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The Rule of Freedom
The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the "rule of freedom". As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns of social life, which in turn depended on transforming both the material form of the city (its layout, architecture, infrastructure) and the ways it was inhabited and imagined by its leaders, citizens and custodians. Focusing mainly on London and Manchester, but with reference also to Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, colonial India, and even contemporary Los Angeles, Patrick Joyce creatively and originally develops Foucauldian approaches to historiography to reflect on the nature of modern liberal society. His consideration of such "artifacts" as maps and censuses, sewers and markets, public libraries and parks, and of civic governments and city planning, are intertwined with theoretical interpretations to examine both the impersonal, often invisible forms of social direction and control built into the infrastructure of modern life and the ways in which these mechanisms both shape culture and social life and engender popular resistance.
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in Ireland, tracing a history of Irish writing through James Clarence Mangan, J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. Beginning with the archives of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland between 1824 and 1846, the book argues that one of the sources of Irish modernism lies in the attempt by the Survey to produce a comprehensive archive of a land emerging rapidly into modernity. The Ordnance Survey instituted a practice of depicting the country as modern, fragmented, alienated, and troubled, both diagnosing and representing a landscape burdened with the paradoxes o...
Studies
An Irish quarterly review.
Robert Shipboy MacAdam (1808-95)
The first complete edition of MacAdam's 600 Gaelic proverbs with his English translations and the addition of modern Irish versions. The proverbs provide a key to the study of the language of the time, for the expert, while giving a glimpse of a bygo
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Queen's Thinkers
Queen's University Belfast has been part of the fabric of the island of Ireland for almost two centuries. Over that period Queen's and the people associated with it have made a vital contribution to the intellectual life of both the local community and the wider global community. This collection of essays, edited by distinguished scholars Alvin Jackson and David Livingstone, brings together an eminent panel of academics to celebrate the intellectual heritage of the university and to assess its impact on the international world of scholarship and on society more generally. From renowned physicists John Stewart Bell and Sir David Bates to historians and geographers J.C. Beckett and E. Estyn Evans and literary giants such as Helen Waddell and Philip Larkin, this volume charts the intellectual life of Queen's University, telling the compelling story of the thinkers who established it as a world-class institution.
