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One Wide Expanse by Michael Longley
Call Number: James Joyce, General 821 IR LONISBN: 9781906359898Publication Date: 2015Discusses poets that were influential to Longley's development as a poet, along with the influence that the west of Ireland has had on his poetry.Signatories by Emma Donoghue, Thomas Kilroy, Hugo Hamilton, Frank McGuinness, Rachel Fehily, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Marina Carr, Joseph O'Connor
Call Number: James Joyce, General 822.08 IR DONISBN: 9781910820100Publication Date: 2016Voices on Joyce by Anne Fogarty; Fran O'Rourke
Call Number: James Joyce, General 823 IR JOY/FISBN: 9781906359799Publication Date: 2015Gathers together interpretations of Joyce's work by scholars in a wide span of disciplines; the twenty essays in the collection underscore the need for readings of his work from a variety of perspectives.Year of Turbulence by Diarmaid Ferriter; Susannah Riordan (Editor)
Call Number: James Joyce, General 941.5082 FERISBN: 1910820075Publication Date: 2016'Years of Turbulence' showcases many new perspectives on the Irish revolutionary period of 1912-23, through vivid and provocative scholarship of leading and emerging historians. The contributors not only focus on new angles, they also revisit traditional assumptions, and elaborate on some of the central, current debates on the revolutionary period.
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Care and Social Change in the Irish Welfare Economy by Bryan Fanning (Editor); Michael Rush (Editor)
Call Number: James Joyce, General and Short Loan 361.6109415 FANISBN: 1904558828Publication Date: 2007This work focuses on the implications for Irish social policy of social change including the need to respond to changes resulting from immigration and shifts within the Irish welfare economy that have created new needs for social care.Wetlands of Ireland by Marinus Otte
Call Number: James Joyce, General 577.6809415 OTTISBN: 1900621886Publication Date: 2003Ireland is famous - or notorious - for its wet and mild climate. Because on average more water precipitates than evaporates, the island is rich in wetlands - marshes, swamps, fens, bogs, lagoons, floodplains and wet meadows, to name but a few. Many place names in Ireland refer to wet places. Words derived from the Irish language are used to refer to a particular type of wetland, such as callows for the floodplains of the River Shannon, or turlough for a type of ephemeral wetland found almost exclusively in Ireland.Ireland's Harp by Mary Louise O'Donnell
Call Number: James Joyce, General 941.506 ODOISBN: 9781906359867Publication Date: 2015Mary Louise O'Donnell uses the major social, political, and cultural changes from 1770 to 1880 as the focus of her study on the Irish harp. From the revolutionary symbolism of the harp to the cultural curiosities that were the blind Irish harpers, th
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The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland by Harry White; Barra Boydell (Editor)
Call Number: James Joyce, General 780.9415 WHIISBN: 1906359784Publication Date: 2014'The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland' comprehensively charts Irish musical life across recorded history. It also documents Ireland's musical relations with the world at large, notably in Britain, continental Europe and North America, and it seeks to identify the agencies through which music has become an enduring expression of Irish political, social, religious and cultural life.Parnell Reconsidered by Pauric Travers (Editor); Donal McCartney (Editor)
Call Number: James Joyce, General 941.5081 PAR/TISBN: 9781906359706Publication Date: 2013A new and revealing collection of essays about Charles Stewart Parnell, from leading scholars and experts.War of Words by Christoph Hendrik Müller; Judith Devlin (Editor)
Call Number: James Joyce, General 303.375 DEVISBN: 9781906359379Publication Date: 2013The role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe has begun to attract the attention of historians. These essays consider the cultural complexities of the early Cold War: the need to explain and justify to Europeans the division of the continent into two hostile blocs.
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