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Columbanus Ad Hibernos: A Letter from Columban to His Friend in Ireland, on the Present Mode of Appointing Catholic Bishops in His Native Coun
ISBN: 9781144938282 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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Politics and provincial people: Sligo and Limerick, 1691-1761
ISBN: 9780719081798 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking study is the first to systematically examine the politics and political culture of provincial Ireland. The book compares two distinct localities that provide differing perspectives on how politics and power manifested itself in provincial Ireland: Sligo in the north west and Limerick in the south west. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown and under-utilised contemporary material, David Fleming focuses on individuals who were determined to shape the political landscape and those who were affected by their actions.
The book challenges many accepted models of how... This ground-breaking study is the first to systematically examine the politics and political culture of provincial Ireland. The book compares two dist...
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438,22 |
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The Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory
ISBN: 9781599101675 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Based on an actual medieval pilgrimage route, this work traces a contemporary route from Dublin to Lough Derg, Donegal. It provides a cultural itinerary through Ireland's medieval past with its surviving, but fragmentary, riches, as it crosses the Irish borders and landscape, its rivers and lakes"--Provided by publisher.
"Based on an actual medieval pilgrimage route, this work traces a contemporary route from Dublin to Lough Derg, Donegal. It provides a cultural itiner...
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75,53 |
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The Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory
ISBN: 9781599101873 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Based on an actual medieval pilgrimage route, this work traces a contemporary route from Dublin to Lough Derg, Donegal. It provides a cultural itinerary through Ireland's medieval past with its surviving, but fragmentary, riches, as it crosses the Irish borders and landscape, its rivers and lakes"--Provided by publisher.
"Based on an actual medieval pilgrimage route, this work traces a contemporary route from Dublin to Lough Derg, Donegal. It provides a cultural itiner...
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129,48 |
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Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775
ISBN: 9780901905178 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1966, R. J. Dickson's "Ulster Emigration to Colonial America, 1718-1775 "remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million people from Ulster to the New World. It combines detailed investigation of the economic, social, and political background to the exodus with information on the emigrant trade and an analysis of the motivations and origins of the emigrants themselves. This new edition includes a specially written introduction by Graeme Kirkham, whose researches on both sides of the Atlantic are reflected in... First published in 1966, R. J. Dickson's "Ulster Emigration to Colonial America, 1718-1775 "remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migrati... |
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96,30 |
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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume VII, 1941-1945
ISBN: 9781904890638 / Angielski / Twarda / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains 625 original documents, many never seen before, from the archives of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, covering the key concerns of Second World War Irish foreign policy. The book shows that, far from Ireland being isolated from the war, the Irish diplomatic service had an up-to-date understanding of the conflict. Documents on Irish Foreign Policy VII (1941-45) provides new insights into the secret diplomacy underpinning Ireland's wartime neutrality. It covers the 'Top Secret Second World War' liaison between the Irish and US/British intelligence services. It also...
This volume contains 625 original documents, many never seen before, from the archives of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, covering the key co...
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206,22 |
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'This Culture of Ours': Intellectual Transitions in t'Ang and Sung China
ISBN: 9780804719209 / Angielski / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a literary view of culture - in which literary accomplishment and mastery of traditional forms were regarded as essential - to the ethical orientation of Neo-Confucianism, in which the cultivation of one's innate...
This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Our...
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729,76 |
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Trauma and History in the Irish Novel: The Return of the Dead
ISBN: 9780230250307 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and the historical novel, and the way certain novelists looked to early events in twentieth century Irish history to engage the recent political violence in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.
This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and...
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201,24 |
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Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
ISBN: 9780195089615 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Celts were one of the great founding civilizations of Europe and the first North European people to emerge into recorded history, producing a vibrant labyrinth of mythological tales and sagas that have influenced the literary traditions of Europe and the world.
The first A-Z reference of its kind, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology is fascinating and accessible guide to the gods and goddesses, the heroes and heroines, the magical weapons, fabulous beasts, and otherworld entities that populate the myths of this rich European culture. Like A Dictionary of Irish Mythology before it, this is... The Celts were one of the great founding civilizations of Europe and the first North European people to emerge into recorded history, producing a vibr...
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81,95 |
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Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age
ISBN: 9780230221949 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, self-government and nationalism became subjects of intensive political debate, raising issues about the constitution and national identity of the whole United Kingdom.
Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, s...
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402,53 |
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The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture
ISBN: 9780230247413 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a new analysis of theatre, film, television, memoir and art, and interrogates the anti-nostalgia that characterizes so much of contemporary Irish culture.
Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how. In an innovative reading of Irish culture since 1980, Emilie Pine provides a ...
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402,53 |
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Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin After O'Casey
ISBN: 9780230272279 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class in Irish life. Examining how working-class identity is depicted by authors like Brendan Behan and Roddy Doyle, it discusses how this hidden, urban Ireland has appeared in the country's literature.
Exploring writing of working-class Dublin after Sean O'Casey, this book breaks new ground in Irish Studies, unearthing submerged narratives of class i...
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Devolution and the governance of Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9780719074363 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers the first account of what the First Minister, Peter Robinson, describes as the most settled period of devolution in Northern Ireland for almost forty years. It traces the tortuous path to devolved government, the political instability which constantly threatened the institutions, and since May 2007 the bedding down of devolution and its impact so far on the people of Northern Ireland.
The book parallels accounts of devolved government in Scotland and Wales. For years Northern Ireland has been the subject of academic enquiry relating to political, constitutional and... This book offers the first account of what the First Minister, Peter Robinson, describes as the most settled period of devolution in Northern Ireland ...
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438,22 |
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Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms
ISBN: 9780521174152 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This 2007 book traces the development of English in Ireland, both north and south, from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on authentic data ranging from medieval literature to authentic contemporary examples, it reveals how Irish English arose, how it has developed, and how it continues to change. A variety of central issues are considered in detail, such as the nature of language contact and the shift from Irish to English, the sociolinguistically...
English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This 2007 book traces ...
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252,21 |
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Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish
ISBN: 9781108022040 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lady (Augusta) Gregory (1852 1932) was a dramatist and folklorist. Along with the poet W. B. Yeats she was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and co-founded the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Born Isabella Augusta Persse in County Galway, she belonged to the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, which was closely associated with colonial rule. She married Sir William Gregory in 1880. Her conversion to Irish cultural nationalism began after the death of her husband and was heavily influenced by her visit in 1892 to Inisheer, one of the Aran Islands, where she learnt Irish and the Hiberno-English...
Lady (Augusta) Gregory (1852 1932) was a dramatist and folklorist. Along with the poet W. B. Yeats she was a driving force behind the Irish Literary R...
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205,00 |
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Researching Armagh Ancestors
ISBN: 9780901905895 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,76 |
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Ireland and Romanticism: Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780230274570 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism.
This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies...
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201,24 |
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Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards
ISBN: 9781843836612 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to a number of fields, but is particularly renowned for his studies in Celtic history and law. In this volume, colleagues pay tribute to his work with essays that range across the medieval Celtic world, including medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In the first part of the volume, they cover historical aspects (and, as is fitting, often reflect the honorand's interest in archaeology and epigraphy); in the second, they focus on medieval Irish and Welsh legal institutions and...
Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to a number of fields, but is part...
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465,29 |
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Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity
ISBN: 9781859181690 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This much-anticipated study brings new level of sophistication to the study of Irish folklore and provides a source for other disciplines to negotiate the area with greater understanding.
This much-anticipated study brings new level of sophistication to the study of Irish folklore and provides a source for other disciplines to negotiate...
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121,14 |
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Frank Henderson's Easter Rising: Recollections of a Dublin Volunteer
ISBN: 9781859181430 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an engaging family memoir, Frank Henderson, who became Commandant of the Second Battalion of Irish Volunteers, reveals the influence of his parents and the Christian Brothers in molding his militancy and pride in Irish culture.
In an engaging family memoir, Frank Henderson, who became Commandant of the Second Battalion of Irish Volunteers, reveals the influence of his parents...
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55,84 |
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