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Elias effectively founded the modern sociology of sport in collaboration with Eric Dunning in the 1960s and 1970s. They argue that in highly constrained, 'civilized' societies, sports are to be understood not in terms of 'relaxation' but rather of the need for pleasurable excitement and its pleasurable resolution. Volume 7 in University College Dublin's Collected Works of Norbert Elias series.

Aims to turn an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call 'time' is neither an innate property of the human mind nor an immutable quality of the 'external' world.

The first fifty years of the state saw Ireland change dramatically, and the Irish Labour Party changed with it. Using a wealth of new material. Niamh Puirseil traces the party's fortunes through its first fifty years in the Dail, from its perceived role as the political wing of the St Vincent de Paul to its promise that the 1970s would be socialist.

The Lemass Era focuses on the impact of Sean Lemass on Irish politics and society between 1945 and 1973. Although Lemass had been active in Irish politics from 1916 and became Minister for Industry and Commerce in 1932 in the first de Valera government, the essays here suggest that his influence was greatest after 1945. Lemass developed his thinking to meet the challenges of the post-war world, and although he was sixty in 1959, he sought to m...

Annie O'Donnell left Ireland for America in 1898. one of 15, 175 Irish women who left that year, most of them going into domestic service. On the boat to America she became friends with Jim Phelan. a 22-year-old farmer who had run away from home to join his uncle in Indianapolis. Annie went to work as a children's nurse for the W. L. Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Her letters to Jim Phelan, published for the first time, are a unique contribution...

Provides analysis of the transformations that have taken place in Ireland during the heyday of the Celtic Tiger. This book maps changes in the South and also contains description and analysis of transformations in the North. It is useful for students in advanced courses as well as the general reader interested in Irish society and culture.

Covers the period from the 1820s when Hincks was a young clergyman and scholar, applying himself assiduously to his family and parish duties, and pursuing his study of the ancient Egyptian language, to the years 1846-9 during which he announced his epoch-making discoveries in the decipherment of Akkadian and its cuneiform writing system.

Why, against a backdrop of the burgeoning 1960s, did the Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, seek to replicate the path taken by his Conservative predecessor Harold Macmillan, and make an application to join the EEC? This book provides insights into the formulation, execution and fate of Britain's European policy during this period.

The third volume in a collection of letters from Edward Hincks, the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform. It contains his letters from 1850 to 1856, covering his discovery of the Biblical king Jehu son of Omri' on the famous Black Obelisk of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, to his correspondence with Henry Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography, who was also interested in cuneiform. Amongst Hincks's correspondents were Bi...

Contains the letters written to each other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, between 1953 and 1984. Using these frank letters, this book offers readers with an opportunity to visit the creative process.

The second volume in a collection of letters from Edward Hincks. the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform. It contains his letters from 1850 to 1856, covering his discovery of the Biblical king Jehu 'son of Omri' on the famous Black Obelisk of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, to his correspondence with Henry Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography, who was also interested in cuneiform. Amongst Hincks's correspondents were ...

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This is a systematic account of why Ireland remained democratic after independence. Bill Kissane analyzes the Irish case from a comparative international perspective and by discussing it in terms of the classic works of democratic theory.

This is a systematic account of why Ireland remained democratic after independence. Bill Kissane analyzes the Irish case from a comparative international perspective and by discussing it in terms of the classic works of democratic theory.

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Two memoirs written in the late 1950s by Robert Brennan, a republican activist in the early years of the 20th century, journalist and close associate of Eamon de Valera.

In nine essays, European academics examine how politics and democracy are affecting religion today. Some of the topics they examine include: change in European religions, the Catholic Church and democracy in modern Europe, religion and media domination in Ireland, Protestants in an Irish Catholic state, the fall and rise of the Greek Catholic religion in Poland, Catholics in Poland, the Church of England in the Thatcher period, and the state o...

In 1984 the bodies of two infants were discovered in County Kerry. The police were convinced the mother and murderer was Joanne Hayes, a young, unmarried woman who had become pregnant from an affair she had with a married man. The Hayes family and the girl were set upon by the police, two Tribunals of Inquiry, the Catholic Church, and public opinion. Sensational country-wide media coverage galvanized an angrier public response. Did Joanne have...

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 ...