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158 produkter
Sengoidelc
Old Irish for Beginners
Häftad, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
504 kr
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David Stifter's Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, this exhaustive handbook is also an invaluable reference work for students of Indo-European …
Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel
Av Derek Hand, Neil Murphy m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
830 kr
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Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces the cultural shift that began in the 1980s and continues through new ideological structures, new ways of telling stories, and a radically transformed sense of the very meaning of Irishness. This period of relentless disruption of Ireland's social, …
Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe
Philosophy, Politics, and Literature
Av Maurice Fitzpatrick, Christoph Reinfandt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1076 kr
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The binary between a united Ireland and the current form of partition has provoked writers and scholars and established an important debate about what unity would look like. Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe charts and critically discusses the challenges of articulating unity while …
Reading Roddy Doyle
Häftad, 2001
217 kr
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In this anaysis of Roddy Doyle's first five novels, Caramine White argues that while Doyle is undoubtedly one of the most popular contemporary novelists, he also needs to be seen as a serious snd gifted writer. She offers an overview of Doyle's work followed by a chapter devoted to the critical …
Selected Short Stories of Padraic Colum
Häftad, 1986
253 kr
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Padraic Colum (1881-1972) was in the forefront of the Irish Literary Revival along with William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore, AE (George Russell), and John Millington Synge. At the age of twenty-three he was a founding father of the Abbey Players, and he was recognized as one of the …
Modern Irish-American Fiction
A Reader
Av Daniel J. Casey, Robert E. Rhodes
Häftad, 1989
253 kr
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Reflected in these writings from twenty-one Irish Americans are the themes common to all immigrant literature, but from the authors’ own ethnic point of view. The struggle for success forms the underlying structure in the stories by O’Hara, Curran, and McCarthy; and the changing values the New …
Stories by Contemporary Irish Women
Av Daniel J. Casey, Linda M. Casey
Häftad, 1990
137 kr
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With this collection of some of English-language short stories of the past half century, the reader is invited to see Ireland afresh from the perspective of its women writers. Included are stories by well-known writers such as Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien and Julia O'Faolain. The collection also …
Peig
The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island
Av Peig Sayers
Häftad, 1974
234 kr
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Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature—the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of survival on barren Great Blasket Island, and who came to be recognized as one of the last of Ireland's traditional storytellers.Here is a story as …
Pilgrimage in Ireland
The Monuments and the People
Häftad, 1995
206 kr
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The landscape of Ireland is rich with ancient carved stone crosses, tomb-shrines, Romanesque churches, round towers, sundials, beehive huts, Ogham stones and other monuments, many of them dating from before the 12th century. The purpose and function of these artifacts have often been the subject of …
Only Child
Häftad, 1997
214 kr
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The story of Frank O'Connor is that of a shy child from a Cork slum who becomes aware that there is something beyond the confines of his life and the lives around him, something grander. And with resolve and labor, he makes his way toward it. From his childhood to the time of his release from …
Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
Mirror Up to Nation
Häftad, 2000
251 kr
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This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.
Crossing Highbridge
A Memoir of Irish America
Inbunden, 2001
309 kr
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An evocotive tale of coming to womanhood in the disorienting 1960s-a girl in the world of nuns and the Holy Ghost-but on a deeper level, this is a story of a woman who has suffered unimaglnable loss and attempts to make sense of that loss by re-imagining her past and her own Irish-American …
Prodigal Father
The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922)
Häftad, 2001
353 kr
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This work is a portrait of the life of the elder Yeats and his family, showing that J.B. Yeats was as worthy of his sons as they were of their father.
James K. McGuire
Boy Mayor and Irish Nationalist
Inbunden, 2014
348 kr
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This is the story of a self-educated, charismatic, gifted leader who overcame personal tragedy in childhood and was elected the youngest mayor of a major city in America at age twenty-six. It is the story of a reformer who possessed a genius for politics. James K. McGuire (1868–1923) was elected …
Compassionate Stranger
Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine
Inbunden, 2015
490 kr
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The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a schoolteacher,Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 ""to personally …
Finders
Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction
Häftad, 2023
380 kr
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Some of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all. Hailing from a region with a cultural history of mistrust in the criminal justice system, Irish crime writers resist many of the stereotypical devices of the genre. These writers have …
Teaching John McGahern's the Dark
Av Anna Teekell, Ellen Scheible
Häftad, 2025
445 kr
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Teaching John McGahern's The Dark provide an indispensable companion to the classic Irish novel. With an introduction aimed at first-time readers and four critical essays, this edition guides readers through the novel’s famously controversial history. While The Dark was initially banned in Ireland …
Oceanic Connections
The Sea in Irish and Caribbean Poetry
Av Ellen Howley
Inbunden, 2025
914 kr
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Oceanic Connections is a first-of-its-kind comparative study of Anglophone Irish and Caribbean poets who write widely about the sea, revealing the similarities across the poetic traditions of both regions. In turning to the sea, Ellen Howley applies a Blue Humanities lens to the work of major poets …
Fitness for Freedom
Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing
Inbunden, 2025
914 kr
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Fitness for Freedom explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disability, race, gender, sexuality, class, and religion that justified imperial rule in Ireland and the forms of oppression that continued after independence. Marion Quirici identifies models of citizenship and creative …
Banshees, Hags, and Changelings
Feminist Folklore Transformations in Irish Writing
Inbunden, 2026
849 kr
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Irish folklore is replete with images of the monstrous feminine. The wandering witch, the wailing banshee, the mysterious changeling and others recur throughout folktales and have become well-known through contemporary depictions in books and on screens. In the wake of recent feminist thinking, …
Irish Anthropocene
Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty
Av Malcolm Sen
Inbunden, 2026
1076 kr
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In Irish Anthropocene, Malcolm Sen traces the ways in which contemporary Irish literature is deeply engaged with climate change issues. Drawing upon concepts of sovereignty, precarity, and disaster, Sen examines Irish literary works and their concern with realms of the political, the economic, and …
Queer Possessions
Creative Criticism and Modern Irish Literature
Inbunden, 2026
1076 kr
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Too often, fleeting moments rooted in queer experience have appeared in popular fiction, only to be little remarked upon, often noted only as a sign of continuing neoliberal social advances. In Queer Possessions: Creative Criticism and Modern Irish Literature, Patrick Mullen makes the case for a …
Writing the Pale in the Irish Revival and the Harlem Renaissance
Inbunden, 2026
1044 kr
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In his groundbreaking work, Cody D. Jarman explores the phrase "beyond the Pale" for describing both the Irish Revival and the Harlem Renaissance. In medieval Ireland, "the Pale" referred to the area immediately surrounding Dublin where the Normans maintained political control. Popular histories of …
Banshees
A Literary History of Irish American Women Writers
Häftad, 2027
351 kr
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Although much has been written about American feminism and its influence on culture and society, very little has been recorded about the key role played by Irish American women writers in exposing women’s issues, protecting their rights, and anticipating, if not effecting, change. Like the mythical …
Of Irish Descent
Origin Stories, Genealogy, and the Politics of Belonging
Häftad, 2027
266 kr
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What does it mean to be of Irish descent? What does Irish descent stand for in Ireland? In Northern Ireland? In the United States? How are the categories of "native" and "settler" and accounts of ethnic origin being refigured through popular genealogy and population genetics? Of Irish Descent …
Streams of Damaged Consciousness
The Postcrash Irish Novel
Inbunden, 2027
1451 kr
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Streams of Damaged Consciousness examines the striking resurgence of stream-of-consciousness writing in Ireland during the decade following the 2008–09 financial crash. In the wake of national catastrophe, a generation of emergent Irish writers turned back to this modernist form of narrative, …
Tramp Press
Remaking Irish Writing
Av Mary M. Burke, Tara Harney-Mahajan
Inbunden, 2027
1582 kr
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How is literary writing funded, nurtured, honed, promoted, sold, revived, and remade in the twenty-first century? Using Tramp Press as an exemplar, an international roster of scholars and authors uncovers how "uncommercial" writing can be made a commercial success. A feminist press founded by Lisa …
Shadowy Heroes
Irish Literature of the 1890s
Inbunden, 1980
531 kr
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The Irish writers of the 1890s—Somerville and Ross, George Moore, Edward Martyn, George Russell, and William Butler Yeats—repeatedly sought to define for their literature and nation a messianic hero and thus to help shape the political and social consciousness of the Irish people.Wayne Hall …
Fionn Mac Cumhail
Celtic Myth in English Literature
Häftad, 1985
217 kr
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The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue …
