The Study of Irish Identity and Irish Language Literature during the Early Years of Irish Independence

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22520280
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Kobe Shoin Women's University
Principal Investigator	HARUKI Takako 神戸松蔭女子学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (80228668)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	アイルランド語 / 二重言語文学 / 独立期 / アイデンティティ / アイルランド語文学 / 二重言語政策 / アイデンティティー
Research Abstract	The three-year research is resulted in the essay written under the title ‘Liam O’Flaherty’s Short Stories in Irish and Irish Identity’ and is published in Journal of the Faculty of Letter, Kobe Shoin Women’s University. The essay is an effort to shed light on, first, the establishment of Irish national identity during the early years of Irish Independence and on the personal struggle of an Irish language native speaker novelist, Liam O’Flaherty, in search of identity, and then on the relationship between the nation and an individual.