Irland

First published in 1966. By pursuing a group of cognate themes, the author relates major critical approaches to the fiction of James Joyce. One of the major issues explored is that …

Irish civil servants and political advisers reveal their role in the Northern Ireland peace process. Their testimonies evoke a strong sense of the highly sensitive political …

In 1987, Irish cycling legend Stephen Roche had an extraordinary year – the year to end all years.June 1987: Winner of the Giro d’Italia July 1987: Secured the yellow jersey at the …

Ways of the World explores cosmopolitanism as it emerged during the Restoration and the role theater played in both memorializing and satirizing its implications and consequences. …

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and …

Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. In his 1798 Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth anticipates …

This is the first biography of barrister, polemical journalist and party activist Kevin O'Shiel, the only English and Jesuit TCD-educated Northern Irish Sinn Fein nationalist. Born …

This book examines a number of different interpretations and explanations in the context of historical change, as the Irish grappled with the questions of political independence, …

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy.So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the …

The argument of this study is that the Arcadia, like the High Renaissance painting analysed by Heinrich Wolfflin, is characterized by what may be called 'multiple unity.' The …