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She named a pantheon of gods yet appears in no stories of her own. Her children shaped Irish mythology, but she remains hidden in the shadows. Danuーthe mysterious mother of Ireland's divine tribeー……続きを見る

" Inventory is a remarkable memoir; a work of auto-archaeology, really, in which Darran Anderson disinters his own and his country's hard pasts, shaking life, love and loss out of the objects of his……続きを見る

Hardly ever is it the people in power who make the difference; nearly always it’s the power of the people. It takes time and it takes various forms. This book is one of them. It rests squarely in th……続きを見る

The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the……続きを見る

This nationally important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first time, a fully referenced history cor……続きを見る

In the shadow of a windswept hill in County Wexford, 20,000 Irish soulsーfarmers, priests, and firebrandsーclutched their pikes and stared down the barrels of the British Empire's cannons. It was Ju……続きを見る

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

‘[A] rich, stylish and immersive epic’ Irish Independent ‘Deeply researched and fascinating’The Guardian ‘[Rory Carroll is] an exceptionally gifted storyteller’ Max Hastings ‘A gripping read’ The i ……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