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The Genetics of Renal Disease
Av Frances Flinter, Eamon Maher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
5377 kr
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Renal genetic disorders may become apparent at any time in life and recognition of specific renal disorders is important in allowing accurate genetic counselling. Active counselling requires knowledge about the natural history of the disorder, an understanding of the genetic component and mode of …
From Prosperity to Austerity
A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath
Av Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial developments have been reflected in writing, film and culture in order to offer a more rounded analysis …
From prosperity to austerity
A socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath
Av Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien
Häftad, 2014
351 kr
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This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial developments have been reflected in writing, film and culture in order to offer a more rounded analysis …
Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism
From Galway to Cloyne and Beyond
Av Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien
Inbunden, 2017
1263 kr
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This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop …
Essays on John McGahern
Assessing a literacy legacy
E-bok, 2020
434 kr
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This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning in Ireland. The reason why so many …
Community, Identity, Conflict
The Jewish Experience in Ireland, 1881-1914
Häftad, 2024
585 kr
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«Natalie Wynn has written a definitive account of Irish Jewish history in the period of mass migration at the turn of the twentieth century. She unravels the myths—such as accidental arrival from eastern Europe, or untroubled social mobility as a model minority—which have hitherto characterized …
Reimagining Ireland Reader
Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future
Av Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2017
421 kr
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To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, carefully chosen to give a flavour of the diversity and multidisciplinary nature of the series. Following a chronological …
L'autrefois et l'ailleurs
Poétique de la rupture dans l'oeuvre littéraire de Colum McCann
Häftad, 2018
1079 kr
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C'est la qualité transculturelle, atemporelle et transgénérique des textes de Colum McCann qui intéresse cet ouvrage. L'auteur n'ancre complètement son œuvre dans aucune tradition, aucun courant ou mode défini, et propose des textes récalcitrants à toute tentative de classification.
Patrimoine/Cultural Heritage in France and Ireland
Av Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien
Häftad, 2019
683 kr
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This collection of essays explores the concept of patrimoine, a French word used to denote cultural heritage, traditional customs and practices – the Gaelic equivalent is dúchas – and the extent to which it impacts on France and Ireland. Borrowing from disciplines as varied as sociology, cultural …
Recalling the Celtic Tiger
Av Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
338 kr
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This book looks at various effects, symptoms and consequences of the period in Irish culture known as the Celtic Tiger. It will trace the critical pathway from boom to bust – and up to the current beginnings of a similar, smaller boom – through events, personalities and products. The short entries …
Sounding the Margins
Literary examples from France and Ireland
Av Sarah Nolan Balen, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Sounding the Margins is the second of two publications to emerge from the highly successful AFIS conference hosted by the Université de Lille in 2019. Concentrating on the literary manifestations of marginality in Ireland and France, the essays treat of various texts that demonstrate the extent to …
Reimagining Irish Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Av Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien
Häftad, 2021
372 kr
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This landmark collection marks the publication of the 100th book in the Reimagining Ireland series. It attempts to provide a «forward look» (as opposed to what Frank O’Connor once referred to as the « backward look») at what Irish Studies might look like in the third millennium. With a Foreword by …
New Beginnings
Perspectives from France and Ireland
Av Máirtin Mac Con Iomaire, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2023
654 kr
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This collection emerged from a conference held in TU Dublin at a time when the theme of «New Beginnings» seemed particularly apposite. In the few years prior to the gathering, COVID-19 had brought the world to almost a complete standstill. The need to recalibrate, to find new and more effective …
From Landscapes to Cityscapes
Towards a Poetics of Dwelling in Modern Irish Verse
Av Marjan Shokouhi, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2023
673 kr
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«Marjan Shokouhi’s new book attests to the ways in which Irish ecocritical scholarship has developed into more than a simple ‘subfield’ of Irish Studies. Shokouhi takes readers on a fascinating journey through the work of three iconic Irish poets in the modern period – Yeats, Kavanagh and MacNeice …
SDLP, Politics and Peace
The Mark Durkan Interviews
Av Graham Spencer, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2024
664 kr
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«Compelling, informative, essential»(Senator George Mitchell)«Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly witty.»(Michael Lillis, …
Beyond Sustenance
An Exploration of Food and Drink Culture in Ireland
Häftad, 2022
546 kr
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«An important contribution to understanding our culinary journey in Ireland from a time when food was regarded merely as sustenance. As a nation, we have grown in confidence. Up to relatively recently in Ireland, we had a serious inferiority complex and not just about our food and food culture. …
Irish Against the War
Postcolonial Identity & Political Activism in Contemporary Ireland
Av Marie-Violaine Louvet, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2024
603 kr
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The purpose of the book is to explore and explicate the origins, evolution and mobilisation of anti-war activism in Ireland from the 1950s. The author applies postcolonial critical perspectives alongside social movement theory to define the multifaceted Irish approach to different international …
Hiberno-English, Ulster Scots and Belfast Banter
Ciaran Carson’s Translations of Dante and Rimbaud
Häftad, 2024
673 kr
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«This reader-friendly study of some of Ciaran Carson’s major translations provides fascinating illuminations of his techniques as a translator and author. Anne Rainey’s close readings, buoyed by selected theory, show how Carson’s aesthetics and imagination were fuelled by linguistic and cultural …
Great Pretenders
Genre, Form, and Style in the Film Musicals of John Carney
Av Carlos Menéndez Otero, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2023
584 kr
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This book focuses on the most successful feature films of John Carney, namely Once (2006), Begin Again (2013) and Sing Street (2016). Drawing on narrative, formalist and genre theories of film, the book presents an in-depth examination of how the formal and stylistic choices made by Carney allow …
Politic Words
Writing Women | Writing History
Häftad, 2023
673 kr
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«Politic Words is an invigorating mix of the personal, the political and the poetic. Gerry Dawe flings his net wide. From Eavan Boland’s ‘secret history’ of women to war memoirist Christabel Bielenberg’s luminous prose; from the vaulting ambition of Éilís Dillon’s historical fiction to hunger …
‘proper’ woman? One woman’s story of success and failure in academia
Häftad, 2023
361 kr
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«A fascinating, well-paced, beautifully written memoir.»(Professor Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Author and Director, MA in Creative Writing, University of Limerick, Ireland)«A wonderfully honest, often witty, personal account from someone who experienced discrimination -and challenged it - at every …
Graham Greene, Ireland and the Honorary Consul
A View from the South of France
Av Pierre Joannon, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2024
394 kr
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These reminiscences of a friendship between Graham Greene and the author over two decades offer several original and significant additions to the knowledge of Greene's beliefs, experiences and involvements throughout his long and turbulent life. It is a brilliant illustration of the multiple …
Sweeney’s Revival
Translating and transcending the liminal
Häftad, 2024
673 kr
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This study aims to uncover the traces of the celebrated Sweeney legend in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Austin Clarke, Derek Mahon, Tom Mac Intyre, Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Dermot Bolger, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. The tale, known …
Prime the Pump
Catholicism, Arts Policy and the Post-war Irish Amateur Drama Movement 1949 to 1969
Av Ian G. Kennedy, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2025
585 kr
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For over seventy years, An Chomhairle Ealaíon/the Arts Council of Ireland has played a critical role in Irish cultural development. The interface between Arts Council policy, Catholicism, and amateur drama, which this book examines, provides an access point for understanding how people responded to …
Blue Chippers from the Emerald Isle
A history of Irish footballers and scholarships in the USA in the twentieth century
Häftad, 2025
551 kr
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«In this excellent, readable and important study, Curran reveals a rich vein of migrants who went to ply their trade as soccer players in the USA. This textured study illustrates the human side of the story enlivened by rich interviews of both female and male players. It is a must for students of …
Seeking Success and Confronting Failure
The British Army’s campaigns in Ireland and Northern Ireland, 1919 to 2007
Av Geoffrey Sloan, Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2025
456 kr
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The conventional view of the British Army’s two Ireland campaigns - first in Southern Ireland [1919-1921] and then, two generations later, in Northern Ireland [1969-2007] – are that the first was an outright defeat and the second, a military stalemate. This book challenges these judgements. …
Unbecoming Catholic
Being Religious in Contemporary Ireland
Häftad, 2025
279 kr
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Humans are naturally religious. They are enchanted by the world. They engage in collective rituals, and they try to live moral lives. Over the last two thousand years, this instinct has been colonised by churches and other religious institutions. In a personal and intimate approach, Inglis explores …
Prophetic Voice
Jean Sulivan's Ongoing Relevance in France and Ireland
Av Eamon Maher
Häftad, 2026
673 kr
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A deft, masterful study of the life and work of Jean Sulivan. Maher makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of Sulivan’s writings in challenging times and illuminates crucial and often neglected intersections between faith and fiction. A book to cherish. — Michael Cronin (Trinity …
Conocimiento: Writing Irish Borderlands
Häftad, 2025
602 kr
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« In an era when borders that previously defined Irish literature – whether spatial, social or of the body - demand renewed interrogation, Eamonn Wall’s book breathes energy and rigour into readings of Irish writers ranging from ‘homegrown’ to ‘immigrant and diasporic’, and reveals the emergence of …
Republican Solipsist
The Life and Times of Joseph McGarrity, 1874–1940
Häftad, 2025
673 kr
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Republican Solipsist discusses the life of Joseph McGarrity and his role within Irish and Irish American Republicanism including the complicated transatlantic relationship between two opposing visions of an independent Ireland. McGarrity’s militant Republicanism came into regular conflict with the …
