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Book SynopsisThis is an irreverent outsider's view of Ireland and its language, landscape and society. The author also reflects on Canada from his temporary exile.Trade Review"Since we are still fascinated to see ourselves as others see us, it may well become a cult book here ... the whole has an air of easy quality and sophistication that Irish publishers don't always achieve." Books Ireland March 2000

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Book SynopsisWritten over 30 years, these essays range over the field of Anglo-Irish literature from Yeats, Joyce and Synge through Patrick Kavanagh and Mary Lavin to Brendan Kennelly and Eavan Boland.Trade Review"Bearing Witness is the first publication from UCD Press and it is a worthy monument to this critic and scholar." "Gus Martin was often right and sometimes wrong in his literary judgments, but what this fine book shows is that he always cared. Q. D. Leavis, another critic of the old school, was once asked if a book was worth arguing about. Her reply that nothing but a book was worth arguing about might very well sum up the credo of this most humane and sincere of critics." Eamonn Sweeney, Irish Times, Dec 21, 1996 "Dr Anthony Roche has written an insightful and affectionate introduction to these essays and reviews by Augustine Martin, whose lifelong enthusiasm for literature 'found its expression in a staggering diversity of platforms'. Roche eloquently notes the 'utile' and 'dulce' and 'delight' shown by Gus, the people's critic; who without deadening the enduring mystery, made everyone welcome at the banquet of Literature whether in lecture hall, tutorial, radio, TV or the pub." Kevin Kiely, Books Ireland, Feb 1997 "This timely and handsome book shows what a loss was suffered by the world of Anglo-Irish scholarship when Gus Martin died, at the age of only fifty-nine, in 1995. This memorial volume assembles some twenty of his published papers and reviews which, thanks to the sensitive editing of Anthony Roche, are made to read like a series of seminars on all the literary matters in which Gus himself felt delight and communicated that delight to others." "The result is a book which is a vade mecum, a companion to Irish Literature in English, which bears witness to the genius of that literature and to the great critical and humane intelligence which wrote this book." T. P. Dolan, Irish University Review "Old Gus did live fully and generously, sharing his knowledge and hard-headed opinion, and warmth of spirit for too few years. These essays remain as a peroration of that distinguished career." Peter Quinn, Irish Literary Supplement, Fall 1997 and Boston Book Review "Martin was more a good teacher than an important theorist; his talent lay not in the articulation of a view through the rigours of a carefully calibrated intellectual position, but in the spirited communication of his enthusiasms in elegant prose. He made many students love Irish literature, and that will be his monument. It is good to have this collection as a memorial." GJW, Irish Literary Supplement, May 1997 "This is a fitting tribute to the career of the indefatigable Irish scholar. Roche has done an excellent job of selecting work that best represents the range of Martin's interests and considerable abilities." D. W. Madden, California State University, Choice June 1997 Vol 34 No 10 "This volume's title Bearing Witness raises its question of how, exactly, Martin bore witness to the greatness of Irish Literature. It is essential here to stress that Martin was utterly engaged with literature and that to that engagement he brought a considerable intelligence, a sense of balance, an essential humanity, and wide reading in English, American and Continental Literature." Brian Arkins, Studies Vol. 86 No. 341, 1997 "The book contains a formidable range of Martin's essays written over a period of more than thirty years on subjects including Yeats, Synge, Joyce... They provide ample proof of the breadth and generosity of Martin's vision. Bearing Witness also provides well-deserved evidence of Martin's originality and wit, his unrivalled ability to make complex ideas approachable. This rare gift, possessed by so few, cherished by thousands of students fortunate enough to have had him as a teacher, is what makes this book such a joy to read." Times Literary Supplement Vol. 12, 1998 "the essays gathered together in this posthumous collection, testify to the good-humoured and large-minded familiarity with Irish writing that Gus Martin made available to so many readers." Kevin Barry, University of Galway Irish Studies Review 6 (1) 1998Table of ContentsYeats (three essays); Joyce (two essays); Christy mahon and the apotheosis of loneliness; novelist and city; dilemma of Irish writer; protestant legacy; James Stephens, fable and fantasy; Mary Lavin; Austin Clarke; Patrick Kavanagh; Brendan Kennelly; Eavan Boland; five shorter essays on other authors.

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Book SynopsisThe Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities explores some of the tensions created when Anglo-Irish writers - Protestant in religion, of non-Irish ancestryreflected upon their preferred subject matter, Ireland and their unhyphenated Catholic contemporaries. These tensions involve the writers' sense of anxiety about their own membership in the Irish community, and at the same time their anxiety about losing their distinctive identity. Anglo-Irish writers founded modern Irish literature in English, identifying themselves with their native country and its people. Yet they often felt themselves surrounded and watched by an 'Unappeasable Host', a population that resented them. Robert Tracy discusses Irish writers who in England were considered Irish, in Ireland English - including Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, the Banim brothers, Roger O'Connor, Sheridan Le Fanu, W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Elizabeth Bowen - together with James Joyce, who, although neither of English ancestry nor Protestant, similarly focuses on individuals separated or excluded from the Irish life around them.Trade Review"The Unappeasable Host is a treasure trove of scholarship, a series of 16 essays, each and all marked by a vast knowledge of Ireland and its writers, by penetrating insights, and perceptive analysis" The Boston Irish Reporter, Feb 1999 "What is immediately enthralling about the critic Robert Tracy is that he is not peddling the well trammelled list of references purveyed by various cliques." Books Ireland April 1999 "With its abundant references to just about everything Irish, this scholarly yet eminently readable volume encourages and advances Irish studies. Tracy includes much for everyone, and readers are in his debt for sharing 30 years of study in this book." F. L. Ryan, Stonehill College Choice March 1999 "Tracy is making the even more urgent contemporary claim for shared imaginative possessions between the hyphenated and the unhyphenated Irish, the hybrid and the so-called native. For, while concentrating on the writers of the Protestant minority, Tracy's analysis takes its direction from those crisis points where the two cultures draw near and confront one another. This book studies that process, with imaginative sympathy and scholarly detachment; it is a work to challenge prejudice and enlarge understanding." Dr Anthony Roche, UCD Irish Times Sept 1998, "the pieces in this book are well-grounded, widely read, astutely comparative and intellectually stimulating ... determinedly addressing continuity and context before theory and hypertext." Times Literary Supplement Nov 1998 "a useful contribution to Anglo-Irish scholarship, positing many new ideas, laying old ghosts and challenging the reader to engage with contemporary criticism and theory." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 1999 "This volume is a fitting summation to nearly four decades of work on Irish literature and culture." Matthew Campbell, University of Sheffield Irish Studies Review 7 (3) 1999Table of ContentsThe cracked looking-glass of a servant - inventing the colonial novel; Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan - legality versus legitimacy; fiery shorthand - the Banim brothers at work; self-fashioning as pseudo-history - Roger O'Connor's "Chronicles of Eri"; Sheridan Le Fanu and the Unmentionable; that rooted man - Yeats, "John Sherman" and "Dhoya"; long division in the long schoolroom - among school children; intelligible on the Blasket Islands - Yeats's "King Oedipus", 1926; merging into art - "The Death of Cuchulain" and the death of Yeats; living in the margin - Synge in Aran; words of mouth - Joyce and the oral tradition; Mr Joker and Dr Hyde - Joyce's politic polyglot polygraphs; in the heart of the Theban necropolis - mummyscripts and mummiescrypts in "Finnegan's Wake"; the burning roof and tower - identity in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Last September"; Elizabeth Bowen - rebuilding the big house; a ghost of style; exorcising the Anglo-Irish past.

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Book SynopsisThis is a new edition of Emmet O'Connor's classic and pioneering work on Irish labour history, providing an introduction for the general reader and a synopsis for the specialist. The first edition, which covered 1824 to 1960, has been updated to 2000 with the inclusion of three new chapters on developments in the Republic and Northern Ireland. In addition to providing a challenging overview of labour's past, O'Connor addresses industrial relations and political issues of contemporary relevance. He has taken full account of new research on Labour and argued that events in Ireland can only be understood in an international context. The text also features pen portraits of over fifty leading personalities of the left and the trade union movement. This book will be indispensable to undergraduates, labour activists, and those interested in labour's place in modern Ireland.Trade Review'This is a hugely important book which should be set reading for all undergraduate students of Irish history. It is a lamentation of why radicalism was failed by a party or parties purporting to share and espouse it. Furthermore, it is a call to re-read Irish history to provide answers that traditional narratives have hitherto not provided.' Irish Studies Review, August 2013 'A Labour History of Ireland is an invaluable (and unique) introduction to its subject. It has much to engage the specialist, but it is also accessible to the university student and the general reader.'October 2014, John Cunningham, Labour History 'This is a superb book that will continue to provoke debate and discussion, and remains essential reading for those interested in the history of the Irish labour movement.' History Ireland, August 2013 'O'Connor has, once again, done Irish labour history a great service by writing this book. In his preface he points out that Irish labour history needs to develop further. Our colleagues in other countries have moved on to look at issues like working life, leisure, gender, and further to issues of race and transnational studies. Perhaps this book will inspire some to pick up the torch and take it further.' Labour History (2012) 'It is not a sentimental read. O'Connor pulls no punches in his criticism of those who had seen nationalism as the only obstacle to 'normal' labour politics in Ireland and few historical characters escape his sharp pen. Agree with him or not, this is an indispensable study.' Liberty March 2012 'characteristic scholarship and independent reflective analysis' Irish Catholic, 15 March 2012 'The first edition of this classic work by Ireland's most distinguished labour historian, Emmet O'Connor, was published in 1992. Back then, the terminal date for the book was 1965. For this thoroughly revised, rewritten, re-researched and extended version, existing chapters have been laden with new material and perspectives, and three new chapters have been added. The result is an even more significant and still highly readable work of scholarship. - O'Connor modestly calls this work 'an introduction for the general reader and a synopsis for the specialist' (p. xii). In fact, it is more than that, since the author has the enviable knack of blending together intelligent generalisation with rich examples drawn from multiple original materials. The end product is richly satisfying. - Whilst influenced by British labour history, O'Connor has also produced a book which is very much of Ireland and for Ireland. - This lucid, beautifully written book, is full of barbs and fizzes. Underpinned by a wry humour and a talent for sharp insightful judgements, the work is a must for labour historians. It is also necessary reading more broadly for Irish historians, since it provides a lens onto the Irish past which is not readily found in accounts too often drawn to crises of modernisation, nationalism and so on. - For those outside of Ireland who wish to bring that country into their frame of analysis, O'Connor's book will be the indispensable first port of call.' Socialist History 2012 'A Labour History of Ireland, in short, is a stunning achievement. In both breadth of research and depth of analysis, this volume is unrivalled in Irish labour history. To deploy a cliche, this is essential reading for the specialist and the general reader alike.' Irish Economic and Social History Vol. XL 2013 'O'Connor has, once again, done Irish labour history a great service by writing this book. In his preface he points out that Irish labour history needs to develop further. Our colleagues in other countries have moved on to look at issues like working life, leisure, gender, and further to issues of race and transnational studies. Perhaps this book will inspire some to pick up the torch and take it further.' Labour History (2012) 'It is not a sentimental read. O'Connor pulls no punches in his criticism of those who had seen nationalism as the only obstacle to 'normal' labour politics in Ireland and few historical characters escape his sharp pen. Agree with him or not, this is an indispensable study.' Liberty, March 2012 'characteristic scholarship and independent reflective analysis' Irish Catholic, 15 March 2012Table of ContentsPrologue; ONE: For Trade and Parliament, 1824-48; TWO: Atrophy: The Unmaking of the Irish Working Class, 1849-88; THREE: New Unionism and Old, 1889-1906; FOUR: Larkinism and Easter Week, 1907-16; FIVE: Syndicalism, 1917-23; SIX: Unfinished Business, 1924-39; SEVEN: The Chronic Made Acute, 1939-45; EIGHT: Labour in Twain, 1946-59; NINE: Avoiding the Issue: Northern Labour, 1920-64; TEN: Modernism, 1960-87; ELEVEN: Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism, 1987-2000; TWELVE: Unity or Rights? Navigating the Northern Crisis, 1965-2000; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book Synopsis"Michael Collins rose to his feet. In repose his eyes glimmer softly and with humour. When aroused they narrow - hard, intense and relentless. He speaks like this. One or two words. Then he pauses to think. His speech does not flow in a stream as it does in the case of Eamon de Valera. Yet from not one word is firmness absent." This work provides eye-witness accounts by two reporters from the Irish Independent newspaper of the historic Treaty debates of Dail Eireann, held in University College Dublin's Earlsfort Terrace building in December 1921 and January 1922. Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and a host of other participants come to life. The colourful descriptions of the scene and of the reactions to speeches, written while the debates were in progress, are far more revealing than the published record of the debates.Trade Review"If journalism is the first draft of history, Free State or Republic constitutes primary source material." Irish Times Jan 2003 "Among the many strengths of this superb, highly recommended study is Quinn's deep knowledge of Stevens's life and Pennsylvania background." CHOICE Jan 2003 "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 ContentsAn Dail assembles; the treaty moved; lady creates a scene; Alderman Cosgrave's humour; a day of fervid oratory; after the recess; a dramatic scene; a day of sensations; De Valera's resignation; the fateful division; De Valera's defeat for presidency; Griffith elected president; ard-chomhairle; treaty formally ratified; the division.

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Book SynopsisThis eloquent memoir provides an unrivalled insight into the life of a child reared in a working-class Irish Catholic community in late nineteenth-century Britain. No other author succeeds in depicting so vividly the texture of a life delimited by manual work, home and community ties as experienced by Irish migrants of the period. At the same time, it charts the tortuous route by which a young man struggled to free himself from a life of manual labour by using his literary talents to become a journalist and a popular novelist. Published in 1916, it reflects the world and assumptions of an emigre community between the failure of the Fenian movement and the Easter Rising, and it includes a telling vignette of the aged Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. An insightful picture of the world of those Home Rule supporters who lived outside Ireland emerges from this book.Trade Review"The reprint of this book and similar ones is of great importance in terms of Irish historiography." Books Ireland Sept 2005 "This is a fascinating record of the son of poor Irish immigrants struggling to raise himself out of poverty and the South Wales pits to become a socialist and well-known writer. An essential piece of social history." Irish Democrat 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 ContentsIntroduction by Paul O'Leary; My birth; My beginnings at school; My burning sixpence: I yearn to be a navvy; I go down a coal-pit; Danger: I hear of Dickens and Byron; My troubles begin; Real overwork; My struggle for the sun; Deadliness of an easy job; Despair makes me think of enlisting; The Post Office; Reporting; I seek refuge in Cardiff; Good-fortune comes my way; An unexpected desire: I discover my true love; My novel seeks without finding; London, the university of universities; My disapproval of London; Paddington Station; A new influence: I lecture at Cambridge; My mysterious visitor; Youth grown old; Lunch at 'The Fountain'; I am a city clerk; Index.

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Book SynopsisSoon after Daniel O'Connell's death, Taylor published (as 'A Munster Farmer') this short account of the Liberator's life, drawing on his personal memories and on articles he had written for the Athenaeum in the 1840s. It includes eyewitness accounts of O'Connell's appearance as he walked through the streets of Dublin. Taylor shows personal sympathy for O'Connell as the leader of oppressed people, but he also sees his talents as distorted by the experience of oppression and by a conservative upbringing, and claims that his abusive and truculent oratory did as much to retard Catholic Emancipation as his tactical leadership did to advance it. This edition also includes a review article by Taylor in the Athenaeum of books including Carleton's Famine novel, The Black Prophet, and a long article on 'Repeal Songs of Munster', considering O'Connellite street-ballads as a study in human folly.Trade Review"Taylor's style is engaging, his controversy may irk but his connection to the times is unique." Books Ireland Feb 2005 "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 "Unsympathetic at best and peppered with factual and interpretive errors, Taylor's account, in Maume's words, 'stands as a monument to mutual misunderstanding.' It reflects the fraught relationship between Irish nationalists and the British and Irish Whigs/Liberals who professed sympathy for Ireland but could only countenance their own prescriptions for the neighbouring island's ills. The tension produced by their different visions of Ireland and their distinct political needs in regard to Irish policy defined Anglo-Irish relations into the next century. "Taylor's work offer[s] fascinating partisan portraits of Europe's first great populist leader. Subsequent generations of nationalists managed to craft and deploy a useful popular memory of the Great Liberator, but th[is] work remind[s] us that O'Connell could be remembered rather differently. "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. "Patrick Maume has edited and written the introductions for no less than nine of the books in this series, lending them his breadth of knowledge and keen analysis that have made him one of the most learned and intellectually generous young scholars in the field." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction by Patrick Maume; Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell; Appendix I, Review of books by William Carleton, the Earl of Rosse and G. L. Smyth (Athenaeum, 13 March 1847); Appendix II Repeal Songs of Munster (Athenaeum, 30 September and 7 October 1843); Editor's notes

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Book SynopsisThis text attacks the episcopal shift of political allegiance in Ireland after the 1916 Rising and the conscription crisis of 1918. Although a loyal Church member, McDonald believed that the Church's hostility to freedom of thought, speech and intellectual enquiry would endanger its future.Trade Review"Garvin show's the book's significance as demanding the Church should justify its behaviour in relation to its professed beliefs and extensive record of pragmatic co-operation with Dublin Castle, rather than facile populist assertions that 'the Irish people never accepted British rule'." Patrick Maume, Queen's University, Belfast Irish Political Studies 14 1999 "written with the urgency of troubled times and still retain[s its] freshness and argumentative force: excellent material for seminar discussions... well introduced by Garvin. His biographical essays are thoughtful, useful, and adopt an engaging combative stance on behalf of the writers." "the first entries in a welcome new series. They are hardily and handsomely constructed: a credit to their equally welcome new publisher." Peter Hart, Queen's University Belfast Irish Studies Review 7 (3) 1999 "these essays ... in their 'political incorrectness'...have much with which to challenge us. Each essay is bracing for its laconic style and fearless exploration of 'untrodden paths'." The Furrow July/Aug 1999 "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 ContentsOf certain recent statements made by representative Irish catholics; of whether Ireland was ever a united and fully independent nation; of whether Ireland ever acquiesced in loss of independence; of the possibility of loss of nationhood without acquiescence; of three degrees of conquest; of the effect of a transfer of jurisdiction secured by corruption; of how a people hitherto independent may be bound to union with others; of some conditions of self-determination; of the principle of home rule; of majority rule and the Ulster question; of the basis of taxation and of the financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland; on preparation for war - conscription; of certain causes that justify war; of the pressure that may be applied to secure local self-government; of the conduct of war - (1) bombardment of towns and reprisals, (2) blockade, (3) of the submarine; of some consequences of war.

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Book Synopsis"Words of a Dead Chief" is an important text from a critical period in Irish nationalist politics. Published in 1892, shortly after Charles Stewart Parnell's death, it is a collection of extracts from his speeches, including all of the best-known ones. There is an unmistakeable political even propagandist dimension to the publication. It was written for a nationalist audience and particularly for followers of Parnell. Wyse-Power explains in her preface that the purpose of her 'humble memento' was to keep the principles which Parnell enunciated before the minds of Irish Nationalists 'for whom there should be a rule of political faith and conduct'. She aimed to select such passages as were most characteristic of Parnell, of most vital importance for nationalists to study, remember and take for guidance. This edition includes the original introduction by C. S. Parnell's sister Anna. The book was an immediate bestseller. It was easily accessible to a general audience and proved highly influential, but it went quickly out of print.Trade Review"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 2008 "This edition is useful for a number of reasons, not least in giving us an insight into Parnell through his own words but also for throwing light on contemporary views on the split as it contains both Wyse-Power's original preface and the introduction by Parnell's sister, Anna. Anyone interested in Parnell and the development of the nationalist movement would do well to read the man in his own words - when so much of what we know of the man is based on the opinion of others." Books Ireland September 2009 'reissued with illuminating new introductions as a part of the Classics of Irish History series published by UCD Press, one of the most admirable - endeavours in recent Irish publishing history. More than this, these texts were also all political interventions. Jennie Wyse-Power compiled this selection of Parnell's 'worlds', published with an impassioned introduction by Anna Parnell, amid the anger and grief unleashed by 'the Chief's' death in 1891.' Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2010Table of ContentsEditors' Introduction by Donal McCartney and Pauric Travers; WORDS OF THE DEAD CHIEF: Introduction by Anna Parnell; Part I: The Early Struggles - the Land League; Part II: From Prison to Victory; Part III: Betrayed!

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Book SynopsisMitchel's account of the Repeal campaign, the Famine and the 1848 Rising, which originally appeared in Mitchel's Tennessee-based newspaper, The Southern Citizen, in 1858. Mitchel was a significant and controversial figure. Last Conquest, originally written as a riposte to American Nativist hostility to Famine immigrants, is well known in Famine debates for its claim that the Famine was a deliberate act of genocide by the British government.Trade Review"It set the template for popular attitudes to this catastrophic event and for the intellectual and academic debate on the subject to this day." Books Ireland Sept 2005 "this account of the O'Connell Repeal campaign and the famine years, up to Mitchel's 'trial' and transportation to Van Dieman's Land in 1848, is the best I have read. It deserves a wide readership." Irish Democrat 2006 "these somewhat obscure writings reveal themselves as something of a profound critique not just of Ireland but also of the very idea of Irish society ... even in the strangest of terrains we can suddenly come across gems and when we do we can put them on the shelves and know that they will always be there for us." Books Ireland Nov 2006 "The reprinting of the Last Conquest at last provides an accessible edition of a work which is foundational for historiographical debates over the Famine." Irish Studies Review 14 (4) 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 "In the historiography of the Great Famine Mitchel's Last Conquest is ubiquitous - frequently cited, rarely read in its entirety. The book is usually credited with playing a crucial role in establishing the genocidal interpretation of the famine, particularly in Irish-American circles. To be sure this reputation has merit; Mitchel's pen drips with poison in the most famous passages. "Mitchel's work offer[s] fascinating partisan portraits of Europe's first great populist leader. Subsequent generations of nationalists managed to craft and deploy a useful popular memory of the Great Liberator, but th[is] work remind[s] us that O'Connell could be remembered rather differently. "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. Patrick Maume has edited and written the introductions for no less than nine of the books in this series, lending them his breadth of knowledge and keen analysis that have made him one of the most learned and intellectually generous young scholars in the field." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2008Table of ContentsNote on the Text; Introduction by Patrick Maume; THE LAST CONQUEST OF IRELAND (PERHAPS): Introduction; 'Repeal Year' (1843); 'The Repeal Year' still; O'Connell's oratory; Determi nation of the Enemy; The trial; O'Connell in Prison; Approach of the Famine, in 1845; Land-Tenure Report; [Thomas] Davis, his influence, aim and labours; Duties of Government; Loss of the Irish crops; "Belief of Famine"; Labour-rate Act; Death of O'Connell; Lord Clarendon, Viceroy; Dublin during the Famine; The 'United Irishman' newspaper; March, 1848; Rage of the British Press; Juries in Ireland; Triumph of the Enemy; Arrest of O'Brien; Consummation of the 'Conquest'; APPENDIX: from The Nation (Dublin), 15 May 1858.

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Book SynopsisRaleigh's activities in Ireland, like the rest of his life, continue to fascinate. How incredible and unethical were his initial military exploits? What role did he play in planning and executing the Munster Plantation? How does his colonial activity in the New World compare with that in Ireland? How influential was he in shaping Queen Elizabeth I's Irish policy?This fascinating but little-known work, written by a controversial Irish-born British colonial governor and first published in 1883, is especially valuable today for its extensive reproduction of original sources connected with Raleigh's stay in Ireland, including many of his Irish letters. It is a useful place to begin exploring this multi-faceted character whom Pope Hennessy describes as 'one of the most daring and active of those eminent Englishmen who have done much to render British government permanently difficult - if not more than difficult - in Ireland'.Trade Review"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 2008 "Hennessy (1834-91) was a Catholic unionist who had the distinction of being the first Catholic member of the Conservative party to become an MP. Under the patronage of Disraeli, he had a distinguished career as an imperial administrator and served as governor of a number of British colonies. He ended his days living in Raleigh's house in Youghal - Given his background, one might expect his life of Raleigh to be a hagiography, but Hennessy attempts to achieve balance and recognised his faults and the problems he created. The book is also useful in reproducing many of the original sources for Raleigh's life. This volume is introduced by Thomas Herron, of East Carolina University, NC, who puts Hennessy and his subject in context." Books Ireland April 2009 "Pope Hennessy charts Raleigh's rise and fall with original documents and pithy commentary, showing that he was ever an adherent of the hardliner faction among Elizabeth's advisers in Ireland, constantly calling for harsher policies and condemning colleagues, for example as a prosecution witness in the treason trial of young Essex in 1601. Once one becomes accustomed to the archaic English, this book is still an enjoyable read and valuable source for studies of the Munster Plantation." Books Ireland September 2009 "Tom Herron has delivered an enhanced version of this short book by a nineteenth-century Irish politician on a sixteenth-century English adventurer - it is more a polemic than either a history or a compilation of relevant historical sources. - The aim of Hennessy's original work was to introduce and document the Irish aspects of Ralegh's career. In fact, it tells us more about Sir John than about Sir Walter and more about Anglo-Irish relations in the Victorian period than in the Elizabethan one. - Hennessy saw himself and his generation as not only reversing the wrongs of the past but also altering the trajectory of British imperial policy. In tackling Ralegh and Ireland, he was merely stitching together a series of already published sources so as to engage in a contemporary political debate. - What Hennessey did get right was the sheer violence and indiscriminate cruelty perpetrated by English captains in the Elizabethan wars. Here is naturally highlights Ralegh's involvement in the no-quarter given to the surrendering garrison at Smerwick, which Quenn Elizabeth subsequently commended as 'greatly to our liking'. - this politician had a lot more historical sense than some 'know-nothing' politicians of his generation. They are happy to commemorate the likes of Ralegh and Drake and apt to neglect not only their victims but also the likes of Sir John Pope Hennessy himself who put them where they are today." History Ireland Sept/Oct 2009 'This little book was originally published in 1886. It is in many ways merely a brief sketch of its topics, yet because of the status of the author it is of great interest. Sir John was founder of a literary clan that included the Dickens scholar and the art historian, and more to the point the biographer James Pope Hennessey. To this reissue the American scholar Thomas Herron has provided a long introduction pointing out the double perspective of the book, in which Sir John fascinated by the swashbuckling nature of the Elizabethan conquest, also tried to set it in a context for his own readers by seeing Ralegh's activities and attitudes as the beginning of many of the troubles that beset English rule in Ireland in the 19th Century. All would decry the Invincibles, but he reminds his readers that Ralegh and Queen Elizabeth had connived at the assassination of Irish chiefs. We could do with learning more about Sir John and his fellow Catholic landed gentry in Victorian Ireland. Perhaps the editor will oblige us.'Irish Catholic 25 February 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction by Thomas Herron; SIR WALTER RALEGH IN IRELAND: Sir Walter's study and the Geraldine College; Ralegh and the Historians; Arrives in Ireland; The Slaughter at Smerwick; Elizabeth's Approval; Ralegh's Courage; His Hardships; The Queen and Ralegh; The Success of his Bands; Practises the Assassination of Irish Chiefs; Elizabeth's Complicity in Assassination Plots; Burghley disapproves of Oppression; Burghley's Policy thwarted; Irish Council and Judges oppose Burghley's Policy; Ralegh's Agrarian Troubles; His Queenstown Estate; His Blackwater Estate; His Educational Policy; The National Cause and the Land Question; 'This Loste Land'; Land Commission to Fix Rents; Destruction of Irish Woods; Burghley and Ralegh Anti-Papal; The 'last National Archbishop of Cashel' Ralegh opposes Meiler Magrath; Ralegh's Testimony in the Lords in 1882; Ralegh and Cromwell; Ralegh and Ormond; Irish Self-government; Florence McCarthy; His last Advice to the Queen; The Emigration and Re-peopling Plans; Dedication of the Irish Wars; The National Traditions; Spenser and Ralegh; Introduces Tobacco and the Potato; The Old Countess of Desmond; The Two Widows; Ralegh opposes Essex's Irish Policy; 'Destiney stronger than Councell'; On the Scaffold; His Irish Residences; Irish Portraits of Ralegh; Retrospect of Raleigh's Irish Policy; Letters Of Sir Walter Ralegh From Ireland, Or Relating To Irish Affairs; To Lord Burghley [Feb 22, 1580]; To Sir Francis Walsingham [Feb 23, 1580]; To Sir Francis Walsingham; To Sir R. Cicill [July 1592]; To Sir Robert Cecill [July 1592]; To Sir Robert Cicill [May 10, 1593]; To Lord Burghley [June 15, 1593]; To Sir Robert Cecil [Aug 27, 1593]; To Sir Robert Cecill [March 4, 1594]; To Sir Robert Cecill [Nov 10, 1595]; To Sir Roberte Cecill [May 3, 1596]; To Sir Robert Cecil [Oct 1598]; To Sir Robert Cecyll [1598?]; To Sir Robert Cecyll [Sept 27, 1601]; To Sir Robert Cecyll [Oct 13, 1601]; To Sir Robert Cecyll [Oct 1601]; Testamentary Note written by Sir Walter Ralegh on the night before his execution, November, 1618; Appendix I: Official Report of Proceedings at Smerwicke; II Queen Elizabeth's Letters about the Affair at Smerwick; III Ralegh's Reckonings; IV: Ralegh's Pay; V: Ralegh's Muster-Roll, 1587; VI: Lord Burghley's Notes of Ralegh's Opinions as to the Forces to be kept in Munster; VII: Ralegh's Lease of Cuil-na-clocfionna ('the Nook of the White Stone'). VIII: Royal Warrant, under the Sign Manual and Signet, pensioning the Countess of Desmond; IX: Ralegh and Florence McCarthy in the Tower together; X: Ralegh and the Eighteenth Earl of Desmond in the Tower; Appendix 2(Not in original edition by Pope Hennessy): Letter to Sir Robert Cecil [May 3, 1596]; Appendix 3 (Not in original edition by Pope Hennessy): Articles to be Considered Touching the Makinge and Transportinge of Pipestaves, etc. out of Irelande; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal McGarry who sets the scene of this important period in Ireland's history. Rising Out tells the story of Brigadier Sean Connolly, O/C of the Longford Brigade, who was fatally wounded in action on 11 March 1921 at Selton Hill, near Mohill (Co. Leitrim), by British forces during the War of Independence. Comdt-General Ernie O'Malley came across the story in interviews with Tan and Civil War survivors in the early 1950s. The account makes Connolly come alive as a person - his schooling, love of music, education, farming family background and devotion to the nationalist cause. O'Malley, who had actually organised the Irish Volunteers in parts of the area and had known many of the local leaders, gives the social setting for the IRA activities and explains the subtle roles of the IRA General HQ, of the Catholic Church and the Anglo-Irish gentry. Most memorably, he describes in detail what the fighting men actually did locally and what a local leader had to do in order to organise his men.The introduction by his son, Cormac K. H. O'Malley, explains how this memoir came into existence and describes his father's role during the revolutionary period.Trade ReviewCENTENARY CLASSICS: 'Greater familiarity with these sources - including the range of evocative first-hand accounts spanning the revolutionary decade from the Ulster crisis to the Civil War published as part of UCD Press's new Centenary Classics series - should complicate as well as inform commemoration in 2016. Although the achievements of the founding generation will be honoured and, inevitably, appropriated, the urge to celebrate independence should be tempered by an unsentimental understanding of the process by which it was achieved.' Fearghal McGarry 21 March 2016 Irish Examiner; 'UCD Press's new 'Centenary Classics' series makes available eye-witness accounts of key revolutionary episodes including the Ulster crisis; the aftermath of 1916; the rise of Sinn Fein; the War of Independence; the Treaty split; and the Civil War. These provide first-hand perspectives on such topics as the significance of sectarian divisions; the impact of imprisonment on republicanism; the importance of popular mobilisation and guerrilla warfare; and the conflict's divisive legacy. These accounts offer many insights into the influences that shaped the revolutionary generation. The value of these texts does not lie solely in the factual light they shed on past events, they illuminate mentalities, as well as the memory of the revolution, a growing area of research. These stories could be 'made into a patchwork quilt from memory'. This aim alone provides a compelling reason to ensure the wider availability of eye-witness accounts, particularly during a period of commemoration in which politicians and others will claim to speak on their behalf.' Fearghal McGarry, Queen's University Belfast September 2015; '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; '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. RISING OUT: 'Anything written by O'Malley is of value. The artist's eye for landscape and nature redeems this from being a military manual.' Irish Times; '[O'Malley] not only brings his own skill as a writer to the story but presents something bigger than a biography as he sets than a biography as he sets the war in its social context, in particular the role of the Catholic Church and the local gentry, and gives a vivid description of the activities of the IRA.' Books IrelandTable of ContentsSeries Introduction; Abbreviations; Introduction; Longford; Longford, 1916-18; Longford and National Developments, 1918-20; Longford, 1920: Drumlish, Mostrim, Ballinamuck, Top; Longford, September 1920: Ballymahon and Arvagh Barracks; North Roscommon, October 1920: Castlenode; North Roscomman, November-December 1920: Elphin and Ballinalee Barracks; Dublin Castle, December 1920; Roscommon, October 1920-February 1921: Flying Column, Sheemore, Selton Hill; Appendices; Notes; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of one of the most important poets of the mid 20th-century. At the time of his death, Denis Devlin was Irish ambassador to Italy. This book looks at Devlin's work within the aftermath of the Irish literary revival and Anglo-American and French modernism and then relates it to the work of Devlin's contemporaries (such as Thomas McGreevy, Brian Coffey and Samuel Beckett) and to modernism poets since his death.Trade Review"Alex Davis [has] written a groundbreaking and exciting study in which the general reader and student alike can recognise the true range of Irish poetry and the quite different backgrounds and artistic ambition of poets who happen to come from this country." Gerald Dawe Irish Times August 2000 "It's encouraging to see an academic in these islands tackling living writers of little official reputation - a brave engagement." Shearman 43 2000 "crisp, well-informed and well-judged, and ... badly needed to restore the reputation of and interest in the 'moderns'. UCD Press are to be congratulated: they are setting themselves high standards." Books Ireland Summer 2000 "The core of this book is a dense discussion of Devlin's poetry in relation to European and Anglo-American modernism ... Davis [also] provides a scholarly, theoretically informed reading of the poets who were left unconsumed during 'the critical feeding frenzy' that swarmed Northern Ireland poetry during the 1970s and 1980s" D. R. McCarthy, Huron College CHOICE Feb 2001 "contribute[s] greatly to our understanding not only of the individual poet's work but ... how Devlin took from and contributed to the wider poetic scene, both in Ireland and abroad. Davis [is] to be congratulated for [this] splendid stud[y] which provides many keys to unlocking the work of [this] neglected, but central, mid-century Irish poet." Irish Studies Review 10 (1) 2002 "an alternative narrative to the dominant Yeats to Heaney line. If certain voices prevail, another few years and 'Brian Coffey to Trevor Joyce' might be the better sales pitch." The Year's Work in English Studies 2002Table of Contents"A Broken Line" - Irish poetic modernisms; communications from the Eiffel Tower - "Intercessions"; "with mullioned Europe shattered" - ""Lough Derg" and Other Poems"; "heart-affairs diplomat" - later poems; Devlin "the thirties generation" and new writers; CODA "no narrative easy in the mind" - the Irish neo-avant garde.

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Book SynopsisWritten with the co-operation of Brian Friel and including an assessment of his latest work, this is a completely rewritten and updated edition of Brian Friel and Ireland's Drama, published in 1990.Trade Review"It was widely praised, and is a considerable work of literary theory as well as a very thorough study of Friel's work." Books Ireland Summer 1999 "I find the book most engaging when Pine is most specific. Most illuminating in my view is the discussion of the relationship between Friel's early stories and his plays, and the sensitive and full analysis of the complex politics of the plays and of Friel's relationship to the competing perspectives which create the vexed reality of contemporary Ireland." Robert Gordon, Goldsmith University Irish Studies Review 8 (1) 2000 "Pine, in a very legalistic manner has almost the method of a defence counsel and heaps evidence on top of argument and nearly always makes a good case." Books Ireland March 2000Table of ContentsSurvey of the work, language, literature and politics, liminality, splitting and the gap, memory and space. Part I Private conversation; the landscape painter; the short stories. Part II Public address: plays of love; plays of freedom. Part III Politics: a field day; plays of language and time. Part IV Music: plays of beyond; magic. Appendix: Brian Friel and George Steiner.

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Book SynopsisRichly designed and illustrated, Making Belfield reflects on the making and shaping of UCD to celebrate 50 years of college life at Belfield (Belfield 50). Dipping in and out of recent architectural histories and older and more far flung landscapes, it brings key UCD thinkers on spatial and cultural history together as well as highlighting the Libraries and collections of the university.Trade Review‘The lavishly illustrated book “celebrates the modern architecture and landscape design” of the Belfield campus, as editors Finola O’Kane and Ellen Rowley declare. Packed with a wealth of information, it recounts the evolution and spatial disposition of this “brave new world” in the suburbs, setting it in the context of university design during the mid-20th century, with detailed descriptions of unashamedly modern buildings by some of the finest architects available as well as the college’s archives and collections.’ Frank McDonald, Irish Times, Dec 2020 |||| ‘Not only is Making Belfield: Space and Place at UCD, a wonderfully engaging read, but it is also a beautiful publication, filling an important gap in the record of the history, art and architecture of UCD.’ University Observer, Oct 2020'Making Belfield describes the UCD's campus's significant international impact on the historiography of the Modern Movement, as well as placing it firmly within Irish cultural and institutional history. Intrinsically significant, the book's thematic analysis of Belfield as a large-scale Modernist complex is pioneering for Ireland.' Professor Miles Glendinning, University of Edinburgh, 2020 'I warmly welcome this most interesting and valuable book on the landscape and architectural history of Belfield. In the preface to my 1999 history of UCD I wrote that I remained acutely aware of how much had yet to be researched and written. Making Belfield is certainly a significant contribution to that history.' Professor Donal McCartney, University College Dublin, 2020

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Book SynopsisCathal Brugha was a figure of central importance to the Irish Revolution. Active in the Gaelic League, GAA, IRB, and Irish Volunteers, he first rose to public prominence when he led an advanced column of Volunteers in the Howth gun-running of July 1914. He went on to hold important leadership positions during the 1916 Rising, in the Irish Volunteers and in Dail cabinets until his death in July 1922. Despite this, he is almost totally neglected in the history of this period. This is the first dedicated English-language biography to focus on this fascinating figure. Using new archival material from the Bureau of Military History, Fergus O'Farrell documents Brugha's career as a revolutionary. This closely-researched work examines Brugha's complex attitudes to violence as well as illuminating his commitment to political methods. Historians have previously stressed Brugha's commitment to militancy over politics and he has been portrayed as a strong advocate of violence and distrustful of politics. This simplistic outlook is here challenged, showing that Brugha sought to marry force with politics in the pursuit of Irish independence.Trade Review'What emerges is Brugha’s complex attitudes towards violence. He was willing to lead a suicidal mission into the House of Commons to assassinate the people who he saw as directly responsible for the violence in Ireland. However, he removed names from Michael Collins’ list of spies who were to be executed by the squad on what became known as Bloody Sunday.'; Fergus O'Farrell in the Irish Times.;'If you wiped out every Black and Tan in Ireland tomorrow, you'd have shiploads of them pouring in again, the day after. And if you wiped every soul of them out, double as many shiploads would come in, the day after that... To save Ireland, you have got to wipe out the guilty ones who sent the Black and Tans here. We have got to wipe out every member of the British Cabinet.';Fergus O'Farrell writing about one of Cathal Brugha's elaborate plans to wipe out the British cabinet.; 'Richard Mulcahy, in particular, has attempted to abjure his role in the mission. There are several reasons for this. Following the revolution, Mulcahy had a long career in politics with Cumman na nGeadheal and later Fine Gael, often viewed as the parties of law and order.';Fergus O'Farrell writing in The Irish Story;

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Book SynopsisThe Centenary Classics contains six titles in this special edition series. The year 2016 marks the beginning of the centenary period of the Irish Free State's establishment. This beautifully produced limited edition series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago. Each volume is a first-hand account of individuals or events during the 1913-23 revolutionary period. They are each introduced by leading experts and academics in the field - giving a contemporary analysis of the original text - while a general series introduction by Fearghal McGarry sets the scene of the period. The complete series collectively tells the story of the birth of the Irish nation and consist of the following six titles: 978-1-906359-94-2 A Chronicle of Jails - Darrell Figgis; 978-1-906359-95-9 Civil War in Ulster - Joseph Johnston; 978-1-906359-96-6 Free State or Republic? - Padraig de Burca and John F. Boyle; 978-1-906359-97-3 Rising Out - Ernie O'Malley; 978-1-906359-98-0 Victory and Woe - Mossie Harnett and 978-1-906359-99-7 The Victory of Sinn Fein - P. S. O'Hegarty.

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Book Synopsis"Something to Chew On" is an informative and entertaining book which covers from a scientific point of view all of the worldwide controversies dominating the popular press in relation to the safety and wholesomeness of the modern food chain. It deals with the topics of organic food, GM foods, obesity, growing old, the integrity of food research, global warming, global malnutrition, consumer perception of food-borne risk, our gut bacteria, and how nutrition during pregnancy primes us for health in later life. Each chapter presents multiple arguments and comes to a well-supported conclusion. Mike Gibney provides interesting examples, reports and stories from many countries. The book is highly suitable for the general reader and will be an invaluable guide to the science of nutrition for students of food and health.Trade Review'Gibney offers an introduction to the issues that will shape our future. It is a bold attempt at demystification. The mechanics of human nutrition, diet and health are clearly explained alongside important developments in plant science, climate change, water supply, and global agriculture. Gibney takes aim at what he considers misconceived propaganda about agri-food science, such as emotion-based hostility to genetically modified (GM) crops and those who put fashionable organic farming above high-yield fertilisers in developing countries. His position as a scientist who has co-ordinated European-funded research projects with food and chemical companies is explained at the outset, along with his role as an adviser to Nestle. The book's richness lies in its wealth of detail. We learn that human intervention in plant genetics goes back 10,000 years. Indeed, it is human behaviour that emerges as the oddest phenomenon. Gibney highlights a 20-year study in the UK which found an increase in car ownership correlates precisely with the rise in obesity. A study of 50,000 American nurses from 1976 onwards found that those who viewed the most television had a 94% increased risk of becoming obese, and a 70% higher risk of diabetes.' The Sunday Times 'Professor Gibney brings his vast scholarship to the subject, pulling together reports and studies from around the globe filtered through his own argumentative and common sense approach to one of the most important subjects in the world today.' Sunday Independent 'Gibney writes in fluid prose which makes pleasant and interesting reading.' Books IrelandTable of ContentsWith Regard to Food; Sugar and Spice and All Things Nasty; Modified Foods: Genetic or Atomic?; The Metrics of Food and Health; Personalised Nutrition: Fitting into your Genes; Plastic Babies: The Phenomenon of Epigenetics; Your Inside is Out: Food, the Gut and Health; A Tsunami of Lard: The Global Epidemic of Obesity; Greying Matters; Food and Health: The Science, Policy and Politics; My Food, Your Poison: Who Sees What in Food; How the Other Half Dies; Mankind and Mother Earth; Projections and Reflections; Notes; Index.

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Book Synopsis"Land, Popular Politics and Agrarian Violence in Ireland" provides an original and insightful study of the highly formative Land War and Home Rule from a local and regional perspective. Lucey examines the emergence and development of the largest mass political mobilisation brought about in nineteenth-century Ireland in the form of the Land League (1979-82), and subsequently the National League (1882-7), in the south-western county of Kerry. Such an unprecedented level of local political activity was matched by an upsurge in agrarian violence and the outbreak of serious outrage, which was largely orchestrated by secret societies known as Moonlighters. In turn, this book provides an important exploration of the dynamics behind the mass political mobilisation and agrarian violence that dominated Kerry society during the 1880s. The role of Fenians, radical agrarian agitators and moderate constitutional nationalists are all examined within the county. This study has importance beyond the local and provides a range of insights into motivations behind political action and violence at an everyday level during one of the most seminal and transformative eras in the development of modern Irish history. This title is suitable for students and academics of nineteenth-century Irish history and general readers.Trade Review'Dr Lucey's exemplary account of this phase of Kerry's local history will be invaluable to future historians as they attempt to unravel complexities in our island's story.' Irish Catholic 8 March 2012 'Regional studies such as this expose the anomalies present in national surveys, and Lucey's extensive primary research and thorough engagement with the secondary literature deepens our knowledge of the complexities of post-Famine Irish society. - This is a book of significance. The research it embodies, and the arguments put forward by Lucey, all shed further light on a most intriguing period of Irish history. It shows that intra-class relations and the tensions played an important role in popular politics, with the lower classes eventually being the losers in the story of the Land War.' Reviews in History 2012Table of ContentsIntroduction; Background to the land war in Kerry; Agricultural depression and the emergence of radical agitation; Land League agitation; The Land League, Fenianism and agrarian violence; The Irish National League and the revival of Home Rule, October 1882 to September 1885; The operation of the National League; The Irish National League and Moonlighters: Agrarian violence during the home rule period, 1885-6; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAfter the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, the journal Studies hosted the mainstream social, economic, constitutional and political debates that shaped the new state. "An Irish Century: Studies 1912-2012" marks its centenary as one of Ireland's most influential periodicals. The collection focuses on nine decades of Irish independence and the crucial decade beforehand that witnessed seismic change, addressing the key events, crises and challenges that have shaped Irish society - the 1916 Rising, the First World War, sectarian conflict, child abuse and immigration. There are some landmark pieces by AE, John Maynard Keynes, Donal Barrington, Patrick Lynch, Sean O'Faolain and Augustine Martin. Included are writings by and about some of the key figures who have fashioned the political, cultural and economic life of modern Ireland such as John Redmond, Patrick Pearse, Sean Lemass, T.K. Whitaker, John McGahern and Ian Paisley, as well as analyses of social change by Tom Garvin, Tony Fahey, Mary Kenny, Finola Kennedy and Dermot Keogh. Drawing from some 400 issues containing more than 3,000 essays, the one per cent solution distilled here was selected to exemplify and reflect a century of debate and analysis of Irish social and political change.Trade Review'Since its foundation in 1912, Studies, the Irish Jesuit quarterly journal, has clocked up 400 essays and published about 3,000 essays, arguable becoming the most important Catholic periodical read by iris intellectuals. Specialising in social issues, philosophy, history and economics, it has provided a forum for analysis of these subjects, not just in Ireland but also in continental Europe. This centenary collection, incorporating 31 of the articles, is a worthy tribute to the journal's endurance, quality and relevance, as well as being a handsomely designed and accessible overview of the manner in which, during its first 100 year, Studies has recorded and fostered discussion about some of the key milestones and changes in Irish society. - The range and quality of the articles chosen is, overall, impressive.' Irish Times, 28 July 2012Table of ContentsBRYAN FANNING: Introduction: Studies 1912-2012; STEPHEN COLLINS: John Redmond (2009); PATRICK PEARSE: Some Aspects of Irish Literature (1913); ARTHUR E. CLERY: Votes for Youth (1915); DENIS GWYNN: Thomas Kettle 1880-1916 (1966); SEAN F. LEMASS: I Remember 1916 (1966); FRANCIS SHAW SJ: The Canon of Irish History: A Challenge (1972); HENRY V. GILL SJ: The Fate of the Irish Flag at Ypres (1919); GEORGE RUSSELL (AE): Lessons of Revolution (1923); FINOLA KENNEDY: The Suppression of the Carrigan Report (2000); JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: National Self-Sufficiency (1933); DANIEL A. BINCHY: Adolf Hitler (1933); DERMOT KEOGH: The Jesuits and the 1937 Constitution (1989); MICHAEL TIERNEY: Daniel O'Connell and the Irish Past (1938); DANIEL A. BINCHY: Reply to Tierney (1938); PATRICK LYNCH: The Economist and Public Policy (1953); DONAL BARRINGTON: Uniting Ireland (1957); SEAN O'FAOLAIN: Fifty Years of Irish Writing (1962); AUGUSTINE MARTIN: Inherited Dissent: The Dilemma of the Irish Writer (1965); JOHN BRADY SJ: Pluralism and Northern Ireland (1978); JOHN SWEENEY: The Challenge of Social Inequality (1983); RAYMOND CROTTY: T. K. Whitaker (1984); MARGARET MAC CURTAIN: Moving Statues and Irishwomen (1987); TOM GARVIN: Reflections on Current Discontents (1989); TONY FAHEY: Growth and Decline of Churchly Religion (1995); EAMON MAHER: Interview with John McGahern (2001); MARY KENNY: Forty Years On (2003); NEIL SOUTHERN: Paisleyism: A Theological Inquiry (2004); FERGUS O'DONOGHUE SJ: The Doghouse No Longer Feels Lonely (2008-9); BRYAN FANNING: Immigration and Social Cohesion (2009); SEAMUS MURPHY SJ: No Cheap Grace (2010); Index.

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Book SynopsisIn 1929, ten years before James Joyce completed "Finnegans Wake", Sylvia Beach published a strange book with a stranger title: "Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress". Worried by the confusion and attacks that constituted the general reception of his "Work in Progress" (the working title for "Finnegans Wake"), Joyce orchestrated this collection of twelve essays and two 'letters of protest' from such writers as Samuel Beckett, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, and William Carlos Williams. "Our Exagmination" represents an altogether unusual hybrid of criticism and advertisement, and since its first appearance has remained a touchstone as well as a point of contention for Joyce scholars. Eighty years later, Joyce's "Disciples Disciplined" reads the "Exagmination" as an integral part of the larger composition history and interpretive context of "Finnegans Wake" itself. This new collection of essays by fourteen outstanding Joycean scholars offers one essay in response to each of the original "Exagmination" contributions. From philosophically informed exegeses and new conceptions of international modernism to considerations of dance, film, and the flourishing field of genetic studies, these essays together exemplify an interdisciplinary criticism that is also a lively and ongoing conversation with that criticism's history.Trade Review'The overall quality is exceptionally high.' James Joyce Literary Supplement Fall 2011 'I can confirm that the book is even better than the cover - a truly tasty, haute-cuisine omelette of Joyce criticism. - I will say that Conley's collection offers a stimulating introduction to the context that produced both the Exagmination and the Wake. Starting with Eugene Jolas's transition journal where the chapters from 'Work in Progress' were first published, as well as most of the essays in Our Exagmination, it situates Joyce's aesthetic project in relation to the great literary, cultural, and political debates of late modernism. - Conley claims that, unlike Joyce, he has given very few directions to his commentators and that, as a result, each felt free to react accordingly to his or her own sensibility and expertise. The result is a collection of diverse readings both prolonging the tradition and reaffirming the importance of the Exagmination since - as Conley notes - 'The "Joyce industry" starts here.' James Joyce Quarterly 48 (1) 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction, Tim Conley; Dangerous Identifications, or Beckett's Italian Hoagie, Jean-Michel Rabate; The Life of Brion's 'Idea of Time in the Work of James Joyce', Sam Slote; Joyce, the Master Craftsman: Frank Budgen and the Making of the Wake, Dirk Van Hulle; Postlegomena to Stuart Gilbert's Prolegomena, Patrick McCarthy; Eugene Jolas and the Joycean Word in Transition, Andrew J. Mitchell; The Prosaic 'Rhythm of the Successive Pictures', or Going to the Movies with James Joyce and Victor Llona, Moshe Gold; Joyce En Pointe: Robert McAlmon Reviews an Irish Word Ballet, Carol Loeb Shloss; Thomas McGreevy and 'The Catholic Element' in Joyce, John Nash; Disappointment and Transcendence: Reading for the Plot and Not in Finnegans Wake, Pamela Brown; The Secret, the Baffled, the True: John Rodker and Late Avant-Garde Reading, Laura Heffernan; Shocking Language: Robert Sage and the Circuitry of Meaning, Vicki Mahaffey; A Point for Intercultural Criticism, Stephen John Dilks; Finnegans Wake in a Dentist's Waiting Room, Finn Fordham; The Pleasure of Meeting Mr. Dixon, Fritz Senn; Index.

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Book SynopsisW.B. Yeats went to great lengths to design his self-image which biographers have been slow to challenge. Following on from "Blood Kindred" (2005), Mc Cormack's new study of the poet's idealist views concentrates on the role of J.M. Hone in introducing him to George Berkeley's philosophy in the mid 1920s and to contemporary Italian thinkers such as Giovanni Gentile and Mario Manlio Rossi. The notion of sacrifice is examined and, by way of contrast, work by Synge, George Moore and Samuel Beckett is shown to challenge the demand for sacrifice which underlies many powerful philosophies of culture. This is a detailed and yet wide-ranging critique of twentieth-century Irish literature, illuminating both well-known and obscure figures.Trade Review'Mc Cormack is a retired professor of literary history at Goldsmith's College in London. As well as a life of J. M. Synge, he wrote a political biography of W. B. Yeats which concentrated on the poet's relations with Nazi Germany and his interest in French royalist authoritarianism. This book is on something of a related theme as Mc Cormack examines Yeats's relationship with publisher J. M. Hone who introduced him to the philosophy of George Berkeley and to the writings of contemporary Italian thinkers Giovanni Gentile and Mario Manlio Rossi. The central tenet of their thinking was the idea of sacrifice and this found its way into Yeats's own work. Mc Cormack's role is that of a revisionist in that he questions the self-image which Yeats carefully constructed and which, Mc Cormack maintains, biographers accepted. In looking at Yeats's work he brings in for the purpose of contrast the writings os Synge, George Moore and Beckett. These latter three had no time for the notion of sacrifice and indeed challenged it. In so doing Mc Cormack highlights the influence of a particular strand of European thought on Yeats and shows how this made him different from his Irish contemporaries.' Books Ireland Summer 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Non-Reflective Vision:; 1.1 Logic or panic; 1.2 George Berkeley in Europe; 1.3 Yeats and German thought in the 1930s; 2 Fate, Myth and the absolute:; 2.1 Italy and the enigma of 'Hone and Rossi'; 2.2 'Good strong blows are delights to the mind'; 2.3 Lapsed knowledge, with resurgent sacrifice; 2.4 A few notes on Irish studies; 3 Critique of Instances: Ireland for the Most Part a Late Prelude:; 3.1 Not Christ, but Christy: notes from a Borderland of 1907; 3.2 Advancing on the past: some poems of Patrick Pearse; 3.3 The Brook Kerith (1916): George Moore against sacrifice; Yeats on Easter; 4 Critique of Instances: Paris and (is it?) Wall Street; 4.1 A French Berkeley of 2007; 4.2 'Disturbed by print' - Samuel Beckett's pretext; Appendices I Giovanni Amendola on Berkeley IIA A List of Publications concerning twentieth-century German thought preserved in W. B. Yeats's library [at the time of his death, with details of surviving manuscript annotation] IIB Some further works of German interest used by Yeats [but absent from the O'Shea catalogue] III Chronological select list of texts by George Berkeley separately published in Continental Europe, 1920-6 IV Towards a chronology of publications by J. M. Hone V 'John McGoldrick and the Quaker's daughter'; Bibliography; Index.

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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 SynopsisJohn Mitchel (1815-75) was born at Camnish, near Dungiven, Co. Derry, the son of a Presbyterian minister. After qualifying as a solicitor, he became a leading contributor to the Nation newspaper and the most militant of the Young Irelanders. Sentenced to 14 years' transportation for attempting to incite rebellion in Ireland in 1848, in captivity he wrote his famous "Jail Journal", which starkly expressed his hatred of the British empire and had an immense influence on later nationalists. Escaping to America after five years, he became a strong supporter of slavery and the Confederate States, and two of his sons died fighting for the South.The harshness of his views, especially his violent hatred of Britain and support for slavery, does much to explain Mitchel's neglect in recent decades. He was, however, one of the most powerful polemical journalists of the nineteenth century and a central figure in the revival of militant Irish nationalism. His portrayal of the famine as deliberate genocide became central to nationalist orthodoxy, and his hatred of British rule and contempt for parliamentary politics did much to inspire Fenianism.This new biography attempts to discover the origins of Mitchel's views, to examine their influence, and to place his anglophobia in a more general critique of the age in which he lived.Trade Review"Bookworm [History Ireland] is always on the lookout for publications that appeal to a particular type of reader: Leaving Cert and A-level student, languid undergrad, or general readers whose enthusiasm for history is not matched by the necessary leisure time to plough through academic monographs - A case in point was the 'Life and Times' series published by the Historical Association of Ireland in the 1990s, which aimed 'to place the lives of leading figures in Irish history against the background of new research'. The good news is that the series is back, with the same mission statement, this time published by UCD Press." History Ireland March/April 2009 "It is a phenomenal tale by any standards and must be respected for its long dedication and endurance in the service of Irish liberation. In the end Mitchel served that cause best by his pen and by the example of his life. Many others made immense sacrifices but few had such an able and, it must be said, such a vituperative pen - Discourse is valueless if you are always betrayed. How valid were Mitchel's views? - Mitchel was out to give the British credit for nothing and so weakened his case. Adaptable in many ways, as in earning a living and finding a place to do so, he was rigid in this. To try to grasp his approach to slavery is not to excuse or endorse it - Perhaps too long a sacrifice did make Mitchel's heart stony in some crucial respects and rendered him a character it is hard to warm to." Rory Brennan Books Ireland May 2009 "Quinn, executive editor of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, offers a new biography of Mitchel (1815-75), whose harsh views of the British empire affected later Irish nationalists, but whose support of slavery after he escaped from prison to the US has led to his neglect by scholars in recent years. He places Mitchel's anglophobia in the context of the times." Book News Inc August 2009 "Also welcome is the new series of the Historical Association of Ireland's Life and Times concise biographies, which started out some years ago under the Dundalgan Press imprint. It has now been taken over by the excellent UCD Press and given a makeover and smart new livery, keeping the bright blue colour scheme of the originals. The aim of the series is to provide scholarly and accessibly brief biographies of major figures in Irish history by experts in the field, suitable for Leaving Certificate, A level and undergraduate students but also for the general reader." Irish Democrat November 2009Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; Chronology of Mitchel's Life and Times; Introduction; Youth and early Life, 1815-45; The Nation, 1845-7; United Irishman, 1848; In Exile, 1848-53; Liberty in America, 1853-4 Southern Citizen, 1855-65; Fenians and Home Rule, 1865-75; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by Douglas Jefferson from various periods of his distinguished career and by fellow academics writing in response to his work represents a novel dialogic form of literary criticism. In his essays ranging from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to the "Canon", Jefferson is always stimulating and engaging, while offering nuanced and informed readings of his chosen texts. Replying to Jefferson's work, contemporary critics have variously extended his ideas, disclosing new ways of reading texts in the light of current debate and more theoretical developments, or have adopted a more discursive strategy in using ideas derived from Jefferson's essays to provoke further explorations. Douglas Jefferson (1912-2001) spent virtually his entire academic life at the University of Leeds, starting as an undergraduate in the School of English in 1930, and interrupted only by his studies at the University of Oxford (Merton College), where he gained a B.Litt in 1937, and his educational services in Egypt during the Second World War. His was a career remarkable for distinguished service to his profession, comprising not only an extensive range of publications on writers from John Dryden to Iris Murdoch but in the care with which he nurtured and encouraged generations of students and colleagues both at home and abroad in the study of English literature.Trade Review"Books from UCD Press make us think of the difference between those who manage to be well dressed and those to whom it comes naturally. UCDP books are of the latter category." Books Ireland May 2006Table of ContentsJanet Clare and Veronica O'Mara, Introduction; Douglas Jefferson, Some Impressions of Hamlet; Janet Clare and Raymond Hargreaves, Hamlet and the Theatre of the Mind; Douglas Jefferson, Paradise Lost Today; Graham Parry, Jefferson's Milton; Douglas Jefferson, The Significance of Dryden's Heroic Plays; Derek Hughes, The Significance of Dryden's Heroic Plays: A Response; Douglas Jefferson, Tristram Shandy and the Tradition of Learned Wit; David Fairer, Sterne, Sensibility and 'Learned Wit'; Douglas Jefferson, The Economy of the Novel: Reflections on Mansfield Park; Colin Winborn, Jane Austen's Art of Containment; Douglas Jefferson, Irresistible Narrative: The Art of Wuthering Heights; Inga-Stina Ewbank, (Ir)resistible Criticism; Douglas Jefferson, Huckleberry Finn; Ron Callan, Narrative Illusion: Huckleberry Finn; Douglas Jefferson, The Golden Bowl: Some Misgivings; Andrew Taylor,. 'A Matter Of Words': Henry James and The Golden Bowl; Douglas Jefferson, The Canon; Declan Kiberd, Towards a Multicultural Canon?; Index.

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Book SynopsisAmerican Errancy is a wide-ranging study of the connection between ideology and the sublime in the work of twentieth-century poets, all American with two, or perhaps three important exceptions. The poets chosen are in debate with the Romantic individualism of Emerson - some reject it outright, but the remainder have devoted substantial work to adjusting to the changed circumstances of their century. The link between Romantic individualism and ideological contexts has preoccupied much criticism of American literature in the last twenty years. For the most part, critics arraign this tradition, suggesting that the writers abscond from difficult political dilemmas to the realm of transcendence. In consequence, the sublime as category for thinking about literary texts has been largely abandoned. Emerson's transcendence is considered at best naive, at worst as providing the nascent corporate capitalism of the late nineteenth century with an iconography with which to execute its agenda. Justin Quinn argues that this critical approach distorts the achievement of poets in the twentieth century: many of the poets discussed extend the tradition of Romantic individualism, but they are not ideologically naive in the above sense. Their work anticipated historicist criticism of the 1980s and 1990s as they began to 'socialise' the sublime, and to explore the ways in which the inheritance of Romantic individualism could engage with ideological contexts. For some of the poets, these explorations supported their oppositional politics (i.e., Allen Ginsberg); for others, paradoxically, the explorations supported conservative politics (i.e., A. R. Ammons); others rejected the Emersonian inheritance outright (Eliot, Hill), but that rejection itself has left an enduring mark on their work.Trade Review"T. S. Eliot praised Henry James for having a mind so fine 'that no idea could violate it'. Quinn shows that American poets can deal with ideas without being violated by them. This study ... belongs in collections strong in modern poetry and American studies." CHOICE June 2006 "Justin Quinn's American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry - fulfils the promise of the earlier journal publication of the fine chapter it devotes to Allen Ginsberg. Quinn's invigorating introduction constructs a narrative of the ways in which American culture has grounded itself in the sublime while seeking at times to constrain that sublime within a particular vision of society and social institutions; starting from standard Puritan texts, Quinn traces the ideological implications of the interactions of these terms through Emerson, Whitman, Stevens, Moore, Crane, Ralph Ellison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others. It's a bracing narrative, which dissents from current accounts of this field with great scope and intelligence - Chapters are devoted to an unusually wide range of poets - T. S. Eliot, A. R. Ammons, Amy Clampitt, and Robert Pinsky, as well as Ginsberg, Graham, Thom Gunn, and Geoffrey Hill - and each is stimulating, with the most notable study perhaps that of Ammons which presents, of flaunts, the author of Sphere as a full-blown poet of empire." YWES [The Year's Work in English Studies] Winter 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction; American Errancy; T. S. Eliot's Journey Home; Geoffrey Hill in America; Coteries and the Sublime in Allen Ginsberg; Thom Gunn's American Dispersals; A. R. Ammons's Cold War Sublime; Empire, Sublimity and the Look of Things in Amy Clampitt; Robert Pinsky and the Ends of America; Jorie Graham's Manifest Destiny; Works Cited; Index

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Book Synopsis"The Age of Lemass" focuses on the impact of Sean Lemass on Irish politics and society between 1945 and 1973. Although Lemass had been active in Irish politics from 1916 and became Minister for Industry and Commerce in 1932 in the first de Valera government, the essays here suggest that his influence was greatest after 1945. Lemass developed his thinking to meet the challenges of the post-war world, and although he was sixty in 1959, he sought to modernize Irish society. Thus it can be argued that his influence on contemporary Ireland was greater than that of de Valera.Trade Review"the book reveal[s] much about one of the most outstanding political leaders this country has ever produced. Sean Lemass was a true exception to the usual run of politicians, a doer rather than a talker, both feet very firmly on the ground." Books Ireland March 2006 "The Lemass Era will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in Irish politics and society since the 1950s ... [Lemass] linked national progress with an upsurge of patriotism. This he defined as 'a combination of love of country, pride in its history, traditions and culture, and a determination to add to its prestige and achievements.' Mold breaker and mold maker indeed." Irish Literary Supplement Spring 2007A"It will prove to be an invaluable resource for undergraduates taking survey courses in twentieth-century Ireland and the collection should also appeal to a general audience A... [chapters] by the established academics provide invaluable summaries of, and gateways to, the authors' more substantial monographs, while those by the younger scholars promise interesting work to come. The Lemass Era A... is a worthwhile addition to an increasingly impressive catalogue of publications from UCD Press on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish history.A" William Murphy Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin The English Historical Review CXXIII: 806-808 June 2008Table of ContentsForeword by John Horgan; Brian Girvin and Gary Murphy, Whose Ireland? The Lemass era; Political and party competition in post-war Ireland, Niamh Puirseil; From economic nationalism to European Union, Gary Murphy; Emigration, political cultures and the evolution of post-war Irish society, Enda Delaney; Ireland and the productivity drive of post-war Europe, Peter Murray; The 'mainstreaming' of Irish foreign policy, Maurice FitzGerald; Northern Ireland and cross-border co-operation, Michael Kennedy; Church, state and the moral community, Brian Girvin; The politics of educational expansion, John Walsh; A semi-state in all but name? Sean Lemass's film policy, Roddy Flynn; Introducing television in the age of Sean Lemass, Robert Savage; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population growth that continued until the arrival of potato blight in 1845 had a severe effect on the health of the country's population, and the Famine itself caused around one million deaths from starvation and disease. This was a period of great change in medical and charitable services. In the eighteenth century the sick had come to be regarded as the deserving poor, therefore having a better claim to public assistance than those whose poverty was the result of their own dissipation, idleness or vice. A network of charities evolved in Ireland to provide free medical aid to the sick poor. The first voluntary hospital in Dublin opened in 1718 and Geary traces the establishment and development of voluntary hospitals and county infirmaries throughout the country. These had a strong Anglican ethos and bias, but after Catholic emancipation in 1829 the nepotism, sectarianism and divisive politics that were rife in these organisations came under increasing scrutiny. Medical practitioners saw considerable progress in the development of a regulated profession. Geary describes developments in policy making and legislation, culminating in the 1851 Medical Charities Act, which he describes as part of a process that characterised the century and more under review in this book: the unrelenting pressure on philanthropy and private medical charity and the inexorable shift from voluntarism to an embryonic system of state medicine.Trade Review"offers some interesting insights into the early dispensary system." Irish Times Sept 2004 "Laid out in a clear and accessible manner, this book shows a highly enlightened cross-section of Irish society over four or five generations encompassing all classes from the very rich ... to the upper and lower middle class ... to the propertyless of every kind ... Every table-even something as simple as the gender breakdown of admissions to county infirmaries 1841-51-gives us hitherto unavailable insight into Irish life, health and family economies ... an invaluable resource on the history of pre-Famine Ireland, and will become an essential textbook for the period." Irish Studies Review 13 (2) 2005 "Laurence Geary has written an important book on the development of Ireland's hospital and dispensary services ... The book is an administrative history but enlivened by Geary's attempt to make the story of the dispensary and charitable hospital a history of Ireland's poor." Greta Jones, University of Ulster Irish Economic and Social History 2005 "The documentary sources for this work are used to good effect ... includes a comprehensive bibliography that is a useful supplement to Geary's fluent and persuasive prose, and will be appreciated by the many future researchers who consult this book." New Hibernia Review Vol 11, No 1 Spring 2007Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 The origins and development of Irish medical institutions: Voluntary hospitals; County infirmaries; Dispensaries; Fever hospitals; Part 2 Patrons, patients and practitioners: Governors and patients; Medical practitioners; Part 3 Politics one day, potatoes the next: The politics of sick poor relief; Medical-relief during the Great Famine; The 1851 Medical Charities Act; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisIn these essays by historians on aspects of republicanism in Ireland (north and south) from the early 20th century to the present, a number of central themes emerge. During the course of the 20th century, republican organizations have been repeatedly faced by similar arguments, rhetoric and choices. Should they participate in political institutions which are seen to be illegitimate? Should physical force be used? Splits, schism and rivalry emerge as a significant dynamic of the political culture. Republican organizations are also shown to be ideologically incoherent, opportunist and flexible, and the struggle to claim political ownership of the republican tradition is shown to be very important. Another continuing theme is the progressive language of republicanism although in practice republican politics and activities are often intolerant.Trade Review"Most of the contributors avoid the easy parallels and the simple definitions and point up both the problems and potentially fruitful areas for further research and discussion." Fortnight Feb 2004 "This collection indicates movement - subtle and otherwise - in historical approaches to Irish republicanism ... McGarry, with UCD Press, has produced a stimulating volume." Irish Times August 2004Table of ContentsRepublicans and democracy in modern Irish politics, R.V Comerford; paramilitary politics and the Irish revolution, Peter Hart; "The Irregular and Bolshie situation" - republicanism and communism, 1921-36, Donal Drisceoil; "Too damned tolerant" - republicans and imperialism in the Irish Free State, 1922-37, Fearghal McGarry; IRA veterans and land division in independent Ireland, 1932-48, Terence Dooley; British intelligence, the republican movement and the IRA's German links, 1935-45, Eunan O'Halpin; an army of our Fenian dead - republicanism, monuments and commemoration; a nation once again - towards an epistemology of the republican imaginaire, Eugene O'Brien; the rhetoric of republican legitimacy, Brian Hanley; provisional republicanism - internal politics, inequities and modes of repression, Anthony McIntyre.

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Book SynopsisIreland is famous - or notorious - for its wet and mild climate. Because on average more water precipitates than evaporates, the island is rich in wetlands - marshes, swamps, fens, bogs, lagoons, floodplains and wet meadows, to name but a few. Many place names in Ireland refer to wet places. Words derived from the Irish language are used to refer to a particular type of wetland, such as "callows" for the floodplains of the River Shannon, or "turlough" for a type of ephemeral wetland found almost exclusively in Ireland. This book brings together specialists in wetland science discussing a wide range of topics from an Irish perspective, including the ecology, fauna, vegetation and distribution of various types of wetlands; the use of wetlands for wastewater management; the archaeology of wetlands; and protection and conservation. It is intended for a wide audience of wetland enthusiasts - not just for professionals, but also for those who through their hobbies have a passion for those wet and wild places.Trade Review"a valuable edition to the bookshelf of all who have an interest in ecology and the formation of our island." Bookview Ireland July 2003 "No one book had brought all the wetlands together, or made the case for their conservation. Distribution, Ecology, Uses and Economic Value is the subtitle, leaving little room to wonder what wetlands are 'good for'." Irish Times, August 2003 "Never was a book so needed to highlight the importance of Ireland's wetlands, many of which are under pressure from building activities, especially in coastal areas and particularly in estuaries ... easy to understand and a wonderful present for a family. It is a must for libraries, policy makers and especially local authority planners." Sherkin Comment 2007Table of ContentsLife in wetland environments, Marinus L. Otte. Distribution, ecology and uses of wetlands in Ireland: salt marshes, T. G. F. Curtis; uniquely Irish 1 - Spartina in Ireland, Mark McCorry, Tom G. F. Curtis and Marinus L. Otte; coastal lagoons, Brenda Healy; peatlands - fens and bogs, Gerard J. Doyle and Colman O Criodain; callows and floodplains, Stephen Heery; uniquely Irish 2 - corncrakes on the Shannon Callows, Catherine Casey; turloughs, Roger Goodwillie and Julian D. Reynolds; vegetation of turloughs, Roger Goodwillie; fauna of turloughs and other wetlands, Julian D. Reynolds; uniquely Irish 3 - the turlough form of Ranunculus repens, Deirdre Lynn and Stephen Waldren; wetland woods, John R. Cross and D. L. Kelly; canals and canal banks, Brigid Johnston; constructed wetlands for treatment of waste water, Feidhlim Harty and Marinus L. Otte; uniquely Irish 4 - an experimental wetland for treatment of sulphate-rich mine water at Tara Mines, Marinus L. Otte, Aisling D. O'Sullivan, Ciara Finnegan, Eric Brady and Declan Murray. The wetlands - aspects of general interest: birds of Irish wetlands - a review, Richard G. W. Nairn; the archaeology of Irish bogs, Barry Raftery; the value of wetlands, Marinus L. Otte; conservation and management of wetlands in Ireland, Gerard Clabby; conclusion, Marinus L. Otte. Appendix: Pointers to sources of information on wetlands - databases, internet addresses.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores in detail the theme of change within the major political traditions of Ireland. It adopts a dual approach, in which a set of leading politicians examines the theme of change within particular traditions, followed by a corresponding set of contributions from academic observers. Change has been especially marked in the constitutional nationalist tradition within Northern Ireland, which is examined from different perspectives by Alban Maginess and Jennifer Todd. It has been even more pronounced in the republican tradition, however, which is discussed from the standpoints of politician and academic commentator by Mitchel McLaughlin and Paul Arthur. Two strands of unionism are analysed using the same formula. Thus Dermot Nesbit and Richard English focus on the complex and fascinating pattern of change within Ulster unionism. Then the even more remarkable shift in direction within militant loyalism is assessed by one of its main architects, David Ervine, and by academic analyst James McAuley. Finally, Desmond O'Malley and Tom Garvin examine the pattern of change in the south. John Coakley provides a detailed introduction to constitutional innovation and political change in 20th-century Ireland, and the appendix contains selected political documents outlining the various perspectives on the future of Northern Ireland.Trade Review"Thought provoking." Sunday Tribune Dec 2002 "John Coakley and UCD Press have put together a useful and timely volume reflecting on the changing nature of unionism and nationalism in Ireland." Irish Political Studies 18 (1) 2003 "Coakley, who has made major contributions to the study of nationalism in Europe, has ably edited this volume ... a useful collection emphasising the continuing importance of nationalism in Ireland and elsewhere." Political Studies Review 1 (3) 2003 "Coakley presents a positive vision for the working of the Good Friday agreement, with the development of 'north-south' and 'east-west' linkages, within the overall context of a European Union." Irish Democrat Sept 2003 "contributes valuable material to a growing body of literature on the recent peace process and scholarship on nationalism, identity, and citizenship more generally. The editor's excellent general introduction and conclusion fill in conceptual and contextual gaps; political documents ... are included in the appendix. Highly recommended." CHOICE March 2004Table of ContentsIntroduction - constitutional innovation and political change in twentieth-century Ireland, John Coakley. Part 1, Political perspectives: Redefining northern nationalism, Alban Maginness MLA; Redefining republicanism, Mitchell McLaughlin MLA; Redefining unionism, David Ervine; Redefining Ireland: a sounthern viewpoint, Desmond O'Malley; Part 2, Academic perspectives: The reorientation of constitutional nationalism, Jennifer Todd; The transformation of republicanism, Paul Arthur; The growth of new unionism, Richard English; The emergence of new loyalism, James McAuley; The fading of traditional nationalism in the Republic of Ireland, Tom Garvin; Conclusion: new strains of unionism and nationalism, John Coakley; Appendix, Perspectives on the future of Northern Ireland: selected political documents.

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Book SynopsisGerard Manley Hopkins spent five unhappy years in Ireland before his death in 1889, during which time he wrote perhaps the most interesting group of all his poems. Although he is one of the most well known and liked of poets, he is still one of the least understood. This is a full-length study of Hopkins's time in Ireland, when he was Professor of Classics at University College Dublin, and it is both a biography and a critical account of the poetry. Norman White examines the poet's personality and shows him as a sick and self-lacerating human being. This is not a conventional biography and it does not aim to be an account of Hopkins's doings in Ireland: the important things that happened to Hopkins in Ireland were mental, and so the book is an exploration of the poems written in Ireland largely as a form of psychological biography, working outwards from Hopkins's most intimate creations.Trade Review"[White] treats each poem in great detail, placing each in the context of the poet's experiences of Ireland at a particular moment in his life and examining the way in which the poem is a reflection of Hopkins' mental biography." Bookview Ireland June 2002 "Award winning biographer of Hopkins, White with cool expertise fills in the details of the poet's miserable sojourn as classics professor at Newman's university in Dublin. There is also critical commentary on the poet's towering achievement since his best writing came from the Irish period according to most critics. Excellent companion to Hopkins' scholarship." Books Ireland Sept 2002 "White is the recognised authority on Hopkins and this informative study should add to his deserved reputation." The Irish Examiner Oct 2002 "in its impeccable scholarship and consistently sensitive responses to the poems, an indispensable work for anyone interested in Hopkins. And this handsome publication from the UCD Press, written moreover by a former UCD lecturer, may belatedly atone, to a small extent, for Hopkin's tribulations in the older UCD." Irish Times, Oct 2002 "This account of Hopkins' time in Ireland is based on the author's rigorous consultation of the original manuscripts. His knowledge of the manuscript material, both published and unpublished, is unrivalled. Other original source material, including the accounts of University College, is ingeniously and enlighteningly exploited ... Norman White's prose style is outstandingly clear and expressive. This makes his study a pleasure to read quite apart from its subject ... attractively printed and made." The Hopkins Quarterly XXX, 3-4 Summer-Fall 2003 "written with passionate commitment to the poems and the plight of the author ... the detailed analysis of the poems are often moving as well as wonderfully enriching. They are interpretations that should be read by all students of Hopkins." C. L. Phillips, Downing College, Cambridge Notes and Queries Sept 2003Table of ContentsHopkins in England, Wales and Scotland; England and Ireland; Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves; To Seem the Stranger; No Worst; Worse; Now Done Darkness; Mortal Beauty; The Portrait' The Epithalamian; Tom, Dick and Harry; Soldiering; That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire; Retreat at Rahan, New Year 1889; Swan Song.

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Book SynopsisEssays by historians on information, media and power from ancient times to the present day. They are all based on papers read at the Irish Conference of Historians meeting at Cork in 1999.Trade Review"a series of papers read before the 24th Irish Conference of Historians held in University College Cork, is a feast. It encompasses the cares of the first two books and shows yet again how little under the sun is genuinely new." Books Ireland Feb 2003Table of ContentsIntroduction, Hiram Morgan; the ideology of information in the Greek polis, Sian Lewis; news and information in the papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt, B.C. McGing; the transmission of Latin learning in early mediaeval Ireland, Thomas O'Loughlin; lay incursion into official religion in the Christ and the doctors mystery plays, Anthony G. Corbett; the Huguenot diaspora - refugee networks of power, Charles C. Ludington; the birth of bureaucracy in revolutionary France, Ralph Kingston; Leonard MacNally (1752-1820) - playwright, barrister, United Irishman and informer, Thomas Bartlett; the improvement of communication in international freight markets, c.1830-70, Yrjo Kaukiainen; print, politics and Protestantism in an imperial context - New Zealand, c.1769-1870, Tony Ballantyne; informing empire and nation - publicity, propaganda and the press, 1880-1920, C.A. Bayly; media and power -Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 mission to North America, Alan O'Day; the archives of the Irish folklore collection and folk historiography of Bliain na bhFrancach, Guy Beiner; the view from Merrion Square - the American Embassy in Ireland, 1956-66, Gary Murphy; development of the parliamentary press lobby in modern Ireland, John Horgan; intelligence and the Cold War, Christopher Andrew; communication and political power in the thought of Jurgen Habermas, Allen Bass.

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Book SynopsisTraces the history of the Peppercanister Press and illuminates the evolving development of Kinsella's ambitious poetic project. The poems are discussed chronologically and the clear interpretations are accompanied by drawings and reproductions of covers from the original publications.Trade Review"Ms Tubridy's book is a solid piece of academic research which will doubtless be of enormous value to students of Kinsella's work." Michael Smith Irish Times Jan 2001 "Kinsella expects the reader to engage as fully as he or she can with his work. Derval Tubridy is that kind of reader ... For anyone unsure about how to read Kinsella's poetry her book is enormously valuable." Maurice Harmon Irish University Review 31 (1) 2001 "[Derval Tubridy] is wholly appreciative of Kinsella's experiment and responds to it with fluent explicative prose, helpfully documenting the contexts from which the poems arose, and examining earlier drafts and notes to which the poet has allowed her access." Irish Studies Review 9 (2) 2001 "Tubridy's lucid book will work a treat for student and general reader alike because it gives a trusty guide to the Kinsella districts, both inner and outer." Gerald Dawe Irish Times April 2001 "[Kinsella's work] comes under the sober scrutiny of Derval Tubridy in a study without hyperbole or any grandiose characterisation of her subject." Books Ireland Summer 2001 "From the beginning of this book the control which the critic exercises over her material is clear... One of the great benefits of the variety of detail which Tubridy brings to bear on her subject is that no single influence is seen to provide a key to Kinsella's work, a reductive tendency that has beset less thoughtful critics... the affinity between critic and poet ensures a valuable addition to the study of Kinsella's work." Irish Literary Supplement Spring 2002 "the first critical analysis to use fully the Emory archive and which, as a result, pieces together a more complete and thorough understanding of Kinsella's later poetry than any of its predecessors." Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing Oct 2003Table of ContentsPart 1: Elegiac concerns: "Butcher's Dozen", "A Selected Life", "Vertical Man", "The Good Fight". Part 2: Psychic geography: "One", "A Technical Supplement", "Song of the Night", "The Messenger". Part 3: Historical particulars: "Songs of the Psyche", "Her Vertical Smile", "Out of Ireland", "St Catherine's Clock". Part 4: Political matters: "One Fond Embrace", "Personal Places", "Poems from Center City", "Madonna and Other Poems", "Open Court". Conclusion: "The Pen Shop", The Familiar", "Godhead"

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Book SynopsisLand has been a dominant theme in modern Irish history, extending to political and cultural issues as well as permeating social and economic ones.Trade Review"an interdisciplinary collection of essays, which ranges from the painstakingly researched to lightly-annotated-but-generally-insightful contributions." Irish Studies Review 9 (3) 2001 "Eleven papers, some of them specific pieces of original research, others general analyses ... edited by Carla King into a fine collection which focuses mainly on the land question. The editor's succinct introduction points to parallels between the Irish and European experience." Irish Historical Studies 2001 "The book is very sound on the cultural emanations from the famine, the growth of an Irish school of art and the influence of Paul Henry, a devotee of Achill Island. The influence of the land on Liam O'Flaherty and his work is discussed at length." Books Ireland Oct 2001Table of ContentsBastardy and the Great Famine - Ireland 1845-50; famine evictions; Parnell, Davitt and the Irish land question; Davitt after the Land League; agricultural labourers and the land question; landlords and the land question, 1879 1909; the hidden history of the Irish land war - a guide to local resources; an Irish school of art? Depictions of the landscape in a critical period; land and Liam O'Flaherty; women, work and memory in rural Ireland; a rural policy for the 21st century.

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Book SynopsisA study of Yeats's aesthetics, in which the writing is profoundly engaged with the inner world of Yeats's poetry. The author's familiarity with the internal stresses of Yeats's vision is grounded in serious and painstaking work in philosophy and literary theory from Kant to Kristeva. The significance and human importance of Yeats's poetry and thought are linked to contemporary issues of morality, politics and sexuality.Trade Review"A work of adventurous scholarship not for the fainthearted. UCD Press produces an elegant volume worthy of its subject..." Books Ireland May 2000 "Engaging and thoroughly original, this study provides compelling analysis of Yeats's poetry as situated between Edmund Burke's empirical and Immanuel Kant's formal aesthetics." Dr Sarah Fulford Studies 89: 355, 2000 "This book is likely to remain the standard work for many years to come." Selina Guiness Irish Times August 2000 "a compelling argument which aims at, and achieves, an intimate ... understanding of Yeats's poetic quest." Emilie Pine, Trinity College Irish Literary Supplement Spring 2002 "makes an important contribution to Yeats criticism ... the argument is made throughout with clarity and style." The Year's Work in English Studies 2002 "Though not an easy read, this book rewards the effort. In its emphasis on the poems themselves, it is also refreshingly different from much of the good recent work on Yeats, which has been feminist or cultural-materialist." CHOICE March 2001Table of ContentsPart 1 Prolegomena to a Yeatsian metaphysic: mercury sublimate - gender, revolution and the Burkean sublime; the smell of the fire - Kant, aesthetics, morality and culture - night or joy; Yeats, the negative and positive sublime. Part 2 Ascending breathless starlit air - the beautiful and the positive sublime: eternal beauty - early transcendental aesthetics; the labour to be beautiful - constructing an aesthetic; living beauty - aesthetic accommodation of history and society; the language of illusion; "A Vision" and the transcentental. Part 3 A dancer wound in his own entrails - the negative sublime: the frivolous eye - Yeatsian epiphany and the violence of God; desire and the fascist dream - destructive/creative violence in society; heart's victim and its torturer - wounds of the subject-object mystery. Part 4 Whence did all that fury come?: starlit air - the positive sublime; the stream that's roaring by - the tragedy of history; moving upon silence - alternating visions of sublimity.

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Book SynopsisWords Alone: The teaching and usage of English in contemporary Ireland provides an honest and informed commentary on how English is taught and used in our schools, on why we follow the curricula that we do, and on which are the most likely directions for change and reform. The range and quality of its contributions will make this volume an enduring source of guidance for anyone concerned with the teaching and usage of English in Ireland.Trade Review"Over all stimulating, and the cover is bright and effective." Books Ireland Feb 2000 "What is obvious almost immediately, as the preface goes on to acknowledge, is that there are few educational topics in which so many conflicts converge. The book's principal value is to bring these conflicts to our notice and to alert us to some of the historical, cultural, methodological and ideological reasons for their existence..." Books Ireland May 2000 "Readers of this volume will leave it with no doubt of the expertise and commitment of its contributors. To those of us with the responsibility of teaching English, it is a reminder of the importance and value of our work." Studies Vol 90 No 357 2001

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Book SynopsisPublished to honour the retirement of Professor PatrickGallagher from the Chair of Spanish at University College Dublin, this collection includes eleven essays in English, four in Spanish, one poem in Spanish and ten of the chapters on 20th century literature.Trade Review"the excellence of their articles speaks eloquently of Gallagher's powers of selection ... this is much more than just an assemblage of occasional pieces. Each of the articles is excellent in its own way, and most genuinely advance the subject with which they are concerned." Author Terry, University if Essex Bulletin of Hispanic Studies LXXXVI, 1999 "a fine tribute to Pat Gallagher, a polyglot and poet, who was Professor of Spanish for over thirty years at University College Dublin." Times Literary Supplement, July 1999 "the volume makes a significant and wide-ranging contribution to various aspects of Hispanic Studies." Donaire, Dec 1999 "What is most striking about this collection is the diversity of genre, era and approach represented within its pages ... experiencing the unexpected is part of the charm of this collection, which truly does represent 'a lifetime's reading'." Modern Language Review 96 (1) 2001Table of ContentsYo amaba aquellos ojos tan azules, Antonio Gonzalez-Guerrero; Clongowes Wood College, M. Angeles Conde-Parrilla; on the stage, on the page - some developments in Spanish drama 1681-1833, Don W. Cruickshank; "discantando la pasion" - Garcia Sanchez de Badajoz and the art of renaissance song, Martin G. Cunningham; el parrafo final del "Lazarillo" y unas interpolactiones que no lo son, Manuel Ferrer-Chivite; Garcilaso de la Vega - exile and nostalgia, Christopher Fitzpatrick; "La gaznapira", novela total, Medardo Fraile; past and present in Cela's "Nuevo viaje a la Alcarria" David Henn; aprender a aprender a traves de la lectura en Espanol como lengua extranjera, Charo Hernandez; from palimpsest to print, the shaping of a sonnet (Machado's "Esta luz de Sevilla"), Philip G. Johnston; Juan Goytisolo, Miguel de Unamuno and Spanish literary history, Alison Kennedy; the subversive presence of Ausias March, Dominic Keown; spatial and deictic reference in three Borges stories, Bill Richardson; Ramon Gomez de la Serna's "El Incongruente" and Rafael Sanchez Ferlioso's "Industrias y andanzas de Alfanhui" - an example of literary influence?, Jeremy S. Squires; the kingdom of Navarre in early peninsular historiography, Aengus Ward; co-operative contests - dialogue mode in the late novels and plays of Ramon del Valle-Inclan, Robin Warner; list of publications of Patrick Gallagher.

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Book Synopsis"Military Aviation in Ireland" charts the history of the Air Corps from its early days as the Military Air Service established by Michael Collins in 1922 to the ineffective air operations conducted during the Second World War period. The Air Service came about when the Civil War caused the postponement of Michael Collins' plans for a civil air service. After participation in the war of 1922-3 a small Air Corps was confirmed as the token air element of a substantially infantry army. The Army Air Corps survived the 1920s and 1930s, despite the absence of government defence policy and the Army leadership's great indifference to military aviation. In the Second World War period, two squadrons of the Air Corps were given air force tasks for which they had little aptitude and for which they were totally unprepared in terms of personnel, airmanship, aircraft and training, failures which led directly to the demoralization of the Corps. During most of this period the Air Corps, on secretive government orders, carried out tasks aimed at assisting the war effort of the Royal Air Force. Using extensive archival research, Michael C. O'Malley throws new light on the people and operations of Ireland's early aviation history.Trade Review'Military aviation is a subject that has been ignored or only mentioned in passing by most Irish historians of the 20th century. Yet, as O'Malley illustrates, it was of some significance and worthy of an in-depth study. - This is a detailed, insightful and well written account of an important wing of the Irish defence forces.' Books Ireland Sept. 2010 'Meticulously researched by a man with first-hand knowledge of flying, the book records the struggles and adventures of the Irish Air Force from the stirring 1920s to the end of the Second World War - O'Malley's book is an entertaining and rewarding read for the general bookworm as well as a comprehensive one for the historically inclined. The book is a fitting tribute to the pioneer conquerors of the Irish skies.' The Irish Catholic, 7 July 2011 'In this groundbreaking organisational history, retired Irish Air Corps pilot O'Malley treats the problems affecting his service from the Free State's founding through 'the Emergency' of 1939 - 45. The usual symbiotic relationship between interwar civilian and military aviations noted by Robin Higham and others was glaringly absent in Ireland, where both Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera favoured the former. Budgetary constraints, politicised selection of pilot cadets, haphazard aircraft procurement, and undue influence of infantry officers who little understood or cared about air operations further undermined professionalisation and morale. By 1939, the Air Corps still lacked an operational purpose distinct from that of the ground forces, and the Irish government's decision to subordinate its defensive strategy to that of the British - despite its own neutrality - removed any sense of direction at the strategic level. Not until the adoption of an air-sea rescue mission in 1963 would the Air Corps have a valid raison d'etre.' Choice, 48 (10) 2011 'the coverage is impressive, covering policy and planning, economics, organisation, administration, equipment, operation, recruitment and training - any serious student of military aviation should have this volume to hand.' Aeroplane, August 2011 'At last we have a book that looks at the personnel and the operations. - This is an excellent book. It is an important addition to the growing historiography of the Irish Defence Forces. Its analysis of the infighting that blighted the Corps during the 1930s could only be written by someone with an insider's feel and access to sources. For any student of the Irish Defence Forces, and for anybody interested in Irish military history or the history of Irish aviation, it is highly recommended.' The Irish Sword 2012Table of ContentsIntroduction; ONE: Early aviation in Ireland; TWO: Civil aviation developments in Saorstat Eireann; THREE: Michael Collins, the Military Air Service and the Civil War; FOUR: From Civil War to Army mutiny; FIVE: Organisation, policy and command, 1924-36; SIX: Pilot intake, 1922-45; SEVEN: Aviation policy and planning, 1935-40; EIGHT: Support services; NINE: The Air Corps' Emergency; TEN: Services rendered; ELEVEN: The Air Corps investigation of 1941; TWELVE: Re-equipping, reorganisation and demobilisation; Appendix I: Summary of expenses - Capt. C. F. Russell; Appendix II: Telegram received in the Irish Office; Appendix III: Statement of expenditure - Maj. Gen. McSweeney; Appendix IV: Department of Civil Aviation - 20 July 1922; Appendix V: Department of Military Aviation - 22 July 1922; Appendix VI: Aviation department of the Army - 18 October 1922; Appendix VII: Col. P. A. Mulcahy' pre-invasion address - 4 July 1940; Appendix VIII: Col. P. A. Mulcahy - Flying training; Appendix IX: Damage to army aircraft; Appendix X: Majority report on Col. P. A. Mulcahy; Appendix XI: Minority report on Col. P.A. Mulcahy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisCharles Stewart Parnell has proved a compelling figure in his own time and to ours. A Protestant landlord who possessed few of the gifts that inspire mass adoration, he was the unlikely object of popular veneration. His long liaison with a married woman, Katharine O'Shea, exposed him to the fury of the Catholic Church. Other Protestants secured niches in the pantheon of national heroes but nearly all earned their places as victims of British rule; Parnell's destruction came at Irish hands. Since initial publication in 1998, new evidence and fresh interpretations allow for a fuller and yet more complex portrait for this revised account of Parnell's life. This revision considers Parnell's career within the context of his times, Anglo-Irish affairs, and theoretical perspectives. It makes extensive use of Parnell's public and parliamentary speeches, arguing that he was an exemplar of new forms of political communication and expressed a coherent ideology rooted in the liberal radicalism of the age. In the end he was a victim of his own successes and of a virulent nationalism that squeezed out the immediate possibility of an inclusive nation. Parnell's vision, though, was never wholly submerged and would reappear in the more cosmopolitan atmosphere of contemporary Ireland.Trade Review'Bookworm [History Ireland] is always on the lookout for publications that appeal to a particular type of reader: Leaving Cert and A-level student, languid undergrad, or general readers whose enthusiasm for history is not matched by the necessary leisure time to plough through academic monographs - A case in point was the 'Life and Times' series published by the Historical Association of Ireland in the 1990s, which aimed 'to place the lives of leading figures in Irish history against the background of new research'. The good news is that the series is back, with the same mission statement, this time published by UCD Press.' History Ireland March/April 2009 'Also welcome is the new series of the Historical Association of Ireland's Life and Times concise biographies, which started out some years ago under the Dundalgan Press imprint. It has now been taken over by the excellent UCD Press and given a makeover and smart new livery, keeping the bright blue colour scheme of the originals. The aim of the series is to provide scholarly and accessibly brief biographies of major figures in Irish history by experts in the field, suitable for Leaving Certificate, A level and undergraduate students but also for the general reader.' Irish Democrat November 2009Table of ContentsChronology of Parnell's Life and Times; The Makings of a Nationalist; Political Apprentice, 1874-6; Obstruction, 1877; Activism and the Dawn of the Land Question, 13 January 1878-7 June 1879; The Land War, 8 June 1879-2 May 1882; Parliamentary Politics, 2 May 1882-22 October 1884; Home Rule, 23 October 1884-8 June 1886; The Plan of Campaign and the Conservatives, 9 June 1886-17 November 1890; The Split, November 1890-October 1891Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this first comprehensive and accessible history of Travellers in twentieth-century Ireland, Aoife Bhreatnach describes the people who travelled Irish roads, showing how and why they were distinguishable from settled people. She demonstrates that the alienation and increasing unpopularity of this cultural minority were a consequence of developments in state and society from 1922. The widening social gulf was often precipitated by government intervention at local and national level which led to conflict over the distribution of resources, particularly of land and welfare. Becoming Conspicuous examines the circumstances that have shaped expressions of anti-Traveller prejudice, thus demonstrating some of the social implications of the evolution of urban and rural landscapes in twentieth-century Ireland. An epilogue describes developments in Traveller-settled relations since 1970, a period distinguished by settlement housing policies and the emergence of Traveller representative groups. The book also contains a useful appendix describing nineteenth- and twentieth-century legislation relevant to Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland.Trade Review"a thorough-going academic study" Books Ireland Oct 2006 "I would recommend Bhreatnach's Becoming Conspicuous without reservation to any Irish Studies class, for it is an excellent analysis of both the societal changes in the Republic since Independence and the situation of Travellers in this new climate." Journal of British Studies 2007 "Serious historical study of Traveller/non-Traveller relations in Ireland is long overdue and this book is a welcome pioneer ... offers much to the close reader and will be a key resource and guide for future researchers." Irish Studies Review 15 (4) 2007Table of ContentsIntroduction; 'Gipsies' and 'tinkers': identifying nomadic groups in Ireland; Intimate strangers: the people of the roads; Travellers in urban areas: landscape and community; Welfare and entitlement: assessing 'impatient and promiscuous charity'; Some practical suggestions: the government response, 1949-63; Assimilation and absorption: the settlement programme, 1963-70. Conclusion; Epilogue: Resettlement and resistance since 1970; Appendix: Legal glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of James Mullin, born in poverty in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, left school at 11 and became a labourer. He later studied medicine and emigrated to Wales where he set up a medical practice in Cardiff. A Fenian and lifelong Republican and activist who revered Michael Davitt, Mullin includes pen portraits of Davitt, Parnell and Patrick Pearse.Trade Review"The book gives us...a fascinating and wide-ranging insight into the 19th-century world from a man who had known both poverty and comparative wealth." Bookview Ireland April 2000 "His life-span alone - from famine to independence - makes this an unusual document. Editor Patrick Maume provides a modest, useful introduction." Books Ireland April 2000 "His work is a powerful memoir of 19th century and 20th century life and politics, and reading it one cannot but help but be impressed by the tenacity of the author. Closing the book is a regret, realising that doing so also symbolises the end of James Mullin's life story in a literal sense." Larne Times May 2000 "It gives an invaluable description of the poverty and sectarian divisions of post-Famine rural Ulster, and Britain's anti-Irish prejudice during the 1880s, as well as the new opportunities provided by a slowly modernising state, which a lucky and enterprising boy would attain at great emotional cost. A great piece of history, Toiler's Life is finally getting its due." Irish Herald August 2000 "There are times when, owing to an accident of fashion or events diverting public attention, a book fails to attract the notice it is due when first published. One such case is James Mullin's autobiography... this is a work that deserves to be better known and Patrick Maume and University College Dublin Press are to be congratulated in reviving it." Books Ireland Sept 2000 "Mullin's memoir is not only a valuable source, but an entertaining read and a highly individualistic political reminiscence... A beautifully crafted introduction by Patrick Maume." Saothar 27 2003 "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. Patrick Maume has edited and written the introductions for no less than nine of the books in this series, lending them his breadth of knowledge and keen analysis that have made him one of the most learned and intellectually generous young scholars in the field." Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2008

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Book SynopsisJames Fintan Lalor (1807-1849) was one of the most original thinkers of the Young Ireland movement, and one of the most frequently appropriated by later Irish activists. From Michael Davitt to James Connolly, a host of self-proclaimed disciples celebrated Lalor in succession as a proto-Fenian rebel, the prophet of Irish land reform, the fourth evangelist of Irish nationalism, and the Irish apostle of revolutionary Socialism. Not all of these definitions fit the reality of Lalor's political thought, but they attest to the deep impression he made on several generations of Irish readers. This edition offers a fresh transcription of Lalor's articles in their original newspaper form, removing the small alterations handed down from Lilian Fogarty's canonical 1918 edition. The introduction provides an overview of Lalor's career and explains the circumstances surrounding each article. An appendix completes the selection with two important documents: Lalor's surprising 1843 letter to Sir Robert Peel, and an unpublished article intended as Lalor's second contribution to the Nation. This small corpus - a mere twelve articles written between 1847 and 1848 - nevertheless suffices to argue for Lalor's inclusion among the great Irish writers of the nineteenth century.Trade Review'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 ContentsIntroduction by Marta Ramon; Prefatory Note; 'The Faith of a Felon' and Other Writings.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1802, "An Essay on Irish Bulls" was intended to show the English public the talent and wit of the Irish lower classes. Originally devised by Maria's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish Bulls is an informal philosophic dialogue on the nature of Bulls (logical absurdities) and jokes and jests in general. Published at the time of the Union, the overarching theme is the confusions of identity and the relationship of Irish people to the English. This highly entertaining work has not been published as a single book since the nineteenth century. The editorial material and text for this edition are reproduced from the "Pickering & Chatto Novels" and "Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth", vol. 1. New introduction for this edition is by Jane Desmarais.Trade Review"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 ContentsIntroduction by Jane Desmarais; I Originality of Irish Bulls Examined; II Irish Newspapers; III The Criminal Law of Bulls and Blunders; IV Little Dominick; V The Bliss of Ignorance; VI 'Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn'; VII Practical Bulls; VIII The Dublin Shoeblack; IX The Hibernian Mendicant; X Irish Wit and Eloquence; XI The Brogue; XII Bath Coach Conversation; XIII Bath Coach Conversation; XIV The Irish Incognito; Conclusion; Notes.

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Book SynopsisJoseph Johnston was an Ulster Protestant Liberal, in favour of Home Rule by Britain. He published this book in 1913 to persuade the majority of Ulstermen that the dangers they saw were imaginary, and that avoiding Home Rule was not worth a civil war. He examined the events leading up to the massive arming of the Orangemen. He made the case that Home Rule had many positive features, and that none of the perceived negative features were worth fighting a civil war to avoid. In the Classics of Irish History series, this is its first reprinting since 1914.Trade Review"a useful reminder that the apparent monolith of exclusivist unionism during Stormont was not inevitable and that other traditions may yet get the political space to re-emerge." Irish Economic and Social Review 2001 "It was in the interests of too many leading politicians to leave Britain ignorant of nationalist Ireland, just as nationalist Ireland was ignorant of Britain... Men and women like Johnston... who were well informed about nationalist Irish and English political culture, were unfortunately rare. Much of the historical significance of Johnston's book lies in this exceptionality." Bullan VI Jan 2001 "Civil War in Ulster is an astonishing book. Written in 1913 by Joseph Johnston who was then only 23 years old. It was an attempt to persuade Ulster Protestants that their fears of and rejection of Home Rule were unwise, and unwarranted. The depth of learning of history and the arrangement of the argument is breathtaking ... A great service has been done by University College Dublin Press in reprinting this erudite and readable book which is as relevant today as when written. Would that his logical advice had been followed!" Mary Henry Irish Independent Feb 2000 "a fine example of an alternative protestant tradition that has too often been forgotten, that is worthy of reprinting as an Irish classic." D. George Boyce, Irish Studies Review 8 (2) 2000 "No student of politics, economics, history, sociology or anthropology ought to be without it." Irish Democrat Feb/March 2000 "This book is a valuable and well-written aid to our appreciation of the situation early this century. It is not a prescription for dealing with the present position." Irish Emigrant Book Review Oct 1999 "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 ContentsAn Irish Protestant Home Ruler; object in writing; the supposed danger to Protestantism; Church and State in various countries; objects of Ulster's resistance; importance of Ulster to the Unionist Party; probably course of events; Ireland from 1782-1800; Ireland from 1801-1870; Ireland from 1871 to the present day; examination of the Home Rule Bill. Appendix: what Civil War in Ulster would mean - from "The Spectator, 1 November 1913.

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Book SynopsisThe Victory of Sinn Fein, originally published in 1924, contains eyewitness accounts of the events in Ireland 1916-23, written from the viewpoint of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.Trade Review"P. S. Hegarty's bitter and ferocious The Victory of Sinn Fein was published in 1924 in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. What makes it so gripping is the clarity with which it reflects a generally obscured aspect of the events it describes - the devastation and demoralisation of Irish nationalism by the Civil War. O'Hegarty's book, never republished until now, is remarkable because of its point of view. You could quote long passages of it and if you did not identify the author most people would assume that they were written by a diehard unionist or a contemporary revisionist." Fintan O'Toole Irish Times Dec 1998 "This is a neat and useful series, with an excellent uniform cover design." Books Ireland Dec 1998 "Those who come to The Victory of Sinn Fein knowing its reputation as an anti-Republican diatribe and attack on Republican women will be surprised by its exultant celebration of the achievement of statehood." Patrick Maume, Queen's University, Belfast Irish Political Studies 14 1999 "written with the urgency of troubled times and still retain[s its] freshness and argumentative force: excellent material for seminar discussions... well introduced by Garvin. His biographical essays are thoughtful, useful, and adopt an engaging combative stance on behalf of the writers." "the first entries in a welcome new series. They are hardily and handsomely constructed: a credit to their equally welcome new publisher." Peter Hart, Queen's University Belfast Irish Studies Review 7 (3) 1999 "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 ContentsInsurrection of 1916; re-emergence of Sinn Fein (1916-18); Irish Republican Brotherhood (1858-1916); De Valera (1916-19); Mick Collins (1909-21); Dail Eireann (1919); Sinn Fein policy in practice (1919-1921); Black-and-tan war; the new Griffith (1916-21); the crime of the Ulster boycott (1920); the moral collapse (1920-21); the surrender of England; the truce; the great betrayal; the great mistake; the great talk; the position created by the truce and the treaty; the pseudo-Republicans; the furies (1922); Mary Macswiney; after the ratification; the Irregulars, devil era; war against the Irish people; the death of Griffith; Michael Collins (September 1922); victory of the people; the humorous side; the responsibility of Mr De Valera; the Irish Free State; how it strikes a contemporary; the future of Ireland.

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Book SynopsisJames Francis Xavier O'Brien is best known as a Fenian and member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, but his autobiography reveals an exciting life of bohemian travel before he entered nationalist politics. Born in Waterford, the young O'Brien studied in Paris, where he befriended artist James McNeill Whistler, left to join William Walker's military campaign in Nicaragua, then settled in the cosmopolitan city of New Orleans on the eve of the American Civil War. He describes in detail his return to Ireland, his leadership in the Fenian insurrection of 1867 and subsequent imprisonment, and his conversion to constitutional nationalism and election to Parliament. Written between 1895 and 1897, the autobiography offers a defence of O'Brien's political journey when competing factions were fighting for Irish nationalist hearts and minds. The autobiography is published here for the first time, edited and with a critical introduction by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre.Trade Review'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 2008 'this is the autobiography of a Fenian and member of the Irish Parliamentary Party (1829?-1905). O'Brien's life seemed to follow a trajectory from wild and unconventional towards the respectable. He recounts how in his youth - he went to Paris and was part of the Bohemian set there. Later he joined American William Walker in his military adventure in Nicaragua and he settled for a time in New Orleans just before the American civil war. After that war he returned to Ireland, helped to organise the 1867 rising and then went on to become a Home Rule MP. All this is interesting enough but the story is also full of details of such as his encounter with a rocking chair, the dangers of mosquitoes, social life in antebellum New Orleans. O'Brien had no problem with slavery and this may make him unsympathetic to modern readers, but he was not unique in this and his book is a useful source on this period from many perspectives.' Books Ireland November 2010 'It is an entertaining and insightful read, especially into Fenianism, though at times the wisdom of hindsight is evident. It is here published for the first time and is introduced by Dr Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, author of a biography of Webb. - UCD Press are to be congratulated on this series in general. The standard of editing and presentation are uniformly high. The inclusion of the hitherto unpublished works on the Fenian movement makes available valuable insights which will greatly assist students of the period. One looks forward to more such publications.' Books Ireland, May 2012Table of ContentsIntroduction by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre; For the Liberty of Ireland, at Home and Abroad: The Autobiography of J. F. X. O'Brien.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Parnell and His Island caused outrage in Ireland when first published in the French newspaper Le Figaro in 1886. They were published in English in book form the following year and represent Moore's interpretation of life in Ireland in the early 1880s, written in his combative and naturalistic style. In some respects the work addresses similar themes and can be seen as a companion piece to his famous novel, A Drama in Muslin. Moore, the eldest son of a Catholic landlord and Home Rule MP, spares neither landlords nor tenants, priests or nationalists in his narrative. Yet his depictions of the Irish landscape are often lyrical and memorable and he gives a vivid impression of the atmosphere of the country in the short period between the Land War and the Plan of Campaign. Until the publication of this edition Parnell and His Island was a rare book. Some sections included in the original French version, but expurgated by the English publisher, have been restored here, with translations, in the notes.Trade Review"Moore's fluent style and judicious ordering of his material make Parnell and His Island a very readable book. His beloved desolate landscape of lake and bog are a lyrical backdrop gripping documents that merit a place among 'Classics of Irish History'. Journal of Irish Studies, Japan 2005 "University College Dublin's 'Classics of Irish History' has established itself as a pleasing and important series ... King's edition of George Moore's Parnell and His Island combines a well-known Irish writer with a more elusive example of his work ... conforms to the attractive format of the series; the editing is exemplary." Irish Studies Review 13 (4) 2005 "offers a new opportunity to reassess this much maligned but crucial text within Moore's writing." English Literature in Transition 49 (4) 2006 "Written in his combative and naturalistic style, it owes something in its approach to Balzac's Les Paysans ... Carla King's Introduction and detailed notes historicize this work, identify the passages that were suppressed as too inflammatory or offensive in the original publication, and establish the place this work holds in Moore's artistic development." Irish Literary Supplement Spring 2006 "Elegantly produced with an attractive cover and illustrations, and a very useful biographical note listing major sources for Parnell's life, th book, like the work of the Parnell Society itself, achieves an impressive blend of scholarship and accessibility and will be of value both to historians of the period and the interested general reader." The Irish Book Review Autumn/Winter 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 ContentsIntroduction by Carla King; Dublin: The Castle, Shelbourne Hotel, Kildare Street Club, Mrs Rusville; An Irish country house; The house of an Irish poet; The landlord; The tenant farmer; The priest; The patriot; A castle of yesterday; A castle of today; An eviction; A hunting breakfast; Conclusion; Editor's notes

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