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Life and Work of Richard King
Religion, Nationalism and Modernism
Av Ruth Sheehy
Häftad, 2019
673 kr
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This book on the Irish liturgical artist Richard King (1907-74), examines his career in the context of religion, nationalism and modernism. The book focuses on the interdisciplinary relationship between religion and art during pre- and post-Vatican II Ireland. The importance of Irishness and …
Re-Place
Irish Theatre Environments
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one …
Navigating Ireland's Theatre Archive
Theory, Practice, Performance
Häftad, 2019
652 kr
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The historiography of Irish theatre has largely been dependent on in-depth studies of the play-text as the definitive primary source. This volume explores the processes of engaging with the documented and undocumented record of Irish theatre and broadens the concept of evidential study of …
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 …
Memorialising the Magdalene Laundries
From Story to History
Häftad, 2021
602 kr
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Since the publication of James Smith’s groundbreaking book on the Magdalene laundries in 2007, many developments have made the issue even more topical. Even though the lack of access to archives and records of religious orders remains a major obstacle to writing a comprehensive history of the …
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 …
Writing Slums
Dublin, Dirt and Literature
Av Nils Beese
Häftad, 2018
886 kr
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Dublin’s slums were once considered the worst in Europe. The city’s tenements were omnipresent and their inhabitants were plagued by poverty. Illuminating the intricate relationship between the «dirty» cityscape and Dublin literature from 1880 to 1920, this seminal book offers new socio-historical, …
Picture Postcard
A new window into Edwardian Ireland
Av Ann Wilson
Häftad, 2021
678 kr
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The Picture Postcard, a new window into Edwardian Ireland uses the material culture of the picture postcard as a lens through which to examine life on the island of Ireland during the Edwardian period (1902-10). Picture postcards became extremely popular worldwide at the start of the twentieth …
Great Irish Famine and Social Class
Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations
Av Marguerite Corporaal, Peter Gray
Häftad, 2019
755 kr
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The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe on Ireland’s economy (including its relations with Britain) and investigating topics such as the suffering of the rural classes, landlord and tenant …
Ireland and the North
Av Fionna Barber, Heidi Hansson m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
752 kr
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Ireland and the North is an edited collection of chapters engaging with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. As a spatial and geographical point of reference for the formation of political and cultural identities in Ireland, the idea of «the North» encourages the …
Ireland and the British Empire
Essays on Art and Visuality
Häftad, 2023
603 kr
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«This dazzling collection of essays draws out the complexity of Ireland’s connections with British imperialism. The volume takes an admirably wide-ranging and generous approach to Irish visual culture, showing how features such as Irish fashion, architecture, and museum display have been affected …
Voices from the Margins
Gender and the Everyday in Women’s Pre- and Post- Agreement Troubles Short Fiction
Häftad, 2021
693 kr
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Voices from the Margins explores the particular emphasis that women writers of Troubles short fiction have placed on gender and the everyday, two areas which have often been relegated to the margins of the «official story» about the Northern Irish conflict and peace process. Women’s Troubles short …
Giving Shape to the Moment
The Art of Mary O'Donnell: Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer
Av Maria Elena Jaime de Pablos
Häftad, 2018
788 kr
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This is the first book to provide a critical assessment of the work of the Irish author Mary O’Donnell. The essays collected here engage with O’Donnell’s writing across multiple genres and explore the themes and preoccupations that have characterized her oeuvre. Alongside her creative work, …
Irish-Argentine Identity in an Age of Political Challenge and Change, 1875−1983
Häftad, 2019
673 kr
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The Irish immigrants who arrived in Argentina between 1840 and 1890 were welcomed. Argentina was different from the English-speaking destinations familiar to other Irish emigrees: the historical antagonism between Catholicism and Protestantism was absent, and Irish immigrants were spared the …
New Cartographies, Nomadic Methodologies
Contemporary Arts, Culture and Politics in Ireland
Av Anne Goarzin, Maria Parsons
Häftad, 2020
661 kr
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This volume embraces the critical turn of new materialism in order to address how creative and social practices allow for the definition of alternative subject positions and to examine how power relations operate at an embodied, relatable level: it proposes to think global but act local. The …
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 …
Advertising the Black Stuff in Ireland 1959-1999
Increments of change
Häftad, 2020
355 kr
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1959 to 1999 was a pivotal time in the Republic of Ireland’s short history. This book’s journey commences in 1959 when the country had just taken its first steps on the road to internationalization. It concludes 40 years later in 1999, by which time Ireland had metamorphosed into one of the most …
Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture
Häftad, 2020
738 kr
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The last two centuries of Irish history have seen great traumas that continue to affect Irish society. Through constructing cultural trauma, Irish society can recognize human pain and its source/s and become receptive to the idea of taking significant and responsible measures to remedy it. The …
Irish Literature in the British Context and Beyond
21st Century Perspectives from Kyoto
Av Hiroko Ikeda, Kazuo Yokouchi
Häftad, 2020
738 kr
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The British context has been a controversial area for those involved in Irish literature and Irish studies. Behind the present volume lies a search for a view from which the frame of the British context as well as the dichotomy between British and Irish literature can be dismantled and disrupted in …
Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement
Building a shared future from a troubled past?
Av Lesley Lelourec, Grainne O'Keeffe-Vigneron
Häftad, 2021
601 kr
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The current «decade of centenaries» and commemorations on both sides of the Irish Sea is providing an opportunity both to reflect upon significant events and challenges that the island of Ireland has been confronted with in the past, and also to contemplate and focus on the future.This …
Northern Ireland
Challenges of Peace and Reconciliation Since the Good Friday Agreement
Av Olivier Coquelin, Brigitte Bastiat m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
693 kr
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More than twenty years after the peace agreement signed in Belfast on 10 April 1998, an assessment is overdue, particularly given the current political context in Northern Ireland. A serious political crisis led to the suspension of the regional institutions from January 2017 to January 2020, and …
Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time
A New Framework for Rethinking Love Between Women
Häftad, 2021
693 kr
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Following the recent advancements in Irish lesbian politics, North and South, lesbian writing is attracting more attention from scholarly audiences, making this body of work particularly timely. Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time is an attestation of a historical presence of lesbians in Irish …
One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922-2022
Av John Walsh
Häftad, 2022
382 kr
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Following the significant advance of English in Ireland during the 18th century, the restoration of Irish as the vernacular language formed a key part of a broad cultural Revival movement from the late 19th century. Many of those who fought figuratively or literally for independence learned Irish …
Reimagining the Jews of Ireland
Historiography, Identity and Representation
Av Zuleika Rodgers, Natalie Wynn
Häftad, 2023
603 kr
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«This collection marks the coming of age of Irish Jewish Studies. Beautifully curated by Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn, it brings together the best of recent scholarship, covering history, politics, literature and everyday life. Taken together these essays show the complexity of both the Irish …
Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine
Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853
Häftad, 2020
723 kr
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Ireland’s Great Famine generated Western Europe’s most devastating social crisis of the nineteenth century, a crisis that created enormous and transformational upheaval. In Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine: Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853, author Catherine Nealy Judd proposes that a …
Dangerous Pursuit
The anti-sectarian work of Counteract
Av Roz Goldie
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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This is the untold story of Counteract, the trade union sponsored anti-sectarian unit tackling violent sectarianism in the workplace in the Northern Ireland conflict. As the death toll mounted through the 1980s key union women and men started what was planned as a campaign to support workers and …
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 …
Salley Gardens
Women, Sex, and Motherhood in Ireland
Av Jo Murphy-Lawless, Laury Oaks
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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By the early 2000s, women in Ireland were arguably freer than any past generation to shape their sexual lives amidst the social freedoms of a globalised society. The Salley Gardens presents reflections from seventy-three heterosexual young women on growing up, forming sexual relationships and some …
Telling Truths
Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing
Häftad, 2022
673 kr
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Evelyn Conlon is one of Ireland’s most important writers. She has published four collections of short stories, My Head is Opening (1987), Taking Scarlet as a Real Colour (1993), Telling: New and Selected Short Stories (2000) and Moving about the Place (2021) and four novels, Stars in the Daytime …
Irish Catholic Diaspora
Five centuries of global presence
Häftad, 2022
585 kr
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«The Irish missionary momentum in the 19th century attests to the vitality of a Christian community whose richness and great diversity this book illustrates, with particular emphasis placed on the considerable effort made in the field of education, a privileged way for human promotion and the …
