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Newgrange
Geraldine Stout, Matthew Stout
Cork University Press, 2008
* Designed for the general reader and visitor to Newgrange * A guided tour of the best example of a passage tomb in Western Europe Newgrange is the most visited archaeological site in Ireland. Every year around 250,000 people come to the see this Neolithic passage tomb. Designed for the general reader with an interest in Irish prehistory, this book explains the results of decades of excavation and analysis in one volume. It is written in a ...
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Dirty Wars, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL, and Spanish Democracy 3 reviews
Paddy Woodworth
Cork University Press, 2001
IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: STATE TERRORISM
The Irish journalist Paddy Woodworth has written one of the most analytical, serious and well-documented books on State terrorism and its dreadful socio-political implications for a young and fragile Democracy as that of Spain. Implications which are still continuing to haunt the Spanish State since then. "Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy" is an original and fascinating ...
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The Quiet Man (Ireland into Film)
Luke Gibbons
Cork University Press, 2002
John Ford?s "The Quiet Man" (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home; for others, it is a showcase for the worst stereotypes of stage-Irishry. Much of Irish cinema since the development of an indigenous film industry in the 1980s has set its face firmly against these ...
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Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945
Cork University Press, 2000
Working from the premise that music as a cultural abstraction is vitally conditioned by political thought, these essays are presented in the spirit of the so called "new musicology," which looks to other disciplines for new impetus and technique. Rather than abstracting music from the environment which created it, these essays seek to study the relations between music and nationalism in different national contexts. Although music and ...
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Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland 1 review
Dermot Keogh
Cork University Press, 1998
An intimate history of Irish Jewry from 1880 to now
Dermot Keogh has presented an excellent picture of Irish Jewry from 1880's to the present time. His extensive research gives the reader an insight into the socio-economic climate prevailing in rural and urban Ireland. The Irish are seen as a tolerant and accepting people. However, the 1904 Limerick pogrom highlights the distrust and ignorance that pervaded the general population of rural ...
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Passing It On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture (Musicology)
Marie McCarthy
Cork University Press, 1999
A nation?s musical and cultural life is determined to a large extent by the manner in which music is passed on to the next generation. That process connects generations by nurturing the dynamic interaction between musical heritage and musical innovation and is central to shaping a nation?s cultural identity, spiritual wealth and even policy making. The nature of this interaction is examined here in a variety of contexts that range from ...
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My Darling Danny: Letters from Mary O'Connell to Her Son Daniel, 1830-1832 (Irish Narrative Series)
Cork University Press, 1999
On May 9, 1830, fourteen year-old Daniel O?Connell Jr., son of the "Liberator," left his comfortable home in Dublin to attend the Jesuit college at Clongowes Wood in County Kildare. Thus began a three-year correspondence between Danny Jr. and his mother, Mary O?Connell. Bursting with love and affection, illness and death, politics and scandal, these letters allow a brief glimpse at the relationship between mother and son in nineteenth-century ...
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The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise Woman Healer2 reviews
Gearóid Ó Crualaoich
Cork University Press, 2006
Bought on a Whim!
I didn't know anything about this book, but was hooked at the title, so I bought it. I read the first page or so, a little disappointed. Was I suppose to already know something of the Wise Woman Healer story? (Sadly, my adventurous ancestors shelved childhood stories as they left their homeland and adapted to life here in America.) The book quickly reminded me of a college reference book, so I ...
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Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer (Irish Narrative Series)
Cork University Press, 2000
Pádraig Ó Fathaigh ( 1879-1976) was a lifelong Gaelic Leaguer and teacher of Irish. Already a prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers before 1916, O Fathaigh was arrested on Easter Tuesday before he could join forces with Liam Mellows. He spent the next year undergoing penal servitude, the first of four terms of imprisonment between 1916 and 1920. When at liberty he acted as an intelligence officer in South ...
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Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader 1 review
Cork University Press, 2000
All's here except Joyce: superb anthology
This is a desert island compendium. The price makes it a steal, too. Pierce, from his evocative introduction and his prefatory personal note on growing up in Britain "half-Irish," takes on this monumental compiling task and gives the seasoned veteran or the total rookie not only a selection from each decade, but expands the usual limits of literature to include essays, memoirs, travel writing, ...
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A Judgment too Far? Judicial Activism and the Constitution
David Gwynn Morgan
Cork University Press, 2001
Huge changes have taken place in Irish society over the past 10-15 years, and many controversial policy decisions which have resulted in those changes, have been provided for by legal interpretation. This pamphlet asks whether that situation is a healthy one for the Irish polity. Is it democratic? Are the politicians using the courts to avoid public controversy for their own political ends? David Gwynn Morgan ask these questions and offers ...
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Dancing at Lughnasa (Ireland into Film)
Joan FitzPatrick Dean
Cork University Press, 2003
* Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader * Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion. * Collaboration between Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland. Between the première of Brian Friel?s stage play "Dancing at Lughnasa" in 1990 and Pat O?Connor?s cinematic adaptation in 1998, Ireland experienced seismic economic and social changes, as well as ...
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Across the Lines: Travel Language and Translation
Michael Cronin
Cork University Press, 2000
A radical new work aiming to redefine the relationship between travel and language, focusing on the pivotal bond of language and culture as mediated through translation. An important feature of the Twentieth century has been the enormous growth in travel and the increasing mobility of individuals and groups across societies. A largely neglected aspect of this development has been the relationship of the traveller to language. Across the Lines ...
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Death in the Land of Youth / Rogha Danta
Sean O'Tuama
Cork University Press, 1997
This bilingual edition of Seán Ó Tuama's selected poems aims to reintroduce the work of Ireland's foremost Irish language poet to a new generation of readers.
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CENSORSHIP IRELAND 1939-45 (hb) (Irish History) 1 review
Donal O Drisceoil
Cork University Press, 1996
inside plato's cave
When you get about half way through this book, you realise one of it's problems: the author tells us that irealnd was such a small, poor country at the time that none of it's papers had any foreign correspondents. This makes us wonder if a book-lenght study of censorship in the country at the time is really necessacary. It is a worthy enough addition to teh growing volume of literature on "the ...
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The Force of Culture: Unionist Identities in Contemporary Ireland (Irish Cultural Studies)
Gillian McIntosh
Cork University Press, 2000
This important and valuable study seeks to evaluate the contribution of culture to Unionist identities before and after the Second World War. In weaving analysis of literary landmarks and civic events together, Gillian McIntosh succeeds in illuminating the complexity of meanings and values associated with the Northern Irish State since 1920. Starting with the legitimizing histories written in the decade after the Great War and concluding with ...
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Irish Migrants in Britain, 1815-1914: A Documentary History
Roger Swift
Cork University Press, 2002
The past twenty years have witnessed tremendous developments in regard to the academic study of the experience of Irish migrants in nineteenth-century Britain. As witnessed not only by the burgeoning historiography of the subject but also by the growth of specialist courses on the Irish in Britain in universities and colleges. This documentary history, the first of its kind, seeks to support and inform the scholarly study of the experiences of ...
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Wexford: A Town and its Landscape (Irish Rural Landscape Series)
Billy Colfer
Cork University Press, 2008
The book details the origins and growth of Wexford town since its establishment by the Vikings in the early tenth century. The influence of the broader environment on the foundation, expansion and economic development of the town is also examined. Periods covered include the Anglo-Norman, the Cromwellian settlement and eighteenth-century expansion. Detailed sections will include medieval churches, town wall and castle, the 1798 Rebellion and ...
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