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Northern Ireland Beyond 100
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055969
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
As Northern Ireland moves beyond its centenary and the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement seasoned academics Desmond Bell and Liam O?Dowd pose the question of what the future holds for NI. Is re-unification on the horizon? Or, will this perverse political formation be able to reinvent itself within the constraints of the union with Great Britain? Will the GFA deliver on its promise of bringing not only peace but stability to the region? To address these pressing questions the editors have invited a range of authors and researchers with expertise in Irish history and politics and in key policy areas like education, health, social security, political economy, ecology, sport and culture. They explore the challenge of unification not simply as a constitutional option but as a broader political project entailing the concerted reconstruction of the institutional fabric of the island.
Companion to Irish Traditional Music
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CA$101.95
ISBN: 9781782056027
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics explore people, tunes, aesthetics, ideology, gender balance, history, organisations and affiliations, linking all dance and recreational music forms to biographies of stylists and figureheads, to regional music associations and practices. Extensive specialist articles give the widest range of one-stop information to date on all aspects of the subjects of dance and song, and on instruments?especially harp, uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute, bodhran, concertina, banjo and accordions. This immense volume of biography, history, hard facts and opinion is diverse and comprehensive, a knowledge base that has been drawn from the expertises of some two hundred musicians, researchers and teachers in the field. Now in its third edition, the Companion also uniquely includes county by county, regional and gender analysis of all 70 years of All-Ireland fleadh prizewinners in dance music and...
Mendicants on the Margins
Geographical, social and historiographical margins in the study of medieval and early modern mendicant orders
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ISBN: 9781782056058
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Mendicant orders of friars were a powerful religious movement devoted to poverty and preaching; they emerged in the early thirteenth century during the time of rapid urbanisation in western Europe and in the context of Church reforms. In 2018 a group of international scholars gathered at University College Cork to address the topic of marginalities in the current studies on mendicantism, and the volume is an outcome of that symposium. The ten essays in the collection investigate geographical, social and historiographical marginalities with regard to mendicant orders. The contributors represent disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, Irish and gender studies, with their topics geographically spanning across Europe. This thematically focused volume combines a variety of approaches and disciplines to create makes a valuable contribution to the field of mendicant studies.
Crime and the Criminal Classes in Ireland, 1870-1920
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ISBN: 9781782055990
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
This book is the first to provide an in-depth discussion of crime in Ireland from 1870 to 1920. It looks afresh at the topic of crime in the 1870-1920 period, examining agrarian offences as one part of a more general study of lawbreaking by ?ordinary? Irish people and those whom the police categorised as Ireland?s ?criminal classes?. While agrarian crime was an important and distinctive phenomenon, it is important to bear in mind that it was merely one aspect of Ireland?s crime story in this period. Most crimes committed in Ireland were non-agrarian in nature, and in the countryside most offences were relatively minor in character: most of the country?s serious or indictable crimes were committed in Ireland?s towns and cities, with Dublin featuring especially highly in the annual crime statistics. Many crimes in urban areas were carried out by child or juvenile offenders, who sometimes formed themselves into gangs...
Family Therapy
Conversations for change
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781782054856
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Family Therapy: Conversations for change brings readers directly into the therapy room with some of Ireland's most eminent front-line systemic psychotherapists.
Irish First Ladies and First Gentlemen, 1919-2011
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ISBN: 9781782056089
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Between 1919 and 2011, the president of Ireland was a married person. Yet, there is no reference to the president?s family in the 1937 Constitution. Beyond media curiosity, public discussion and scholarly interest in the wife or husband of the president is surprisingly rare. This study recreates the public and private lives of Irish presidential spouses including Maud Griffith, Louisa Cosgrave, Phyllis Úi Cheallaigh, Sinéad de Valera, Rita Childers, Máirín Ó Dálaigh, Maeve Hillery, Nick Robinson and Martin McAleese. Following an examination of the role of the wife of the viceroy, the work focuses on how the experience of being the wife or husband of a president affected the individual?s personal life, their ambitions, and expectations. They did not have guidelines or prescriptive advice on how to behave in office, except for the practices of previous incumbents, perhaps international models, their own view of public service and guidance from civil...
The Good Boy
A re-examined life (with help from Montaigne)
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ISBN: 9781782055938
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
In part one of this memoir, Tom Dunne revisits his early life, first explored in the award-winning Rebellions: memoir, memory and 1798 (2004). The author attempts to understand the causes and sometimes damaging consequences of becoming a ?Good Boy?, one who manages life by winning people over and avoiding emotional confrontations. The key to this personality trait may be found in the patterns established by his mother from her experience of dealing with her father?s alcoholism. He looks at his life in small-town, post-war Catholic Ireland, and goes on to offer an analysis of his time as an aspiring member of the Irish Christian Brothers, including a critique of how the ethos that contributed to the sexual and physical abuse of vulnerable children by some Brothers ? and that was crucial in his decision to leave. Part two of the memoir follows the life and problems of ?the Good Boy?...
Care
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ISBN: 9781782056119
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
We are in a crisis of care, one that needs an immediate response. This crisis is experienced in both our everyday lived experiences and in our interactions with the formal health and care systems. Due to factors such as inequality, isolation, ecological breakdown, and a society increasingly demarcated by winners and losers, we feel ourselves to be in a careless world. Our sense of community and solidarity has become eroded. At the same time, the capacity of the care system to respond to these growing needs has become more and more limited due to various resource deficits. Behind these difficulties lies the causal impact of neoliberal economics and ideology.
Trade Unions
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ISBN: 9781782055846
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Trade Union Renewal examines the current state of the Irish Trade Union movement, the reasons for its decline and how it must re-imagine itself as a force capable of rolling back the frontiers of capital if it is to rally a new generation of workers to the cause of labour.
Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition
The sanguine boundary limit
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ISBN: 9781782055877
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
This book explores the rich seam in Finnegans Wake of references to Ulster, to its geography, myth and history: a subject which has received relatively little attention in Joyce studies. Joyce portrays Ulster as sharing a complex relationship with the rest of Ireland, one which combines difference with inclusion. He makes many references in the Wake to the historical factors, from the sixteenth-century plantations to the Anglo-Irish War, which contributed to the gradual estrangement of the province (at least its majority population) from the rest of Ireland.
Crime and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1921-2021
Stability, conflict, transition
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ISBN: 9781782055730
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
The book analyses the relationship between crime and conflict in Northern Ireland since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921. Despite the vast research literature that focuses on Northern Ireland?s political divisions and the violence of the ?Troubles?, the relationship between these issues and crime has received much less attention.
Ireland Through a Critical Lens
A miscellany of life-writing on politics, culture and film
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055778
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
In this anthology of critical writing, film-maker and academic Desmond Bell draws upon his extensive experience as a sociologist, media scholar and film-maker to explore a range of issues of culture identity, politics and art in Ireland, north and south.
Music Education for the Twenty-First Century
Legacies, conversations, aspirations
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055792
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
This inaugural volume in the Studies in Irish Music Education series is the first publication to bring together a unique collection of papers by leading national and international authors with wide expertise and extensive experience in the field
Wise's Irish Whiskey
The history of Cork's North Mall distillery
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055754
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
The story of distilling is of particular interest today, but was no less so from the outset of Wise?s Distillery. This book makes extensive use of the observations of prominent distillers from the nineteenth century to relate the difficulties of running a business beset by regulatory, as well as economic, pitfalls.
Hunger and Hope
The Irish Famine Migration from Strokestown, Roscommon in 1847
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ISBN: 9781736171226
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Hunger and Hope: The Irish Famine Migration from Strokestown, Roscommon in 1847 brings together leading experts who trace the harrowing voyage of 1,490 assisted emigrants from Ireland to Canada. Their journey was emblematic of the worst horrors of the Irish Famine migration, yet the causes of their misfortune remain poorly understood. The volume?s contributors meticulously reconstruct the movements of Strokestown?s Famine migrants to Dublin, onwards to Liverpool, then across the Atlantic, and their settlement patterns in North America to reappraise their fate.
The Land War in Ireland
Famine, philanthropy and Moonlighting
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9781782055525
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
This book addresses perceived lacunae in the historiography of the Land War in late nineteenth-century Ireland, particularly deficiencies or omissions relating to the themes of the title: famine, humanitarianism, and the activities of agrarian secret societies, commonly referred to as Moonlighting.
Northern Ireland Beyond 100
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055969
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Companion to Irish Traditional Music
CA$101.95
ISBN: 9781782056027
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Mendicants on the Margins
Geographical, social and historiographical margins in the study of medieval and early modern mendicant orders
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782056058
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Crime and the Criminal Classes in Ireland, 1870-1920
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781782055990
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Family Therapy
Conversations for change
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781782054856
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Irish First Ladies and First Gentlemen, 1919-2011
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782056089
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
The Good Boy
A re-examined life (with help from Montaigne)
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055938
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Care
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781782056119
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Cork University Press
Trade Unions
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781782055846
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition
The sanguine boundary limit
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055877
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Crime and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1921-2021
Stability, conflict, transition
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781782055730
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Ireland Through a Critical Lens
A miscellany of life-writing on politics, culture and film
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055778
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Music Education for the Twenty-First Century
Legacies, conversations, aspirations
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055792
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Wise's Irish Whiskey
The history of Cork's North Mall distillery
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781782055754
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
Hunger and Hope
The Irish Famine Migration from Strokestown, Roscommon in 1847
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781736171226
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press
The Land War in Ireland
Famine, philanthropy and Moonlighting
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9781782055525
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Cork University Press