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Author: Jay Rafferty

Essays, Opinions, & Thought Pieces

What America’s Reaction to Irish Peacekeepers in Lebanon Reveals About Deep-Rooted Irish Stereotypes

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Jay Rafferty October 24, 2024
Cinema

Irish Cinema Explored: Stephen Rea, Daniel O’Hara, and Kneecap on Language, Identity, and Culture in Fluent Dysphasia and Kneecap

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Jay Rafferty October 12, 2024
Cinema

Kneecap Film Review: A Raw Exploration of Northern Irish Identity, Sectarianism, and the Irish Language with Michael Fassbender

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Jay Rafferty August 12, 2024
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Essays, Opinions, & Thought Pieces

Mary and The Virgin: How depictions of the Virgin Mary in Paula Meehan’s The Statue of the Virgin at Granad Speaks and Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary challenge traditional Irish Catholic values

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Jay Rafferty June 19, 2022
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Cinema

Screens and the Spectacle: What The Hunger Games can teach us about our relationship with media

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Jay Rafferty June 11, 2022
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Poetry

Roddy Doyle and Me

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Jay Rafferty November 7, 2021
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Prose

Play the Man – a story

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Jay Rafferty September 12, 2021
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Poetry

A Poem and Biographical Note on Mental Health

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Jay Rafferty May 2, 2021
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Essays, Opinions, & Thought Pieces

Two Minutes to Midnight: Tiernan, Teletubbies and Trump

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Jay Rafferty March 7, 2021
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