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25 produkter
Modern Ireland 1600-1972
1600-1972
Av R F Foster
Häftad, 1990
214 kr
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Masterfully blending narrative and interpretation, and R.F. Foster's Modern Ireland: 1600-1972 looks at how key events in Irish history contributed to the creation of the 'Irish Nation'.'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation'Colm Tóibín, London Review of …
Luck and the Irish
A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000
Av R F Foster
Häftad, 2008
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
160 kr
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R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run.From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic Tiger had finally woken, and the rules for …
Luck and the Irish
A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000
Av R F Foster
E-bok, 2008
96 kr
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From 1970, things were changing in Ireland – the Celtic Tiger had finally woken, and the rules for everything from gender roles and religion to international relations were being entirely rewritten. Luck and the Irish examines how the country has weathered these last thirty years of change, and …
Irish Story
Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland
Av R F Foster
E-bok, 2002
125 kr
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Each of Foster's books has generated vigorous discussion, but in THE IRISH STORY he breaks fresh ground even by his own standards. Driven by his sense of the seriousness of history and a fascination with those who distort it, THE IRISH STORY examines how key facets of Ireland's past have been …
Vivid Faces
The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
Av R F Foster
E-bok, 2014
108 kr
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OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016'The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the 1916 Rebellion... essential reading' Colm …
Words Alone
Yeats and his Inheritances
Av R. F. Foster
E-bok, 2011
225 kr
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W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster''s eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to …
Words Alone
Yeats and his Inheritances
Av R. F. Foster
E-bok, 2011
225 kr
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W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster''s eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to …
The Oxford History of Ireland
Av R. F. Foster
Häftad, 2001
203 kr
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Under the editorship of R. F. Foster, a team of distinguished Irish historians has produced a challenging assessment of Ireland's history, invaluable for the student and general reader alike. Their approach stresses the ancient, rooted nature of Irish culture, but also looks beyond received ideas …
W. B. Yeats: A Life II
The Arch-Poet 1915-1939
Av R. F. Foster
Häftad, 2005
562 kr
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The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a crossroads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his …
W. B. Yeats, A Life I
The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914
Av R. F. Foster
Häftad, 1998
562 kr
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In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of personal and contemporary material, he dramatically alters traditional …
The Irish Story
Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland
Av R. F. Foster
Häftad, 2007
260 kr
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Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has …
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970
Av R. F. Foster
Inbunden, 2008
743 kr
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Irish Story
Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland
Av R. F. Foster
E-bok, 2004
244 kr
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Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has …
W. B. Yeats: A Life Vol.2
II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939
Av R. F. Foster
Inbunden, 2003
1565 kr
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The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth year, at a cross-roads in his life. The subsequent quarter-century surveyed in The Arch-Poet takes in his rediscovery of advanced nationalism and his struggle for an independent Irish culture, his …
Words Alone
Yeats and his Inheritances
Av R. F. Foster
Inbunden, 2011
256 kr
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W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to …
Words Alone
Yeats and his Inheritances
Av R. F. Foster
Häftad, 2012
245 kr
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W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to …
Vivid Faces
The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
Av R F Foster
Häftad, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
171 kr
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OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016'The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the 1916 Rebellion... essential reading' Colm …
Charles Stewart Parnell
The Man and His Family
Av R F Foster
Häftad, 2010
275 kr
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Charles Stewart Parnell has traditionally been studied from the political angle but here Foster places him in the social context of 19th century Irish gentry, and studies him in relation to his remarkable family. Beginning with a survey of the social milieu into which Parnell was born, he traces …
Paddy and Mr Punch
Connections in Irish and English History
Av R. F. Foster
Häftad, 2011
259 kr
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A rich collection of essays which explore the paradoxes of the Irish political and social identity. As a follow up to Modern Ireland, R.F. Foster addresses the turbulent history of Ireland, providing his thoughts on the contemporary issues surrounding the country up to the early 1990s.
