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Parenting, poverty and the NSPCC in Ireland, 1889–1939
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
This chapter addresses a number of key questions surrounding parenting, poverty and the state in Ireland from 1889 to 1939.1 Concentrating on the period from the opening of the first Irish branch of the National Society ...
Letters to Italy: translation and religion in nineteenth-century Ireland
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
The analysis of translation activity in particular societies and contexts can often focus on published texts and literary works. In nineteenth-century Ireland, such an approach would only capture a proportion of translation ...
Governing the future: children's health and biosocial power
(Manchester University Press, 2017-05-31)
Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is
used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek ...
Druid Theatre’s Leenane Trilogy on tour: 1996–2001
(Carysfort Press, 2005-09-20)
[No abstract available]
Trans-formations of gendered identities in Ireland
(Palgrave, 2014)
Since the early 1990s,
non-heteronormative masculinities have gained a certain degree of acceptance in
Irish society. The years preceding and following the decriminalistaion of
homosexuality in 1993 saw an increase in ...
'No Good Days But The Present Ones?' Readers' Letters to Woman's Way 1963-69
(Lilliput Press, 2015)
[No abstract available]
The Catholic reformation in seventeenth-century Ireland: Vincent de Paul's Missionaries in Munster
(Veritas, 2012)
[No abstract available]
Continuity, cult and contest
(Four Courts Press, 2011)
The degree to which pagan traditions influenced early medieval Irish literature has been the subject of some debate. The phrase a window on the Iron Age once encapsulated a view that epic tales in particular depicted a ...
An Italian inferno in Ireland: Alessandro Gavazzi and religious debate in the nineteenth century
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Alessandro Gavazzi (1809-1889), the ‘warrior-priest’1
is a well-known figure in the history
of the Risorgimento, famed for his patriotic oratory, his tireless support of the Italian
nationalist cause, and – after Pope ...
The last kings of Ireland: material expressions of Gaelic lordship c.1300-1400 A.D.
(Routledge, 2016-04-27)
During the later medieval period in Ireland, Gaelic lords continued to publicly identify themselves as immediate descendants of kings through carefully chosen elements of material culture. Evocations of Gaelic kingship in ...