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The SDLP, Politics and Peace

Graham Spencer

«Compelling, informative, essential»(Senator George Mitchell) «Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly...

History and Fiction

Gillian Polack

Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores...

A Hero for the Atomic Age

Axel Andersson

In English and many other languages the name «Kon-Tiki» is a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world.In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa...

Three Congregational Masses

Lorraine Byrne

«Mirror up to Nature»

Patrick Burke

Ours would appear to be an era of unprecedented variation in the mediation of meaning – television, computer, the older forms of radio and print. Since, however, such profusion of resources has not of itself guaranteed enhanced profundity or sophistication in our modes...

Jesus of Nazareth: A Person Like Us?

Roger Lenaers

Born of a virgin, crucified under Pontius Pilate, died and was buried, and rose again on the third day – this, the Church’s conception of Jesus, is based on mystical and mythological thinking. But Jesus is not a citizen of another world, he is not an alien who dwelt...

Living in God Without God

Dan Farrelly

Living in God Without God

Dan Farrelly

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Brendan Cooper

William Blake (1757–1827) is one of the most significant figures in the history of English poetry. He is also one of the most mysterious, most challenging, and most frequently misunderstood. His Songs of Innocence and of Experience, on the surface so simple, are laden...