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Sweeney Astray
ISBN: 9780571210091 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a demented flying creature at the Battle of Moira.
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventure...
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65,53 |
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The Sailor in the Wardrobe
ISBN: 9780007232406 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounts the summer Hugo Hamilton spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust. In an attempt to break free of his past, Hugo rebels against his father's strict and crusading regime and turns to the exciting new wo
Recounts the summer Hugo Hamilton spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust. In an attempt to break free ...
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76,40 |
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Transition, Reception and Modernism
ISBN: 9780333749333 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study of Yeats' poetry between 1902 and 1916, Greaves strongly reacts to the tendency in literary criticism to categorize Yeats' work as 'modernist', Instead, Greaves offer a different way of looking at the transition in Yeats' work in this period, by examining the poems in the context of Yeats' life. As a result, the figure of Yeats the poet is resurrected from the exhaustive category of 'modernism' and the complex connections between the figure of Yeats within the poems and its relationship with the Yeats who exists outside them is revealed.
In this study of Yeats' poetry between 1902 and 1916, Greaves strongly reacts to the tendency in literary criticism to categorize Yeats' work as 'mode...
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201,72 |
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Gender, Democracy and Inclusion in Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9780333760659 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland has not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations where their contribution has been outstanding. This book examines four organizations (including the recently-formed Northern Ireland Women's Coalition) where women have been active. It discusses the processes and structures created by these groups in order to work democratically across differences and argues that their experiences are invaluable to the development of feminist debates on democracy and difference.
Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland has not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations whe...
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201,72 |
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Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return
ISBN: 9780199532131 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Bowen is a writer who is still too little appreciated. Neil Corcoran presents here a critical study of her novels, short stories, family history, and essays, and shows that her work both inherits from the Modernist movement and transforms its experimental traditions.
Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return explores how she adapts Irish Protestant Gothic as a means of interpreting Irish experience during the Troubles of the 1920s and the Second World War, and also as a way of defining the defencelessness of those enduring the Blitz in wartime London. She employs versions of the... Elizabeth Bowen is a writer who is still too little appreciated. Neil Corcoran presents here a critical study of her novels, short stories, family his...
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241,97 |
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Ireland's Huguenots & Their Refuge, 1662-1745 : An Unlikely Haven
ISBN: 9781902210797 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of the approximately 200,000 Huguenots whose consciences compelled them to leave France during the 17th and 18th centuries, some 10,000 chose to settle in the most unlikely refuge of Ireland. The story of why and how these most ardent of Protestant believers found themselves in this most fervently Catholic of islands is explored in this book. It also attempts to reveal precisely who these Huguenots were, what they contributed to and received from their adopted land, and why Huguenot ancestry is so respected and prized even among devout Irish Catholics. The true chronicle of Ireland s...
Of the approximately 200,000 Huguenots whose consciences compelled them to leave France during the 17th and 18th centuries, some 10,000 chose to settl...
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153,98 |
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Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History
ISBN: 9780815631644 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Centuries before W B Yeats wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinship in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage.
Centuries before W B Yeats wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinship in Asian and West Asia...
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102,39 |
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Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750-1850
ISBN: 9780719077982 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families this book provides fresh insight into the place of women in the Irish wealthy landed class.
Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families this book provides fresh insight into the place of women in the Irish wealthy landed ...
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436,43 |
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Mafia, Money and Politics in Sicily 1950–1997
ISBN: 9788772894553 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text analyzes the economic and political activities of the Mafia on the basis of the late-1990s source material and explains how the Mafia has succeeded in surviving, protecting itself, and flourishing in post-war Italy.
This text analyzes the economic and political activities of the Mafia on the basis of the late-1990s source material and explains how the Mafia has su...
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148,85 |
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The Northern Ireland Question: The Peace Process and the Belfast Agreement
ISBN: 9780230203808 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines how the Belfast Agreement came about and its effect on unionism, nationalism, the paramilitaries, electoral support for local parties and the constitutional position of Northern Ireland. It also considers the extent to which the Agreement may be regarded as an exercise in political cynicism or the basis for lasting peace.
The book examines how the Belfast Agreement came about and its effect on unionism, nationalism, the paramilitaries, electoral support for local partie...
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403,47 |
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IRA: The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity
ISBN: 9780716528951 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, the author focuses on the bombs and explosives and shows how the IRA became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise and how - after generations of conflict - it all came to an end. The book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of Irish republican strategic, tactical, and operational details and analysis covering the IRA's mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. Oppenheimer also colourfully presents the story behind the...
As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, the author focuses on the bombs and explosives and shows how the IRA became the most a...
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149,87 |
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The Long March: The Political Strategy of Sinn Fein, 1981-2007
ISBN: 9780230202177 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sinn Fein has undergone a startling transformation in the last two-and-a-half decades. Under the leadership of its two principal figures Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness the mainstream party of Irish republicanism has changed beyond almost all recognition. It has moved from the margins of political life, on both sides of the Irish border, to a position where it occupies the Deputy First Minister's chair in Northern Ireland and was viewed, until recently, as the coming force in southern Irish politics. In this book, the contours of Sinn Fein's recent evolution are considered, with particular...
Sinn Fein has undergone a startling transformation in the last two-and-a-half decades. Under the leadership of its two principal figures Gerry Adams a...
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201,72 |
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Life in Lesu: The Study of Melanesian Society in New Ireland
ISBN: 9780393005660 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life in Lesu is a vivid account of life in the late Stone-Age Melanesian society, by the first anthropologist and first white person to live there. Hortense Powdermaker, author of the widely praised Stranger and Friend, provides here both a mine of ethnological information and an absorbing personal view of daily life in a primitive community. Dr. Powdermaker lived for ten and a half months in Lesu, as a close observer and participant in the events of the village. She describes the individual and social life of the Lesu native from infancy to death: how society and... Life in Lesu is a vivid account of life in the late Stone-Age Melanesian society, by the first anthropologist and first white person to l... |
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99,18 |
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Excavations at Knowth: Volume 4: Historical Knowth and Its Hinterland
ISBN: 9781904890300 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fourth volume in the Excavations at Knowth series evaluates the historical role of Knowth and the Brugh na Boinne complex. It explores the history, settlement and society of Knowth and the wider Bru na Boinne district, from the emergence of political power in the Boyne Valley to the beginning of the 21st century. The first chapter deals with the earliest references to the region in the seventh and eight centuries as an important place within the kingdom of North Brega and as, from the 8th century, its royal residence. Chapter 1 also considers the ogham and vernacular inscriptions...
This fourth volume in the Excavations at Knowth series evaluates the historical role of Knowth and the Brugh na Boinne complex. It explores the...
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154,04 |
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Irish Place Names
ISBN: 9780717133963 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the most complete guide to Irish place-names published in modern times. It explains the origin and derivation of the names of over 3,000 cities, towns, villages and physical features. The book is in two parts. The first is a list of root or stem words that form the basis of the most common Irish place-names. The second, related to this list, is an exhaustive gazetteer of all 3,000 locations with accompanying explanations. Other books by Laurence Flanagan Ancient Ireland Favourite Irish Names for Children: top 200 Irish Proverbs
This is the most complete guide to Irish place-names published in modern times. It explains the origin and derivation of the names of over 3,000 ci... |
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70,57 |
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A Bloody Canvas: The Mike McTigue Story
ISBN: 9781856355360 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most bizarre world championship fight in boxing history was staged on St. Patrick's Day 1923, in war-torn Dublin. The winner in the ring, Mike McTigue, went on to run with gunmen, gangsters and racketeers in Jazz Age New York. A Bloody Canvas: The Mike McTigue Story tells the story of how Michael Francis McTigue left Kilnamona, Co. Clare, to seek fame and fortune in the United States, only for circumstances to bring him back to Dublin where he would win one of the strangest world title fights in boxing history. Set partly against the background of the Irish Civil War, it also tells of a...
The most bizarre world championship fight in boxing history was staged on St. Patrick's Day 1923, in war-torn Dublin. The winner in the ring, Mike McT...
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98,84 |
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Irish Nationalism and European Integration: The Official Redefinition of the Island of Ireland
ISBN: 9780719072796 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? The author of this book argues that such discourses are integrally connected and, what is more, embody the enduring relevance of nationalism in modern Ireland.
As the most comprehensive study to date of official discourse in twentieth-century Ireland, this book traces the ways in which nationalism can be simultaneously redefined and... How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of so...
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102,64 |
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The Silence of Barbara Synge
ISBN: 9780719062797 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I believe this is a model for a new kind of literary-historical project... It is not biography, literary history or criticism, but it is this awkwardness that is also the work's major strength. McCormack is probably the leading authority on Irish protestant culture in the 18th and 19th centuries." Richard Kirkland The family of playwright J.M. Synge (1871-1909) had a long pedigree in Ireland. Taking the alleged death in 1767 of Mrs John Hatch (nee Synge) as his focal point, Bill McCormack explores the varied strands and stresses of two family histories in the 18th and early 19th centuries. A...
"I believe this is a model for a new kind of literary-historical project... It is not biography, literary history or criticism, but it is this awkward...
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128,36 |
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Galloglass 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior
ISBN: 9781846035777 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Galloglass, from the Gaelic gall_glaigh for 'young foreign warriors', were mercenaries from the Western Isles of Scotland who fought in the retinues of Irish magnates from the mid-13th century until the early 17th century. Without question, galloglass are among the most visually impressive warriors of all time: they were sketched by Albrecht D_rer, were mentioned by Shakespeare, and were discussed with awe and amazement in the correspondence of all the leading Elizabethan soldiers who served in Ireland. Thousands fought in Ireland, and yet so far there has been only one detailed account of...
Galloglass, from the Gaelic gall_glaigh for 'young foreign warriors', were mercenaries from the Western Isles of Scotland who fought in the retinues o...
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76,97 |
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British Biographical Index / Britischer Biographischer Index
ISBN: 9783598348075 / Angielski / Twarda / 4614 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The British Biographical Index, 3rd cumulated and enlarged ed., contains information on more than 420,000 individuals from Great Britain and Ireland from the beginnings until the end of the 20th century. 760 sources, published between 1601 and 2002, have been cumulated. The British Biographical Index, 3rd cumulated and enlarged ed., contains information on more than 420,000 individuals from Great Britain and Irelan... |
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