Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World
Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

Author: M. Williams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-12-10

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1137057262

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From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs.

A New History of Ireland Volume VII
A New History of Ireland Volume VII

Author: J. R. Hill

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2010-08-26

Total Pages: 2025

ISBN-13: 0191615595

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A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume VII covers a period of major significance in Ireland's history. It outlines the division of Ireland and the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic. It provides comprehensive coverage of political developments, north and south, as well as offering chapters on the economy, literature in English and Irish, the Irish language, the visual arts, emigration and immigration, and the history of women. The contributors to this volume, all specialists in their field, provide the most comprehensive treatment of these developments of any single-volume survey of twentieth-century Ireland.

A New History of Ireland, Volume VI
A New History of Ireland, Volume VI

Author: W. E. Vaughan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 1017

ISBN-13: 0191574589

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A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume VI opens with a character study of the period, followed by ten chapters of narrative history, and a study of Ireland in 1914. It includes further chapters on the economy, literature, the Irish language, music, arts, education, administration and the public service, and emigration.

Byrnes Dictionary of Irish Local History
Byrnes Dictionary of Irish Local History

Author: Joseph Byrne

Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

Published: 2004-06-30

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1856358003

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What was a mark? Livery of seisin? Letters patent? This remarkable Dictionary of Irish Local History will be able to tell you. Entries are fully cross-referenced and come replete with full biographical paraphernalia to enable readers to engage in further reading. Primarily intended for local historians, but the interconnectedness of the local and wider worlds is recognised by the inclusion of a range of entries relating to national institutions, religion, archaeology, education, land issues, lay associations and political movements. It is an indispensable work, which will enable local historians to make better sense of the evidence for the past.

Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance
Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance

Author: Nuala C. Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-05-29

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1139436953

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Nuala C. Johnson explores the complex relationship between social memory and space in the representation of war in Ireland. The Irish experience of the Great War, and its commemoration, is the location of Dr Johnson's sustained and pioneering examination of the development of memorial landscapes, and her study represents a major contribution both to cultural geography and to the historiography of remembrance. Attractively illustrated, this book combines theoretical perspectives with original primary research showing how memory literally took place in post-1918 Ireland, and the various conflicts and struggles that were both a cause and effect of this process. Of interest to scholars in a number of disciplines, Ireland, The Great War and The Geography of Remembrance shows powerfully how Irish efforts to collectively remember the Great War were constantly in dialogue with issues surrounding the national question, and the memorials themselves bore witness to these tensions and ambiguities.

Irish Art and Architecture from Prehistory to the Present
Irish Art and Architecture from Prehistory to the Present

Author: Peter Harbison

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780500277072

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Ireland stood at the forefront of Westem European artistic culture in antiquity, when great passage graves were built; during the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when the Irish produced masterpieces of metalwork and manuscript illumination; and during the 18th century, an age of classical elegance. The achievements of these periods and others survive largely intact. This survey describes the whole sequence of Irish art and architecture.

Irish Art, 1830-1990
Irish Art, 1830-1990

Author: Brian Fallon

Publisher: Appletree Press (IE)

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Irish artists have, over a century and a half, produced art of a quality that matches any in the international arena, yet their work remains largely unknown. This book provides a highly readable introduction to the history and development of Irish art to the end of the twentieth century.

Nature in Ireland
Nature in Ireland

Author: John Wilson Foster

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 702

ISBN-13: 9780773518179

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How has Irish nature been studied? How has it been expressed in literature and popular culture? How has it influenced, and been influenced by, political, economic, and social change? These long-neglected questions are pursued in Nature in Ireland, a pioneering collection of original essays by leading naturalists, science writers, and cultural historians who bring us from the geological prehistory of Ireland to the environmental threats of the late twentieth century.