‘His book includes at least one Irish joke, which Freud (above) considered very interesting. It’s an old joke, from the 19th century. And it must be said that, while few witticisms remain funny after Freud has analysed them, this one was struggling even before it reached the couch.’ >full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES
Archive for Ireland
The Full Irish, Freudian Style
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Ireland, jokes, national stereotypes, Sigmund Freud, Stereotyping on 18 February 2014 by delclem“It is Time for a Guinneß…”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1930s, advertising, beer, Germany, Guinness, Ireland, John Guilroy, National Socialism on 31 January 2014 by delclem
“Newly discovered paintings by John Guilroy, the artist behind much of Guinness’s pre-war advertising, reveal that the Dublin brewery had considered promoting the drink in Nazi Germany.” (c) SUNDAY TIMES, 18.01.2014
Did Nazi spies like Ireland?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags espionage, Germany, Ireland, National Socialism, national stereotyping, Second World War on 4 December 2013 by delclem
“Research for a thriller set in 1940s Ireland revealed an influx of German agents who despaired about their gossipy, amateurish Irish sympathisers.” >full text & photo (c) IRISH TIMES, 2013
James Joyce’s “Dirty Letters” to His Wife Nora
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria-Hungary, Dublin, Ireland, Italy, James Joyce, letters, Nora Joyce, pornography, sexuality, Trieste on 29 September 2013 by delclem
“The letters are by turns pornographic, erotic, romantic, poetic, and often downright funny, and they were written for Nora’s eyes alone in a correspondence initiated by her in November of 1909, while Joyce was in Dublin and she was in Trieste raising their two children in very straitened circumstances. Nora hoped to keep Joyce away from prostitutes by feeding his fantasies in writing, and Joyce needed to woo Nora again—she had threatened to leave him for his lack of financial support.”>full text
(c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
Denigrating or understanding Irish neutrality?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alan Shatter, Diarmaid Ferriter, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Ireland, neutrality, World War II on 11 May 2013 by delclem
Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false? Continue reading
“Taoiseach, Nazi, soldier, spy”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Germany, Ireland, Literature, National Socialism, Otto Skorzeny, Second World War, SS, Stuart Neville on 12 January 2013 by delclem
Ratlines, the latest novel by North Irish author Stuart Neville, is not only about the former Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Charles J Haughey, but also on the prominent Austrian SS-veteran Otto Skorzeny who lived in Ireland from the late 1950s (and was buried at the Döbling cemetery in Vienna after his death in 1975) > text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
Salome is Hungarian – not Wilde
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Alice Guszdewiez, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Leipzig, opera, Oscar Wilde, Salomé on 12 December 2012 by delclem
This photo was published in 1987; it is supposed to show Oscar Wilde in costume as Salome. But, in 1992, Oscar’s grandson would confirm the photo (1907) is actually Hungarian opera singer Alice Guszalewicz
in the title role in Salomé
(R. Strauss)
in Leipzig.-
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” (Oscar Wilde)
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Thanks to Carmilla & the BRAM STOKER ESTATE, 2012,
for sharing this on facebook
Tea-drinking as dangerous female practice
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural history, cultural practices, Feminism, Food, Ireland, Tea on 11 December 2012 by delclem
“Given tea’s rap today as both a popular pick-me-up and a health elixir, it’s hard to imagine that sipping tea was once thought of as a reckless, suspicious act, linked to revolutionary feminism. Huh? Well, the feminist complaints came from 19th century, upper class Irish critics who argued that peasant women shouldn’t be wasting their time — and limited resources — on tea. If women had time to sit down and enjoy a tea break, this must mean they were ignoring their domestic duties and instead, perhaps, opening the door to political engagement or even rebellion.”
>full text (c) npr, 2012 >press release by EurekAlert, 2012
This is historical research about the most CEE country of the west, Ireland. How was it in our region where there is the division line between tea and coffee drinkers?
Wittgenstein in Ireland
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, UK on 21 October 2012 by delclem
The late Austrian British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein spent the
last years of his life partly in Ireland. >chronicle >article
Schrödinger’s Cat in Dublin
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, cats, Dublin, Erwin Schrödinger, Ireland, physics, review on 25 June 2012 by delclem
“The Austrian Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel laureate in Physics & famous
for his theory about the feline in the box, spent his happiest years in Dublin.
delirium clemens 