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Truth and Consequences
This title looks at all the key espionage operatives, organizations and governmental bodies that have gathered, disseminated and reviewed espionage material in Ireland.
Irish Novels, 1890-1940
John Wilson Foster presents a survey of more than 60 novelists - over 100 popular, minor, and mainstream Irish novels - of the period. In doing so, he exposes the orthodoxy that there was never a real unbroken Irish novel tradition. He looks in particular at women writers, and adds genre fiction to the Irish syllabus
Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons
This is a story of a scarcely credible abundance, of flocks of birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a story of a collapse into extinction so startling as to provoke a mystery. In the fate of the North American passenger pigeon we can read much of the story of wild America—the astonishment that accompanied its discovery, the allure of its natural “productions” the ruthless exploitation of its “commodities” and the ultimate betrayal of its peculiar genius. And in the bird’s fate can be read, too, the essential vulnerability of species, the unpredictable passage of life itself.
Fictions of the Irish Literary Revival
This is a critical survey of the fiction and non-fiction written in Ireland during the key years between 1880 and 1920, or what has become known as the Irish Literary Renaissance. The book considers both the prose and the social and cultural forces working through it.
The Space-Blue Chalcedony
The Space-Blue Chalcedony: Earth's Crises and the Tyler Bounty is an out-of-the-ordinary story of Hollywood, enormous wealth, big philanthropy, and the efforts of pioneering and gifted ecologists over the decades to defuse the environmental crises afflicting Earth, from smog to climate change. The common denominator is an unusual but identifiably American couple. This is the biography of Jack Tyler and his determined wife Alice, who in 1973 founded and funded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Their lives, as it happened, intriguingly replayed the white settlement of the American West and Midwest and the subsequent human impact on the land, air, and water. Jack's is a...
Emerald Green
Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature analyzes a wide range of Irish literature whose themes tie into a reverence for the natural world of Ireland. From an ecocritical perspective, these works, tied into an understanding of the landscape and particular aspects of nature, attain a fresh new meaning and foster a more relevant reflection of Ireland’s beautiful literary landscape. The analysis begins with the first Irish writers, the hermit poets, and examines the ways in which the Irish hermit and saint were connected spiritually, through both pagan and early Christian values, to the natural world. The book then examines Irish literature from the perspective of the deforeste...
Titanic 100th Anniversary Edition
In a night of unforgettable tragedy, the world's most famous liner struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912 and sank. Over 1500 people died. Whose fault it was, and how the passengers and crew reacted, has been the subject of continuing dispute over the 100 years since the disaster. This is an account of Titanic's tragic maiden voyage which also focuses on some of those who died: among them Titanic's captain Edward Smith and builder Thomas Andrews, John Jacob Astor, the richest man on board, and the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley, who played as the ship sank. In this centenary edition Stephanie Barczewski traces the events of that fatal night. Many of those who died were treated as heroes and how these men were remembered says much about contemporary values of manhood, chivalry and national pride. Titanic: A Night Remembered also sets the liner in the context of three ports: Belfast, where she was built; Southampton, which lost 600 citizens as members of her crew; and Queenstown in Ireland, her last port of call.
Literature, Partition and the Nation-State
The history of partition in the twentieth century is one steeped in controversy and violence. Literature, Partition and the Nation State offers an extended study of the social and cultural legacies of state division in Ireland and Palestine, two regions where the trauma of partition continues to shape political events to this day. Focusing on the period since the 1960s, when the original partition settlements in each region were challenged by Irish and Palestinian nationalists, Joe Cleary's book contains individual chapters on nationalism and self-determination; on the construction of national literatures in the wake of state division; and on influential Irish, Israeli and Palestinian writers, film-makers and public intellectuals. Cleary's book is a radical and enthralling intervention into contemporary scholarship from a range of disciplines on nations and nationalism. It will be of interest to scholars in Cultural and Post-Colonial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Irish Literature, Middle East Studies and Modern History.
