Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Ireland

"A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect" Thomas M. Wilson, "American Anthropologist"
"One of the best books to have been written on Northern Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book. "Formations of Violence" is an important addition to the literature on political violence." David E. Schmitt, "American Political Science Review""

"A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect" Thomas M. Wilson, "American Anthropologist"
"One of the best books to have been written on Northern Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book. "Formations of Violence" is an important addition to the literature on political violence." David E. Schmitt, "American Political Science Review""

Anchoring the discussion with a wide range of ethnographic case studies from Ireland, the contributors to this volume establish a sophisticated...

If the 1790s can be seen as the pivotal decade in the evolution of modern Ireland, then an understanding of it is not just of scholarly interest, but has repercussions for current political and cultural debates. Precisely because of that enduring relevance, the 1790s have never passed out of politics into history. These essays look again at the window of opportunity which opened towards a non-sectarian, democratic and inclusive politics, adequately representing the Irish people in all their inherited complexities. These four new essays by this gifted and authoritative writer explain why...

A unique document survived the tragedy of Dorian's life. In 1890 he completed a "true historical narrative" of the social and...

The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996. A few years earlier, in 1993, an order of nuns in Dublin sold part of their Magdalen convent to a real estate developer. The remains of 155 inmates, buried in unmarked graves on the property, were exhumed, cremated, and buried elsewhere in a mass grave....