clergy. So strong is this interpretation that the significance of amateur Anglican members, such …
Irish National Cinema
From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, this book explores questions of nationalism, gender identities, the representation of the Troubles and of Irish history as well as cinema's response to the so-called Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. Irish National Cinema argues that in order to understand the unique position of filmmaking in Ireland and the inheri…
Men of Science: Language, Identity and Professionalization in the Mid-Victorian Scientific Community
La professionnalisation de la science victorienne est etudiee en analysant le langage que les membres utilisaient pour identifier la communaute scientifique et differencier les professionnels des amateurs
An Influential Set of Chaps’: The X-Club and Royal Society Politics 1864–85
‘Our’ included not only Hooker and Huxley but their fellow-members of the X-Club. ‘Our time’ had been the 1870s and early 1880s. For a five-year period from November 1873 to November 1878 Hooker had been President of the Society, Huxley one of the Secretaries, and fellow X-Club member, William Spottiswoode, the Treasurer. Hooker was followed in the Presidency by Spottiswoode, and on Spottiswoode's death in 1883 Huxley was elected President. Durin…
Irish cinema in the twenty-first century
Written by one of the leading authorities on Irish cinema, Irish cinema in the twenty-first century is an important contribution to debates on the possibility of a national cinema in the age of globalization. Designed to be accessible to students and to provide guidance to lecturers in structuring a course on Irish cinema, Ruth Barton’s book is divided by genre and theme. Chapters cover new areas in Irish film production, such as the creative doc…
John Tyndall, Pantheist: A Rereading of the Belfast Address
Unions Facing the Future: Questions and Possibilities
The current circumstances of trade unions are subject to extensive debate. As a contribution to these debates, three sets of issues are ad dressed : how unions organize and operate in relation to members, how unions reposition and rebuild themselves against changing forms of ownership and different managerial practices, and how unions attempt to face the challenges of multinational capital. Unions have sought to renew and revitalize themselves by…
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter: The case of prominent Irish actors, directors and writers
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Our Tarkine, Our Future”: The Australian Workers Union Use of Narratives Around Place and Community in West and North West Tasmania, Australia
The Australian Workers Union (AWU) represents the miners on the West Coast of Tasmania. When the future of mining on much of the West Coast was threatened by the environmentalists' proposed National Heritage listing of the Tarkine region, the union campaigned to prevent the listing. Through its embeddedness in place, the AWU was able to use a sense of place, memory and identity to construct a community campaign that moved beyond the West Coast in…
Covid-19, cultural policy and the Irish arts sector: Continuum or conjuncture
One of the sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Ireland as elsewhere, was the subsidised arts sector. In this article we examine one key aspect of this situation: the supports for artists. Specifically, we consider whether these supports are consistent with pre-pandemic policies in Ireland. We offer an overview of both the impact and responses to COVID-19 on the sector, and the historical narratives within Irish arts policy that inf…
The Ballykissangelization of Ireland
It is ironic that a country which established its national identity largely through recourse to historical and mythical narratives has now, with equal fervour, adopted a policy of commodifying those narratives for the purposes of developing its second largest industry, tourism. It is a further irony that the major consumers of Irish heritage tourism are the former colonizers, the British. Irish culture e nds itself in a double bind, promoting its…
T. H. Huxley: Man's Place in Nature
The scientific reputation(s) of John Lubbock, Darwinian gentleman
Good Riddance to the Stinkin' Place: Deindustrialisation and Memory at Associated Pulp and Paper Mills in Burnie, Tasmania
As areas have deindustrialised, the factories that once symbolised prosperity and constancy are abandoned. These buildings are imbued with the memories of the workers and local people and can become the site of contest over visions of the past, present and future. In Burnie, Tasmania, the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills factory closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012. There was a sense of ambivalence around these buildings that had dominated Bu…
Kitsch as Authenticity: Irish Cinema and the Challenge to Romanticism
Reflections in Two Kinship Terms of the Transition to Endogamy
Science, Technology, and Society in Australia: A Bibliography. Ann Mozley Moyal , Elizabeth Newland , Irene Davey
T. H. Huxley: Man's Place in Nature
Evolution: The Whitworth Gun in Huxley’s War for the Liberation of Science from Theology
John Tyndall, Pantheist: A Rereading of the Belfast Address
Chemistry and Theology in Mid-Victorian London: The Diary of Herbert McLeod, 1860-1870 . Herbert McLeod , Frank A. J. L. James
Notes towards a History of Teaching Statistics. John Bibby
An Influential Set of Chaps’: The X-Club and Royal Society Politics 1864–85
‘Our’ included not only Hooker and Huxley but their fellow-members of the X-Club. ‘Our time’ had been the 1870s and early 1880s. For a five-year period from November 1873 to November 1878 Hooker had been President of the Society, Huxley one of the Secretaries, and fellow X-Club member, William Spottiswoode, the Treasurer. Hooker was followed in the Presidency by Spottiswoode, and on Spottiswoode's death in 1883 Huxley was elected President. Durin…
Huxley, Lubbock, and Half a Dozen Others: Professionals and Gentlemen in the Formation of the X Club, 1851-1864
Since Frank Turner's classic studies of the mid 1970s, social historians of science have appealed to the X Club as a paradigmatic example of the professionalizing impetus in mid-Victorian science and to members of the club, especially John Tyndall and T. H. Huxley, as exemplars of the challenge posed by men of science to the cultural authority of the clergy. So strong is this interpretation that the significance of amateur Anglican members, such …
Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600
The Ballykissangelization of Ireland
It is ironic that a country which established its national identity largely through recourse to historical and mythical narratives has now, with equal fervour, adopted a policy of commodifying those narratives for the purposes of developing its second largest industry, tourism. It is a further irony that the major consumers of Irish heritage tourism are the former colonizers, the British. Irish culture e nds itself in a double bind, promoting its…
Kitsch as Authenticity: Irish Cinema and the Challenge to Romanticism
Kitsch as Authenticity: Irish Cinema and the Challenge to Romanticism
Victorian psychology and British culture 1850-1880
Men of Science: Language, Identity and Professionalization in the Mid-Victorian Scientific Community
La professionnalisation de la science victorienne est etudiee en analysant le langage que les membres utilisaient pour identifier la communaute scientifique et differencier les professionnels des amateurs
Irish National Cinema
From the international successes of Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan, to the smaller productions of the new generation of Irish filmmakers, this book explores questions of nationalism, gender identities, the representation of the Troubles and of Irish history as well as cinema's response to the so-called Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. Irish National Cinema argues that in order to understand the unique position of filmmaking in Ireland and the inheri…
Unions Facing the Future: Questions and Possibilities
The current circumstances of trade unions are subject to extensive debate. As a contribution to these debates, three sets of issues are ad dressed : how unions organize and operate in relation to members, how unions reposition and rebuild themselves against changing forms of ownership and different managerial practices, and how unions attempt to face the challenges of multinational capital. Unions have sought to renew and revitalize themselves by…
Screening the Irish in Britain: Introduction
The British ‘B’ Film
The State, Labour Management and Union Marginalisation at Electrolytic Zinc, Tasmania, 1920-48
While there has been considerable debate about arbitration's role in framing union strategy and tactics, its impact on managerial strategy and subordinating labour has been less explored. Electrolytic Zinc had a strategy of using the industrial regulation system, particularly the Tasmanian wages boards, and participative structures to marginalise trade unions for 15 years. However, these measures failed to completely suppress unionism and encoura…
Books
Spiritual Formation in the Church
Irish Film and Media Studies Publications – 2014
Welcome to the new “Irish Film and Media Studies Publications” section of Estudios Irlandeses! This section has been inaugurated as a response to the proliferation of new publications in this area. As you will see, certain of the books are dedicated specifically to the discussion of Film and Media, while others have been included by
Good Riddance to the Stinkin' Place: Deindustrialisation and Memory at Associated Pulp and Paper Mills in Burnie, Tasmania
As areas have deindustrialised, the factories that once symbolised prosperity and constancy are abandoned. These buildings are imbued with the memories of the workers and local people and can become the site of contest over visions of the past, present and future. In Burnie, Tasmania, the Associated Pulp and Paper Mills factory closed in 2010 and was demolished in 2012. There was a sense of ambivalence around these buildings that had dominated Bu…
Irish Film and Media Studies Publications – 2015
Another year, another four substantial contributions to scholarship on Irish cinema. As Lance Pettit notes in his review of Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts, it has also been a time of official retirements, notably those of Martin McLoone and Kevin Rockett. And, to plug a local event, both those luminaries of Irish film studies
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