Data · dataset · 2026
<i>Journey Out of Print: </i>the life and short stories of Norah Hoult; <i>Brittle Things</i>, a collection of short stories
Listed in ZivaHub and Deakin Research Online and DMU Figshare and UCL Research Data Repository — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.17034/32631552.v1
The creative component of my PhD is Brittle Things, a collection of short stories.
Description
The collection comprises thirteen stories set in the north west of Ireland, where I live. ‘Sparing the Heather’ and ‘In Silhouette’ unfold in the borderlands and explore ideas of betrayal and memory. In ‘Imbolc, ‘What the Birds Heard’, ‘Brittle Things’ and ‘Garland Sunday’ I deal with motherhood and sexuality.
While the stories are not strictly interconnected, I have tried to show how we live now, and hope the collection has a ‘cumulative thematic impact’, that it is somehow more than the sum of its parts. <br><br>The critical element of my research is on Norah Hoult, a virtually forgotten Irish writer. In a career that spanned almost fifty years and yielded twenty–eight books, Hoult wrote novels, short stories and journalism.
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This study provides a more comprehensive biography of Hoult than has been previously attempted, giving a critical overview of her life and work. I also analyse her three collections of short stories, Poor Women! (1928), Nine Years is a Long Time (1938) and Cocktail Bar (1950), with particular reference to the position of women in the first half of the twentieth century.
Both English and Irish contexts are relevant to Hoult’s writing, and my analysis considers her engagement with an England beset by two world wars, as well as with the austere, inward-looking Ireland that emerged after independence.
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.17034/32631552.v1 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from zivahub uct ac za
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
Topics
Provenance · 4 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/32631552 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/32631552 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/32631552 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| UCL Research Data Repository | oai:figshare.com:article/32631552 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · rdr ucl ac uk | connector:rdr_ucl_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |