Ireland 76

Tadhg Barry was the last high-profile victim of the crown forces during the Irish War of Independence. A veteran republican, trade unionist, journalist, poet, GAA official and alderman on Cork Corpo……続きを見る

The evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song, traced over 1,400 years Stories about Fionn macCumhaill (also known as Finn McCool) and his roving warrior band, the Fianna, have engaged aud……続きを見る

Ireland’s accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973 provided great opportunities, as well as significant challenges to its relatively small civil service. This book traces Ireland’s……続きを見る

Combinant une approche contextuelle, historique avec une vision synthétique et analytique, ce livre vise à développer le champ de recherche sur le cinéma irlandais auprès d’un lectorat français. L’I……続きを見る

La Grande Famine – An Gorta Mor en irlandais – est sans doute en dehors des deux guerres mondiales la pire catastrophe humanitaire à laquelle l’Europe occidentale a été confrontée dans la période co……続きを見る

Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 2007 and was brought b……続きを見る

In Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, Farrell analyzes the career of "political parson" Thomas Drew (1800-70), creator of one of the largest Church of Ireland congregations on the isla……続きを見る

The head of the Guinness family tells the dramatic true story of how his ancestors created the largest brewery in the world. Growing up at Farmleigh, the country house outside Dublin, Arthur Edward ……続きを見る

‘Deeply researched and fascinating’The Guardian ‘[Rory Carroll is] an exceptionally gifted storyteller’ Max Hastings ‘A gripping read’ The i Paper ‘A thrilling account of one of the most unpredictab……続きを見る

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation o……続きを見る

There's before 1916 and then there's after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country's history forever. F……続きを見る

We all know of of the various wars, the Famine and the pivotal events which have made the Ireland what it is today, but few know the stranger aspects of the nation's past. From body snatchers, to pi……続きを見る

Born in the Civil War of 1922–23, the army of the Republic of Ireland occupied a sensitive place in the national culture for many years. In World War II, it faced the challenge of maintaining Irelan……続きを見る

Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until they reached adulthood is a surprisingly neglected ……続きを見る

Sacred Sisters focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland's ……続きを見る

Fino a pochi anni fa, la storia del CCCXII Battaglione Misto Carri dell'Egeo era quasi sconosciuta e circondata da errori. Un lungo lavoro di ricerca ha portato nel 2022 alla pubblicazione del primo……続きを見る

This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred’s childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to histo……続きを見る

The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies. In a s……続きを見る

In early Ireland, there were many names for what scholars have dubbed the ‘Otherworld’: the Plain of Delights, the Land of Youth, the Land of Promise, and more. Many of the myths and legends from th……続きを見る

She arrives as a whisper before death, her keen echoing through ancient halls. Her wave crashes eternally against Cork's rugged shore, marking the boundary where mortal and immortal worlds collide. ……続きを見る

The Stained and Bloodied Cloths of Ireland presents a textiles and material culture view of Irish shame, oppression, morality and repression. Ireland – North and South – has sustained significant ch……続きを見る

Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into co……続きを見る

Are you ready to explore the rivers that shaped Ireland's destiny? What ancient secrets do the Boyne and Blackwater still guard? Journey through time and space along Ireland's most historically sign……続きを見る

In the summer of 1847, over four hundred ships arrived in the Gulf of St Lawrence, carrying Irish men, women, and children who were fleeing the starvation and misery of the Great Potato Famine. Tens……続きを見る

In the summer of 1847, over four hundred ships arrived in the Gulf of St Lawrence, carrying Irish men, women, and children who were fleeing the starvation and misery of the Great Potato Famine. Tens……続きを見る

While the connection between Ireland and the otherworldly has long been a staple of literature and the arts, it finds its most consistent and compelling expression in the medium of cinema. In the fi……続きを見る

Zwei bewegende historische Romanzen über junge Frauen, die sich inmitten des irischen Widerstands ins Ungewisse begeben und für ihre Liebe und Überzeugungen kämpfen müssen. Dieses Bundle mit über 1.……続きを見る

Step into the intimate worlds of Presbyterian women and men who lived, loved and laboured in long-eighteenth-century Ulster. Drawing on letters, diaries, newspapers and church court records, this bo……続きを見る

The Last Bohemian offers the first extended, critical evaluation of all of Brian Desmond Hurst’s films, reappraising the reputation of a director who was born in 1895 in Belfast and died in Belgravi……続きを見る

Interwoven across this book's pages are four lives, whose own secrets, bound by promises, are finally exposed; these are the secrets of the Scaradh Magdalene. Revealed is the separation or segregati……続きを見る