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Fifteen essays explore the life of an unparalleled figure in the musical and cultural life of twentieth-century Ireland. Brian Boydell (1917-2000) was one of twentieth-century Ireland's leading composers and something of a Renaissance man to boot. He became a household name not only for his music and outspoken support of the expansion of Irish cultural identity, but for the many hats he wore as a broadcaster, professor, performer, and long-ter...

An accessible and humane handbook for cancer patients and their loved ones. Every three minutes, someone is diagnosed with cancer. Despite this staggering statistic, advances in screening and treatment mean that there are now hundreds of thousands of people living with, and well past, a cancer diagnosis. What's often overlooked, however, is that even successful medical treatments frequently fail to fully account for the disease's emotional and...

Walls of Confinement looks at a crucially unexamined aspect of Irish mental illness facilities: their architecture. Ireland was hardly alone in perpetuating institutional responses to mental illness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but this small country took things farther than most: by the 1950s, it had the world's highest number of psychiatric ward beds per capita. Many have sought to explain Ireland's unusual density of mental il...

Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as "the most learned Englishman I know". The remarkable collection of his surviving letters covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. The letters in volume one cover th...

This is a fascinating study of Yeats's aesthetics, in which the writing is profoundly engaged with the inner world of Yeats's poetry. Holdridge's familiarity with the internal stresses of Yeats's vision is grounded in serious and painstaking work in philosophy and literary theory from Kant to Kristeva. Driving the analysis is the author's sense of the significance and the human importance of Yeats's poetry and thought, which he links to contem...

Published to honour the retirement of Professor PatrickGallagher from the Chair of Spanish at University College Dublin, this collection includes eleven essays in English, four in Spanish, one poem in Spanish and ten of the chapters on 20th century literature.

Plants are fully described in this text, including their habitat preference. There are keys to vegetative, floral, seed and seedling phases, and a section on the history, evolution, identification, morphology, anatomy and other taxonomic data of weed and economic plants.

Written over 30 years, these essays range over the field of Anglo-Irish literature from Yeats, Joyce and Synge through Patrick Kavanagh and Mary Lavin to Brendan Kennelly and Eavan Boland.

The complete edition of 18 volumes of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English. Elias wrote in both English and German, and in all his work runs to 14 books and around 90 other essays, along with poems and numerous interviews. The 18 volumes of the Collected Works contain many writings not previously published in English, and a small number never published before. All of the texts have been thoroughly checked and revised, by editors who...

The eighteenth-century French city posed particular challenges to writer and citizen alike, presenting possibilities and pitfalls specific to the pre-Revolutionary decades. The eight essays in this collection--four are in French--consider everyday life on the streets of the metropolis, providing an outlook that is novel and markedly distinct. Most striking is the dramatic change in focus between the early and late decades of this troubled cent...

Ranging in date from Elias's teenage years before the First World War to the 1930s, the writings in this volume previously unpublished in English include the essay 'On Seeing in Nature, ' his doctoral dissertation 'Idea and Individual, ' a response to Karl Mannheim's famous paper on cultural competition, and a number of short stories contributed to a newspaper.

Involvement and Detachment is much more than a discussion of 'objectivity' in the social sciences. It is Elias's major exposition of his sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of overall human social development. From The Collected Works of Norbert Elias.

In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women.

The story of the life of Henry Joy McCracken is fused with the history and environs of eighteenth-century Belfast.

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

Keine Beschreibung.

This collection of journal and diary entries, now published for the first time as a bilingual edition (Irish and English), is a compelling first-hand account of Douglas Hyde's successful seven-month fundraising odyssey through the United States in 1905-6.

Dorothy Macardle is best known as the author of The Irish Republic (1937), and novels The Uninvited (1942) and The Unforeseen (1946). This biography places Macardle in the context of her republicanism after 1916 and later within the politics and religious ethos of the post-colonial state.

In post-independence Ireland, the country house was not regarded as an integral part of the national heritage. Despite this, the relationship between the Irish state and the country house has not been examined in detail to date. White Elephants illustrates the complex nature of attitudes to the country house.

This full-length biographical study of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, trailblazing feminist and part of a pioneering generation, played a significant role in the early Irish Republic.