Brian Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7069-4066 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Oedipus and the cabal: Conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency
Conspiracy theories are a means by which people make sense of vastly complex webs of cause and effect, contingency, and random chance. Impersonal operations of a political economy thus become personified in the figure of sinister puppet masters controlling the world. Overdetermined historical events become narrativized as plots executed with clockwork timing and perfect secrecy. This study proposes a model for the motives and mechanisms by which …
The Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association and Irish Ex-Servicemen of the First World War, 1922–1932
In 1925, the Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association (SILRA), originally founded for the relief of southern Irish loyalist refugees in Britain, created a fund for ex-servicemen resident in the Irish Free State (IFS). Populated primarily from among the ‘diehard’ right of the British Conservative Party, SILRA’s charitable work was inevitably influenced by the world view of its membership and their audience. But it also had a Dublin sub-committe…
Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923)
Journal Article Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923). Get access Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923). Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2021. Pp xxv, 218. Paper €30.00. Brian Hughes Brian Hughes Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland Email: [email protected] Search for other…
Chaplaincy in the outpatient setting-getting from here to there
One of the most evident trends in US health care and health care generally in the developed world is that more and more care is shifting to outpatient settings. This change opens up substantial opportunities, and in many cases, expectations for chaplains to extend the breadth of the care they provide in any health system. However, it also brings many challenges. This paper describes the journey of four very different inpatient chaplaincy services…
The Everything Cult: Multiphrenic Faith and the QAnon Movement
This article undertakes an analysis of QAnon marketing and metaphysics through a holistic lens of mediatization theory and medium theory. It proposes a means of understanding the movement as an example of mediatization in the sense of a social environment in which behavior comes to resemble the logic of the media, and mediatization in the sense of an institution—that is, the Q movement as a media entity operating as a social agent in the world at…
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History, by Niamh Gallagher
Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space
With Patrick Crusuis’ 2019 attack that killed twenty-two people in El Paso, Texas, discussions of ecofascism were thrust into mainstream news outlets and magazines. In his manifesto, Crusius described himself as an “ecofascist” seeking to challenge the “environmental warfare” of immigration. His choice of target, a Walmart frequented by Mexican immigrants, reflects this ideological connection between ecological priorities and violent white suprem…
Development of a Codebook of Online Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric to Manage Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the prevalence of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which are spread through social media and user-generated content platforms. This study uses qualitative coding methodology to identify salient narratives and rhetorical styles common to anti-vaccine and COV…
Cultural Variance in Reception and Interpretation of Social Media Covid-19 Disinformation in French-Speaking Regions
Digital communication technology has created a world in which media are capable of crossing national boundaries as never before. As a result, language is increasingly the salient category determining individuals' media consumption. Today, a single social media post can travel around the world, reaching anyone who speaks its language. This poses significant challenges to combatting the spread of disinformation, as an ever-growing pool of disinform…
Time to follow the evidence – Spiritual care in health care
‘Make the terror behind greater than the terror in front’? Internal discipline, forced participation, and the I.R.A., 1919–21
This article will explore two relatively neglected features of the Irish Republican Army’s (I.R.A.) guerrilla war between 1919 and 1921: internal discipline and forced participation. The gravest disciplinary measure was the death penalty and I.R.A. orders directed that it should apply to members guilty of certain offences against the army. While British army and police officials often insisted that the I.R.A. executed its own without scruple, the…
Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day
Defying the IRA
This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing on the period of guerilla war against British rule fro…
Defying the IRA?: Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution
Loyalists and Loyalism in a Southern Irish Community, 1921–1922
A second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over 4,000 applications and recommended 2,237 ex-gratia grants. Applicants had to prove that they had suffered loss on account of their ‘allegiance to the government of the United Kingdom’, and by applying labelled themselves as both ‘…
A bibliographical approach to Irish literature in English
The idea of this bibliographical list is to present a working bibliography for the use of the student approaching Irish literature for the first time.We have no pretensions to exhaustiveness and it is clear that such major authors as Yeats, Joyce or Beckett are only represented here by a minimum number of critical studies.The works have been divided into different sections by área, as follows: i) general, ii) literature in Irish, folklore, myth a…
Fragments of an unfinished play: A vernal play
Fragments of an unfinished play: a vernal play = Fragmento de una obra inacabada: obra vernal / translated by Brian Hughes and Francisco Javier Torres Ribelles
Remembered light: Constants in the fiction of John McGahern
Art is, after the failure of love, an attempt to crate a world in which we might be able to Uve: maybe that world wouldn't last very long; it probably wouldn't last for ever; but it would be a world of the imagination over which we might rule ... We cannot live, we can only rule, although we have no reason and no right to rule, except our own instinctive need. Thus we rule in the illusory permanence of our false gods
Poems
The journal is published by the Department of English Philology of the University of Alicante. Since its appearance in 1988, its aim is to provide a forum for debate and an outlet for research involving all aspects of English Studies
Poems
To a mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough November, 1785 ; To a louse, on seeing one on a Lady's bonnet at church = A un ratón, al deshacerle el nido con el arado noviembre, 1785 ; A un piojo, al ver uno en el sombrero de una dama en la iglesia / translated by Brian Hughes and F. Javier Torres Ribelles
A pesar de los pesares, canción
The journal is published by the Department of English Philology of the University of Alicante. Since its appearance in 1988, its aim is to provide a forum for debate and an outlet for research involving all aspects of English Studies
Five Poems by Derek Mahon
October (from Antarctica) ; Death and the sun (from Antarctica) ; Matthew V, 29-30 (from Poems 1962-1978) ; The apotheosis of tins (from Poems 1962-1978) ; The hunt by night (from The hunt by night) = Octubre ; El sol y la muerte ; San Mateo V, 29-30 ; La apoteosis de las latas ; La cacería nocturna / traducción de Ana Eiroa Guillén y Brian Hughes
Poems
Anahorish (from Wintering out) ; Bog oak (from Wintering out) ; Tinder (from Wintering out) ; The strand at lough Beg (from Field work) ; The Loaning (from Station Island) = Anahorish ; Un roble sacado de la turbera ; Yesca ; La playa del lago Beg ; La vereda / traducción de Ana Eiroa Guillén y Brian Hughes
Lyric compression in the stories of Katherine Mansfield
This paper begins by stressing the need for a more critical approach to the work of Katherine Mansfield, accounts of which tend often to rely on purely biographical material. After discussing the relative failure of In a German Pension, which is attributed to a want of focus in the narrative point of view, the essay goes on to suggest that, in the later work, the twin techniques of highlighting and epiphany (the privileging of certain lyrical mom…
Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space
With Patrick Crusuis’ 2019 attack that killed twenty-two people in El Paso, Texas, discussions of ecofascism were thrust into mainstream news outlets and magazines. In his manifesto, Crusius described himself as an “ecofascist” seeking to challenge the “environmental warfare” of immigration. His choice of target, a Walmart frequented by Mexican immigrants, reflects this ideological connection between ecological priorities and violent white suprem…
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Loyalists and Loyalism in a Southern Irish Community, 1921–1922
A second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over 4,000 applications and recommended 2,237 ex-gratia grants. Applicants had to prove that they had suffered loss on account of their ‘allegiance to the government of the United Kingdom’, and by applying labelled themselves as both ‘…
Poems
Anahorish (from Wintering out) ; Bog oak (from Wintering out) ; Tinder (from Wintering out) ; The strand at lough Beg (from Field work) ; The Loaning (from Station Island) = Anahorish ; Un roble sacado de la turbera ; Yesca ; La playa del lago Beg ; La vereda / traducción de Ana Eiroa Guillén y Brian Hughes
Lyric compression in the stories of Katherine Mansfield
This paper begins by stressing the need for a more critical approach to the work of Katherine Mansfield, accounts of which tend often to rely on purely biographical material. After discussing the relative failure of In a German Pension, which is attributed to a want of focus in the narrative point of view, the essay goes on to suggest that, in the later work, the twin techniques of highlighting and epiphany (the privileging of certain lyrical mom…
Five Poems by Derek Mahon
October (from Antarctica) ; Death and the sun (from Antarctica) ; Matthew V, 29-30 (from Poems 1962-1978) ; The apotheosis of tins (from Poems 1962-1978) ; The hunt by night (from The hunt by night) = Octubre ; El sol y la muerte ; San Mateo V, 29-30 ; La apoteosis de las latas ; La cacería nocturna / traducción de Ana Eiroa Guillén y Brian Hughes
A pesar de los pesares, canción
The journal is published by the Department of English Philology of the University of Alicante. Since its appearance in 1988, its aim is to provide a forum for debate and an outlet for research involving all aspects of English Studies
Poems
To a mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough November, 1785 ; To a louse, on seeing one on a Lady's bonnet at church = A un ratón, al deshacerle el nido con el arado noviembre, 1785 ; A un piojo, al ver uno en el sombrero de una dama en la iglesia / translated by Brian Hughes and F. Javier Torres Ribelles
A bibliographical approach to Irish literature in English
The idea of this bibliographical list is to present a working bibliography for the use of the student approaching Irish literature for the first time.We have no pretensions to exhaustiveness and it is clear that such major authors as Yeats, Joyce or Beckett are only represented here by a minimum number of critical studies.The works have been divided into different sections by área, as follows: i) general, ii) literature in Irish, folklore, myth a…
Fragments of an unfinished play: A vernal play
Fragments of an unfinished play: a vernal play = Fragmento de una obra inacabada: obra vernal / translated by Brian Hughes and Francisco Javier Torres Ribelles
Remembered light: Constants in the fiction of John McGahern
Art is, after the failure of love, an attempt to crate a world in which we might be able to Uve: maybe that world wouldn't last very long; it probably wouldn't last for ever; but it would be a world of the imagination over which we might rule ... We cannot live, we can only rule, although we have no reason and no right to rule, except our own instinctive need. Thus we rule in the illusory permanence of our false gods
Poems
The journal is published by the Department of English Philology of the University of Alicante. Since its appearance in 1988, its aim is to provide a forum for debate and an outlet for research involving all aspects of English Studies
Defying the IRA?: Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution
Loyalists and Loyalism in a Southern Irish Community, 1921–1922
A second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over 4,000 applications and recommended 2,237 ex-gratia grants. Applicants had to prove that they had suffered loss on account of their ‘allegiance to the government of the United Kingdom’, and by applying labelled themselves as both ‘…
Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day
Defying the IRA
This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing on the period of guerilla war against British rule fro…
‘Make the terror behind greater than the terror in front’? Internal discipline, forced participation, and the I.R.A., 1919–21
This article will explore two relatively neglected features of the Irish Republican Army’s (I.R.A.) guerrilla war between 1919 and 1921: internal discipline and forced participation. The gravest disciplinary measure was the death penalty and I.R.A. orders directed that it should apply to members guilty of certain offences against the army. While British army and police officials often insisted that the I.R.A. executed its own without scruple, the…
Time to follow the evidence – Spiritual care in health care
Development of a Codebook of Online Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric to Manage Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
Vaccine hesitancy (delay in obtaining a vaccine, despite availability) represents a significant hurdle to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is in part related to the prevalence of anti-vaccine misinformation and disinformation, which are spread through social media and user-generated content platforms. This study uses qualitative coding methodology to identify salient narratives and rhetorical styles common to anti-vaccine and COV…
Cultural Variance in Reception and Interpretation of Social Media Covid-19 Disinformation in French-Speaking Regions
Digital communication technology has created a world in which media are capable of crossing national boundaries as never before. As a result, language is increasingly the salient category determining individuals' media consumption. Today, a single social media post can travel around the world, reaching anyone who speaks its language. This poses significant challenges to combatting the spread of disinformation, as an ever-growing pool of disinform…
Chaplaincy in the outpatient setting-getting from here to there
One of the most evident trends in US health care and health care generally in the developed world is that more and more care is shifting to outpatient settings. This change opens up substantial opportunities, and in many cases, expectations for chaplains to extend the breadth of the care they provide in any health system. However, it also brings many challenges. This paper describes the journey of four very different inpatient chaplaincy services…
The Everything Cult: Multiphrenic Faith and the QAnon Movement
This article undertakes an analysis of QAnon marketing and metaphysics through a holistic lens of mediatization theory and medium theory. It proposes a means of understanding the movement as an example of mediatization in the sense of a social environment in which behavior comes to resemble the logic of the media, and mediatization in the sense of an institution—that is, the Q movement as a media entity operating as a social agent in the world at…
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History, by Niamh Gallagher
Ecofascism: An Examination of the Far-Right/Ecology Nexus in the Online Space
With Patrick Crusuis’ 2019 attack that killed twenty-two people in El Paso, Texas, discussions of ecofascism were thrust into mainstream news outlets and magazines. In his manifesto, Crusius described himself as an “ecofascist” seeking to challenge the “environmental warfare” of immigration. His choice of target, a Walmart frequented by Mexican immigrants, reflects this ideological connection between ecological priorities and violent white suprem…
The Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association and Irish Ex-Servicemen of the First World War, 1922–1932
In 1925, the Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association (SILRA), originally founded for the relief of southern Irish loyalist refugees in Britain, created a fund for ex-servicemen resident in the Irish Free State (IFS). Populated primarily from among the ‘diehard’ right of the British Conservative Party, SILRA’s charitable work was inevitably influenced by the world view of its membership and their audience. But it also had a Dublin sub-committe…
Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923)
Journal Article Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923). Get access Emmanuel Destenay. Shadows From the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918–1923). Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2021. Pp xxv, 218. Paper €30.00. Brian Hughes Brian Hughes Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland Email: [email protected] Search for other…
Oedipus and the cabal: Conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency
Conspiracy theories are a means by which people make sense of vastly complex webs of cause and effect, contingency, and random chance. Impersonal operations of a political economy thus become personified in the figure of sinister puppet masters controlling the world. Overdetermined historical events become narrativized as plots executed with clockwork timing and perfect secrecy. This study proposes a model for the motives and mechanisms by which …
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