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The study of food and power has primarily focused on absolutist courts with powerful monarchs and a wealthy court life, yet contemporary research into the emergent power structures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shows that dining remains an important feature in political and state life. Using new archival material, in particular that of the Irish Department of External Affairs, this paper will examine the emergence of Irish diplomatic dining since the foundation of the Irish Free State and explore how the Irish government established state policy for receiving important visitors. The paper will focus on the principal cultural, political and, social trends which have emerged as part of a larger study on Irish diplomatic dining and present them within the context of three state banquets which took place in Dublin between 1922 and 2011.

Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- A Note on Conventions -- One: Wives and Parents -- The Garvins: Limerick and New York -- The Murphys: Monaghan and Illinois -- The Donohoes: Galway and Massachusetts -- The Coyles: Donegal and Pennsylvania -- The Kennedys: Offaly and Ohio -- The Ridgways: Dublin and Washington DC -- The Duricks: Tipperary and Vermont -- The Galvins and Horans: Roscommon, Kerry and Massachusetts -- Two: Community and Society -- The O'Donnells: Donegal and Pennsylvania -- The Keegans: Wicklow and Pennsylvania -- The Delaneys: Laois and Pennsylvania -- The Bowlers: Cork and New York -- The Madigans: Kerry and New York -- The Conways: Offaly and New York -- The Dalys: Kildare and New York -- The Nugents: Dublin and Illinois -- The Murrays: Dublin, Down and New York -- The Martins: Derry and New York -- Three: A Life in Letters -- The Kellys: Galway and Massachusetts -- The Finans: Sligo and New York -- The Welchs: Ireland and Maine -- The McIntyres: Ireland and Pennsylvania -- The Sharkeys: Ireland and New York -- The Tiernans: Roscommon and New York -- The Carrs: Derry, New York and Illinois -- The Devlins: Tyrone and Indiana -- The Mangans: Dublin and Illinois -- Four: A Death in Letters -- The Cochrans: Londonderry and Pennsylvania -- The Finnertys: Galway, Merseyside and Illinois -- The Hands: Louth and Pennsylvania -- The McNamaras: Ireland and New York -- The Cairns: Dublin and New Hampshire -- The Carrolls: Ireland and New York -- The Welshs: Ireland and Pennsylvania -- The Scanlans: Ireland and New York -- Epilogue - The Forgotten Irish -- Bibliography -- Notes

A growing number of Irish women have chosen to write in Irish for reasons varying from a desire to promote and preserve the Irish language to a belief that a marginalized language is an appropriate vehicle of expression for marginalized women. Their work explores aspects of womanhood relating to sexuality, relationships, motherhood and religion. Some feel hampered by the lack of female models. Until recent years there were few attempts on the part of women to explore the reality of women's lives through literature in Irish. The largely subordinate role played by women in literary matters as teachers, translators, and writers of children's literature reflected the position of women in Irish society since the achievement of independence in the 1920s. The work of earlier women poets has, for the most part, lain buried in manuscripts and is only recently being excavated by scholars. The problems of writing for a limited audience have been partially overcome in recent years by increased production of dual-language books. The increase in translation has sparked off an intense controversy among the Irish language community, some of whom are concerned that both the style and content of writing in Irish are adversely influenced by the knowledge that the literature will be read largely in translation. Nevertheless, translation also has positive implications. Interest in women's literature is helping to break down the traditional barriers between Irish literature in Irish and in English. The isolation of Irish literature in Irish is further broken down by the fact that women writers in Irish and their critics operate in a wider international context of women's literature.

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