Search results for ""Author Kevin Cahill""
The History Press Ltd Who Owns Ireland: The Hidden Truth of Land Ownership in Ireland
It is the barbed wire entanglement that tortures yet frees in the long story of this small island on ‘the dark edge of Europe’. It defined the national struggle for independence far more than any other single issue. The famine between 1845 and 1850 killed a million of the island’s population of 8 million and drove another million into exile. This event chopped Irish history in half, demonstrating as nothing else could that without security of tenure for a normal life span you were at the mercy of landowners. This book is not about the famine, but about the key event that followed it: the extraordinary redistribution of land from mainly aristocratic landed estates to small farmers. This redistribution took over 150 years, from famine’s end to the closure of the Land Commission in 1999, and was achieved with some civility and far less violence than the actual independence struggle itself. Who Owns Ireland is a startling expose of Ireland’s most valuable asset: its land. Kevin Cahill’s investigations reveal the breakdown of ownership of the land itself across all thirty-two counties, and show the startling truth about the people and institutions who own the ground beneath our feet.
£18.00
Cork University Press Perspectives on the Teaching of English in Post-Primary Education
This book focuses on the teaching of English in post-primary classrooms. Each chapter approaches an element of the teaching of English from theoretical and practical perspectives where the reader gets an opportunity to reflect upon practice through theoretically-informed lenses.The book assists teachers in knitting together theory and practice in the English classroom. Many of the books available to teachers of English either provide a list of useful strategies or else they provide rich theoretical underpinnings to the pedagogy of English. We bring these worlds together in one volume that will act as a guide to practicing teachers of English throughout the continuum of teacher education, from initial teacher education, through induction, whilst also serving as a resource to maturing professionals in the classroom.
£45.00
