Contemporary Ireland

Description This new book by the eminent critic provides an informative and timely survey of contemporary approaches to Joyce and modern Irish writ...

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second R...

DescriptionArt is continuously subjected to insidious forms of censorship. This may be by the Church to guard against moral degeneration, by the St...

This book offers a pioneering critical account of twenty-first-century Irish literature and culture, underscoring the crucial role that contemporar...

This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troub...

By modeling such a heterogeneous account of the novel form, Estranging the Novel paves the way for a bracing and diverse understanding of the makeu...

This contemporary, global and engaging textbook covers all the core HRM topics. Providing a succinct overview, it gives you the tools to engage you...

The last decade has seen the construction of numerous innovative and well-received performance venues, as well as the sensitive refurbishment of th...

This essential guide offers innovative critical readings of key contemporary novels from Ireland and Northern Ireland.Publisher: Bloomsbury Publish...

This book explores the potential renewal of capital accumulation and the institutions that underlie it, offering a new understanding of the way in ...

DescriptionBased on the words and experiences of the people involved, this book tells the story of the community arts movement in the UK, and, thro...

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 -- the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' -- contemporary visual artists ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this extended and further enhanced 3rd edition, with many more photographs, all Roger Casement's Black Diaries are again published to...

In A Nation Within, Ezra Rosser explores the connection between land-use patterns and development in the Navajo Nation. Roughly the size of Ireland...

In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian violence known as the Troubl...

Reducere. This introductory book for students and general readers sheds fresh light on the study of liturgy and worship, reflecting important new directions ...

This illuminating book brings together interviews with contemporary women artists whose work was exhibited in Ireland in the 1990s - a significant ...

Canada to Ireland explores the poetry and prose of twelve Irish writers and nationalists in Canada between 1788 and 1900. The book demonstrates tha...

Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirty years. Whether as a war-zone in which Catholic nationalists and Protestant Unionists...

DescriptionTaking a major textile artwork, the Knitting Map, as a central case study, this book interrogates the social, philosophical and critical...

DescriptionThis book discusses the development of 'dissident' Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the...

DescriptionThis volume brings together a range of writers from different academic disciplines and different locations to provide an engaging and ac...

Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool in contemporary peace processes. As such, understanding ...

Reducere. DescriptionAn anthology of eight important new plays, each of which is concerned with questions of identity and unfinished business in Ireland. Inc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jill BennettThis book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of count...

Reducere. PLA/ALLS Best New Books for New Adult ReadersPeople of all ages love to watch the escapades of tricksters. In modern times, we watch Bugs Bunny, Ro...

This text draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate...

Reducere. "The Brehon Laws" explores early Irish--or "Brehon"--law, which shaped everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland. It looks at the history, influences...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat do we really know about the background to the conflict that began in Ireland in the late 1960s? Up to now little has been written a...

Reducere. Sister Fidelma-an Eognacht princess and sister to the king of Cashel, a religieuse of the Celtic Church and an advocate of the Brehornn court-is on...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kevin O'HaraKevin O'Hara's journey of self-discovery begins as a mad lark: who in their right mind would try to circle the ...

Connecting Lives: Inter-Belief Dialogue in Contemporary Ireland, Paperback

On 2 April 1792, John Kimber, captain of the Bristol slave ship Recovery, was denounced in the House of Commons by William Wilberforce for flogging...

Reducere. A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laure...

DescriptionAperture's "Los Angeles" issue explores how one of America's most photographed cities is also an essential hub for some of today's most ...

Reducere. The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the notorious Grace O'Malley, a scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish...

Return to Sender pairs pioneering colour photographer John Hinde's instantly recognisable iconic postcards from Ireland in the 1950s, '60s and '70s...

An exhilarating, anarchic look at contemporary Ireland, from one of the country's most exciting new voices

Reducere. Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning ...

Reducere. In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her sto...

Reducere. A beautiful hardcover anthology of stories by a brilliant and surprising mix of classic and contemporary writers who have been inspired by trees Tr...

Reducere. DescriptionDescription: ""Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to co...

A life touched by tragedy and deprivation--childhood in her native Ireland ending with the potato famine, immigration to Canada and then to the Uni...

Reducere. DescriptionCarmel is stuck. The future could be bright, but something is stopping her. Despite the promise of a bright future away from Ireland, Ca...

Reducere. Updated and Revised 2nd Edition Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch is a delightful mixture of academia and accessibility; a book that explores Wi...

Reducere. Celtic Christianity-the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages- has gained a great deal of atte...

Call of the Lark by Maura Mulligan is a chronicle of life in rural Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s, a testament to the challenges of emigration to t...

Reducere. Chesapeake Shores has always represented home and family for the O'Briens, but in Lilac Lane, the community extends its healing powers to a woman r...

Reducere. In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of ref...

Reducere. The Real World of Fairies is a privileged glimpse into a joyous, animated universe. Dora's enchanting vision of her encounters with the fairy realm...

Reducere. DescriptionA Man with a Past... Liam O'Donnell fled his native Ireland years ago after one of his missions ended in tragedy and he was accused of k...

Reducere. DescriptionCharm, beauty, and the promise of a new adventure had Heidi Rustler eagerly flying across the ocean to visit her best friend, Rhea Conne...

Reducere. From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.Drawing on his vast experience a...

Reducere. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, the basis for the major motion picture, comes the touching, unforgettable story of ...

Reducere. The wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of insurance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cannibalism was one of the most...

Reducere. Celebrated poet Julie Kane returns to her Boston Irish Catholic roots in this collection about mothers and daughters shaped by the forces of Irish ...

DescriptionReeling from the Night of Nights, an unexpected blockbuster art show, Floss, a transgender New York gallery owner, invites subversive in...

Reducere. First published in hardcover to vigorous praise, Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the...

Reducere. Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards in...

Reducere. Biologist by training, journalist and author by vocation, Tom s Mac S om in takes a provocative look at 21st century Irish society with "The Broken...

STAGE WHISPERS is an omnibus collection of novellas featuring Timmy Quinn, who made his first appearance in the Bram Stoker Award-winning story THE...

DescriptionJust when you think that you know everything there is to know about mummies, new ones are discovered Packed with facts but light in tone...

DescriptionTaking poetry as an act of witness and restorative memory, this essay traces the development of poems relating to Ireland's Great Hunger...

Reducere. DescriptionThis slim volume, privately printed in 1884, was based on hand-written records in a note-book kept in Ayr Barracks. It consists of a yea...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I came here, where freedom is...

To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding Burke ...

The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and...

DescriptionIreland's Green Larder tells the story of food and drink in Ireland, for the first time. From the ancient system of the C ide Fields, es...

Another fabulously funny rom com from the author of }From Notting Hill With Love... Actually{. Darcy McCall is left the legacy of a small island of...

A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is t...