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The Unbroken Covenant

Samuel Beckton

During discussions for the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland as we know it was created. However, there were discussions of the Irish boundary line, including partitioning the full province of Ulster. This raises a fundamental 'what if' within Irish...

'Getting the Words Right'

Eamon Maher

This book is a collection of essays written in honour of Eamon Maher. The essays all speak to issues which Eamon has worked on, so there are pieces focusing largely on the connections between Ireland and France across a range of political, cultural, historical,...

Seamus Heaney

Peter Raina

«An admirable undertaking, as impressive for its scholarship as its sympathy. Heaney is presented here at the centre of a worldwide network of correspondents, and what emerges is a vivid sense of both the great writer and the living man.» (Seamus Perry, Fellow of...

Assessment and selection in the 21st Century

Adrian Furnham , Alwyn Moerdyk

This book is about the assessment of people in the workplace and examines what assessment is and the various forms it takes and how these principles and practices can be applied to improve job satisfaction, productivity and the fairness with which organisational...

A Deep Well of Want

Paul Butler

«Paul Butler’s monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer’s aesthetic approach. ‘The Deep Well of Want’ of the title is an expression that captures the pain and hurt at the core of...

Building the Radical Identity

Emmanuel Guittet , Julien Pomarède

The New Left was a broad, heterogeneous, transnational, anti-systemic movement of movements which pursued the radical transformation of power structures during the 1960s and the early 1970s. Its activists opposed all forms of oppression – class, racial, gender and so...

The Politics of Irish Primary Education

Sean Mcgraw , Jonathan Tiernan

This book provides a comprehensive study of educational policy reform as growing calls for further reducing the role of the Catholic Church in Irish primary schools gains traction in a rapidly evolving Irish society. Drawing upon lessons from the same-sex marriage and...

A Community of the Imagination

Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Enduring Presence: William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives

J. B. Bullen

Enduring Presence: William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives

J. B. Bullen

Enduring Presence: William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives

J. B. Bullen

Enduring Presence: William Hogarth’s British and European Afterlives

J. B. Bullen

The Irish to the Rescue

Richard Maher

In May 1719, the rescue and escape of Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska from her detention in Innsbruck was celebrated throughout Catholic Europe. It was a feat of painstaking planning, daring execution, and steel-nerved improvisation. Masterminded by Kildareman...

On Commemoration

Catherine Gilbert , Kate Mcloughlin , Niall Munro

How, in the twenty-first century, can we do commemoration better? In particular, how can commemoration contribute to post-war reconciliation and reconstruction? In this book, a global roster of distinguished writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military...

Cosmos and Camus

Shai Tubali

Over the last two decades, philosophers have been increasingly inclined to consider science fiction films as philosophical exercises that center on the nature of human consciousness and existence. Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, however, has almost never been...

Tradition and Craft in Piano-Playing

John Buckley , Ruth Fleischmann

Her book, written in the mid-20th century, is now published in full for the first time. It draws on her long experience as performer, broadcaster what she learnt from her teachers about Liszt’s interpretation of the piano music of his contemporaries, in particular of...

The Theatre of Martin McDonagh

Lilian Chambers , Eamonn Jordan

With such plays as The Beauty Queen (1996), The cripple of Irishman (1997), The Lonesome West (1997), A skull in Connemara (1997), The Lieutenant of Irishmore (2001), and The Pillowman (2003) Martin McDonagh has made a huge reputation for himself internationally,...

Australian Indigenous Studies

David Moltow , Terry Moore , Carol Pybus , Mitchell Rolls

This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous...