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A collaboration between the Ireland Chair of Poetry and University College Dublin Press. Preas Cholâaiste Ollscoile Bhaile âAtha Cliath.

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This is an introduction to the pronunciation and phonetics of French for English-speaking students. It is the result of many year's experience of teaching pronunciation and takes the reader in easy stages through the different sounds. The style is lively and accessible and each chapter contains a set of specially designed exercises for the sounds studied.

This is a collection of original essays on topics from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. The subjects include the history of medieval Dublin, the medieval Irish Church, Ireland in French Arthurian romances, English law in Ireland, urban institutions in medieval Europe, medieval Irish and Continental scholarship, a previously unknown royal portrait, an Irish archbishop's controversy with the friars, humanism in fourteenth-century Florence...

Originally published in 1914. The Lady Next Door is an account of Ireland by a pro Home-Rule British Liberal journalist. It provides valuable personal impressions of prominent Nationalists and Southern Unionists, a snapshot of views and expectations of what Home Rule would be like. He gives insight into the ideological tensions of the Liberal-Nationalist alliance, particularly Nonconformist unease about the prospects for Ulster under Home Rule...

This eloquent memoir provides an unrivalled insight into the life of a child reared in a working-class Irish Catholic community in late nineteenth-century Britain. No other author succeeds in depicting so vividly the texture of a life delimited by manual work. home and community ties as experienced by Irish migrants of the period.

Mitchel's account of the Repeal campaign, the Famine and the 1848 Rising, which originally appeared in Mitchel's Tennessee-based newspaper. The Southern Citizen. Mitchel was a significant and controversial figure. Last Conquest is well known in Famine debates for its claim that the Famine was a deliberate act of genocide by the British government.

Change is the stock in trade of historians. If we have no concept of change, and no sense of the past as different from the present, then consequently we cannot have an historical sense in the deepest meaning of the term. However, historians rarely discuss change per se in very explicit terms. What constitutes change? How do you know when change has happened? How do you define or measure it? Are there different kinds of change? These are some ...

In The Established and the Outsiders. Elias and Scotson explain differences in power and rank between two very similar groups - both working class - in a local community studied in the early 1960s. They show how one group monopolized sources of power and used them to exclude and stigmatize members of the other, pinpointing the role of gossip in the process. In a later theoretical introduction. Elias advanced a general theory of power relations...

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Almost half of the 28 essays in this volume have not been published in English before, and many of the others are little-known. Some directly express Elias's dissatisfaction with the historical, present-centered trend of modern sociology. Others scintillatingly show how wide-ranging were Elias's own sociological interests. Topics include, among many others: the work of Theodor Adorno, sociology and psychiatry, psychosomatic illness, human emot...

An important text from a critical period in Irish nationalist politics. Published in 1892, shortly after Charles Stewart Parnell's death, it is a collection of extracts from his speeches, including all of the best-known ones. There is an unmistakeable, political even, propagandist dimension to the publication. It was written for a nationalist audience and particularly for followers of Parnell. Wyse-Power explains in her preface that the purpos...

There is a long history in Ireland of performing, studying, and responding to Shakespeare's plays. Transposed to an Irish context, Shakespeare has continued to be a source of creative engagement and discussion for Irish writers. This new collection of essays explores the dynamic responses to Shakespeare by Irish writers, in both English and in Irish, since the early twentieth century.

This book is the first in a three volume collection of some 60 essays published by Elias in the latter half of the 20th century. In this volume Elias develops his sociological theory of knowledge and the sciences - in the plural - to counter what he sees as the inadequacies of traditional philosophical theories. Included are savage attacks on the philosophy of Karl Popper and its damaging influence, a brilliant essay on scientific establishmen...

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, " a collection of twelve essays and two "letters of protest" from writers such as Beckett, Gilbert, Jolas, McAlmon, and Carlos Williams was orchestrated by Joyce ten years before the publication of Finnegan's Wake. This new collection of essays by fourteen outstanding Joycean scholars offers one essay in response to each of the original Exagmination contributions. F...

In "Mozart: the Sociology of a Genius, " Elias paints a portrait of this extraordinarily gifted artist born into a society that did not yet possess either the concept of "genius" or (at least in music) that of freelance artist. The apparent contradictions of his character - the refined elegance of his compositions and the coarseness of his lavatorial humor - reflect his uncomfortable and eventually tragic straddling of two social worlds. The v...

Does it still matter which foot you dig with in today's Republic of Ireland? "Outside the Glow" examines the relationship between Protestants and Catholics and the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish. From extensive interviews with representatives of both confessions, Heather K. Crawford demonstrates that there are still underlying tensions between the confessions based on 'memories' of events long buried in the past....

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