The Secret of Roan Inish

This week we're traveling back to 1940s Ireland with The Secret of Roan Inish! Join us to learn more about selkie lore, the evacuation of Irish islands, currachs, the history of education in Ireland, and more!

Sources:

Film Background:

Popcorn, Dailies, and Guiness: John Sayles on the Making The Secret of Roan Inish. Cinemontage: https://cinemontage.org/popcorn-dailies-and-guinness-the-secret-of-the-making-of-roan-inish/
Roger Ebert Review, Secret of Roan Inish: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-secret-of-roan-inish-1995
IMDB page, Secret of Roan Inish: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111112/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Currachs:
Claidhbh O Gibne, "Newgrange Currach," Archaeology Ireland 24, 3 (2010)
Tony Curtis, "Currach," The Poetry Island Review 74 (2002)

Evacuation of Islands:
Patricia Lysaght, "Paradise Lost? Leaving the Great Blasket," Bealoideas 74 (2006)
Patrick Freyne, "The Last of the Blasket Evacuees: We're Not Great Mixers on the Mainland." Irish Times, available at https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-last-of-the-blasket-evacuees-we-weren-t-great-mixers-on-the-mainland-1.1831611
Timothy J White and Andrew Riley, "Irish Neutrality in World War II: A Review Essay," Irish Studies in International Affairs 19 (2008)
"Evacuation Marks the End of an Era as Last Families Leave the Blaskets," 1953, Reprinted in the Independent: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/evacuation-marks-end-of-an-era-as-last-families-leave-the-blaskets-27370752.html

Irish Education:

Kenneth Milne, "hedge schools" and "national schools" in The Oxford Companion to Irish History, edited by S.J. Connolly (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 237-8, 384.
Senia Paseta, Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003).
O'Donovan Rossa, Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary (Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2004).
T.J. O Ceallaigh and Aine Ni Dhonnabhain, "Reawakening the Irish Language through the Irish Education System: Chellenges and Priorities," IEJEE 8, no.2 (2015): 179-98. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1085869.pdf
Paddy Dolan, "Balances between civilising processes and offensives: Adult-child relations in Irish primary schools from the mid-nineteenth century," Human Figurations 4, no.1 (2015). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0004.105/%E2%80%94balances-between-civilising-processes-and-offensives-adult?rgn=main;view=fulltext
Moira J. Maguire and Séamus Ó. Cinnéide, "'A Good Beating Never Hurt Anyone': The Punishment and Abuse of Children in Twentieth Century Ireland," Journal of Social History 38, no.3 (2005): 635-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3790648

Selkies:

Peter Le Couteur, "Slipping Off the Sealskin: Gender, Species, and Fictive Kinship in Selkie Folktales," Gender Forum 55 (2015): 55-82. http://genderforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201509CompleteIssueAnimals.pdf#page=58
T.J. Westropp, "A Study of Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland (Continued)," Folklore 32, no.2 (1921): 101-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1255238