All Dressed Up

Joan Fitzpatrick Dean

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular--an... Lees meer

New Plays from the Abbey Theatre

Christopher Fitz-Simons, Judy Friel

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• This first volume in a series of drama anthologies invites readers to experience five of the best new plays being produced in 1993-1995 in Ireland's m... Lees meer

Peig

Peig Sayers

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Here is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature--the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of sur... Lees meer

Trusting Schools and Teachers

Gerry McNamara, Joe O'Hara

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies | nr. 8
• Trusting Schools and Teachers: Developing Educational Professionalism Through Self-Evaluation emerged from a series of studies undertaken with teacher... Lees meer

Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism

Julia Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival's celebrati... Lees meer

Irish Bridget

Margaret Lynch-Brennan

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• "Bridget" was the Irish immigrant servant girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the... Lees meer

Literary Drowning

Stephanie Pocock Boeninger

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Literary depictions of drowning or burial at sea provide fascinating glimpses into the often-conflicted human relationship with memory. For many cultu... Lees meer

All Dressed Up

Joan Fitzpatrick Dean

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular--an... Lees meer

Revolutionary Damnation

Sheldon Brivic

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom--politically, religiously, and creatively--is Joyce's S... Lees meer

Finders

Anjili Babbar

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Some of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all. Hailing from a region with a cultural his... Lees meer

Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939

Cathy Leeney

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies | nr. 9
• Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, placing their work for theatre in co-... Lees meer

James K. McGuire

Joseph Fahey

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• This is the story of a self-educated, charismatic, gifted leader who overcame personal tragedy in childhood and was elected the youngest mayor of a ma... Lees meer

Guilt Rules All

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• Irish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of s... Lees meer

Trapped in Thought

Eric P Levy

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Eric P. Levy's book investigates the mentality or attitude of cognitive apprehension expressed in Beckettian texts. Primary areas of concern include h... Lees meer

The Parnell Split, 1890-91

Frank Callanan

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• The crisis and tragedy which followed the naming of Charles Stewart Parnell as correspondent in a divorce decree in 1890 remains one of the most signi... Lees meer

The Long War

Brendan O'Brien

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• The book examines Republican policies and activities, and provides a fascinating account of the long, arduous road from arms to politics. It outlines ... Lees meer

Genesis of the Rising 1912-1916

Christopher M Kennedy

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies | nr. 10
• The Easter Rising of 1916 had a lasting effect upon Ireland, with many viewing it as a watershed in the history of modern Ireland and concurring with ... Lees meer

Standish O'Grady's Cuculain

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Between 1878 and 1881, Standish O'Grady published a three-volume History of Ireland that simultaneously recounted the heroic ancient past of the Irish... Lees meer

Stories by Contemporary Irish Women

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• These short stories invite the reader to see Ireland afresh. Included are works by well-known authors such as Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, and Julia O'Fa... Lees meer

Collaborative Dubliners

Vicki Mahaffey

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Enigmatic, vivid, and terse, James Joyce's Dubliners continues both to puzzle and to compel its readers. This collection of essays by thirty contribut... Lees meer

Writing Lough Derg

Peggy O'Brien

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• The overarching purpose of this volume is to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg, a pilgrimage site in northwest Ireland, helped... Lees meer

Political Acts

Fiona Coleman Coffey

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that... Lees meer

Compassionate Stranger

Maureen O'Rourke Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Irish Studies
• The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school... Lees meer

Irish Questions and Jewish Questions

• Paperback | Engels | Irish Studies
• The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outliers of modern Europe. Both struggled with their lack of formal political sovereignty in the ninetee... Lees meer