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Sailor Song
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships …
Music and Irish Identity
Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish …
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and …
Music and Irish Identity
Music and Irish Identity represents the latest stage in a life-long project for Gerry Smyth, focusing here on the ways in which music engages with particular aspects of Irish …
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual …
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual …
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for …
Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce
Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish writer James Joyce’s much-noted obsession with music. This book …
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the seaThe sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. …
The Judas Kiss
This book argues that modern Irish history encompasses a deep-seated fear of betrayal, and that this fear has been especially prevalent since the revolutionary period at the outset …
Space and the Irish Cultural Imagination
This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual …
Noisy Island
Irish contemporary popular music has had remarkable international success, but relatively little scholarly attention. Analysis of cultural identity has been dominated by the …