Neil Murphy

In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army then ever raised by an English monarch to invade France. This book investigates the consequences of this action by examining the devastating impact of warfare on the native population, the methods the English used to impose their rule on the region (from the use of cartography to the construction of fortifications) and the development of English of colonial rule in France. As Murphy explores the significance of this major financial and military commitment by the Tudor monarchy, he situates the developments within the wider context of English actions in Ireland and Scotland during the mid-sixteenth century. Rather than consider the plantations established in the mid-sixteenth century Ireland as the 'laboratory' for a new form of empire, this book argues that they should be viewed along with the Boulogne venture as the English crown's final attempt to establish colonies through the use of state resources alone.

This critical study of John Banville’s major work considers the manner in which his fiction intersects with a variety of ideas relating to art. It also proposes that Banville’s fiction rep

This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II’s four years in English captivity. Neil Murphy shows how the French king’s compet

Neil Murphy considers the role tFrench ceremonial entry played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ce

The authors (both nursing and mental health, U. of Salford) created this book for qualified practitioners and students training in mental health. The book has twenty-three chapters within four parts:

From one of the great Irish writers of the twentieth century, and one of the few whose work bears comparison with that of Joyce and Beckett.

Scholars of English literature, most but not all from Britain or a former colony, apply post-colonial literary criticism to works by people in historically British Asia. Their topics include Tariq Ali

Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan, relaunched the Irish short story tradition. Set in small-town Ireland and the equally

A welcome gift forevery Flann O’Brien fan, this collection at last assembles his shortfiction—including a final, incomplete novel, and other never-before-publishedpieces—into a single volume.

Drawing together a wide range of focused critical commentary andobservation by internationally renowned scholars and writers, thiscollection of essays offers a major reassessment of Aidan Higgins'sbo