The Leipreachán and Fairies, Dwarfs and the Household Familiar: A Comparative Study

Giolláin, Diarmuid Ó

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“…For such an iconic figure in the symbolic order and imaginative structure of Irish culture, there is relatively little serious scholarship on the Leprechaun. The best academic study is O'Giollain (1984). A more playful but nonetheless well-researched study is Curran (2000).…”

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Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization: The Recurrence of the Leprechaun in Irish Political Culture

Keohane¹

2005

Cultural Politics

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Tribunals, public inquiries and similar institutions, increasingly common in the political culture of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and in America, can be seen as exemplifying the auto-correcting, self-reflexive capacity of political institutions in information-rich and communicatively fluent societies. They represent the modernization of political culture guided by communicative rationality, paralleling the accelerated modernization of globalization. This view Cultural Politics Published by Duke University Press CULTURAL POLITICS 258 KIERAN KEOHANE

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Section: Metempsychosis As a Structuring Principle Of Ulysses Andmentioning

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Trickster's Metempsychosis in the Mythic Age of Globalization: The Recurrence of the Leprechaun in Irish Political Culture

Keohane¹

2005

Cultural Politics

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“…His appearance is described more or less consequently over the years. 5 In contemporary drawings the leprechaun resembles more an (old) human being and less an elfish creature. 6 In contrast DS is a rare disorder with an estimated incidence of at least one in four million live births.…”

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“…DS is reported twice as much in females as in males. 5,7 Patients having DS present with a broad variety of physical abnormalities and metabolic symptoms, summarized in Table 1. [7][8][9] Most children having classic DS die within the first 2-years of life as a result of intercurrent infections of the upper airways, hypoglycaemia, or cardiomyopathy.…”

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