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Book SynopsisAlmost half of the 28 essays in this volume have not been published in English before, and many of the others were little known. Some directly express Elias' dissatisfaction with the ahistorical, present-centred trend of modern sociology. Others scintillatingly show how wide ranging were Elias' own sociological interests. Topics include, among many others: the work of Theodor W. Adorno; sociology and psychiatry; psychosomatic illness; human emotions; communities in long-term perspective; the changing balance of power between the sexes; African art; football; and even pigeon racing.Trade Review"The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 08 "monumental series of the writings of Norbert Elias, regarded as one of the outstanding European thinkers and sociologists of the twentieth century - The books are handsomely produced in decent uniform bindings, each with an introductory essay and notes on the text." Books Ireland October 2009 'The Collected Works of Norbert Elias that is being published by University College Dublin Press. Eighteen volumes are planned. The production is exemplary, from binding and paper quality through the editorial care. Earlier translations have been corrected and changes noted; editors' notes explain circumstances within which Elias wrote and clarify references he makes to lesser known authors and contemporary events.' Canadian Journal of Sociology 35(4) 2010 'The 28 essays in the volume (at least half of them published in English for the first time and others practically unknown) cover very different issues. They were mostly written in the most fertile period of the author's publishing activity - that following his retirement - although there are also some older texts, reflecting among other things the constant threads that accompany questions of his prolific and long-lasting cognitive science. Like previous volumes in the series, this one has been very carefully edited and annotated to improve the readability of the texts.' Sociologica Angela Perulli, University of Firenze 2011Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Figuration; Social processes; Towards a theory of social processes; Social process models on multiple levels; On the sociogenesis of sociology; The break with traditionalism: report on the discussion; Group charisma and group disgrace; Address on Adorno: respect and critique; Sociology in danger: the case for the reorientation of a discipline; A diagnosis of present-day sociology; The retreat of sociologists into the present; The concept of everyday life; The story of the shoelaces; Social anxieties; On human beings and their emotions: a process-sociological essay; Sociology and psychiatry; Civilisation and psychosomatics; Foreword to The Sociology of Sport; Football in the process of civilisation; Pigeon racing; African art; Stages of African art, social and visual; Some remarks on the problem of work; Professions; The changing balance of power between the sexes - a process-sociological study: the example of the ancient Roman state; 'Where two come together in lawful matrimony...'; Foreword to Women Torn Two Ways; Renate Rubinstein; Appendices: I On the division of social functions; II Max Weber, involvement, detachment and charismatic leadership. III Extended notes to 'Stages of African art: social and visual'; IV List of minor publications by Norbert Elias; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisEleven of the 18 essays by Norbert Elias collected in this volume have not been published previously in English, and several of the remainder were not easily obtained. The themes of this volume represent major extensions of and reflections upon the ideas first advanced in "The Civilizing Process". The topics include violence and civilisation; the civilising of parents; privacy; conflict and change within communities; public opinion and national character in Britain; the charismatic leadership of Adolf Hitler; and the fear of death.Trade Review"The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 08Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Civilisation; What I mean by civilisation: reply to Hans-Peter Duerr; The civilising of parents; L'espace prive - 'private space' or 'private room'?; Foreword to Horst-Volker Krumrey, Entwicklungsstrukturen von Verhaltensstandarden; Technisation and civilisation; Power and civilisation; Processes of state formation and nation building; Towards a theory of communities; Afterword to Meike Behrmann and Carmine Abate, Die Germanesi; Inquest on German Jewry; The charismatic leader; Gentlemen and tarpaulins; Drake and Doughty: a paradigmatic case study; Public opinion in Britain; National peculiarities of British public opinion; Fear of death; Has hope a future?; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this profound book, Elias characteristically turns an ancient philosophical question - what is time? - into a researchable theoretical-empirical problem. What we call 'time' is neither an innate property of the human mind nor an immutable quality of the 'external' world. Rather it is an achievement of the human capacity for 'synthesis', for using symbolic thought to make connections between two or more sequences of events. In the course of human social development, that capacity has itself changed and developed. It is originally written in English. Two later additional sections have been translated by Edmund Jephcott.Trade Review"In many ways the notes by the editors which preface these volumes can ... be read as biographical illustrations of Elias's own ongoing intellectual meditations on the tensions between involvement and detachment, and with his continuing personal and professional confrontation with the problem of time." "well worth the dedicated study and patient reflection [it] demand[s] of readers." Canadian Journal of Sociology 33 (1) 3008 "The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 08Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Preface by Norbert Elias; An essay on time; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDublin did not escape the Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, while the capital witnessed an influx of the rural poor seeking refuge and relief. However, Dublin has remained largely neglected in popular and scholarly narratives of the Famine. This collection of essays breaks new ground and reconsiders the Famine and its historiography by locating Dublin city and its inhabitants at the centre of its focus. This volume, containing work by established and emerging scholars, presents some of the most recent research into life in Dublin during this period of unprecedented distress. As such, it constitutes the most detailed analysis to date of the impact of the Great Famine on Dublin and its inhabitants, and is the first monograph wholly devotedto this subject. This pioneering volume offers an interdisciplinary approach and a range of perspectives from its thirteen contributors. Featuring a foreword by Cormac O Grada and including a comprehensive overview of Famine scholarship on Dublin to date, its twelve additional essays cover such diverse topics as business life and industry in the city, the impact of the Famine on Dublin's charity and welfare landscapes, suicide and trauma at this time of acute crisis, experiences of the marginalised within prisons and hospitals, and cultural representations of Famine-era Dublin. It examines both direct and indirect impacts of the Famine on the city, noting promising future areas of research, and arguing for the reinvigoration of urban histories with Famine studies. This volume of essays will appeal to students, scholars and general enthusiasts of 19th-century Irish history, especially those interested in the history of the Great Famine and of Dublin. Generously illustrated, it illuminates an overlooked but essential dimension of Irish history.Trade Review'Much remains to be researched on Dublin’s Famine-era history, but this finely produced and illustrated volume has done much to raise the veil.’ - Review by Peter Gray, UCD Today (Spring/Summer 2023); 'It is a welcome intervention, offering compelling evidence of how daily life in the colonial garrison town was affected by the social and economic catastrophe.' - Sara Keating, Sunday Business Post, November 2022.; 'Without question the Famine in the capital was not as devastating as what was experienced in other parts of the island. However, as impoverished people crowded into the city seeking work or relief, Dublin's streets appeared like a gigantic refugee camp.' - Irish Independent, November 2022.

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Book SynopsisAn environmental history of the Irish Revolution. The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to both natural and human-built landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained a fixture within Irish urban and rural landscapes years after independence, presenting an Ireland politically transformed yet physically disfigured. Enduring Ruin examines how and to what degree revolutionary activity degraded, damaged, and destroyed Ireland’s landscapes. The first environmental history of the revolutionary period, it incorporates the roles animals, earth, water, trees, weather, and human-made infrastructure played in directing and absorbing revolutionary violence. It traces the militarization of private and public spaces and how the destruction of monuments renegotiated Ireland’s civic spaces and colonial legacy. Re-evaluating conventional interpretations and introducing new arguments, Enduring Ruin pioneers a new phase in the study of the Irish Revolution. Trade Review'Ernie O’Malley’s description of the destruction of the Four Courts as 'duelling orchestras of crashing stone and singing flame' was poetic, but this book does justice to the range of environmental destruction behind such lyricism.' - Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Times, January 2023; 'Enduring Ruin is a welcome study in that it departs from the normal discussions around either politics or the metrics of death and violence in quantifying revolutionary activity in Ireland from 1916 to 1923.' - Westmeath Examiner, December 2022.

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Book SynopsisThirty academics, from Ireland, Scotland, England, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and the USA, have joined together to honour Professor Seamas O Cathain, Emeritus Professor of Irish Folklore and former Director of the National Folklore Collection, in this festschrift on his 70th birthday. Professor O Cathain is widely known for his contribution to Irish and international folkloristics and the many ways in which he has promoted Irish language and culture. Articles in the festschrift, which cover a broad array of subjects, are in themselves a reflection of Seamas O Cathain's wide-ranging interests and constitute significant contributions to the disciplines of folkloristics, dialectology, and literary and etymological studies. Topics include, among others, folklore collectors and collecting, folklore connections between Ireland and the Nordic countries, folk legends old and modern, folk beliefs and folk customs, as well as issues in Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish linguistics.Trade Review'This is a beautiful book, a fitting gift for the highly respected scholar who for years has led the academic world of Irish Folklore studies.' Colm O Baoill Irish and Scottish Studies, 2014Table of ContentsIntroduction/Reamhra; FOLKLORISTS AND FOLKLORE COLLECTING: The Greatest and Bravest Small Nation on Earth': Seamus O Duilearga's Faroese Contacts and their Aftermath, Bo Almqvist; Carl Wilhelm von Sydows brev fran Irland till sonen Bertil sommaren 1920, Nils-Arvid Bringeus; Between Repudiation and Sympathy: Eilert Sundt, Johan Theodor Storaker and the Collection of Folk Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Norway, Arne Bugge Amundsen; '... a wooden peg from which emerged a rope...': The Work of Erris Folklore Collector Micheal Mac Enri, Criostoir Mac Carthaigh; 'A Small Sum of Mammon': Ceannacht Bhailiuchan Scealta Mhichil Ui Thiomanai, Rionach Ui Ogain; Asenath Nicholson and Famine Folklore in Rossport, Co. Mayo, Maureen Murphy; Visual Documentation of Irish Folk Tradition: Simon Coleman, Patricia Lysaght; TALES, LEGENDS, PROVERBS AND SONG: Da Exempla a Ceap Breatainn, Iain Seathach; The Witch's Bridle: A Swedish Migratory Legend in a Comparative Perspective, Bengt Af Klintberg; 'The cat was as big as a good-sized calf...': A Lacken Storyteller and Some Otherworld Beings, Bairbre Ni Fhloinn; James Cullinan and Some Items of South Tipperary Seanchas, Kenneth E. Nilsen; Escape from Belfield: A Campus Legend in University College Dublin, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne-Almqvist; 'I was at home alone': Memorates and the Authority of Tradition, Ulo Valk; Irish Kings, Pirates and Hermits on the Faroe Islands, Eyoun Andreassen; Historical Time and 'The Swad Chapel Song', Henry Glassie; Folk Wisdom and Orally Transmitted Knowledge in Sami Proverbs, Harald Gaski; FOLK BELIEFS, FOLK CUSTOMS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION: Leiriu Broin ar Bhas Leanai - Fianaise Bhealoideas na hEireann, Padraig O Healai; Skotrarar, Skudlers, Colloughs and Strawboys: Wedding Guising Traditions in Norway, Shetland and Ireland, Past and Present, Terry Gunnell; The Heavy Burden: Grindaboo to Mykines, Joan Pauli Joensen; Minifundismo and Rundale: Similar Systems with Similar Origins?; Patrick O'Flanagan; GAELIC MYTHOLOGY AND EARLY LITERATURE: Early Irish Narrative Verse, Gearoid Mac Eoin; Duibheagain an Uafais i dTraidisiun na Gaeilge - Uath, Uaimh agus Ifreann, Seamus Mac Mathuna; Na Cailleachan Mora, Iain Macaonghuis; Caoilte in Ireland: Gaelic Folklore in Egils saga Skallagrimssonar, Michael Chesnutt; Badhbhsceal: Krakumal, Rory McTurk; CELTIC LANGUAGES: Si, Anders Ahlqvist; Seadhna, Seadna, Seadna, Shiana agus Litriu na Nua-Ghaeilge, Liam Mac Mathuna; Tranglam Culturtha na hAthbheochana: an Iriseoireacht agus an Claonadh Liteartha, Regina Ui Chollatain; Liosta Focal Borgstrom agus Canuinti an Oileain Sgitheanaigh i bhFianaise SGDS, Seosamh Watson; Cornish Names for Native Fruit, Nicholas Williams; Seamas O Cathain's Printed Works, Patricia Moloney; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains two of Elias' shorter books. "The Loneliness of the Dying" is one of his most admired works - drawing on a range of literary and historical sources, it is sensitive and even moving in its discussion of the changing social context of death and dying over the centuries. Today, when death is less familiar to most people in everyday life, the dying frequently experience the loneliness of social isolation. "Humana Conditio", written in 1985 to mark the fortieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, has never before been published in English. 'Human beings', writes Elias, 'have made the reciprocal murdering of people a permanent institution. Wars are part of a fixed tradition of humanity. They are anchored in its social institutions and in the social habitus of people, even the most peace-loving'. Elias' meditation on the human lot ranges over the whole of human history, to international relations and the future of humanity.Trade Review"'Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The publication of his collected works is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene.' - S. N. EISENSTADT, Hebrew University of Jerusalem"Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; THE LONELINESS OF THE DYING:; 1 The loneliness of the dying in our time; 2 Postscript: Ageing and dying: some sociological problems; Appendix: On immortality fantasies; HUMANA CONDITIO: Observations on the development of humanity on the fortieth anniversary of the end of a war (8 May 1985); Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDoing Research in Education: A Beginner’s Guide is written for the novice education researcher. It offers practical advice and guidance for each step of the research process including choosing what to research; formulating a research question; deciding on a suitable research methodology; and writing a thesis. A range of research methodologies are explored within the book and each associated chapter outlines the suitability and applicability of that methodology and offers concrete suggestions for its use. Further chapters are dedicated to navigating the relevant research literature; ethics; researching vulnerable groups; the use of technology; conducting research through Irish; and connecting research to teaching practice. The book’s chapters are written by experienced education researchers, each of whom has extensive experience of guiding students through their first education research project as well as publishing widely within education themselves. This book is carefully tailored to complement existing research methodology modules and will support the student as they navigate the challenges and rewards of undertaking research in education.

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Book SynopsisThe diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist fervour of a radical revolutionary woman, what motivated her and the work she did for women, workers, and Ireland. The diaries, held in the archives of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), reveal the often-difficult road that radical political women forged in the new Irish Free State, which viewed women through the constraining lens of marriage, motherhood, and domesticity. The diaries are also revealing of the supportive networks of political women, who worked together for social and political change. Central to the diaries is Lynn's vital work in St Ultan's Hospital for Sick Infants which she co-founded in 1919. Her diaries demonstrate vividly the number of women who led advances in medical care in the first decades of the State alongside Lynn. The diaries also record her family and personal relationships, especially her lifelong relationship with fellow suffragist, revolutionary and social campaigner, Madeline ffrench-Mullen. Few political women of the revolutionary era and Irish Free State have left behind as substantial an archive as Dr Kathleen Lynn. The publication of these selected extracts from her diaries are a move to readdress issues created by past archival practices which have, in many cases, marginalised or silenced the voices of women. The diaries add not only to our knowledge of the life of Dr Lynn but also to the histories of female activists, female networks, and intimate female lives in the Irish State during its formative decades. Edited by Mary McAuliffe and Harriet Wheelock with a foreword by Emma Donoghue.Trade Review'Lynn’s diaries are among the few eyewitness sources we have for a radical, revolutionary, socialist, and republican woman.'- RTÉ Brainstorm, 13 Nov 2023.; ‘Casts new light on many of the political and social concerns of three decades of Irish life. This volume is a significant addition to Irish history. For me, though, The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn is a book about the human condition and how love sustains us.’; - Clodagh Finn, Irish Examiner, 11 Nov 2023.; ‘Through a careful selection of excerpts from Lynn’s extensive personal diaries, which commence in 1916 and continue almost daily until her death in 1955, The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn: A Life Revealed through Personal Writing provides an extraordinarily close insight into Lynn’s social, private and political life, and her relationship with many of the key political figures of Ireland in the first half of the 20th century.’ - Connaught Telegraph, 4 Oct 2023.; ‘Alive & throbbing, indeed, as long as breath was in her, and the world was better for the marks she left on it, which is only one reason why the long-overdue publication of a selection of Kathleen Lynn journals is a cause for what she would have called a loud hip hip DG.’ – Emma Donoghue, Irish Examiner, 16 Oct 2023.; ‘The diaries demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist fervour of a radical revolutionary woman, what motivated her and the work she did for women, workers, and Ireland.’ - Monmouthshire Beacon, November 2023.

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Book SynopsisTranslated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott, volume 5 of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias" contains Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionalised today. In his vision, sociology is concerned with the whole course of the development of human society. Especially important are the 'game models', which demonstrate the connections between power ratios, unintended consequences, unplanned long-term processes and the way people perceive and conceptualise the social processes in which they are caught up in interdependence with each other. This edition contains two extra chapters previously unpublished in English, one of them a substantial discussion of the legacy of Marx.Trade Review'The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise.' S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 'Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897 - 1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets.' Books Ireland Nov 2008 'There will be eighteen volumes in this handsome uniform series, the last being a full index to the others, while a supplementary volume has been included, Elias's work on the origin of the naval profession. Elias was one of the most important European thinkers on sociology in the 20th century. He wrote in English and German on all aspects of sociology such as the origin of civilisation, the place of individuals in society, music, sport and the sciences. In this volume he examines the growth of knowledge in modern Europe and kore specifically the development of scientific thinking. He considers too the idea of Utopia, as first expressed by Thomas More and the developed by other scientific and social thinkers, as a means of studying social development. The book is introduced with a biographical essay on Norbert Elias and a longer essay on the text used in this volume.' Books Ireland Dec 2009 'The Collected Works of Norbert Elias that is being published by University College Dublin Press. Eighteen volumes are planned. The production is exemplary, from binding and paper quality through the editorial care. Earlier translations have been corrected and changes noted; editors' notes explain circumstances within which Elias wrote and clarify references he makes to lesser known authors and contemporary events.' Canadian Journal of Sociology 35(4) 2010Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Foreword by Reinhard Bendix; Introduction; Sociology: the questions framed by Comte; The sociologist as a hunter of myths; Game models; Universal features of human society; Human interdependences: problems of social bonds; The problem of the 'inevitability' of social development; PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CHAPTERS: Karl Marx as sociologist and political sociologist; The sociogenesis of the concept of 'society' as the subject matter of sociology.; APPENDICES: Human 'instincts': the views of Konrad Lorenz and Arnold Gehlen; On Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic theory and Claude Levi-Strauss's structuralism; Fiscal inequality under the ancien regime; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBetween the end of the Second World War and his death in 1990, Elias published almost 60 articles on a wide range of topics. About a third of them have not previously appeared in English, and many of the rest were widely scattered and difficult to obtain. They are being published in three thematic volumes, all edited by Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell. In this volume, Elias develops his sociological theory of knowledge and the sciences - in the plural - to counter what he sees as the inadequacies of traditional philosophical theories. Included are savage attacks on the philosophy of Karl Popper and its damaging influence, a brilliant essay on scientific establishments, and essays on Thomas More and the social uses of utopias.Trade Review"The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 2008 'The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise.' S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 'Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets.' Books Ireland Nov 2008 'There will be eighteen volumes in this handsome uniform series, the last being a full index to the others, while a supplementary volume has been included, Elias's work on the origin of the naval profession. Elias was one of the most important European thinkers on sociology in the 20th century. He wrote in English and German on all aspects of sociology such as the origin of civilisation, the place of individuals in society, music, sport and the sciences. In this volume he examines the growth of knowledge in modern Europe and kore specifically the development of scientific thinking. He considers too the idea of Utopia, as first expressed by Thomas More and the developed by other scientific and social thinkers, as a means of studying social development. The book is introduced with a biographical essay on Norbert Elias and a longer essay on the text used in this volume.' Books Ireland Dec 2009Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Sociology of knowledge: new perspectives; Dynamics of consciousness within that of societies; On nature; The sciences: towards a theory; Theory of science and history of science: comments on a recent discussion; Introduction to Scientific Establishments and Hierarchies, with Richard Whitley; Scientific establishments; On the creed of a nominalist: observations on Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery; Science or sciences? Contribution to a debate with reality-blind philosophers; Thomas More's critique of the state: with some thoughts on a definition of the concept to utopia; Thomas More and 'Utopia'; What is the role of scientific and literary utopias for the future? Appendix I: Note on Kant's solipsistic doubt. Appendix II: Two extended notes to 'On the creed of a nominalist'; Appendix III: The Great Evolution: note to 'Science or sciences?' Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophers and social scientists have for decades - centuries even - tied themselves in knots over the supposed problem of 'individual' versus 'society', and its offshoots such as 'agency' and 'structure'. Elias shows the falsity of problem, which ought to be easily resolved by thinking in terms of processes extending over the generations - though in practice the baleful influence of philosophy leads to its constant resurrection. "The Society of Individuals" consists of three essays, the first written in 1939, the second dating from the 1940s and 1950s, and the third a final reflection composed in 1987 only three years before Elias' death. In each, Elias takes the discussion to a new level, demonstrating that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth of the 'We-less ego', and introducing important conceptual innovations, including 'I-identity' versus 'We-identity' and the 'We-I balance'.Trade Review'The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise.' S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 'Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets.' Books Ireland Nov 08 'monumental series of the writings of Norbert Elias, regarded as one of the outstanding European thinkers and sociologists of the twentieth century - The books are handsomely produced in decent uniform bindings, each with an introductory essay and notes on the text.' Books Ireland October 2009Table of ContentsNorbert Elias (1897-1990); Note on the text; Preface; Part I: The Society of Individuals (1939); Part II: Problems of self-consciousness and the image of man (1940s-1950s): Wishful and fearful self-images of humans as individuals and of society; The thinking statues individualisation in the social process; Part III: Changes in the we-I balance (1987); Appendix I: Rainer Maria Rilke, 'The Book of Pilgrimage'; Appendix II: Two poems by Goethe; Appendix III: Power struggles and the concepts of 'state' and 'society'; Appendix IV: Migration and the conflict of generations; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Republic of Ireland has changed much in the last few decades. It has become much more socially liberal, urban, secular and wealthy. It has also experienced large-scale immigration during a period when other Anglophone and many other European countries mainstream political parties have witnessed the exploitation of anti-immigrant nativism by some political mainstream parties as well as by the far right. Diverse Republic examines, as part of a wider focus on how immigration has changed Irish society, the emergence of antiimmigrant far-right groups through a focus on some key figures within these. It also considers the response of mainstream politics to immigration and examines efforts to encourage the integration of newcomers. The first part of the book examines how Irish society and identity has changed since the foundation of the state. This is relevant to the second part, which examines how and to what extent far right anti-immigration politics are likely to flourish or not in the Irish case. The second part of the book examines the appeal of far-right political responses to immigration in a context where some Irish citizens no longer appear to be represented by the political mainstream and where nativist populists lay claim to the symbols and heroes of the Republic. Diverse Republic makes the case for proactive measures to promote immigrant integration and social cohesion through citizenship, social policy and community development. It engages with shifting nationalist understandings of Irishness and makes the case for taking these seriously even if anti-immigrant nativist nationalism has found only fringe support in Irish politics to date. The symbols and history of what has become a diverse Republic should not become the property of those who would exclude some of its citizens.Trade Review'Alan Shatter, the man behind the citizenship ceremony, on why Bryan Fanning's book about the importance of integration deserves to be widely read' - Irish Independent, May 2021. 'Professor Bryan Fanning's new book, Diverse Republic, is a timely discourse that challenges us to look closely at our behaviours and attitudes towards immigrants in today's Ireland' - UCD Today, April 2021 'Waters cuts a lonely figure in the Irish media landscape but equivalent views to his have driven the narratives of politically successful nativist populists in other English-speaking and European democratic countries.' - Bryan Fanning, writing in the Dublin Review of Books, May 2021'Nativist politics have not played a big role in recent Irish elections. Might that change?' - Bryan Fanning, Irish Times, May 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgements v Introduction Irish-Ireland Making Ireland Modern Immigration Nation Buying into Nativism White Irish Nationalisms Irish Far-Right Perspectives Immigration and Politics The Umbrella of Citizenship Inclusive Communities and Social Cohesion Diverse Republic Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThree European Poets is part of UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Counci 1/An Chomhairle Ealaion. Other poets in the series include John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan. In his volume of The Poet's Chair Paul Durcan examines the work and impact of Irish poets Anthony Cronin, Michael Hartnett and Harry Clifton and places them in a European context. He focuses on Cronin's The End of the Modern World, Hartnett's Sibelius in Silence and Clifton's Vaucluse in this insightful volume.Trade Review'Beautifully printed and bound, this substantial series of published lectures pays testament to the rich diversity of contemporary Irish poetry and its criticism. It also offers the opportunity to consider how several important Irish poets have variously gone about the challenge of professing poetry in the public sphere.' Tom Walker, Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2019 ||| 'Collectively these three books could be said to form a self-created imaginative conscience , and should be required reading for every serious student of poetry.' Michael O'Loughlin, The Irish Times, March 2018Table of ContentsForeword; Cronin's Cantos; Hartnett's Farewell; The Mystery of Harry Clifton; Biographical Note; Acknowledgements; Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIrish-language theatre has at times been on the fringes of Ireland's cultural landscape - invisible and underground - but its influence can be seen all over the island of Ireland. An Underground Theatre is the first full-length study of playwrights working in the Irish language in the pivotal 1930-80 period. In this landmark volume Philip O'Leary analyses the works of Mairead Ni Ghrada, Seamus O Neill, Eoghan O Tuairisc, Sean O Tuama, and Criostoir O Floinn and discusses the production history of their plays and the critical reception of first productions and major revivals. O'Leary also outlines the beginnings of drama in Irish in the early twentieth century and provides important historical context. The developments in Irish-language theatre since 1980 are also discussed in this important contribution to Irish theatre studies. Using a wide range of sources, O'Leary gives a thorough evaluation of five of the most significant Irish-language playwrights and charts the monumental influence and reach of their work.Trade Review''Any of the case studies in the present book would be a substantial work of scholarship in its own right, and their publication together makes for a thought-provoking comparative survey. The author wears his erudition lightly, and his good humor and ability to summarize ideas in clear and often pithy statements make this work accessible for a wide range of readers.' Roísín Ní Chairbhí, Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2019 ||||| 'Philip O’Leary takes the time and care to bring us deep into the heart of the plays he discusses, honouring their ambitions and achievements while not shrinking from discussing shortcomings. Irish Catholic, 14 Sept 2017Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Foreword; Introduction. An Underground Theatre; chapter 1: Unlikely Iconoclast. Mairead Ni Ghrada (1896-1971); chapter 2: A Northern Voice. Seamus O Neill (1910-1981); chapter 3: A Theatre of Ideas. Eoghan O Tuairisc (1919-1982); chapter 4: Knocking Down Old Walls. Sean O Tuama (1926-2006); chapter 5: Questions of Conscience. Criostoir O Floinn (b. 1927); Afterword; Select Bibliography; Endnote; Index

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Book SynopsisEver seen a fat fox? Didn't think so. Why it is that only humans - or animals in the care of humans - develop obesity? In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored Professor Mike Gibney delves into the history of the human relationship with food. He traces the evolution of our modern diet and looks to science to offer solutions to the phenomenon of human obesity. He calls on governments to cease the single-issue ad-hoc approach and demands a massive governmental long-term investment in weight management. It is a commonly held belief that obesity is a recent phenomenon. Professor Gibney reveals that obesity is nothing new - in fact, the modern upward trend in obesity began in the mid-nineteenth century. Obesity has been part of human experience whenever and wherever we've had affluence. There are many who seek to apportion blame for the epidemic of obesity. Blaming the food industry for obesity is always popular: sugar is public enemy number one. Debunking exaggerated views and cutting through the mixed messaging Gibney demonstrates that most food processing techniques are old, hundreds and thousands of years old.The genetics of obesity, the practice of dieting, and the value of physical activity are thoroughly assessed. The failures of the players in obesity - including the media, scientists, academic organisations, international agencies, specifically the WHO, and the food industry are brought into sharp focus. What can we learn from the fox? An expert in public health and personalised nutrition with bestselling books and over 300 peer-reviewed papers in the area, Professor Mike Gibney uncovers the full story behind obesity based on painstaking research, and offers us tangible solutions to this very human phenomenon.Trade Review'Governments around the world, including our own, are struggling to devise strategies that will stem and ultimately reverse this epidemic [obesity]. These are the issues addressed in the latest book by Prof Mike Gibney, one of Ireland's most prominent nutritional scientists. Gibney is eminently qualified to reflect on the myriad forces - biological, behavioural, environmental, economic and cultural - that drive the obesity epidemic and to propose potential solutions at both the individual and policy level.' The Irish Times, 13 August 2016 'This book is a refreshing change of pace because it is so incredibly level headed. Are fast food and SSBs good for you? No, and Gibney agrees. But are we placing too much blame at the hands at the level of the food creation PROCESS and not enough on total AVAILABILITY? Perhaps.' The Nutrition Wonk, 20 August 2016 'This is a thoughtful book from one of the most provocative and knowledgeable voices in Irish food science. Those who are tired of simplistic arguments by unqualified commentators and celebrities, and who want to really engage with the fascinating science of nutrition, will be well rewarded.' Sunday Times, 3 July 2016Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Ever seen a fat fox?; Chapter 2. Obesity and health measurements and metrics; Chapter 3. Human obesity - old and new; Chapter 4. The human food chain - old and new; Chapter 5. Culpable foods; Chapter 6. Regulating Food intake - the eyes have it; Chapter 7. Fitness and fatness; Chapter 8. Weight management - the personal perspective; Chapter 9. Weight management - the national perspective; Chapter 10. The nature versus nurture debate; Chapter 11. Eating disorders; Chapter 12. The stigmatisation of fatness; Chapter 13. Obesity - politics, players and ploys; Chapter 14: Reflections and projections; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisOne Wide Expanse is the first volume in The Poet's Chair series, which will publish the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion. The next two volumes will contain the lectures of Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan. This series follows on from the publication of the lectures of John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Durcan in The Poet's Chair, published in 2008. In this volume, the distinguished Irish poet Michael Longley - whose poetry has transcended political and cultural boundaries throughout his career - reflects on what has influenced his craft. Longley opens with an 'autobiography in poetry' where he recounts the poets and poems that have influenced him as both a reader and writer of poetry. He discusses his intimate relationship with Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney along with other poets from around the world.The second lecture explores how influential the classical literatures of Greece and Rome have been on English poetry, highlighting how he has used these literatures in his own work, often to portray the Troubles in his native Northern Ireland. Longley closes with a very personal discussion of the influence that the west of Ireland has had on his poetry, his life, and his 'spiritual education'. The poet's love of nature and the environment shines through and extracts from his poems portray his deep understanding of the West. This illuminating volume gives readers a rare insight into the creative process of one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets who was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007 to 2010.Trade Review'This beautifully produced book is part of the series The Poet's Chair: Writings from the Ireland Chair of Poetry, which collects the lectures given by the holder of the Chair during his or her tenure. This volume collects the lectures delivered by Michael Longley, a poet whose dedication and rigorous approach to poetic composition, together with his wit and modesty as a man, have made him an exemplary figure for generations of Irish poets.'Michael O'Loughlin, The Irish Times, 14 November 2015 'Michael Longley takes a quasi-religious view of poetry, believing that it is a 'calling', not a profession ... "It's my life, it's my religion, it's the way I make sense of the world". That world has encompassed growing up in Belfast before the Troubles, an education in Classics at Trinity College Dublin, and time divided between two homes, in Belfast and Carrigskeewaun ... where the landscape and nature have inspired much of his verse.' Hugh McFadden, Books Ireland, November/December 2015 'The slim hardback, One Wide Expanse, has been beautifully produced by UCD Press and contains Longley's three formal lectures.' 22 June 2015, The Irish Times 'What goes on inside a poet's head? In this first volume of UCD Press's The Poet's Chair, the distinguished Irish Poet Michael Longley ... reflects on what has influenced his craft.' The Irish Voice, August 2015 'Longley's love of nature and the environment shines through and extracts from his poems portray his deep understanding of the West.' Connacht Tribune, 3 September 2015'Opinionated yet calm, cushioned within the Ulster establishment yet as liberal as any dissident, [Longley] has drawn thousands of readers to his poetry of fearsome integrity ... These books from the Ireland Chair of Poetry will, over time, constitute a prodigious handbook of poetic craft ... What may have begun as a very fine idea to record the voices of these distinguished poet-Professors has now developed into a UCD master-class on the craft of poetry.' The Irish Examiner, 29 August 2015 'This illuminating volume, beautifully produced by UCD Press, gives readers a rare insight into the creative process of one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets ... A must-read for fans of literature, in particular poetry.' Ulster Tatler, September 2015Table of ContentsContents: Foreword; A Jovial Hullabaloo; One Wide Expanse; The West; A Note on Texts; Bibliographical Note.

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Book SynopsisThe Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals for over fifty years. Apart from its role in bringing millions of pounds of foreign currency into Ireland to build new hospitals and provide employment, it also contributed to the development of Irish advertising and broadcasting, horse-racing, the growth of Irish business and commercial sponsorship of sport. But that was not the whole story. Marie Coleman also digs deep into the murkier side of the Irish Sweep. She successfully reveals scandals, skulduggery and gangsterism, which all played their part in the sweepstakes, exposing the blind eyes that were turned to its shortcomings and exploring the extent to which these failings ultimately damaged the Irish health services by postponing necessary reforms. Using original archive material, "The Irish Sweep" successfully draws together these disparate aspects of the sweepstake - its social and economic importance in independent Ireland, its contribution to the development of Irish health services, and its illicit operation outside Ireland - to construct the first detailed and comprehensive history of an iconic institution.Trade Review'Hugely impressive... always engaging, often fascinating, original, fluidly written and very well researched.' Diarmaid Ferriter 'Marie Coleman's history of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake gives a fascinating picture of mid-20th century Ireland - still somewhat closed off from the world and with economic activity sluggish. An Irish get-rich-quick scheme had romantic, not to say illicit, connotations abroad, and produced beneficial results for the health system at home, as well as providing employment for 4,000 clerical workers at Ballsbridge. The quickest to get rich were the sweepstake's promoters, who enjoyed wealth beyond the conceiving of most of their fellow citizens. Marie Coleman's carefully researched book is a work of history - she is a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast - she shows how the illegality of sweepstakes in the US fed into a general sense of bending the rules (the American operation was controlled by two men with close links to the IRA; and the Irish postal service connived in getting around obstacles). And a clear picture emerges of how the Sweep, a private company once too big to be disciplined, became an embarrassment to the State whose legislation allowed it a lax attitude to accounting.' Irish Times John S Doyle 11 Dec 2009 'In a week after staff at Mullingar Hospital were left reeling by further bed cuts at the hospital, it's worth recalling that it was money from across the world - through the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes - that built the hospital, back in the 1930s. The story is told in a new book 'The Irish Sweep: a history of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake 1930 - 1987', written by the Castlepollard-born historian, Dr Marie Coleman. Dr Coleman ... is a graduate of UCD, and now works as a lecturer in Irish History ay Queens University Belfast.' Westmeath Examiner 28 Nov 2009 So, what's your best read of 2009? The Irish Sweep: A History of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, 1930-87, by Marie Coleman, (UCD Press, A28), is a comprehensive warts-and-all history of the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, which focuses on its economic and social importance. Marie Coleman is one of Ireland's finest up-and-coming historians. The Sweepstakes emerged in the 1930s because our newly emerging state did not have the financial capacity to sufficiently invest in hospitals and our healthcare system. The Sweepstakes was a means to bridge that gap. It was an Irish solution to an Irish problem. It became a feature of public health funding for over half a century in modern Ireland. At a time when Ireland was pursuing policies of economic self-sufficiency, the Sweepstake brought millions of punts in foreign currency into the country. Its success abroad was such that during the Economic War the British government introduced legislation to curb the vast amount of money leaving Britain for Ireland and the Sweepstake. The Irish Sweep brilliantly analyses the controversies and the contribution of the Sweepstakes to the development of our health services. It is both a serious work of history and an immensely readable account of an iconic Irish institution. Bertie Ahern Sunday Independent 19 December 2009 Short of gift ideas this Christmas? Jennifer Ryan asks society's movers and shakers for their favourite books of the year - Keeping abreast of non-fiction, Ferriter recently launched The Irish Sweep: A History of the Irish Hospital Sweepstake by Marie Coleman, 'plagued by gangsters, corruption, and forgeries.' Irish Independent 20 December, 2009 'The van driver put his hands in the air and whistled innocently. The customs officer flung him to one side, leapt into the van and heaved one of the laundry bags onto the dockside. Another officer slit it open. Sure enough, the sack was stuffed with thousands upon thousands of Irish Sweepstake counterfoils. As the smugglers were rounded up, the customs officer must have mused upon the futility of his task. For every book of tickets that his team busted, a dozen more were still slipping through the system undetected. Those pesky Irish. Would they ever give up? The Irish Hospitals Sweepstake ran from 1930 to 1987 and raised the equivalent of A170 million for the Irish health service, creating a network of over 400 hospitals, clinics and medical centres across Ireland. Its' rather more covert aim was to provide its three founding directors with an income that spiralled them into the upper echelons of Europe's wealthy elite. And if that required a little bit of systematic insider dealing from time to time, then so be it. There are also increasingly sure-footed suggestion that profits from the Sweep, a lottery to which millions of people from Ireland, the USA and the British Isles subscribed, were being channelled directly into the coffers of the Irish Republican Army at a time when the IRA was forging major links with Nazi Germany. Small wonder that the Reader's Digest declared the Sweep 'the greatest bleeding heart racket in the world'. This is a story that needs to be told and told it is in Dr. Marie Coleman's fascinating and brilliantly researched new book, The Irish Sweep.' Historian - Turtle Bunbury Irish Daily Mail December 2009 'Coleman, a lecturer in history at Queen's University, Belfast, could have written a racy, sensational account of the sweepstake and its place in folk history both Irish and American, but she has presented a serious study of its operation and impact in a detailed book with diagrams and statistics. The photographs however give a hint of the glamorous showbiz aspect of the sweepstake, which brought hope and cheer to many a drab and difficult times. With recent controversies over the funding of the health service, this is a timely book reminding us of one imaginative solution to the problem that was successfully practised for decades.' Books Ireland February 2010 A Tax on Foreign Fools An unkind economist once referred to lotteries and sweepstakes as 'taxes on fools'. What distinguished the Irish Hospital Sweepstake, the subject of this fine book, is that so much of its income came from abroad - from foreign fools, in fact. At the beginning of the 1930s two-thirds of the money gambled came from Britain. This was generally regarded in England as rank hypocrisy while de Valera was grandstanding his refusal of the Annuities, so the laws against illegal lotteries were tightened. By the end of the 1930s half of the Sweep's income was coming from America and Canada. So this was big money, and virtually all of it coming from abroad. For various reasons 1932 was a high spot, but the Sweep itself went on for another 55 years. In that time, as Marie Coleman tells us, the fat flow of money attracted all sorts of dodgy characters, like flies to carrion. It also provided sorely needed employment for thousands in Dublin; supplemented the dress allowances of respectable middle-class housewives who sold tickets to British friends, and built over 200 hospitals. Historians tend not to be polite about the Sweep, adducing the dubious practices (a lot of smuggling and bribes) necessary to sell tickets in Britain and the USA where lotteries were illegal; they point enviously at the fortunes made by the organisers; and they denounce (with reason) the mean-spirited ending of the organisation. Now Marie Coleman has written the definitive account of this ambiguous but important national institution. In her conclusion she describes the Sweep as one of the greatest missed opportunities in the history of the state, a chance to create a superb medical service based on a three-legged model of hospitals, community medical services and an upgraded GP service (as brought forward in the Department of Health's 1945 plan, and still on the HSE's agenda). That this did not happen she blames on a combination of the factional interests of the medical profession and the voluntary hospitals scratchily relating to an unimaginative government service. So no change there. Tony Farmar The Irish Catholic 1 April 2010 'The Irish Sweepstake which ran from 1930 until the arrival of the National Lottery ('he Lotto' in 1985 was one of the most successful Irish businesses ever. Not only did it make certain individuals rich, but sweepstake money also helped other businesses develop such as Waterford glass. Added to this it was an international phenomenon that was celebrated in Hollywood movies and gave a new meaning to the old saying, 'the luck of the Irish'. And the amazing thing is that it was actually illegal in other countries and relied on a smuggling network established by the IRA to sell tickets abroad and get the money back to Ireland. This all makes for a sensational story and it would have been easy to write a racy, sensational account of the sweepstake. However it was also a very serious enterprise which supported hospitals throughout the Irish state. Coleman is an academic historian who approaches the history of the sweepstake in a matter-of-fact manner. She sets the scene by explaining that lotteries of one form or another had existed in Ireland from as early as 1621 and from the eighteenth century onwards it was not unusual for lotteries or sweepstakes to be used to support hospitals, even at a time when lotteries were technically illegal. It was their popularity and the need to finance hospitals, most of which were run by religious orders and voluntary institutions, which led the government to pass an act in 1930 establishing the Irish Sweepstake. While Coleman does not lay stress on it, it is difficult to ignore the social impact of the sweepstake at home and abroad. Apart from the fact that it held out hope of instant riches during the Great Depression, it introduced glitz and glamour like Ireland had never seen before. Each ticket draw was a showbiz event with huge razzmatazz involving a parade through Dublin, sweepstake staff in theatrical costumes and celebrities in attendance as tickets were drawn from the drums. The sweepstake draw was a tourist attraction in its own right with visitors and the world's press coming to Dublin to witness it. However, there was a dark side to it also. Although sanctioned by an act of the Oireachtas, the Irish sweepstake was illegal in Britain, the United States and elsewhere. This meant that the sweepstake agents were breaking the law in these countries. In both Britain and America the authorities attempted to stop importation, usually by post, of tickets and applications for them being sent to Ireland. In response, as Coleman reveals, the sweepstake resorted to a network of agents, many of them in the IRA or associated with it, to set up an elaborate smuggling operation to get tickets into these countries by any means and likewise to get the dollars and pounds paid for tickets back to Ireland. The meant in effect that hospitals in Ireland were being financed through a criminal enterprise. One kind of illegality breeds another and Coleman recounts cases of fraud, embezzlement and forged tickets which became unwanted features of the sweepstake operation. In her assessment of its impact, Coleman is not very positive about it. She implies that overall it was a corrupting influence on society and that although over the decades it raised millions for Irish hospitals it was in fact an inhibiting factor on reform of the health services. The easy money for the sweepstake meant there was no proper planning or coordination in providing services across the hospitals. Similarly the sweepstake's success prevented the rationalisation and reform of the health service, a legacy with which Irish society is still coping to this day. Coleman has given us a well written and researched overview of its history, highlighting the major features and the individuals involved, and raising key issues relating to the sweepstake and its operation. - Where Coleman has been a pioneer and laid the groundwork, other historians are sure to follow.' Tony Canavan Books Ireland May 2010 'While there has been recent work on the scandals and corruption involved, this is the first book to look at all aspects of the Sweepstakes. Coleman argues that the money brought in by selling tickets, particularly (and illegally) to the Irish diaspora helped to establish a hospital system throughout Ireland and provided thousands of jobs. - She also points out the lack of oversight of the funds given to hospitals and other bureaucratic lapses that kept needed reform from being established. This is a fascinating, balanced study of a legendary institution.' Book News US August 2010 'Marie Coleman has a varied, complex and often startling story to tell, and she tells it very well indeed. The book is meticulously researched and its many tables provide a great deal of fascinating financial information. The book is also full of revealing anecdotes, and it contains a cast of striking characters. - The history of the Sweep throws new light on many aspects of politics and finance during the decades after independence, as well as on the government's willingness to turn a blind eye to questionable business dealings if they proved profitable - plus ca change - and the Sweep was extraordinarily profitable for long periods of time.' Irish Studies Review August 2010 'This is an economic, organisational and political analysis of the sweeps and of their impact on hospitals in Ireland - a fascinating study, and well worth a place on university bookshelves.' International Journal of the History of Sport Sept. 2010 'Coleman has given us a well written and researched overview of its history, highlighting the major features and the individuals involved, and raising key issues relating to the sweepstake and its operations - Where Coleman has been a pioneer and laid the groundwork, other historians are sure to follow.' Books Ireland May 2010 'The book has several impressive aspects, the first being its transnational focus. The overseas reach of the Irish sweep is a major theme in Coleman's work, and she researched in Canadian, Irish, British, and American archives in order to take the story of the sweep beyond Ireland. Irish diasporic communication networks were used to sell tickets, and prominent Irish-Americans, such as longtime Clan na Gael mandarin Joseph McGarrity, promoted the sweep. - The book's second major strength is its analysis of the sweep's effects on Irish hospitals. - the book provides a well-written, informative, and entertaining account of an important Irish institution that has been heretofore neglected by historians.' Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 36 (1) 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE: The Origins of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake; TWO: The Sweepstake in Ireland in the 1930s; THREE: The Development of Irish Hospitals in the 1930s; FOUR: The Sweepstake in Great Britain in the 1930s; FIVE: The Sweepstake in North America in the 1930s; SIX: Survival and Recovery 1939-61; SEVEN: Decline and Closure 1961-87; EIGHT: The Sweepstake and Hospital Development 1939-87; Conclusion; Appendix: Accounts of Sweepstake Draws; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAfter the Second World War the Irish state maintained the high industrial tariffs of the 1930s, despite the inefficiency of its protected industries. Such inefficiency fed into the crisis of economic stagnation and mass emigration that engulfed the Republic in the 1950s. As EEC entry became the state's goal, adapting and upgrading Irish industries for free trade conditions loomed large in the 1960s. These ends were pursued through technical assistance schemes and a productivity drive - innovations introduced to the Irish state by the US Marshall Plan. This book looks at this neglected aspect of post-war Irish history and analyses the social, political and economic effects of the policies pursued.Trade Review'Murray has produced an important historical account that all students of the economic development of modern Ireland will have to take account of in the future.' Irish Studies Review, August 2010 "This book might be a rejoinder to Fosters as it shows that the economic development of the Republic and its prosperity up to the current recession were the product of decades of policy and planning. Murray shows how the stagnation of the Republic in the 1950s and mass emigration led to a radical rethink in the state's economic policies. Joining the European Economic Community was seen as the best means to ensure economic prosperity. To do that meant ditching inefficient domestic industries, modernising the industrial sector and supporting innovation. To achieve this Ireland accepted US aid under the Marshall Plan which enabled schemes to improve industrial technology and productivity. Murray follows this through showing the long-term impact of these policies and charting the rise in Irish industrial visibility and how all this fitted into the plans to join the EEC." Books Ireland September 2009 'Murray, who teaches Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, presents a policy and institutional analysis of a critical period for the Irish Republic. Caught amid the economic promise of Europe and the US-promoted Cold War vision of global capitalism, Ireland recognised that its future would rest in best taking advantage of its hard-won independence to transform itself. Distancing Ireland from continued overreliance on trade relations with the UK, the republic tried to leverage both the US and Europe to set it own course to economic independence. While examining the importance of education, labour, management and government, Murray explicates the very complicated role of government policy and the bewildering variety of acronymic government bureaus. To no one's surprise, the author reveals the very uneven accomplishments of policy initiatives over the period studied. To answer the title's eponymous question, Murray would respond with the qualified 'maybe'. Recommended to undergraduates and above.' Choice August 2010 Vol. 47 No. 11 'Peter Murray's deftly researched and well-argued book is an important addition to the scholarly literature probing the actual working and influence of the E.R.P. (European Recovery program). One of a growing number of country-specific studies, Murray's work reveals an important dimension of the relationship between Marshall Aid, European business recovery and local challenges posed by American post-war economic dominance: he shows how Marshall Aid largesse often acted as a double-edged sword, carrying both the hopeful promise of economic rehabilitation, but, with it, the heavy cost of reforming indigenous business practices in line with American managerial models.Murray's work illuminates the historic persistence of Ireland's long, frustrating struggle to achieve full economic independence.' Irish Historical Studies 37 (146) 2010Table of ContentsProtected Irish Industry and Post-War European Free Trade; Marshall Plan Innovations: Technical Assistance and the Productivity Drive; US Innovations After US Aid: Technical Assistance and Irish Industry, 1952-73; Industrial Adaptation Partners? Government, Business and Trade Unions; Educating Trade Unionists; Developing Managers; Remoulding Mainstream Education and Inaugurating Science Policy; Shaping Social Science Research; The Impact of Innovations and the Context of Institutions; Notes; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisStudies on the Germans, Volume 11 of the Collected Works, was first published in German in 1989, exactly 50 years after Elias' most famous work, On the Process of Civilisation. The essays in the book were written independently of each other over three decades. In this new edition, Elias' original English text of the extremely important essay 'The breakdown of civilisation' is published for the first time. Other essays include those on duelling and its wider social significance, as well as on nationalism, civilisation and violence, and post-war terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany. All the essays have been newly annotated by the editors, especially to make clear many historical references that Elias, unrealistically, assumed his readers would understand without further explanation.Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Introduction; Civilisation and informalisation: changes in European standards of behaviour in the twentieth century; Honour, duelling and membership of the imperial ruling class: being judged worthy to give satisfaction; A digression on nationalism; Civilisation and violence: on the state's monopoly of physical force and its breaking; The breakdown of civilisation; Terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany: expression of a conflict between generations; Thoughts on the Federal Republic; APPENDICES: I The German aristocratic code and 'proof by ancestry'; II On the interpretation of Mozart's scatological remarks; III Why I began to study the problem of 'civilisation'; IV On the relative independence of the high nobility from the imperial court; V Sieyes, the Third Estate, and changing feelings of identity; VI Machiavelli's policy prescriptions; VII Nationalism and middle-class morality in Victorian Britain; VIII Conflicts trigger aggression; IX On the ethos of the Wilhelmine bourgeoisie; X Pro-war literature during the Weimar Republic (Ernst Junger); XI On the character of conflicts in the early Weimar Republic; XII Conditions for the attainment of the domestic and foreign goals of the old elite; XIII The decay of the state monopoly of force in the Weimar Republic; XIV The stab in the back; XV Lucifer upon the ruins of the world; XVI The meaning of the word Reich - excerpt from the Fischerlexikon; XVII An empire dies; XVIII The awareness of powerlessness - note added in 1984; XIX Marxism and terrorism: a terrorist's explanation; XX George Orwell, 'England Your England'; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book Synopsis"Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century" is a contribution to the intellectual history of Ireland and to the history of the human sciences. It seeks to document a selected yet systematic set of views on Ireland as 'Other' during the nineteenth century. Of its ten chapters, six comprise the views on Ireland (social, cultural and political) of significant thinkers from outside the island. The selected thinkers are: Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), friend of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59); John Stuart Mill (1806-73); Harriet Martineau (1802-76); Sir Henry Maine (1822-88); Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95); James Anthony Froude (1818-94). In addition, the two significant themes of Celticism and Race, constructs through which the Irish were frequently viewed, will also be included; under these headings, attention will be given to the thought of Matthew Arnold and Robert Knox. All of this is accompanied by a historical introduction and a concluding afterword by Peter Gray. The contributors to the project have been chosen for their expertise in their respective topics and represent a range of academic disciplines. All of the topics (with the exception of that on Harriet Martineau) were presented as papers at a conference held under the auspices of the Anthropological Association of Ireland in Headfort House, Kells, Co. Meath, on Friday-Saturday, 18-19 March 2005.Trade Review"This is an interesting, even a pioneering, book that examines the intellectual attitude towards Ireland of people from outside the country during the century when social morality came to grips with the poor and ill-considered. It is an attempt to explore the concept of Ireland as the 'other' in the social, cultural and political spheres and how ideas of race and Celticism influenced ideas in Ireland ... raise[s] key issues about attitudes to Ireland and their influence on both politics and policy." Books Ireland November 2009 'The thinkers, writers and commentators whose outsiders assessments of the condition of Ireland are addressed in Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century variously addressed a period of seismic, political and economic change. In an adroit closing synthesis, Peter grey notes that they wrote as outsiders about the Irish as others. Some wrote as friends of Ireland, some as defenders of the status quo. They presented either environmentist or cultural essentialist explanations of Irish social problems and sometimes conflated both. - Brady's chapter on Froude's crusade against Irish home rule is by far the best written in this book.' Studies Issue 394, vol 99 Summer 2010 'It is perhaps significant that it took an anthropologist to address the question of social thought in Ireland, although this book is truly interdisciplinary in its contributors, who comprise six historians, three sociologists, two anthropologists and two political scientists, even if the distinctions between disciplines are sometimes more a question of approach than of subject matter. - There are, as one might expect, profound divergences in the prescriptions for Ireland advocated by these thinkers. - This is a thought-provoking book and a most useful and informative guide to the range of perceptions of Ireland in the nineteenth century.' Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2010 'many of the most salient points in this interesting collection relate to the influence of the theorists' work' English Historical Review, August 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ireland's Nineteenth Century, Vincent Comerford; Gustave de Beaumont: Ireland's Alexis de Tocqueville, Tom Garvin and Andreas Hess; John Stuart Mill and Ireland, Graham Finlay; Harriet Martineau and Ireland, Brian Conway and Michael R. Hill; Sir Henry Maine and the Survival of the Fittest, Seamas O Siochain; The Irish Question in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Writings on Capitalism and Empire, Chandana Mathur and Dermot Dix; Destinies Intertwined: The Metaphysical Unionism of James Anthony Froude, Ciaran Brady; Race Theory and the Irish, Peter J. Bowler; Celticism: Macpherson, Matthew Arnold and Ireland, George J. Watson; Afterword by Peter Gray; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMore Than Concrete Blocks: Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories is a three volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and written for the general reader. Unpacking the history of Dublin's architecture during the twentieth century, each book covers a period, in chronological sequence: Volume 1, 1900-1939; Volume 2, 1940-1972; Volume 3, 1973-1999. The series comes out of a pioneering research and survey project commissioned and funded by Dublin City Council's Heritage Office and has received grant support from the Heritage Council and the Department of Housing Local Government and Heritage. Edited by Dr Ellen Rowley, the series considers the city as a layered and complex place. It makes links between Dublin's buildings and Dublin's political, social, cultural and economic histories. By focusing on architecture as the central thread in the story of the city in formation, 1900-2000, More Than Concrete Blocks is about the relationship between architecture and people in Dublin City. For Volume 3, the series editor is joined by Dr Carole Pollard as co-editor. This volume contains three introductory historical essays covering the building culture in Dublin of the 1970s (Carole Pollard), the 1980s (Ellen Rowley) and the 1990s (Merlo Kelly). These overview essays are followed by 31 studies ranging from iconic situations such as the Poolbeg Chimneys (1971-78), the Papal Cross (Phoenix Park, 1979) or the Central Bank (1979) on Dame Street, to lesser-known structures like the Willowfield housing scheme (1985) in Sandymount, the AnCO Training Centre (1981) in Finglas or the Donaghmede RC parish church (1979). Each study is framed according to key historic questions, and raises issues around architectural technology and materials, patronage, economic histories and urban planning, residents and ceremonial or daily use, and so on. Importantly, Volume 3 covers the decades of the end of the twentieth century, as Ireland joined the European Commission and Dublin city grew confident enough to reimagine Temple Bar. So, much of this history captures the energy and subsequent architectural framing of social infrastructure during this period. Volume 3 also presents an overview, in guidebook style, of 140 sites; a survey of the city's buildings over the period 1973 to 1999, not as 'a best of' but as a representation of architectural endeavour at the time.Trade Review'Dublin’s 20th century architecture can get a raw deal, More Than Concrete Blocks highlights its many strengths' –Frank McDonald, Irish Times, December 2023.

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Book SynopsisWomen's literary expressions of war have long been neglected and at times forgotten in Irish scholarship. In Women Writing War: Ireland 1880-1922 many of these forgotten women are revealed through their writings as culturally active and deeply invested in the political and military struggles of their turbulent times. From the Land Wars to the Boer Wars, from the First World War to the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War, the fascinating women considered in this volume-grapple with the experiential representation of conflicts. The diverse range of topics explored include: women's eye- witness accounts of 1916, Winifred Letts's First World War poetry, the political rhetoric and experiences of Anna Parnell and Anne Blunt during the Land War, Peggie Kelly's fiction and Cumann na mBan activism, the cultural nationalism of northern. Protestant "New Women" of the Glens of Antrim, Una Ni Fhaircheallaigh's Irish language activism in and beyond the Gaelic League, Emily Lawless's Boer War diary as well as the dramatic collaboration of sisters Eva Gore-Booth and Countess Markievicz.The book also includes a preface by historian Margaret Ward and an extract from Lia Mills's award-winning historical novel Fallen, set in Dublin during the Easter Rising (selected as the 2016 'One City One Book' choice for both Dublin and Belfast). Engaging with recent Scholarly debates on sexuality, war writing, and the politics of Irish warfare, the authors of Women Writing War explore the ways in which conflict narratives have been read - and interpreted - as deeply gendered. Radicals, revolutionaries and queer activists, as well as women who remained attached to the domestic sphere, are all represented in this original and provocative volume on the relationship between women and conflict.Trade Review'This book comprises essays by female writers about war, from the Land War to the Civil War, from Anna Parnell's Ladies Land League to the early years of the Irish Free State and subsequent disillusionment. Heidi Hansson's essay is a delight, showing how unionist Emily Lawless's gardening diary mixed concern about the progress of the Boer War with concern about her budding shoots, often in the same sentence. Jody Allen Randolph is particularly interesting on Peggie Kelly, who wrote under the pen name of Garrett O'Driscoll.' Irish Times, 10 June 2017 'Lucy Collins examines the war poetry of Winifred Letts and in a splendid piece of literary criticism shows how she sheds new light on the moral ambiguities of violent conflict.' The Irish Catholic, June 2017 'Some thought-provoking books about 1916 and all that have been published this year, both fiction and non-fiction. Women Writing War edited by Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O'Cinneide (University College Dublin Press) is one of my favourites.' Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, 25 December 2016Table of ContentsMargaret Ward: Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Diane Urquhart: 'The Ladies" Land, League have [sic] a crust to share with you": The Rhetoric of the Ladies' Land League's British Campaign, 1881-2; Muireann O'cinneide: Anne Blunt, Arabi Pasha and the Irish Land Wars; Heidi Hansson: Battles in the Garden: Emily Lawless's A Garden Diary 1899-1900 and the Boer War; Lucy Collins: Winifred Letts and the Great War: A Poetics of Witness; Tina O'toole: The New Women of the Glens: Writers and Revolutionaries; Maureen O'connor: Eva Gore-Booth's Art of War; Riona Nic Congail: 'An Cros-Bhethar': Agnes O'Farrelly's Political Poetry (1918-27); Lucy Mcdiarmid: Uncomfortable Bodies in Women's Accounts of 1916; Jody Allen Randolph: 'If No one Wanted to Remember': Margaret Kelly and the Lost Battalion; Writing the Rising: Lia Mills on Fallen (2014).

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Book Synopsis"Involvement and Detachment" is much more than a discussion of 'objectivity' in the social sciences. It is Elias' major exposition of his sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of overall human social development. The essay 'The fishermen in the maelstrom' takes its title from a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and is used to illustrate how fears have to be overcome in order for 'reality-adequate' knowledge - necessary to tackle the dangers from which the fears arise - to accumulate. Discussions of rising dangers in international relations show how far the theory of civilising process is from being a model of unilinear 'progress'. Two fragments on 'The great evolution' discuss the long-term development of the various levels of scientific knowledge - physical, biological and social. Originally written in English, it includes various passages omitted from the previous edition.Trade Review"Elias's thesis concerning the varying degrees of involvement and detachment in the arts and sciences constitutes his most systematic and comprehensive contribution to the sociology of knowledge." "In many ways the notes by the editors which preface these volumes can ... be read as biographical illustrations of Elias's own ongoing intellectual meditations on the tensions between involvement and detachment, and with his continuing personal and professional confrontation with the problem of time." "well worth the dedicated study and patient reflection [it] demand[s] of readers." Canadian Journal of Sociology 33 (1) 3008 "The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 08Table of ContentsCONTENTS Norbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Introduction (by Norbert Elias); Problems of involvement and detachment; The fishermen in the maelstrom; Reflections on the great evolution: two fragments; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisElias effectively founded the modern sociology of sport in collaboration with Eric Dunning in the 1960s and 1970s. They argue that in highly constrained, 'civilised' societies, sports - as well as a spectrum of other cultural and leisure activities - are to be understood not in terms of 'relaxation' but rather of the need for pleasurable excitement and its pleasurable resolution.The topics range historically from the violence of the ancient Greek Olympic Games to foxhunting, early forms of football, and the question of why Britain proved to be the cradle of so many modern sports. And, today, what are the effects of achievement striving in elite sports? Why has spectator violence become such a problem? Why do so many sports retain the character of a 'male preserve'? Originally written in English, this volume has been thoroughly revised by Eric Dunning and includes one hitherto unpublished essay by Elias and a new essay by Dunning, bringing up to date his interpretation of football hooliganism.Trade Review"The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - It is particularly happy that the first of these titles should find an Irish publisher since we are perforce specialists in the matter of social establishments or ascendancy - the existence of an 'Irishtown' outside many of our towns speaks of literal outsidership. The frequent use of the word 'exciting' in advertising and criticism seems to go unnoticed and Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 08Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Introduction, Norbert Elias; The Quest for Excitement in Leisure, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning; Leisure in the Sparetime Spectrum, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning; The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 1, Norbert Elias; The Genesis of Sport as a Sociological Problem, Part 2, Norbert Elias; An Essay on Sport and Violence, Norbert Elias; Folk Football in Medieval and Early Modern Britain, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning; Dynamics of Sport Groups with Special Reference to Football, Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning; The Dynamics of Modern Sport: Notes on Achievement-Striving and the Social Significance of Sport, Eric Dunning; Social Bonding and Violence in Sport, Eric Dunning; Sport as a Male Preserve: Notes on the Social Sources of Masculine Identity and its Transformations, Eric Dunning; Football Hooliganism as an Emergent Global Idiom, Eric Dunning; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisHow will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might democracy evolve if survivors' experiences and expertise were allowed to lead the response to a century of gender- and family separation-based abuses? REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seeks the answers. This collection explores the ways in which Ireland - North and South - treats those who suffered in Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, County Homes, industrial and reformatory schools, and in a closed and secretive adoption system, over the last 100 years. The essays focus on the structures which perpetuated widespread and systematic abuses in the past and consider how political arrangements continue to exert power over survivors, adopted people and generations of relatives, as well as controlling the remains and memorialisation of the dead. As we mark the centenary of both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice forensically examines the two states' so-called 'redress' schemes and investigations, and the statements of apology that accompanied them. With diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection considers how a Transitional Justice-based, survivor-centred, approach might assist those personally affected, policy makers, the public, and academics to evaluate the complex ways in which both the Republic and Northern Ireland (and other states in a comparative context) have responded to their histories of institutionalisation and family separation. Importantly, the essays collected in REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seek to offer avenues by which to redress this legacy of continuing harms.Trade Review'This truly outstanding academic endeavour convincingly argues for its timeliness. It illustrates continuity of institutional abuse in Ireland, as the state and religious congregations resist accepting responsibility for their roles.' - Review of Irish Studies in Europe 6.1; 'Most chapters are academic in character, but the reader will also find poetry, photography, creative writing, songs, journalism and survivors' testimonies in this profoundly interdisciplinary volume.' - Historical Dialogues, Justice, And Memory Network, April 2023.; 'The collection snaps our mind's eye from the past and handwringing over what we did or did not know, could or should have done differently. These problems confront us with just as much urgency today.' - Critical Social Policy, March 2023.; 'The contributors to this volume offer a different perspective, one that draws on the pain and truth-telling of survivors themselves.' - James M Smith, The Irish Times, June 2022.; 'My mother was given a half hour's notice to get me ready to have me taken from her.' - The Journal, June 2022.; 'Redress should be read by anyone who cares about the vulnerable, & those who can influence how they are treated today.' - Tina Neylon, The Irish Examiner, October 2022.; 'It is a brave, creative, radical and unflinching collection' - Lindsey Earner-Byrne, The Sunday Independent, August 2022.; 'This is a compelling collection of essays, testimonies, analysis & interrogation. From the loss & denial of identity of the survivor, to the empty rhetorical gestures of state & church, to the closure of access to truth' - Christopher Stanley, The Village, August 2022.; 'It is a brave, creative, radical and unflinching collection, rooted in the concept of transitional justice' - ACIS, August 2022.; 'There isn't a book long enough to contain the stories of the suffering endured by all mothers and their children over the last century, but this one at least puts their experiences to the fore.' - Clodagh Finn, Irish Examiner, June 2022.; 'An Ongoing Injustice: State Responses to "Historical" Abuses in Ireland' - Maeve O'Rourke, The Irish Story, July 2022.; 'Lawyer calls for full baby homes inquiry instead of insincere remorse for survivors' - Nicola Byrne, Irish Mail on Sunday, June 2022.; 'The collection snaps our mind's eye from the past and handwringing over what we did or did not know, could or should have done differently. These problems confront us with just as much urgency today. So, what is it we are going to do now? - Louise Brangan, Critical Social Policy, March 2023.

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Book SynopsisBefore gay decriminalisation in 1993, there was no solid gay or lesbian tradition in Irish writing, due to the political and cultural dominance of a conservative, censorious Catholic ideology that conflated itself with notions of national identity and social respectability. Praised today as a beacon of gay rights, Ireland has become the first nation to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015. Significantly, whereas in the recent past there was much silence, stigma and prejudice surrounding homosexuality, now there is a plethora of voices reclaiming equality, visibility and recognition. Yet today's liberal culture still silences aspects of gay and lesbian life which go beyond the parameters of the 'socially acceptable' homosexual. Queer Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices in Irish Fiction is the first comprehensive survey of gay and lesbian-themed fiction in Ireland, from the late 1970s until today. The book foregrounds the cultural contribution of Irish writers whose subversive, dissident voices decidedly challenged not only the homophobia and heteronormative values of Catholic Ireland, but also the persistent discrimination of more liberal times. Through the analyses of representative novels and short stories, the book addresses a number of social issues - lesbian invisibility, same-sex parenthood, sexual subcultures, HIV/AIDS and the liberalisation of Ireland, among many others -, considering how these fictions favoured a broader cultural and political awareness of the oppression and silencing of lesbian and gay people over the last decades in Ireland. The writing explored in Queer Whispers consistently exposes the limitations imposed by silence, and, while doing so, articulates a new language of recognition and resilience of the continued struggles faced by queer Ireland. 'Kudos to Jose Carregal for gathering the scattered pieces of LGBT representation in Irish literature from the 1970s and producing an intelligent and insightful analysis. Queer Whispers is a long overdue and crucial study.' - Emma DonoghueTrade Review‘Kudos to José Carregal for gathering the scattered pieces of LGBT representation in Irish literature from the 1970s and producing an intelligent and insightful analysis. Queer Whispers is a long overdue and crucial study.' - Emma Donoghue

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Book SynopsisEugene Downing (1913–2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing had no immediate Republican record, joining the communist Workers Groups in Dublin just out of his apprenticeship as an electrician. Despite this backdrop, Downing spent nine months in the International Brigades Spain before being invalided home (amputated lower left leg) in December 1938. His memoirs are presented here in English for the first time. One Foot in a Spanish Grave: Eugene Downing’s Memoir of the International Brigades in Spain – published in the Irish language as La Nina Bonita agus An Róisín Dubh: Cuimhní Cinn ar Chogadh Cathartha na Spáinne – has been long worthy of a translation into English. The structure of the original Irish text has been altered slightly, with some appendices omitted. Translated by Micheál Ó hAodha, edited and introduced by Barry McLoughlin, One Foot in a Spanish Grave begins with Brendan Byrne, Eugene’s nephew, sharing his memories of a highly non-conformist uncle. Downing’s portrayal of life in the International Brigades is often humourous, greatly generous when judging others, but ultimately critical of political zealotry. He proves himself to be a wry observer of his fellow volunteers and of his own youthful militancy in the virulently anti-communist Dublin of the 1930s. This text is a translation of Eoghan Ó Duinnín’s (Eugene Downing’s) book La Nina Bonita agus An Róisín Dubh: Cuimhní Cinn ar Chogadh Cathartha na Spáinne (An Clóchomhar, Baile Átha Cliath, 1986). The Irish-language rights for this book lie with Cló Iar-Chonnacht, Indreabhán, Co. na Gaillimhe.

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Book SynopsisThis fresh collection of essays examines the continued significance of gender as a marker of inequality in the lives of women across diverse contexts in Irish society. It is a cliche to say that we live in a knowledge society, but exactly whose knowledge sets the economic, political, social, and cultural parameters in any given society? Contributors tackle this question by taking the reader on a gender knowledge journey through the contemporary workplace, the state and civil society and into the education and wider cultural domains. The essays demonstrate the persistence of power differentials, the resilience of gender stereotypes and the ongoing reproduction of specific kinds of gender exclusions. Ideas about gender (often outdated and ill conceived) continue to maintain existing power imbalances in tech work, finance, education, and media. Those ideas also frame public policy debates about sex work, homelessness, women's activism and reproductive rights. Finally, a gender knowledge perspective reveals the downstream impact of gender and others forms of difference and inequality in relation to the teaching profession, game culture, book reviewing and access to archival materials on historical abuse. Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender: power, production and practice in Ireland will appeal to those interested in gender studies, political sociology and the sociology of knowledge.Trade Review‘”The deep-structured gender divisions .. that almost imperceptibly frame our institutions, processes and practices remain largely intact,” according to Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender, an important collection of well-researched essays for UCD Press’. Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, August 2020 |||| ‘Crowe makes the case that both church and State need to hugely improve access to their archives, for the sake of survivors who need personal information and for the sake of scholarship, which can help us to make sense of this extraordinary story. In this extract she shares two stories which display both the unreliable way archives have been managed and the importance of making sure archives survive.’ Catriona Crowe, writing in the Irish Times July 2020 |||| "This work represents a significant and original contribution to the field by bringing together diverse scholarly work that is connected through an understanding of the ways in which gender knowledge is produced and/or functions". "A key strength of the collection is its weaving together of hot off the press research findings with contemporary debates in gender and feminist theory and the politics of knowledge".....Table of Contents Introduction Speaking gendered knowledge to power Pauline Cullen and Mary P. Corcoran, Maynooth University 3 I Gender, Knowledge and Work 1. Incompatible Logics: The Gendered Structures of Autonomy in Information Technology John Paul Byrne, University College Dublin 21 2. Film, Television and Gendered Work in Ireland Anne O Brien, Media Studies, Maynooth University 44 3. Banking on masculinity: gendered segregation, gendered normative practices and social closure in the Irish investment management sector Corina Sheerin, School of Business, National College of Ireland 62 4. The Academic Career Game and Gender Related Practices in STEM Pat O’Connor & Clare O’Hagan, University of Limerick 87 II The politics of knowledge production: gender and the state 5. Guilt, Shame, Acknowledgment and Redress: Some Reflections on Ireland's Institutional Treatment of Women and Children Catriona Crowe, Independent Scholar 109 6. The Politics of Sex Work & Prostitution Policy Research in Ireland Paul Ryan, Maynooth University 129 7. Gendering homelessness policy knowledge through participatory research. Rory Hearne and Mary P. Murphy, Maynooth University 155 III The politics of knowledge production: gender and civil society 8. From self-entrepreneurs to rights-bearers: varieties of gender knowledge production in activism for women in Ireland Pauline Cullen, Maynooth University 178 9. The Right to Know: Gender, Power, Reproduction and Knowledge Regulation in Ireland Sinéad Kennedy, Maynooth University 202 IV Gender Knowledge and the reproduction of gendered cultures 10. Gender and College Entrants to the Teaching Profession Delma Byrne & Cliona Murray, Maynooth University 221 11. Hacking at the techno-feminist frontier: gendered exclusion and inclusion in technology cultures Aphra Kerr and Joshua Savage, Maynooth University 236 12. Marking your cards: gender distinction in the broadsheet book review Mary P. Corcoran, Maynooth University 255

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Book SynopsisIn three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women: the long silence surrounding the Mother and Baby home in Tuam which was broken by the voice of Catherine Corless, the silence of Irish literary critics in response to work by women, and the reclaimed voice of the Irish writer Maeve Brennan. The short story form is celebrated with two new pieces of writing, and a biographical piece looks at the role of Canadian fiction in her reading life.Table of ContentsIntroduction | No Authority Lecture 1 | Antigone in Galway Short Story | The Hotel Lecture 2 | Maeve Brennan: Going Mad in New York Short Story | Solstice Lecture 3 | Call yourself George: Gender Representation in the Irish Literary Landscape Oh Canada: Lecture delivered on the presentation of the UCD Ulysses Medal to Margaret Atwood Afterword | Ennis, Armagh, Howth and Ballymun: A Report from the Laureate 2015–18

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Book SynopsisThe Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland (EMIR) is the first comprehensive attempt to chart Irish musical life across recorded history. It also documents Ireland's musical relations with the world at large, notably in Britain, continental Europe and North America, and it seeks to identify the agencies through which music has become an enduring expression of Irish political, social, religious and cultural life. In these respects, EMIR is the collective work of 240 contributors whose research has been marshalled by an editorial and advisory board of specialists in the following domains of Irish musical experience: secular and religious music to 1600; art music, 1600-2010; Roman catholic church music; Protestant church music; popular music; traditional music; organology and iconography; historical musicology; ethnomusicology; the history of recorded sound; music and media; music printing and publishing; and, music in Ireland as trade, industry and profession. EMIR contains some 2,000 individual entries which collectively afford an unprecedented survey of the fabric of music in Ireland. It records and evaluates the work of hundreds of individual musicians, performers, composers, teachers, collectors, scholars, ensembles, societies and institutions throughout Irish musical history, and it comprehends the relationship between music and its political, artistic, religious, educational and social contexts in Ireland from the early middle ages to the present day. In its extensive catalogues, discographies and source materials, EMIR sets in order, often for the first time, the legacy and worklists of performers and composers active in Ireland (or of Irish extraction), notably (but not exclusively) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers to the general reader a regiment of 'brief lives' of Irish musicians throughout history, and it affords the specialist a detailed retrieval of information on music in Ireland hitherto unavailable or difficult to access. Above all, it is (proverbially) encyclopaedic in its address on the plurality and diversity of Irish musical experience. To this end, EMIR represents the single largest research project on music in Ireland to have been undertaken to date.Trade Review' - it is the ideal starting place for anyone seeking to learn more about Irish music topics. As a guide to the unique universe of Irish music scholarship, it will remain indispensable for years to come.' CHOICE, September 2014 'The physical production is itself a work of art. It's expensive but well worth it, and will become the standard way into the labyrinth of music in Ireland for some time.' Irish Times Book Of The Year, November 2013 'The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland is practical in its structure but also poetic in its generosity. As such it has transformed the labyrinth of the knowledge of music in Ireland into a readable map spanning the territory. It has had a new go at the business and, in so doing, given us all cause to celebrate.' The Irish Times, 23 November 2013 'The EMIR is an overdue and important work, a kaleidoscopic record of what was and what is in the artistic and intellectual potential of "music" in Ireland.' The Living Tradition, February 2014Table of ContentsVol. 1: Introduction by Harry White and Barra Boydell; A-K; Vol. 2: L-Z; Index.

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Book SynopsisDispossession has a long and tortuous history in Ireland, reaching back to the eleventh century. In the Victorian era, evictions became major social, cultural and political events, especially with the notorious clearances of the Great Famine years. In numbers, evictions declined dramatically after the mid-1850s, but in terms of media attention and political import they reached their zenith in the 1880s after the founding of the Irish National Land League. When tenantry defended their abodes, reporters and artists flocked to the scene and their descriptions of these conflicts form the central part of this book. Drawing on memoirs, ballads, poems, folklore and novels and providing numerous illustrations of contemporary prints and photographs, Curtis provides the first book-length study of rural evictions over a period of sixty years.Trade Review'As veteran American historian, L. Perry Curtis Jr, reminds us at the start of this important new study, forcible ejection from one's homestead is as old as Adam and Eve. Like the loss of Eden, evictions in Ireland in the nineteenth century are an integral part of our collective memory. Curtis' book elucidates why this is so in a highly innovative way. Recent historical research has established that eviction in post-Famine Ireland affected only a tiny percentage of the estimated 600,000 tenants in Ireland. While not challenging this reality, Curtis seeks to recapture the misery and cruelty which each eviction entailed - an angle which he rightly feels has been lost in the analysis of the limited scale of the evictions. He does this by means of memoirs, folklore, ballads, poems, novels, press reports - and, most vividly, through numerous well-chosen illustrations of contemporary prints, cartoons, photographs and paintings. The range of Curtis' material is enormous, the fruit of a long lifetime in this field. Many of the illustrations are in full colour, a luxury which few publishers in Ireland today extend to their authors. UCD Press are to be congratulated on this magnificent volume, which excels even their customary high standard of production.' Irish Catholic 7 July 2011 'I regard Curtis as one of the most innovative of modern Irish historians - I recommend Curtis's book with great enthusiasm as making some new and important points about something that has received a lot of attention.' Books Ireland October 2011 'This interesting work comprises a valuable addition to scholarship on the subject. The - author, who is professor emeritus of history at Brown University, in the US, and is already well known for his seminal work on the visual depiction of Irish people in 19th-century Britain, is to be congratulated on his latest achievement.' Gerard Lyne in Irish Times, 1 October 2011 'American historian Perry Curtis has often enlivened Irish history; and his latest opus, The Depiction of Eviction in Ireland 1845 - 1910 is a bracing narrative woven from press reports, literature, letters, memoirs, ballads and chilling folklore. He also examines key Irish paintings and satirical drawings, which have long been his signature tune.' Irish Arts Review, Spring 2012 'The Depiction of Eviction in Ireland provides a uniquely panoramic representation of the eviction process. This first book-length study of the topic is a welcome addition to nineteenth-century Irish historiography. Curtis's informative book, packed with a range of vivid depictions of eviction, supported by relevant estate examples, and interspersed with lively anecdotes will appeal to both academics and nineteenth century enthusiasts alike.' Scolaire Staire January 2012Table of ContentsIntroduction; Dispossession and Irish Land Laws; The Famine Evictions; Interlude, 1855-78; The First Land War, 1879-83; The Second Land War, 1886-90; The Plan Evictions, 1887-90; Resistance, 1886-9; The Battering Ram, 1887-90; Falcarragh: The Olphert Estate, 1888-90; Plus ca Change, 1890-1900; The Third Land War, 1900-10; Epilogue: The Land Quest; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisVol. 18 of the Collected Works, besides including the consolidated index to the Collected Works as a whole, contains two substantial supplements: a long and important critique on Freud written in the last weeks of Elias' life, not previously published in English; and an essay, not previously published in any language, on the anthropologist-philosopher Lucien Levy-Bruhl and the problem of 'the logical unity of humankind'. Both essays fill important gaps in Elias' work, and deal with common criticisms of his thought.Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990; The Collected Works: Note on editorial policy.; SUPPLEMENTS, TWO UNPUBLISHED ESSAYS BY ELIAS: Introduction; Elias, Freud and Levy-Bruhl; 'Freud's concept of society and beyond it', edited by Marc Joly; 'Lucien Levy-Bruhl and "the question of the logical unity of humankind'", edited by Katie Liston and Stephen Mennell; Bibliography.; CONSOLIDATED INDEX TO THE COLLECTED WORKS compiled by Stephen Mennell and Barbara Mennell.

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Book SynopsisVol. 17 of the Collected Works can serve as an excellent introduction to Elias's thinking overall. In the last decade of his life, Elias gave many interviews in which he discussed aspects of his work, rebutting many common misunderstandings of his thinking and further developing ideas sketched out in his writings. Besides a selection of these 'academic' interviews (many of them not previously published in English, or not published at all), the book contains his essay in intellectual autobiography and a long interview in which he talks about his own life.Table of ContentsNorbert Elias, 1897-1990: Note on the text; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY: Notes on a lifetime; INTERVIEWS: Norbert Elias's story of his life (1984), interview with Arend-Jan Heerma Van Voss and Bram Van Stolk; 'Sociology ... done in the right way' (1984-5), interview with Johan Heilbron; An interview in Amsterdam (1969), interview with Johan Goudsblom; 'On the Process of Civilisation' revisited (1974), interview with Stanislas Fontaine; Sociology as the history of manners (1978), interview with Heiko Ernst; 'I use historical studies to clarify certain universal human problems' (1981) , interview with Didier Eribon; Knowledge and power (1984); interview with Peter Ludes; The Janus face of states (1982), interview with Norbert Elias by Peter Ludes, Frank Adler and Paul Piccone; 'We are the late barbarians' (1988), interview with Nikolaus Von Festenberg and Marion Schreiber; 11 'We need more empathy for the human difficulties of the process of civilisation' (1989), interview with Ulfried Geuter; 'Perhaps I have had something to say that will have a future' (1989), interview with Wolfgang Engler; A 'Jewish Portrait' (1989), interview with Herlinde Koelbl;; APPENDICES I Selected poems; II On re-reading my doctoral dissertation; III Editorial note on Erich Kallius and the Gumbel Case; IV List of Interviews and conversations with Norbert Elias; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisEdward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork and spent forty years of his life at Killyleagh, Co. Down, where he was the Church of Ireland Rector. He was educated at Middleton College, Co. Cork and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was an exceptionally gifted student. With the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean Francois Champollion in 1822, Hincks became one of that first group of scholars to contribute to the elucidation of the language, chronology and religion of ancient Egypt. But his most notable achievement was the decipherment of Akkadian, the language of Babylonia and Assyria, and its complicated cuneiform writing system. Between 1846 and 1852, Hincks published a series of highly significant papers by which he established for himself a reputation of the first order as a decipherer. Most of the letters in these volumes have not been previously published. Much of the correspondence relates to nineteenth-century archaeological and linguistic discoveries, but there are also letters concerned with ecclesiastical affairs, the Famine and the Hincks family. The letters in volume 1 cover the period from the 1820s when Hincks was a young clergyman and scholar, applying himself assiduously to his family and parish duties, and vigorously pursuing his study of the ancient Egyptian language, to the years 1846-9 during which he announced his epoch-making discoveries in the decipherment of Akkadian and its cuneiform writing system. There are dozens of letters from friends and colleagues, which include exchanges on a variety of subjects and offer a fascinating picture of scholarly and intellectual activity, as well as of the political and ecclesiastical events of the time. Hincks' unique research never diverted him from his religious and civic responsibilities, especially during times of crisis like the Famine. Amongst Hincks' correspondents were Samuel Birch, Franz Bopp, Friedrich Georg Grotefend, William Rowan Hamilton, Christian Lassen, Austen Henry Layard, Edwin Norris, George Cecil Renouard, and Peter le Page Renouf. Volumes 2 and 3 will be published in 2008 and 2009 respectively.Trade Review"Man sagt nicht zu viel, wenn man ihn [Hincks] den eigentlichen Entzifferer der dritten Keilschriftgattung nennt." [translation] "One is not saying too much, if one calls Hincks the true decipherer of Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform." Julius Wellhausen 1876 "Hincks was a scholar of international significance in the nineteenth century. He was an expert on ancient Assyria and deciphered the Mesopotamian cuneiform script ... an assiduous letter writer and in this volume of letters from his youth he corresponded with friends and colleagues on ancient Egypt and his other concerns ... The clean, classical typography is equalled in the overall design and quality of binding." Books Ireland Nov 2007 "The letters in this volume date largely from his years in Killyleagh and it was from his rural fastness that Hincks developed his international reputation as an oriental scholar. Letters were sent to and received from scholars in Ireland, England and continental Europe. Among the Irish correspondents were the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, the antiquary Isaac Cullimore and the Cork numismatist Richard Sainthill. There was correspondence with the editors of the Literary Gazette, the Athenaeum and the English Review as well as with English scholars such as the philologist George Cecil Renouard, Samuel Birch in the British Museum and the Coptic scholar Henry Tattam. From the continent cam communications - from the German philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend, from Conrad Leemans in Leyden and from the Norwegian indologist Christian Lassen. The editor of this collection who is Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Languages in University College Dublin, has gathered these letters from libraries and archives in Belfast, Berlin, Dublin, London, Oxford, Paris and Yale, has carefully edited them and has added interesting illustrations to accompany some of the more unusual texts. Most of the letters are concerned with Hincks's studies of the ancient Egyptian language and his discoveries in the decipherment of Akkadian, the language of Babylonia and Assyria. But there is also Irish material: letters on Trinity College matters, on the Great Famine and on ecclesiastical affairs, in addition to letters to his daughters. But it is mostly the academic letters which catch the imagination for they emphasis - of such emphasis is needed - that in the 19th century, it was the letter which was the principal mode of communication. In an age when travel was difficult and electronic communication all but unknown, correspondence provided the vehicle for working out ideas among likeminded people and academic journals the medium for subsequently publishing them. It is reassuring in an age when digitisation has reached almost cult status in archives, that there are still scholars who are able and willing to prepare printed editions of manuscript material and publishers who will take on such projects. This book exemplifies all the virtues of a printed edition: text which has been transcribed and is therefore easy to read; a succinct introduction which sets the scene; careful notes which explain and amplify the text; an index which opens up access to the contents and a bibliography to stimulate further reading. What more could anyone want?" Dr Raymond Refausse Department Church Body Library Irish Archives Winter 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction by Kevin J. Cathcart; Letters 1818-1849; Appendix Marriage Settlement of The Reverend Edward Hincks with Miss Jane Boyd; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is an explanation of how the Catholic Church came to hold such a powerful position in Irish society, and the factors central to the decline in the Church's monopoly on morality.Trade Review"This is a fascinating and very readable study of the growth and diminution of the Church's influence over all aspects of life in Ireland from the beginning of the last century up to the present." The Irish Emigrant Book Review March 1998 "This fine book avoids the juvenile tendency prevalent in recent times, to deride the Catholic Church. Even when Inglis criticises the Church he does so with reasoned arguments and non-hysterical tone. As a result he valuably contributes to debate on the Church's future in Ireland." Denis Carroll RTE Guide Sept 1998 "This is a fascinating and very readable study of the growth and diminution of the Church's influence over all aspects of life in Ireland from the beginning of the last century up to the present day." Boston Irish Reporter May 1998Table of ContentsReligious habitus of Irish Catholics; church organization and control; power and the Catholic church in Irish social, political and economic life; growth of the power of the institutional church in 19th-century Ireland; Irish civilizing process; transformation of Irish society; the Irish mother; decline in the Catholic church monopoly on Irish morality, 1986-97; influence of the Catholic church on modern Irish society.

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Book SynopsisMichael Davitt's "Jottings in Solitary" consists of his drafts on many topics, written while a prisoner in solitary confinement in Portland Convict Prison, 1881-2. The "Jottings" (Davitt's title) have not been published before and contain a valuable autobiographical fragment and a frankly annotated list of Irish MPs of the time. Davitt gives his views on many other subjects, including an account of his arrest; his random thoughts on the Irish land war; how Ireland was robbed of her Parliament; on Ireland's share of the British Constitution as seen in its Government and Parliamentary franchise; and essays on English civilization and on the education of the Irish citizen.Trade Review"accompanied by a splendid introduction by Carla King ... offer[s] remarkable insights into 19th century British rule in Ireland ... [Davitt has] provided us with the peep holes, important points of entry into the nature of British rule, and they have done so not just by what they said but by how they said it. If the other volumes in the series are as well chosen and as well edited as these two ... Classics of Irish History will be one of the most important publishing ventures of the last twenty years." Irish Literary Supplement Spring 2005 "It is a pleasant surprise to find previously unpublished early reflections in Jottings in Solitary ... edited, introduced and well annotated by Carla King ... presents Davitt's thoughts on politics, land and education..." Irish Studies Review 14 (2) 2006 "University College Dublin Press has now published over thirty 'Classics of Irish History'. These contemporary accounts by well known personalities of historical events and attitudes have an immediacy that conventional histories do not have. Introductions by modern historians provide additional historical background and, with hindsight, objectivity." Books Ireland Nov 2007 "Scholars of nineteenth-century Irish and Irish-American politics should reacquaint themselves with these classics, part of a long running and immensely useful series from University College Dublin Press." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2008Table of ContentsSynopsis of data for an autobiography; English civilization; Ireland's share of the British Constitution as seen in its government and parliamentary franchise; the education of the Irish citizen; Christmas Day 1881; 1st January 1882; synopsis of our parliamentary representation; random thoughts on the Irish Land War - difficulties in the way of a solution of the Irish social problem; letter in reply to that of Aunt Ellen's; how Ireland was robbed of her parliament; my 36th birthday.

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