"One Yank and They're Off": Interaction between U.S. Troops and Northern Irish Women, 1942-1945

McCormick, Leanne

doi:10.1353/sex.2007.0011

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“…Burdened by an internalised sense of shame, Theresa remains suspicious of their charitability and openmindedness throughout her life. 37 The story's juxtaposition with the issue's editorial speaking out in favour of the Mother and Child Scheme reinforces its ideological message: Beckett's story ultimately seeks to imagine a society in which unmarried mothers and their children are no longer faced with discrimination and stigmatisation. 38 In that spirit, the story is more conspicuous in its treatment of its taboo theme than the previous stories.…”

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‘Chastity? Poppycock!’: Sexuality, Censorship and the Short Story in The Bell

Boumans¹

2022

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The middle decades of twentieth-century Irish cultural history have often been described in terms of strict social codes, religious obscurantism, sexual repression and excessive censorship that banned any representation of sexuality that threatened the stringent sexual mores in Ireland’s theocratic society. Vehement opposition to both censorship and sexual puritanism came from The Bell, Ireland’s most influential mid-century literary magazine, edited by Seán O’Faoláin and Peadar O’Donnell. Throughout its lifespan, The Bell campaigned for writing that confronted controversial subjects, and was able to regularly publish short stories that engaged with taboo topics such as same-sex desire, illegitimacy, abortion and extra-marital sex. This essay explores the various ways in which writers responded to The Bell’s calls for frank treatments of sexual matters in their short fiction, and suggests that the poetics of the modern short story – which allowed writers to camouflage their subversive content – combined with ineffective legislation for the banning of periodicals meant that short stories in Irish literary magazines were effectively the censors’ blind spot, and thus contributed to the freeing up of cultural attitudes around sexuality that gradually took place in the second half of the twentieth century. Keywords: The Bell; Irish Short Stories; Sexuality; Irish Periodicals; Censorship; Seán O’Faoláin; Peadar O’Donnell.

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Section: Magazine Stories Modernist Aesthetics and Moral Censorshipmentioning

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‘Chastity? Poppycock!’: Sexuality, Censorship and the Short Story in The Bell

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2022

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“…Indeed, Leanne McCormick's study, the only one specifically on Northern Irish women and the Americans during the war, makes no mention of Catholic girls being more likely to date African American servicemen. 102 Objections to Americans, regardless of race, courting local women transcended sectarian divisions and proved a major source of friction. In one sense this reflected the social conservatism of both the Protestant and Catholic churches and their continuing influence, but the reality at street level was much more visceral.…”

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Laying down the law to the Irish and the coons: Stormont's response to American racial segregation in Northern Ireland during the Second World War

Topping¹

2013

Hist Res

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This article deals with the response of the Northern Ireland government to the presence of African American troops in the country during the Second World War, using extensive archival research at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, The National Archives at Kew and the National Records and Archives Administration in Maryland. It examines the pressures placed upon Stormont by both Westminster and, more particularly, the American military authorities in relation to U.S. racial mores. It demonstrates that despite edicts from London and attempts by the Americans to impose racial segregation, the Northern Ireland government fashioned a response which did not endorse 'Jim Crow' racism but, instead, dealt with the problem pragmatically and thoughtfully.

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‘Exercising a close vigilance over their daughters’: Cork women, American sailors, and Catholic vigilantes, 1917–18

Borgonovo

2012

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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During the First World War, Irish society experienced power struggles between civil authority, military governance, the constitutional nationalist establishment, and the emerging Republican movement. In the unstable wartime environment, political and social variables sparked intense controversies that mirrored competition for control over the Irish public. Inspired by the Easter Rising and emboldened by growing public disillusionment with the war, Republicans harnessed these eruptions to help fuel their attempt to overthrow Dublin Castle.

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"One Yank and They're Off": Interaction between U.S. Troops and Northern Irish Women, 1942-1945

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

‘Chastity? Poppycock!’: Sexuality, Censorship and the Short Story in The Bell

‘Chastity? Poppycock!’: Sexuality, Censorship and the Short Story in The Bell

Laying down the law to the Irish and the coons: Stormont's response to American racial segregation in Northern Ireland during the Second World War

‘Exercising a close vigilance over their daughters’: Cork women, American sailors, and Catholic vigilantes, 1917–18

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