id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zg64th8665h Sean Patrick Mannion Celtic Arc Light: The City, Technology, and Irish Modernism 2011 .txt text/plain 361 12 18 By demonstrating how impoverished, underdeveloped Dublin could cultivate modernism, I argue for need to attend to the social meanings of urban technologies within specific cultures as a prerequisite for pursuing a truly global modernist studies. I place Ireland's experience of technology within the context of its colonial history, a history that undermines the electric light's traditional association with urban modernity. cache/zg64th8665h.txt txt/zg64th8665h.txt