Ireland category: 1364 books
The Lancashire witches
Histories and stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book is the first major study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has equal appeal across the disciplines of both History and English Literature/Renaissance Studies,...
by Ruth Barton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
An accessible, comprehensive overview of contemporary Irish cinema, this book is intended for use as a third-level textbook and is designed to appeal to academics in the areas of film studies and Irish studies. Responding to changes in the Irish production environment, it includes chapters on new...
Working men’s bodies
Work camps in Britain, 1880–1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Britain’s work camp systems have never before been studied in depth. Highly readable, and based on thorough archival research and the reminiscences of those involved, this fascinating book addresses the relations between work, masculinity, training and citizen service.
The book is a comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War. It examines the physical, mental and emotional impact of conflict on Irish political and social life, as well as medical, scientific and official interventions...
Cultures of decolonisation
Transnational productions and practices, 1945–70
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Cultures of decolonisation combines studies of visual, literary and material cultures in order to explore the complexities of the ‘end of empire’ as a process. Where other accounts focus on high politics and constitutional reform, this volume reveals the diverse ways in which cultures contributed...
The experience of suburban modernity
How private transport changed interwar London
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years. It shows that, contrary to those accounts that portray suburbia as static and boring, these suburbs were in fact at the heart of the adoption of private transport and new mobilities. Wealthier middle-class...
Trinity Student Pranks
A History of Mischief & Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Trinity College Dublin is famed for the intelligence and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on the unsuspecting dons. This fascinating volume recalls some...
by Ruth Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
County Limerick is a place of kings and commoners. It is where Donn Fírinne, king of the Munster fairies, is said to have once roamed, and where Sean na Scuab, a poor broom seller from the wrong side of the river, was chosen to be mayor of the city. It is a land filled with stories, poetry, music,...
Vanishing for the vote
Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements. Suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott this census.
Many did. Some wrote ‘Votes for Women’...
The relic state
St Francis Xavier and the politics of ritual in Portuguese India
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510–1961), and for which...
by Edmund Crosby Quiggin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
3 works of Edmund Crosby Quiggin Instructor of Celtic languages at Cambridge University (1875-1920)
This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Edmund Crosby Quiggin. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - A Dialect of Donegal - Druidism - Saint Patrick
by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Albert Savine
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Camarades, je ne suis pas Irlandais, et cependant j’ai de la sympathie pour vous.
J’espère qu’il ne se trouvera parmi vous personne pour lire cet appel avec prévention ou avec dédain, parce que son auteur est un Anglais ; certes je crois que pas un de vous ne pensera de la sorte....
by Guido Crainz
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Dove affonda le sue radici l’Italia di oggi? Viviamo in una fase di transizione, o si è delineato sotto i nostri occhi un approdo non effimero della vicenda repubblicana? E dove cercare le ragioni e le cause di questo approdo: in un astorico «carattere nazionale» o nel lungo confliggere di modi...
Butterfly in the Well
Village Opinions with Exploratory Knack
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Churchill had one ear for history and the other for politics, and certainly listened to Chamberlain, who said long before he said it: we will never surrender (March 1939). Long before Munich he [Chamberlain] had shocked substantial sections of opinion by his frank and completely realist assessment...