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This is a systematic account of why Ireland remained democratic after independence. Bill Kissane analyzes the Irish case from a comparative international perspective and by discussing it in terms of the classic works of democratic theory. Each chapter tests the explanatory power of a particular approach, and the result is a mixture of political history, sociology, and political science. Taking issue with many conventional assumptions, Kissane questions whether Irish democracy after 1921 was really a surprise, by relating the outcome to the level of socio-economic development, the process of land reform, and the emergence of a strong civil society under the Union. On the other hand, things did not go according to plan in 1922, and two chapters are devoted to the origins and nature of the civil war. The remaining chapters are concerned with analyzing how democracy was rebuilt after the civil war; Kissane questions whether that achievement was entirely the work of the pro-Treatyites.Indeed, by focusing on the continued divisiveness of the Treaty issue, the nature of constitutional republicanism, and the significance of the 1937 constitution, Kissane argues that Irish democracy was not really consolidated until the late 1930s, and that that achievement was largely the work of de Valera.

Contains Standish James O'Grady's important but little-known pieces from "The Irish Worker", written in 1912-13. Although usually regarded as a Protestant unionist, O'Grady was always a maverick and shared the columns of "The Irish Worker" with socialists such as Jim Larkin and Sean O'Casey.

Explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war of the late 1870s to the last days of the Unionist government at Stormont in the 1960s. This book discusses the strategies adopted by the north's landed class to meet the challenges it faced.

Presents a collection of essays from various periods of the author's distinguished career and by fellow academics writing in response to his work, which represents a novel dialogic form of literary criticism. In his essays ranging from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" to the "Canon", he offers nuanced and informed readings of his chosen texts.

Signatories comprises the artistic responses of Emma Donoghue, Thomas Kilroy, Hugo Hamilton, Frank McGuinness, Rachel Fehily, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Marina Carr and Joseph O'Connor to the seven signatories and Nurse O'Farrell. They portray the emotional struggle in this ground-breaking theatrical and literary commemoration of Ireland's turbulent past.

A study of the life of the nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV.

Michael Davitt's "Jottings in Solitary" consists of his drafts on many topics, written while a prisoner in solitary confinement in Portland Convict Prison, 1881-2. Published here for the first time, they contain an autobiographical fragment and a frankly annotated list of Irish MPs of the time.

This manual provides writing instruction in simple terms with examples and exercises on how to build writing structures for anyone who needs to compose well-crafted sentences, paragraphs, essays and reports.

Traces the development of Irish health care services and practices, and the role that different conceptions of disease and different institutional actors have on them. This book explains how there has been a shift of attention away from an exclusively biomedical approach to the problems of health and illness, to a more inclusive social model.

Drawing on the work of specialists in art history, religion, science, sport and leisure, war, and heritage studies, this volume explores aspects of the construction of national identity in Ireland and elsewhere. The book thus transcends some of the limiting, specialism boundaries which bedevil academia and restrict a proper understanding of identity and culture, and their relations with particular places, wherever they may be. The resulting volume of stimulating essays demonstrates, among other things, that cultural history, to which this volume is a contribution, need not necessarily or exclusively be the preserve of 'cultural historians'. This collection is based on papers presented to the 26th biennial Irish Conference of Historians, held at the University of Ulster, May 2003.

This volume is an abridged edition of Tonna's personal recollections, which includes her memoir of visiting Ireland in the mid-1820s.

Eye-witness accounts by two reporters from the Irish Independent newspaper of the historic Treaty debates of Dail Eireann, held in University College Dublin's Earlsfort Terrace building in December 1921 and January 1922.

Essays showing links between Ireland and Scandinavia in folklore and literature.

This is an account of the Irish civil war and its aftermath in Co. Sligo. It covers the period from the truce to the end of the Civil War, and includes serious consideration of the social and economic aspects to the conflict.

In this selection of Mangan's poetry and prose, Mangan can be appreciated not only for the poignancy and power of his late poems and autobiographical writings, but also for those talents admired by his original readers: his metrical skills, his love of wordplay and his surrealist humour.

"Fatal Influence" challenges and revises many widely held assumptions about a pivotal moment in both British and Irish history and persuasively demonstrates that Ireland's impact on British politics lasted far longer and was far greater than has been realized.

This is a review of how English is taught in Irish schools and the likely directions of change and reform. Topics include: the tasks and politics of English teaching; controversies in Britain over a national curriculum in English; and teaching students how to write correct English.

Essays by historians on aspects of republicanism in Ireland (north and south) from the early 20th century to the present. Splits, schism and rivalry emerge as a significant dynamic of the political culture and republican organizations are shown to be ideologically incoherent and opportunist.

Bringing together specialists in wetland science, this work discusses topics from an Irish perspective, including the ecology, fauna, vegetation and distribution of various types of wetlands; the use of wetlands for wastewater management; the archaeology of wetlands; and conservation.

Yvonne Whelan takes the reader from the contested iconography of Dublin as it evolved in the years before Independence through to the contemporary plans for the millennium spire on O'Connell Street, showing how a shift has taken place from an intensely political symbolic landscape to one that is increasingly apolitical, in tune with the changing nature of Irish politics, culture and society at the turn of the 21st century. In her comprehensive discussion of how the streetscape has changed, Whelan explores the capacity of the cultural landscape to underpin and reinforce particular narratives of identity and reveals the ways in which issues of street naming, building, designing and memorializing became firmly grounded in space and bound up with the politics of representation. Incorporating many pictures, maps and plans, "Reinventing Modern Dublin" is a work of historical, cultural and urban geography, a valuable addition to the growing body of knowledge about Dublin's historical geography and Irish urbanism.

Essays by historians on information, media and power from ancient times to the present day. They are all based on papers read at the Irish Conference of Historians meeting at Cork in 1999.

An ethnography of an Irish community, considering the extent to which economic modernization has transformed the rural community. In doing so, it discusses whether the distinctive character of rural identity has been eroded by powerful and distant political and cultural forces.

A guide to the increasingly allusive and complex Peppercanister poems. All the poems are discussed in chronological order and are accompanied by illustrations and reproductions of covers, which are fully explained in the text.

This volume features essays on the church and religion in contemporary Europe. Topics include: the Church and democracy in modern Europe; church and media domination; and Protestants in a Catholic state - a silent minority in Ireland.