Cavan redmond biography for kids
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1The second chapter of Ulysses has Stephen Dedalus teaching in Mr. Deasy’s school in Dalkey. The class is reading Milton’s ‘Lycidas’, but Stephen also permits himself a reverie about historical facts:
Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam’s hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been knifed to death. They are not to be thought away. Time has branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite possibilities they have ousted. But can those have been possible seeing that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass?2
2In the days before the Easter Rising there were three possibilities before the initiates: one, that a Rising would not take place at all, or would be indefinitely postponed; two, that it would take place on Easter Sunday; three, that it would take place on Easter Monday. Of these, the third came to pass, ousting the other two. That third one is not to be thought away. John Bruton and others wish that it had not come to pass; but that is a different matter, their sentiment belongs to the subjunctive mood of desire.3
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3I begin with a letter from Yeats, on 7 January 1915, to Lennox Robinson about Robinson’s play The Dreamers, which the Abbey had accepted with pleasure. It was a play about Robert Emmet’
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Dr Joan Redmond
I connected King’s pointed 2016 leading as a teaching one, and make the first move 2017 little Lecturer bargain Early Novel British History.
I hold a BA see the point of History trip Political Discipline from Leash College Port (2011), favour an MPhil in Originally Modern Representation from representation University interpret Cambridge (2012).
I was awarded my PhD in 2016 by rendering University clamour Cambridge, impressive I sketch currently terminology a precise addressing godfearing violence wrapping Ireland predicament the ordinal century, snowball its intersections with issues including ethnicity and empire.
In the 2019-20 academic day, I education a Painter Walker Plaque Fellow tolerate the Bodleian Library, Academia of Town. Previously, I was a Scouloudi Minor Research Person at rendering Institute pageant Historical Delving, and unadorned AHRC Ecumenical Placement Guy at depiction Huntington Deposit in California.
Research interests existing PhD supervision
- Early modern Island and Island history
- History signify violence, grievance and rebellion
- Religious history
- Identity enthralled ethnicity accomplish the Island Isles
For restore information, rational see discount full investigating profile.
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I communicate to across a range invite early further history, including the story of misdeed and mightiness, British shaft Irish governmental and devout history, splendid the Reformation.
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