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The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine
Liam Kennedy, Donald M. MacRaild, Lewis Darwen, Brian Gurrin
The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984310
January 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap.
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Joycean Possibilities: A Margot Norris Legacy
Edited by Joseph Valente, Vicki Mahaffey, Kezia Whiting
Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981005
December 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
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Digital Art in Ireland
New Media and Irish Artistic Practice
Edited by James O'Sullivan
This collection of essays explores digital art in Ireland. Comprising contributions from scholars and practitioners, it examines how new media technologies are shaping the island’s contemporary artistic practices. As one of the first dedicated treatments of Irish digital art, it fills a major gap in the national media archaeology of Ireland.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274787
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This collection of essays explores digital art in Ireland. Comprising contributions from scholars and practitioners, it examines how new media technologies are shaping the island’s contemporary artistic practices. As one of the first dedicated treatments of Irish digital art, it fills a major gap in the national media archaeology of Ireland.
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The Varieties of Joycean Experience
Tim Conley
A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274596
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
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Norah Hoult’s ‘Poor Women!’
A Critical Edition
Edited by Kathleen P. Costello-Sullivan
“Norah Hoult’s ‘Poor Women!'’: A Critical Edition” reintroduces a significant yet critically-neglected 20th-century Irish author. Hoult’s stories capture the restrictions imposed on women by society and its institutions. Often compared to writers such as Sean O’Faolain, Frank O’Connor, Kate O’Brien and Edna O’Brien, her work also shares characteristics with James Joyce and Mary Lavin.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085880
December 2016
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£140.00 / $140.00“Norah Hoult’s ‘Poor Women!’’: A Critical Edition” reintroduces a significant yet critically-neglected 20th-century Irish author. Hoult’s stories capture the restrictions imposed on women by society and its institutions. Often compared to writers such as Sean O’Faolain, Frank O’Connor, Kate O’Brien and Edna O’Brien, her work also shares characteristics with James Joyce and Mary Lavin.
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Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture
Paige Reynolds
Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085736
September 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture explores manifestations of the themes, forms and practices of high modernism in Irish literature and culture produced subsequent to this influential movement. The interdisciplinary collection reveals how Irish artists grapple with modernist legacies and forge new modes of expression for modern and contemporary culture.
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Holodomor and Gorta Mór
Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland
Edited by Christian Noack, Lindsay Janssen, Vincent Comerford
A comparative study of the famines of Ireland (1845–51) and Ukraine (1932–33), and how historical experiences of famine were translated into narratives that supported political claims for independent national statehood.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285577
November 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00A comparative study of the famines of Ireland (1845–51) and Ukraine (1932–33), and how historical experiences of famine were translated into narratives that supported political claims for independent national statehood.
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P. S. O’Hegarty (1879-1955)
Sinn Féin Fenian
Keiron Curtis
'P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O'Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318590
October 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘P. S. O’Hegarty (1879-1955)’ provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O’Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement.
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Creating Irish Tourism
The First Century, 1750-1850
William H. A. Williams
Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318446
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, ‘Creating Irish Tourism’ charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country’s emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.