This book provides a great deal of detail on working-class militancy between 1917 and 1923. It stresses the large scale and considerable impact of mass action and labor activism, challenging tradition
Her family had been settled in Farrahy in North Cork for nearly two hundred years by the time of her birth in 1899 and her fiction reflects this long and difficult history between landlord and landsca
Samuel Waters followed his father and grandfather into the Irish Constabulary, rising from district inspector in 1866 to assistant inspector general. His colorful and unembittered recollections encomp
Irish immigrants – although despised as inferior on racial and religious grounds and feared as a threat to national security – were one of modern Australia’s most influential founding peoples.In his l
The first interdisciplinary study of violence and the modern Irish experience, Shadows of the Gunmen contributes to both Irish studies and the broader examination of violence in the modern world. Prov
Recent years have witnessed a series of shifts in the reception of Brian O'Nolan's work, with the publication of collected short stories and dramatic texts and a systematic critical reappraisal of onc
John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocatio
Pádraig Ó Fathaigh ( 1879-1976) was a lifelong Gaelic Leaguer and teacher of Irish. Already a prominent member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers before 1916, O Fathaigh was
This book is a critique of the public sphere, both as the centrepiece of some liberal theory about political communications, and as a description of actually existing media practice in Ireland and bey
Author of twelve collections of poetry. Medbh McCurckian is on of Ireland's foremost poets. Her poetry now appears as standard reading on courses on Irish literature and culture both in Europe and in
This powerful analysis of the wise women healer from the oral traditions of Ireland’s rural communities is unique in its depth and perspective. Stories, told and retold, embedded in the texture of cul
The remote Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, and the harbor it protects, has been a gateway to south-east Ireland for successive waves of newcomers, including the Vikings, Anglo Normans and the Englis
The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped its visual r
How do we give a future to the past? How do we perform acts of double remembrance which honor both sides of the story-- spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and forgotten? One hundred years after the Eas
Combining close textual analysis with theoretically informed readings, this group of international scholars explores how Bowen’s disruptive and deeply unconventional narratives encourage us to read he
* Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader* Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion.* Collaboration between Cork University Press
Since the eighteenth century, obstetric discourse has had a decisive impact on women's experience of childbirth. Using historical records from Irish hospitals and the writings of Irish doctors, this b
An important celebratory collection of Irish poetry by graduates of University College, Cork writing in both English and Irish, which groups together poets of international standing in a single volume
In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places, so "reduced" that they treated each other with brutal callousness. Husbands abandoned wives and children. Mothers snatched food from
Hynes (Sociology, Kettering University) takes a new look at the famous 1879 apparition of the Virgin Mary at Knock in western Ireland. By closely examining contemporary records and, especially, what i
The Irish Catholic Church did not regain public influence until the middle of the nineteenth century when most of the British anti-Catholic legislation was repealed. Aloys Fleischmann senior and his f
The Iveragh Peninsula, often referred to as the 'Ring of Kerry', is one of Ireland's most dramatic and beautiful landscapes. This cultural atlas provides readers with a broad range of perspectives on
A unique project, marking Cork's designation as European Capital of Culture in 2005, the Atlas of Cork City provides the reader with a range of perspectives on the city and its development over time.
Louie Bennett (1870-1956) was one of the most prominent female public figures of the Irish twentieth century. A suffrage campaigner, an advocate of peace, and an important trade unionist, she was an i
Money is power. It shapes our world in ways that can leave the mind reeling. Indeed, the bank crisis and subsequent recession made clear the influence that it has over our lives. Yet this despite thi
In any sustained period of food hunger and famine, children are one of the most vulnerable groups in terms of disease and mortality. The Great Hunger that occurred in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 is
Even before the end of the union with Britain, southern Irish unionists were being represented as stateless, rootless. Popular opinion has often erroneously conflated 26 county Protestantism with 26
