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For a century and a half, the reputation of the Irish poet, James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), has been based mainly upon a small number of poems, and a biographical tradition that cast him as a tortured genius. Yet his achievement as a whole was much more complex and varied, ranging across over 900 poems and a significant amount of creative and critical prose. In this comprehensive single-volume selection of Mangan's poetry and prose, Mangan ...

A continuation of the author's previous path-breaking book on the prose literature of the Gaelic Revival. For the first time, the development of a modern literature in Irish following the War of Independence and Civil War is outlined and analysed. This period saw an outpouring of book-length works in Irish from the state publishing agency An Gum, and the frequency and production of new plays, both original and translated, have never been appro...

In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in Ireland from 1718 until just after the Great Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population growth that continued until the arrival of potato blight in 1845 had a severe effect on the health of the country's population, and the Famme itself caused around one million deaths front starvation and disease. Th...

A collection of essays by leading scholars and Parnell experts that reconsiders Charles Stewart Parnell and the Parnell family legacy in the context of the late nineteenth century and in relation to the development of Irish politics and society in that period.

Born in Waterford, Ireland in 1888, Jacob spent her life as a crowd member rather than a leader. This book offers a means of exploring how the central issues that shaped Irish politics and society in the first half of the twentieth century were experienced and digested by those outside the leadership cadre.

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Beginning with the author's celebrated study of the changing standards of behaviour of the secular upper classes in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, this title demonstrates how psychological changes in habitus and emotion management were linked to wider transformations in power relations.

Drawing on the work of specialists in art history, religion, science, sport and leisure, war, and heritage studies, this volume explores aspects of the construction of national identity in Ireland and elsewhere. The book thus transcends some of the limiting, specialism boundaries which bedevil academia and restrict a proper understanding of identity and culture, and their relations with particular places, wherever they may be. The resulting vo...

An ethnography of an Irish community, considering the extent to which economic modernization has transformed the rural community. In doing so, it discusses whether the distinctive character of rural identity has been eroded by powerful and distant political and cultural forces.

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Addresses the Catholic professional class educated in secondary schools run by religious orders. This book shows that the Gaelic Revival would not inevitably lead to separatism, it could also be deployed in the service of an aggressively reinvented less deferential 'Catholic Whig' politics.

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This practical self-help guide for students facing the often daunting experience of going to university aims to help them meet the challenges of new subjects, reading lists, large classes and methods of teaching and assessment unlike those at school.

Professor O Cathain is widely known for his contribution to Irish and international folkloristics and the many ways in which he has promoted Irish language and culture. In this festschrift, the articles cover a broad array of subjects, that are in themselves a reflection of Seamas O Cathain's wide-ranging interests.

Examines the theory and practice of development co-operation over the years. This book discusses key trends in development policy. The distinguished contributors from various disciplines - friends and former colleagues of Helen O'Neill - analyse the links between development policy and other aspects of countries' external and domestic policies.