Description

Beyond the Anchoring Grounds is an absorbing collection of essays which showcases original and innovative research by emergent scholars in the area of Irish and Scottish Studies. The essays collected in this the second volume present fresh, enlightening and theoretically informed perspectives on a diverse range of topics: History, historiography and the Constructs of memory; language, linguistics and identity politics; film studies, architectural praxis and visual culture. From a selection of papers presented at two AHRC cross-currents conferences held at Trinity College Dublin (2004) and the University of Aberdeen (2005). This book presents a snapshot of the current, critically engaged research being done into the politics, history and culture of the archipelago.