Maureen O’connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3956107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen O’connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | O’connor |
| SIGNATURE | O’CONNOR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4455-5529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Edna O’Brien’s Neglected Widows and Spinsters
From the witch-like widow on the edges of civilisation to the retired spinster who, after an active but disappointing sexual past, chooses to continue her single life, the celibate women of Edna O’Brien’s fiction have as much to contribute to the author’s career-long examination of the damage done by Irish patriarchy as any of the miserable housewives, resentful mothers, and abused girls who dominate critical analyses of her work. Unlike the many…
Irish Studies Around the World – 2024
The Year in Review: IRISH STUDIES AROUND THE WORLD – 2024
Tribute to Edna O’Brien (1930-2024)
Tribute to Edna O’Brien
Irish Studies Around the World - 2023
monument was raised in Troy, New York, to James Connolly 100 years after his execution by British forces for his part in the Easter Rising.Connolly lived for several years in Troy, working with both Irish and Italian immigrants, helping them to effectively organise as labourers.Another significant commemoration that was observed internationally in 2023 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.There were events held around the…
Irish Studies Publications Around the World -2022
IRISH STUDIES PUBLICATIONS AROUND THE WORLD -2022
Irish Studies Around the World – 2021
We had such high hopes for 2021. There was a time in the summer when those hopes seemed about to be fulfilled, but for much of the year we were back to where we were the year before. Because of the unrelenting pandemic, some 2021 cultural and academic events relevant to Irish Studies remained virtual
Irish Studies Around the World –2020
The vivacity and resilience of Irish culture have been both challenged and proven by the year 2020, smack in the middle of which I was asked to take over the role of annual international Irish Studies chronicler. The resilience of hard-pressed academics thrown into unprecedented circumstances was also admirable, and I am extremely grateful to
‘Black butter melting and opening underfoot’: The ‘peat harvest’ in Irish literature and culture
In this paper, we discuss ‘turf-cutting’, or the ‘harvest’ of peat, a centuries-long agricultural practice in Ireland. Although healthy peatlands are known to be carbon sinks, calls for the end of peat cutting are controversial in a country still largely defined by rural traditions. We consider the relationship between peat, peat cutting and identity: the ‘bog’ features significantly in literature and has played a central role in notions of a spe…
Alice’s Garden: Imagining Agency in the Natural World in Clare Boylan’s Black Baby
The Irish writer Clare Boylan is something of a forgotten figure, despite enjoying significant literary success in her lifetime. Because of her untimely death, little critical work has been done on her fiction. Her blackly comic sensibility responds sensitively to characters situated in culturally specific environments, with particular attention paid to the vexed and contradictory position of women in their relationship to the natural world, and …
“Informed Love”: Human and Non-Human Bodies in Tim Robinson’s Ethical Aesthetic
Tim Robinson is an Englishman who has lived for many years in Ireland; an artist, cartographer, and writer who, with his wife Mairéad, runs Folding Landscapes, a publishing house in Roundstone, Connemara, Galway, which produces, among other things, the incredibly detailed maps Robinson spent years making of the Aran Islands, the Burren, and Connemara. He
The most haunting bird”: Unbeing and Illegibility in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing
In Ireland the bird has always featured prominently in literature: for example, in the ninth-century, early-Christian lyric poem, “Duthracar, a Maic De bi” (“The Hermit’s Wish”). Tim Wenzell descri
Embodied Social Justice: Warm Tea, Flexed Muscles, and Enacting SPSSI's Mission
An Examination of Two Brief Stigma Reduction Strategies: Filmed Personal Contact and Hallucination Simulations
A Review of: Edna O'Brien. The Light of Evening , Houghton Mifflin, 2006
In “The Books We Read” chapter of her 1976 memoir/cultural history, Mother Ireland, O'Brien recalls a childhood trip made to a Limerick cinema to see For Whom the Bell Tolls, and her recollection o
Fearful Symmetry: An Emigrant's Return to Celtic Tiger Ireland
Edna O'brien, Irish Dandy
Sydney owenson's wild indian girl
In 1811, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) published a novel set in India, The Missionary: An Indian Tale, arguably the first Irish Orientalist text. If, as Madeline Dobie has recently argued, the discourse of Orientalism in France was used to avoid moral questions about colonialism and slavery, Owenson used the genre in order to confront the brutalities of British colonialism. Owenson's intertextuality drew on not only other works about the east, but…
The spectre of genre in 'the Canterville ghost
The relationship between prior sexual abuse and reactions to sexual harrassment: Literature review and empirical study
This article examines whether individuals who have had prior sexual abuse experiences, including sexual harassment (SH) and child sexual abuse, are hypersensitive to potential SH-related stimuli or overreact to social sexual experiences. Some psychologists and legal scholars suggest that previous sexual abuse or exposure to violence against women produces altered perceptions of current interactions and situations in those women. The review of the…
Maria Edgeworth's Fostering Art and the Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Maria Edgeworth, writer of lengthy treatises on education as well as novels often accused of an overbearing didacticism and marked by the influence of her father's rationalist, Enlightenment ideals, and Oscar Wilde, writer of urbane and sparkling society comedies as well as one scandalous, decadent novel, are rarely evoked together
The utility of the reasonable woman legal standard in hostile environment sexual harassment cases: A multimethod, multistudy examination
The utility of the reasonable woman legal standard in hostile environment sexual harassment cases: A multimethod, multistudy examination
The Vision of Soldiers: Britain, France, Germany and the United States Observe the Russo-Turkish War
The Empirical Basis for the Reasonable Woman Standard
In Ellison v. Brady, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said that the perspective of a reasonable woman, rather than just a reasonable person, should be used in deciding whether or not the plaintiff has experienced sexual harassment. One of the assumptions underlying the Ellison opinion, traceable to findings from research, is that men and women perceive and define sexual harassment differently. In this article, we review the research to see if t…
The Empirical Basis for the Reasonable Woman Standard
In Ellison v. Brady, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said that the perspective of a reasonable woman, rather than just a reasonable person, should be used in deciding whether or not the plaintiff has experienced sexual harassment. One of the assumptions underlying the Ellison opinion, traceable to findings from research, is that men and women perceive and define sexual harassment differently. In this article, we review the research to see if t…
An Examination of Two Brief Stigma Reduction Strategies: Filmed Personal Contact and Hallucination Simulations
The relationship between prior sexual abuse and reactions to sexual harrassment: Literature review and empirical study
This article examines whether individuals who have had prior sexual abuse experiences, including sexual harassment (SH) and child sexual abuse, are hypersensitive to potential SH-related stimuli or overreact to social sexual experiences. Some psychologists and legal scholars suggest that previous sexual abuse or exposure to violence against women produces altered perceptions of current interactions and situations in those women. The review of the…
The Vision of Soldiers: Britain, France, Germany and the United States Observe the Russo-Turkish War
Edna O'brien, Irish Dandy
The Empirical Basis for the Reasonable Woman Standard
In Ellison v. Brady, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said that the perspective of a reasonable woman, rather than just a reasonable person, should be used in deciding whether or not the plaintiff has experienced sexual harassment. One of the assumptions underlying the Ellison opinion, traceable to findings from research, is that men and women perceive and define sexual harassment differently. In this article, we review the research to see if t…
The Vision of Soldiers: Britain, France, Germany and the United States Observe the Russo-Turkish War
The utility of the reasonable woman legal standard in hostile environment sexual harassment cases: A multimethod, multistudy examination
The utility of the reasonable woman legal standard in hostile environment sexual harassment cases: A multimethod, multistudy examination
The relationship between prior sexual abuse and reactions to sexual harrassment: Literature review and empirical study
This article examines whether individuals who have had prior sexual abuse experiences, including sexual harassment (SH) and child sexual abuse, are hypersensitive to potential SH-related stimuli or overreact to social sexual experiences. Some psychologists and legal scholars suggest that previous sexual abuse or exposure to violence against women produces altered perceptions of current interactions and situations in those women. The review of the…
Maria Edgeworth's Fostering Art and the Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Maria Edgeworth, writer of lengthy treatises on education as well as novels often accused of an overbearing didacticism and marked by the influence of her father's rationalist, Enlightenment ideals, and Oscar Wilde, writer of urbane and sparkling society comedies as well as one scandalous, decadent novel, are rarely evoked together
The spectre of genre in 'the Canterville ghost
Edna O'brien, Irish Dandy
Sydney owenson's wild indian girl
In 1811, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) published a novel set in India, The Missionary: An Indian Tale, arguably the first Irish Orientalist text. If, as Madeline Dobie has recently argued, the discourse of Orientalism in France was used to avoid moral questions about colonialism and slavery, Owenson used the genre in order to confront the brutalities of British colonialism. Owenson's intertextuality drew on not only other works about the east, but…
Fearful Symmetry: An Emigrant's Return to Celtic Tiger Ireland
A Review of: Edna O'Brien. The Light of Evening , Houghton Mifflin, 2006
In “The Books We Read” chapter of her 1976 memoir/cultural history, Mother Ireland, O'Brien recalls a childhood trip made to a Limerick cinema to see For Whom the Bell Tolls, and her recollection o
An Examination of Two Brief Stigma Reduction Strategies: Filmed Personal Contact and Hallucination Simulations
The most haunting bird”: Unbeing and Illegibility in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing
In Ireland the bird has always featured prominently in literature: for example, in the ninth-century, early-Christian lyric poem, “Duthracar, a Maic De bi” (“The Hermit’s Wish”). Tim Wenzell descri
Embodied Social Justice: Warm Tea, Flexed Muscles, and Enacting SPSSI's Mission
“Informed Love”: Human and Non-Human Bodies in Tim Robinson’s Ethical Aesthetic
Tim Robinson is an Englishman who has lived for many years in Ireland; an artist, cartographer, and writer who, with his wife Mairéad, runs Folding Landscapes, a publishing house in Roundstone, Connemara, Galway, which produces, among other things, the incredibly detailed maps Robinson spent years making of the Aran Islands, the Burren, and Connemara. He
‘Black butter melting and opening underfoot’: The ‘peat harvest’ in Irish literature and culture
In this paper, we discuss ‘turf-cutting’, or the ‘harvest’ of peat, a centuries-long agricultural practice in Ireland. Although healthy peatlands are known to be carbon sinks, calls for the end of peat cutting are controversial in a country still largely defined by rural traditions. We consider the relationship between peat, peat cutting and identity: the ‘bog’ features significantly in literature and has played a central role in notions of a spe…
Alice’s Garden: Imagining Agency in the Natural World in Clare Boylan’s Black Baby
The Irish writer Clare Boylan is something of a forgotten figure, despite enjoying significant literary success in her lifetime. Because of her untimely death, little critical work has been done on her fiction. Her blackly comic sensibility responds sensitively to characters situated in culturally specific environments, with particular attention paid to the vexed and contradictory position of women in their relationship to the natural world, and …
Irish Studies Around the World –2020
The vivacity and resilience of Irish culture have been both challenged and proven by the year 2020, smack in the middle of which I was asked to take over the role of annual international Irish Studies chronicler. The resilience of hard-pressed academics thrown into unprecedented circumstances was also admirable, and I am extremely grateful to
Irish Studies Around the World – 2021
We had such high hopes for 2021. There was a time in the summer when those hopes seemed about to be fulfilled, but for much of the year we were back to where we were the year before. Because of the unrelenting pandemic, some 2021 cultural and academic events relevant to Irish Studies remained virtual
Irish Studies Publications Around the World -2022
IRISH STUDIES PUBLICATIONS AROUND THE WORLD -2022
Irish Studies Around the World - 2023
monument was raised in Troy, New York, to James Connolly 100 years after his execution by British forces for his part in the Easter Rising.Connolly lived for several years in Troy, working with both Irish and Italian immigrants, helping them to effectively organise as labourers.Another significant commemoration that was observed internationally in 2023 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.There were events held around the…
Irish Studies Around the World – 2024
The Year in Review: IRISH STUDIES AROUND THE WORLD – 2024
Tribute to Edna O’Brien (1930-2024)
Tribute to Edna O’Brien
Edna O’Brien’s Neglected Widows and Spinsters
From the witch-like widow on the edges of civilisation to the retired spinster who, after an active but disappointing sexual past, chooses to continue her single life, the celibate women of Edna O’Brien’s fiction have as much to contribute to the author’s career-long examination of the damage done by Irish patriarchy as any of the miserable housewives, resentful mothers, and abused girls who dominate critical analyses of her work. Unlike the many…
Irish and British Studies (13 works) · Art (11 works) · History (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Irish (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · Political science (5 works)