Revival Cheerlessness: The Cultural Nationalism of Douglas Hyde and D.P. Moran
(2023)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, H. (in press). Revival Cheerlessness: The Cultural Nationalism of Douglas Hyde and D.P. Moran. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Dr Helen O'Connell's Outputs (11)
The Nature of Improvement (2019)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, H. (2019). The Nature of Improvement. In M. (. Kelly (Ed.), Nature and the Environment in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Liverpool University Press
Bleak Food: William Wilde, Famine and Gastronomy (2018)
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (2018). Bleak Food: William Wilde, Famine and Gastronomy. Canadian journal of Irish studies, 41, 156-178. https://doi.org/10.2307/26435226Gastronomy might appear to be an unlikely context for any consideration of William Wilde’s well-known 1854 essay, “the Food of the Irish.” After all, that essay is primarily preoccupied by the recent Famine and the presumed absence of any culinary sk... Read More about Bleak Food: William Wilde, Famine and Gastronomy.
Animal welfare in Post-Union Ireland (2015)
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (2015). Animal welfare in Post-Union Ireland. New hibernia review, 19(1), 34-52. https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2015.0004The place of animals in English culture of the Romantic and Victorian periods has been widely explored, but the topic remains generally unexamined in the literary, social, and cultural history of Romantic-period and nineteenth-century Ireland.1 This... Read More about Animal welfare in Post-Union Ireland.
“At Our Potatoes”: Recipes for Normality in Post-Union Ireland (2013)
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (2013). “At Our Potatoes”: Recipes for Normality in Post-Union Ireland. Éire-Ireland, 48(3&4), 49-78. https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2013.0027
Food Values: Joyce and Dietary Revival in Ireland (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, H. (2013). Food Values: Joyce and Dietary Revival in Ireland. In J. Nash (Ed.), James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century (128-148). Cambridge University Press
"A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2012)
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (2012). "A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Literature and History, 21(2), 32-47. https://doi.org/10.7227/lh.21.2.3Tea became a mainstay of many people's diets in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Ireland. However, this development was controversial. In a period of heightened counter-revolutionary anxiety, tea held a range of negative associat... Read More about "A Raking Pot of Tea": Consumption and Excess in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
Reconciliation and Emancipation: The Banims and Carleton (2010)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, H. (2010). Reconciliation and Emancipation: The Banims and Carleton. In J. Wright (Ed.), Blackwell Companion to Irish Writing (411-426). Blackwell
Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement (2006)
Book
O'Connell, H. (2006). Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement. Oxford University Press
The Fiction of Improvement (2005)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, H. (2005). The Fiction of Improvement. In J. B. (ed) (Ed.), The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century. Dublin: Four Courts Press
Improved English and the Silence of Irish
Journal Article
O'Connell, H. (online). Improved English and the Silence of Irish. Canadian journal of Irish studies, 13-20