2008-06-01,Seán Crosson,"""The Given Note"": Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry",Hardback,9781847185693,34.99,"The oldest records indicate that the performance of poetry in Gaelic Ireland was normally accompanied by music, providing a point of continuity with past tradition while bolstering a sense of community in the present. Music would also offer, particularly for poets writing in English from the eighteenth century onwards, a perceived authenticity, a connection with an older tradition perceived as being untarnished by linguistic and cultural division.
While providing an innovative analysis of theoretical work in music and literary studies, this book examines how traditional Irish music, including the related song tradition (primarily in Irish), has influenced, and is apparent in, the work of Irish poets. While looking generally at where this influence is evident historically and in contemporary Irish poetry, this work focuses primarily on the work of six poets, three who write in English and three who write primarily in the Irish language: Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Cathal Ó Searcaigh. 
	



","""Seán Crosson, himself a composer and performer, has written a penetrating and nuanced study of the influence of traditional music and song on modern Irish poetry…It is certainly the most thorough exploration of this subject to date, and combines awareness of music with the practice of poetry in an original and compelling way.""			
-- Dr. Riana O’Dwyer, Senior Lecturer, English Department, NUI, Galway.

""This book makes an original contribution to the field of Irish Studies. It is particularly impressive in discussing together the normally disparate studies of Irish literature (in both languages), metrics, music and orality studies. The study is clearly well-written in a clean uncluttered style and proceeds with a logic of argument which carries the reader along.""
-- Professor Alan Titley, Head of Department of Modern Irish, University College Cork.

""This book draws on a wide range of theoretical perspectives to construct an exploratory inquiry detailing and interrogating previously unarticulated connections between words and music. Despite the breathtaking wealth of referential material, the model that emerges is subtle, nuanced and flexible, handled with the sure and elegant touch of one who is supremely aware of the possibilities of effects at the nexus of these two intertwined media… This pioneering work is sure to herald other studies in this rich field of inquiry, and provides an exemplary model which leads the way with confident assurance.""  
-- Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire, sean-nós singer and author of On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean: Songs and Singers in Tory Island (2007)



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-02-01,"Nessa Cronin, Seán Crosson and John Eastlake",Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture,Hardback,978-1-4438-0152-2,39.99,"Anáil an Bhéil Bheo brings together a stimulating range of interdisciplinary essays considering the connections between orality and modern Irish culture. From literature to song, folklore to the visual arts, contributors examine not only the connections between oral and textual traditions in Ireland, but also the theoretical concept of “orality” itself and the corresponding significance of oral texts in Irish society. Featuring work by emerging scholars in the fields of history, literature, folklore, music, women’s studies, film and theatre studies and disciplines contributing to Irish Studies, this multifaceted volume also includes contributions from scholars long engaged with issues of orality such as Gearóid Ó Crualaoich and Henry Glassie.





","""This ambitious collection greatly widens the customary scope for exploring the intricate connections between literary culture and oral culture in modern Ireland. The editors and contributors-a fruitful mix of senior and younger scholars-collectively make a powerful case for challenging the common dichotomous alignments that would link orality with the Irish language, traditional culture, and rurality, and that would connect print literacy with the English language, modernity, and urbanity.""
—Professor James S. Donnelly, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

""In exploring the different forms, expressions and performances of oral cultures in modern Ireland, the essays avoid simple dichotomies and provide persuasive evidence of the centrality of orality and the influence of cultures of literacy in everything from the reporting of military conflict to the shaping of the Joycean oeuvre. Anáil an Bhéil Bheo is a collection that is required reading for anyone with an interest in the emergence of modern Irish society and culture.""
—Professor Michael Cronin (Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, Dublin City University)    


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-03-01,Isabelle le Corff and Estelle Epinoux,Cinemas of Ireland,Hardback,978-1-4438-0240-6,39.99,"Cinemas of Ireland is a collection of fourteen essays which provide numerous approaches to the new Irish cinemascape from both an Irish and a European perspective. Highlighting the works of European scholars in Irish studies, it features a variety of noteworthy critical papers that explore the evolution of contemporary Irish cinema in an era of globalisation. The collection also stresses the rich interdisciplinary nature of Irish film studies, ranging from theoretical studies, gender studies, to political and historical studies. The list of films analysed includes among others Adam and Paul (2004), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006), Garage (2007), The Brave One (2007).  

This collective volume is aimed at all established and emerging scholars who work on Irish cinema and at all the readers who are interested in discovering contemporary Irish cinema in its evolution and in the issues it tackles. 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-03-01,John O'Callaghan,"Teaching Irish Independence: History in Irish Schools, 1922-72",Hardback,978-1-4438-0243-7,29.99,"This book examines the role of history teaching in Irish secondary schools in the period 1922-72. It assesses what objectives were the most important in history teaching and what interests school history was designed to serve. The emphasis is on the political, cultural, social and economic factors that determined the content of the history curriculum and its development. 
The primary focus is on the politics and policy of history teaching, including the respective contributions of church and state to the formulation of the history programmes. It is argued that a particular view of Ireland’s past as a Gaelic, Catholic-nationalist one informed the ideas of policy makers and thus provided the basis of state education policy, and history teaching specifically. 
The conclusion drawn is that history teaching was used by elite interest groups, namely the state and the church, in the service of their own interests. It was used to justify the state’s existence and employed as an instrument of religious education. History was exploited in the pursuit of the objectives of the cultural revival movement, being used to legitimise the restoration of Irish as a spoken language. 




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-04-01,Marguerite Quintelli-Neary,Visions of the Irish Dream,Hardback,978-1-4438-0350-2,39.99,"Visions of the Irish Dream assembles essays that examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans, looking at aspirations of 19th-century emigrants to Canada and the United States, political and educational goals of the Irish, historic trauma, contemporary xenophobia, and artists’ renditions of “Irishness.”  Whether the dreams are fulfilled or deferred, they all strive to come to terms with what it means to be Irish; sometimes the definition involves bringing a piece of the old country with you, buying facsimiles of “genuine Irish goods,” or redefining self in a way that frees Ireland of the colonial model.

This study explores the conflicted and shifting visions of the people who inhabit or have left an isolated island that has moved from a search for independence to integration into a European union.  From discussion of the politics of translation in Ferguson and Mangan to the establishment of the National schools, the movement of the Celts from continental Europe as evidenced in Joyce to the translatlantic flight of the Irish to the Americas in a drama by Nicola McCartney, and the re-invention of the feminine force in the writings of novelists Jennifer Johnston and Roddy Doyle to the feminine voice expressed in the work of poet Eiléan NíChuilleanáin, the collection underscores the significance of the dream in Irish history and the arts.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-05-01,"Olivier Coquelin, Patrick Galliou and Thierry Robin",Political Ideology in Ireland: From the Enlightenment to the Present,Hardback,978-1-4438-0528-5,44.99,"First delivered as part of an international conference held at Brest University in November 2007—under the aegis of the Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (CRBC)—, this collection of essays essentially aims at interrogating history in order to better understand the political and ideological complexity of early XXIst-century Ireland. This complexity reflects, in many respects, Ireland’s uniqueness among the Western European nations. Some of the multiple persuasions within the gamut of Irish political ideology, from the Enlightenment to the present, are thus explored from diverse angles of approach—dialectical, taxonomic, theoretical, practical, individual, collective—, and through a diverse range of disciplines—human sciences, political science, social sciences, literature, philosophy and art history—and themes—from Jonathan Swift’s rhetorical complexity to the evolution of Irish republicanism after 9/11, including the reassessment of Daniel O’Connell’s political ideology, Owenism in Ireland, Oscar Wilde’s socialistic ideology, the ideological development of the Republican and Loyalist prisoners…
This unique collection of essays, far from being a static historiographical description, provides food for thought and sheds light on the fascinating ambivalent dynamics lying at the heart of the building process of a modern nation resulting from the aggregate of individual will, collective ideals and Zeitgeist. 
The impressive variety of issues raised by authors of diverse origins (United States, Ireland, Britain, France), including leading experts in the above-mentioned areas (Richard English, Robert Mahony, Jonathan Tonge, Kieran Allen, John Sloan, Christopher Murray, Vincent Geoghegan…), therefore, widely contributes to the fact that the present book will be intellectually stimulating and enlightening, at least as an introduction, for all the students and scholars of Irish studies and other related disciplines.




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-08-01,Mary Warde,"""The Turn of the Hand"": A Memoir from the Irish Margins",Hardback,9781443811248,34.99,"Recent decades have seen an enormous resurgence in the arts of memoir and life writing. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of Ireland and other postcolonial countries, where memoir has functioned to regenerate and re-present meaningful incidents and events in the pasts of particular individuals or cultural groups. This memoir, written by an “insider,” recalls the lives of various members of the Irish Traveller community during an era of enormous social and cultural change. The Irish Traveller community are a group whose history has often been forgotten, elided or relegated to the cultural margins. We currently live in an age of testimony, however, an era where first-hand accounts and personal experiences challenge us with respect to our suppositions regarding the past. It is only by engaging with memory and the stories which have gone before that we may become true custodians of our individual and communal identities. Books such as the The Turn of the Hand allow us to begin the process that is the “re-imagining” of our cultural histories and identities. In this manner we can preserve our cultural identity for future generations and come to a better understanding of what it means to be truly human.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-09-01,"Franca Ruggieri, John McCourt and Enrico Terrinoni with an afterword by Umberto Eco",Joyce in Progress: Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome,Hardback,978-1-4438-1235-1,39.99,"The essays gathered in Joyce in Progress are the fruit of the First Annual Graduate Conference in Joyce Studies held at the Università Roma Tre in February 2008, and organized by the Italian James Joyce Foundation. They are a testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings and the ongoing liveliness of debate about the writer and his works and contexts.

There is a wide array of genuine research on show here, which looks at Joyce from a variety of angles, focusing on his deeply complex autobiographical fiction through genetic studies, post-colonial studies, eco-criticism and intertextual and multi-modal approaches.

This volume offers ground-breaking multi-disciplinary readings and usefully connects Joyce’s work with that of contemporary writers, rivals, followers, and successors.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-10-01,Gavan Jennings,New Perspectives on the Irish Catholic Tradition,Hardback,978-1-4438-1304-4,34.99,"New Perspectives on the Irish Catholic Tradition is a book of essays based on articles previously published in Position Papers. This is a monthly journal which explores theoretical and practical aspects of the Catholic faith, particularly as it is lived out in Ireland. The writers are Irish and Catholic, and are drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds. Each of them brings their own particular expertise and life experience to bear on a diverse range of issues including liturgy, pastoral work, politics, culture, bioethics, and Church history. This collection endeavours to present a thought-provoking examination of philosophical issues based on the Catholic tradition while, simultaneously, providing an encouragement to fidelity.


",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-10-01,"Maeve Tynan, Maria Beville and Marita Ryan ",Passages: Movements and Moments in Text and Theory,Hardback,978-1-4438-1306-8,39.99,"The multiplicity of interpretations available in the word ‘passages’ is engaged with in this collection of essays that perceptively navigate the ideas of literal and metaphorical crossings, sites of liminality and interstitial zones, the traversal of boundaries and the complex notion of rites and rights of passage. This passages topic is elucidated through discussions on writers as diverse as James Joyce and the Palestinian poet Tawfīq Sāyigh and genres that include the novel, short story, poetry and drama. The diversity of texts is matched by a diversity of theoretical readings that stimulate debate around central ideas such as: how are old texts revisited and re-imagined in the context of new theories? How do contemporary texts re-appropriate the past to critically appraise the present? How is identity renegotiated in cross-cultural texts and in translations?

The combination of close textual readings with broader philosophical and cultural deliberations allows for a vigorous examination of texts and theories. The authors, in capturing the cultural moment of their work while acknowledging the ongoing movement of the texts and theory, allow the reader to both contextualise the work and recognise the creative evolution of ideas that are simultaneously at play. 

	  Academically orientated, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in changing theoretical ideas and how they are re-invigorating a reading of literature. It will be of interest especially to students and scholars of English literature, philosophy and cultural studies. Its close textual analysis and multiple perspectives will also make it a very useful classroom text in the aforementioned areas.   




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-10-01,Johanne Devlin Trew,"Place, Culture and Community: The Irish Heritage of the Ottawa Valley",Hardback,978-1-4438-1310-5,44.99,"The Ottawa Valley is a region of Canada straddling the Ottawa River in Ontario and Québec that is well known for its rich singing, storytelling, fiddling and step dancing traditions. Settled largely by the Irish, Scots and the French over the past two hundred years, it had largest concentration of people of Irish origin in Canada by the late 19th century. Travelling through the Valley one gets the sense of coming face to face with the past. While its dramatic history is filled with incidents of extreme hardship and tragedy, the overriding impression is of a triumphant survivalism associated with its strong men of the past; the voyageurs, the coureurs du bois and the lumbermen.

The legacy of this unique heritage—from fiddling and step dancing to tales of priests, lumberman, and Orange and Green rivalries—is explored in this book through the voices of Valley people themselves. The author reveals the importance of place and history in the transmission of this vibrant regional culture down to the present day.



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-11-01,Ann Ledwith,Managing Innovation in SMEs: Product Development in Small Irish Electronics Firms,Hardback,978-1-4438-1375-4,44.99,"Innovating and developing new products is critical for the survival and growth of any small firm, but particularly for technology-based firms.

This study of NPD at small Irish electronics firms makes two main contributions to knowledge.  Firstly, the management of NPD at small firms is found to be different from that at large firms in several respects, including: NPD resources and expenditure, organising for NPD, NPD process proficiency, marketing and technical skills and proficiency, R&D/marketing integration, top management support, and, new product and market characteristics. These differences are shown to have implications for managers, policy makers and researchers. Secondly, this study provides a unique insight into the management of NPD in Irish firms and facilitates a comparison between NPD in Irish firms and those in other countries. Some of the key features of NPD in Ireland highlighted by this study are; NPD at large Irish electronics firms is mainly incremental, Irish firms are good at developing technically difficult new product but are slow to enter new markets, and, Irish electronics firms do not have well developed project management skills.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Sineád Hayes,Agile Development in the Irish Software Industry: Models for Change,Hardback,978-1-4438-0578-0,34.99,"This book is based on an innovative research study which devised a suitable change management framework for Irish software development companies seeking to make the transition from a more “traditional” software development process to one which is more agile and responsive. Utilising Kotter’s eight-step technique for organisational change as a basis, this research demonstrates how the incorporation of agile software techniques using the Scrum process effected successful changes within one of the world’s leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies.

",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Eamonn T. Gardiner,Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War: Counter Insurgency and Conflict,Paperback,978-1-4438-1392-1,24.99,"The Irish War of Independence is still regarded as a conflict that is both enigmatic and emotive in content; it  transformed the British imperial dream into a nightmare and was to shape the foreign and domestic agendas of two countries for nearly a century. 

This book seeks to examine the reasons and ask the hard questions to determine why the British state was unable to pour oil on troubled Irish waters and put Home Rule to bed and how that inability was left to fester. It examines in detail the relationships which existed between the arms of the British administration in Ireland and how the complexity of those bonds led sometimes to an animosity of sorts being fostered until it began to affect operational aspects of the British security apparatus in Ireland.' 

The operations and actions of British Army, the Royal Irish Constabulary, their mercenary Auxiliary security forces and the Bristish Government of the day are all probed and examined in this book. Why were the British, with massive imperial holdings and a modern and well equipped armed forces, unable to suppress an infant insurgency, numerically inferior and ill equipped less than four hundred miles from Whitehall? Why was the shining light of British colonial policing, the Royal Irish Constabulary subjected to stagnation and rot from within for over fifty years? Why instead of reforming the existing police in place in Ireland mercenary forces, with little official oversight, were introduced into Ireland in an effort to quell the rising trouble? 




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Tim Wenzell,Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature,Hardback,978-1-4438-1633-5,34.99,"Emerald Green: An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature analyzes a wide range of Irish literature whose themes tie into a reverence for the natural world of Ireland.  From an ecocritical perspective, these works, tied into an understanding of the landscape and particular aspects of nature, attain a fresh new meaning and foster a more relevant reflection of Ireland’s  beautiful  literary landscape. The analysis begins with the first Irish writers, the hermit poets, and examines the ways in which the Irish hermit and saint were connected spiritually, through both pagan and early Christian values, to the natural world.  The book then examines Irish literature from the perspective of the deforested landscape and the landscapes of farmland, divided property, famine, ruins, and a threatening natural world. Following the Famine, the book moves on to explore the establishment of the pastoral dream in this loss of landscape, and a re- connection to nature through the writers of the Irish Literary Renaissance.  From there, the analysis shifts to the nature writing of Ireland’s islands, including nature and community on Achill Island, storytelling on the Aran Islands, exile in nature on Skellig Michael, and the mythmaking of the Great Blasket Island.  Moving north and into the twentieth century, Emerald Green focuses on four nature poets from Northern Ireland: Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley; all four are redeemed by nature through their returns to the rural landscape of Ireland’s west coast.  The book concludes with an examination of modern Irish environmental writers and naturalist poets, as well as journalists weighing in on current environmental concerns in Ireland. Emerald Green concludes with an assessment of the future of nature in Ireland, and how the significant reduction of this country’s  natural landscape will alter its literary landscape as well.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2009-12-01,Patricia M. Bennis,"St. John’s Fever and Lock Hospital Limerick, 1780-1890",Hardback,978-1-4438-1393-8,34.99,"Before 1780 there was no public provision for the hospital treatment of fever patients, “St. John’s being the first building of the kind erected in the empire”. They suffered and died in their homes under the combined pressure of poverty and disease. The spread of fever was controlled by admitting patients to hospital and isolating them from the rest of the community. Epidemics were frequent. This Irish study deals to a large extent with the 1820s, the cholera epidemic of 1832 and with the Great Famine of the 1840s—a period when St. John’s Hospital admitted more than 5,000 fever-ridden patients.
","“Bennis deftly depicts St. John’s Fever Hospital, against the backdrop of pre-famine Limerick city. She also convincingly demonstrates that St John’s Hospital responded well to the typhus epidemic of 1817–18, and the waves of cholera in 1832 and 1847–49. The publication and dissemination of this solid work of scholarship is overdue.”
—Dr. Padraig Lenihan, History Department at the University of Limerick

“Bennis makes an immense contribution to the medical history of Limerick city. She gives us a rich, multi-layered and illuminating account of the impact that a single hospital had on one of Ireland’s major provincial cities. Scholarly and authoritative, yet readable and accessible, this will be the definitive work on its topic for many years to come.”
—Dr. Matthew Potter, History Department at the University of Limerick
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-01-01,Maria-Angeles Ruiz Moneva,A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift’s Irish Tracts: A Relevance-Theoretic Study,Hardback,978-1-4438-1662-5,49.99,"Swift's A Modest Proposal has always aroused the interest not just of literary critics, but also of linguists and pragmatists. Within the latter approaches, the study of irony, and more concretely, the intentions and attitudes that must have guided the production of such an intricate work, have always been paramount. However, it seems that within pragmatics the analysis has been restricted so far to the 1729 work itself. In the present author's view, it is interesting to contextualise this masterpiece of irony and satire within Swift's wider writing on Ireland, an approach that remains to be carried out. Accordingly, this work sets out to analyse a selection of Swift’s Irish Tracts, with a view to tracing the evolution within Swift's literary production of his views and attitudes towards the situation of his homeland.  Although different pragmatic approaches are applied, the emphasis is laid upon the contributions that the relevance-theoretical framework and its studies on irony may bring to the understanding of this particular Tract. The works selected are meant to cover and also be representative of the main phases currently distinguished within Swift's writing on the ""Irish Question"". It is therefore hoped that a deeper analysis of the former works by Swift on this topic will provide new insights for a better understanding of A Modest Proposal.






","""In this thought-provoking book, the author goes beyond established linguistic theories of irony to consider Swift's work in the literary and historical context in which it was created. The result is an unprecedented depth of analysis and a significant step forward for the study of irony.""
- Prof. Salvatore Attardo, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas A&M and editor-in-chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research

""In this book, Ruiz-Moneva tackles the analysis of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, one of Swift’s most complex and intricate works, from a pragmatics standpoint. Ruiz-Moneva’s analysis focuses on irony. Swift’s use of irony and satire in A Modest Proposal has been regarded as masterful, and has attracted the attention of researchers in pragmatics. Ruiz-Moneva’s fundamental contribution is to refute Clark and Gerrig’s (1984) contention against Sperber and Wilson’s relevance-theoretical account of irony, namely that the source of echo is rather imprecise. In spite of Clark and Gerrig’s harsh criticism, based on an application of Pretense theory to uses of irony in A Modest Proposal, no Relevance scholars had previously undertaken the task to apply Relevance theory to this text, to ascertain whether it could indeed be used to account for the uses of irony therein. Using Hatim’s (1997) synthetic standpoint –that seeks to reconcile Grice’s and Sperber and Wilson’s divergent accounts of irony, and his intertextual echoes, Ruiz-Moneva argues that the source of echo in Swift’s work is not the text itself, but his previous work on the 'Irish question' and links her conclusions to discussion around the relevance theoretical notions of context and the concept of mutual manifestness, contrasting those with Clark and Carlson’s understanding of context and mutual knowledge. Ruiz-Moneva's groundbreaking, intelligent analysis will undoubtedly be of great interest to Relevance Theory scholars, pragmatists interested in irony and related fields, as well as practitioners of stylistics.""
- Prof. Pilar Garces-Conejos Blitvich, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-04-01,Tadhg Moloney,"Limerick Constitutional Nationalism, 1898-1918: Change and Continuity",Hardback,978-1-4438-1900-8,39.99,"This book analyses local politics in Limerick from 1898 to 1918, reaching back to the Parnellite split and forward to the post-independence era. It explores at local level the relevance of the commemoration of 1798, the reunification of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the emergence of multiple cultural political movements as well as the demise of Unionism. The question posed is twofold: whether nationalist constitutional politics changed over this time period on the one hand, and whether they were driven by local or national concerns on the other. The conclusion is that the spirit of politics was intensely local, that political patronage was largely locally controlled, and that there were greater continuities than ruptures in the composition and behaviour of political elites. In fact, long-term continuities of personnel, social class and political allegiance existed side-by side with the ability of existing structures to absorb change and to adapt in the light of wider political developments and internal manoeuvres.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-06-01,Mary Warde,"""The Turn of the Hand"": A Memoir from the Irish Margins",Paperback,978-1-4438-2082-0,24.99,"Recent decades have seen an enormous resurgence in the arts of memoir and life writing. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of Ireland and other postcolonial countries, where memoir has functioned to regenerate and re-present meaningful incidents and events in the pasts of particular individuals or cultural groups. This memoir, written by an “insider,” recalls the lives of various members of the Irish Traveller community during an era of enormous social and cultural change. The Irish Traveller community are a group whose history has often been forgotten, elided or relegated to the cultural margins. We currently live in an age of testimony, however, an era where first-hand accounts and personal experiences challenge us with respect to our suppositions regarding the past. It is only by engaging with memory and the stories which have gone before that we may become true custodians of our individual and communal identities. Books such as the The Turn of the Hand allow us to begin the process that is the “re-imagining” of our cultural histories and identities. In this manner we can preserve our cultural identity for future generations and come to a better understanding of what it means to be truly human.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-08-01,Marta Kempny,Polish Migrants in Belfast: Border Crossing and Identity Construction,Hardback,978-1-4438-2258-9,39.99,"Polish Migrants in Belfast: Border Crossing and Identity Construction proposes an understanding of identity as a multidimensional and multilayered entity whose various layers are in a dialogue. The book investigates the processual nature of one’s sense of belonging formed as a result of a dialectics between people’s efforts to preserve the boundaries of their culture of origin and the urge to transgress them, detectable in everyday life, religious holidays, and ethnic festivals. The book examines also the role of religion as an important factor shaping ethnic identities of Poles and explores how the “Polish” self-ascription remains a powerful building block of migrants’ identities. The work is based on a rigorous and original ethnographic study of the Polish community in Belfast, Northern Ireland and a review of the existing literature on the topic.

Both East Europe specialists and casual readers who are interested in study of migration, identity and religion will find this book invaluable. Whilst it is ethnographic in nature, it also synthesizes the existing literature on the identities and cultures in postmodern world, pointing out to different angles from which these issues have been discussed in anthropological theory.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-09-01,Niamh Desmond,Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises: Entrepreneurship and Opportunity,Hardback,978-1-4438-2326-5,34.99,"Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises: Entrepreneurship and Opportunity gives readers a thorough and up-to-date insight into the networking practices of ethnic entrepreneurs in Ireland. The book provides readers with a theoretical grounding in formal and informal networking and gives a comprehensive insight into research conducted on ethnic entrepreneurship in a number of countries. The book presents a solid grounding in the fundamentals of ethnic entrepreneurship, and gives readers relevant real life examples of how ethnic entrepreneurs in Ireland engage in networking. The book also highlights the motivations and challenges the featured ethnic entrepreneurs have encountered while setting up a business in their host country, Ireland.
","“...There is very little published on the topic of ethnic entrepreneurship in Ireland because the issue is relatively new to the country. Therefore any publication that sheds light on this area is warmly welcomed by a wide range of stakeholders. However, what makes Niamh’s work uniquely interesting is that the topic of networking within ethnic entrepreneurship, has an international appeal.”
—Dr Thomas Cooney, Academic Director of the Institute of Minority Entrepreneurship, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
									
“This research makes a significant contribution to the area of entrepreneurship, specifically to networking practices of migrant entrepreneurs. It highlights the under-utilisation of informal networking in the Irish context, the poor involvement of formal networks and the reluctance of migrant entrepreneurs to participate in networking. The study is interesting as it explores networking in an Irish context, a relatively new phenomenon particularly in comparison to other countries such as Canada, Australia, the UK, Europe and the US.”
—Tara Frawley, Lecturer in Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship, Department of Business, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland

“Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises: Entrepreneurship and Opportunity contributes to the body of knowledge on networking practices in an Irish context and offers interesting insights into the importance of networking for businesses.”
—Dr Natasha Evers, Lecturer in Marketing, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-09-01,Kate Walls,We Won’t Make It Out Alive: Patrick McCabe and the Horrors of the Irish Mundane,Hardback,978-1-4438-2333-3,34.99,"The first full length study of Patrick McCabe’s work, We Won’t Make It Out Alive, examines the mental instability and carefully constructed childhoods that McCabe has crafted for his various characters—the one eyed quasi Al Pacino, the sequin studded transvestite, the bachelor farmer who routinely exhumes his dead mother for a chat.

Beneath the grotesque and often very funny narratives of Irish border town life lurks startlingly similar pasts for these characters, spanning all of McCabe’s catalogue. As children, they were subject to the cruelty of the orphanage/workhouse or deadbeat parents numbed by alcohol. Many were victims of sexual abuse by priests and witnesses to the senseless violence brought on by political divides. The outrageous personalities and later actions of these characters often overshadow these very real beginnings, and in this book, Kate Walls discusses the impact of these social problems and how McCabe’s unfortunate (and usually well-meaning) narrators are driven crazy as a result.

We Won’t Make It Out Alive also discusses how these characters fare against the Troubles of the 1970s and, for the novels set in more contemporary times, the changing Ireland of the Celtic Tiger. Being on the fringes of society themselves, McCabe’s characters have a unique vantage point from which to comment on these defining moments of social upheaval.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-10-01,Loredana Salis,Stage Migrants: Representations of the Migrant Other in Modern Irish Drama,Paperback,978-1-4438-2382-1,29.99,"Ireland, north and south of the border, has witnessed volatile patterns of immigration in the past decade, and stage representations of these fluctuations have begun to emerge. In the Republic, immigration has coincided with, and it has been encouraged by the economic boom known as Celtic Tiger. In the North, the peace process and the easing off of the political tension has contributed to making the region more appealing and hospitable for newcomers. The media have played a significant role in this respect as they have helped re-launch the local tourist industry on the international scene, and consequently to attract both short- and long-term visitors. That Ireland has become the land of opportunities for thousands of people is a phenomenon which scholars from different academic backgrounds have been trying to explain given that mass immigration has had, and continues to have, a big impact on the local economy, social welfare and culture. This volume is dedicated to this final aspect. It investigates how migration has shaped and is reflected in Irish culture today; more specifically, it focuses on the representation of outsiders in Irish theatre and to the way in which theatre practitioners have dealt and engaged with debates of national and cultural identities, hybridity, multiculturalism and racism in post-nationalist Ireland up to 2008 – that is prior to the economic crisis that has swept the whole continent of Europe and the US over the past two years. Although multiculturalism has become an almost jaded theme in academia, much of the material presented here is fresh, original and highly relevant. Some plays are relatively unknown, and many of the texts remain unpublished. They have been staged on a small number of occasions, yet the topics they explore are central, not just to Irish society, but to any community in a global context that hosts immigrants.





","""Loredana Salis’ volume investigates how Irish artists and playwrights have reacted to the changing ‘face’ of Irish society, both North and South, as precipitated by the in-migration of large numbers of (primarily) economic migrants during the past decade. Their arrival has generated a new cultural impetus and energy in Ireland and has served to reinvigorate a well-established theatrical tradition which often saw the re-working of canonical texts as drawn from both the ‘ancient worlds’ of Greece and Rome and the richness and diversity characteristic of native Irish narrative traditions. This volume also explores how new and emerging Irish playwrights have engaged with the questions of racism, identity and the legacy of the stereotype tradition as directed towards the Irish and those who were/are deemed quintessential ‘outsiders’ or ‘strangers.’ Dr Salis convincingly demonstrates that Ireland was always a multicultural and diverse entity, a country which absorbed ‘outsiders’ as quickly as it cast off many of its own.""
—Mícheál Ó hAodha, University of Limerick
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-11-01,Brian Griffin and Ellen McWilliams,Irish Studies in Britain: New Perspectives on History and Literature,Hardback,978-1-4438-2412-5,39.99,"The history essays in this volume explore how expressions of identity—particularly religious and political identity—shaped the experiences of Irish people from the early seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, both in Ireland and abroad. They consist of an examination of the role played by Bonamargy Friary in the Antrim MacDonnells’ presentation of their family’s status in the early seventeenth century; an exploration of the important role played by Irish courtiers during the years of Charles II’s Continental exile; a discussion of tensions between Irish Presbyterians and Anglicans in the 1720s and 1730s, with a particular focus on James Arbuckle’s Hibernicus’s Letters; an overview of the fraught relations between Irish Presbyterians and their Anglican neighbours on the frontier of Britain’s North American colonies in the middle decades of the eighteenth century; an illustration of the masculinist rhetoric employed by Ulster Unionists during the Home Rule crisis from 1912 to 1914; a discussion of the anti-treaty IRA’s use of arson attacks in three Munster counties during the Irish Civil War; and, finally, an examination of the impact of W. P. Nicholson’s evangelical crusade on Ulster Protestant society in the early 1920s.

The essays in the literature section of this collection represent an eclectic range of interests in Irish literature and Irish literary history. Several of the essays focus on the way in which seminal events in Irish history, in particular the Easter Rising, have been imagined and re-imagined over time; they offer new insight into literary responses to, and representations of, those events and explore fresh contexts for thinking about the same. Others take up the question of literary genre and Irish national identity, while a number of contributors explore intertextuality and influence in twentieth-century Irish writing, with a special focus on Yeatsian and Joycean afterlives. The usefulness of thinking about literary texts alongside other forms of cultural expression is also examined, in particular the interactions of Irish literature and music. Although wide ranging in its interests, the collection addresses key themes central to the interpretation of Irish literature and culture, including changing concepts of national identity, the place of women in Irish history, and the politics of the Irish literary canon.
","""Each of these seven essays, ranging from a study of the influence of Irish Royalists in the exiled court of Charles II to an analysis of the arson attacks of the anti-Treaty IRA during the Civil War, offers important new insights into key areas of Irish historiography. Collectively, in the breadth of their subject matter and the quality of their research and argument, they illustrate the high standard of scholarship that British-based Irish Studies students contribute to the field of Irish history"". 
—Dr Andrew J. Wilson, Loyola University of Chicago.


“This lively collection of essays offers illuminating rereadings of modern Irish literature. It is often interdisciplinary in scope, but is meticulous rather than modish in its methdologies, drawing on the rich interplay between literary, musical, filmic and historical texts. Its diversity of subject and theme creates a collection that, far from being disparate, diagnoses a series of competing tendencies in twentieth and twenty-first century Irish literature: between the innovative and the inherited, the high and low, the real and the mythic, the appropriated and the imposed. The 1916 Uprising is a historical touchstone that prompts a series of revealing responses; the essays on Irish modernism and music also offer striking and informative reassessments of the prevailing critical consensus. Scrupulously and sensitively edited throughout, it offers a welcome intervention in the ongoing reconsideration and re-evaluation of modern Irish Literature, and is an excellent resource both for students and scholars in the field”.
—Dr. William May, Research Fellow in Humanities, University of Southampton
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2010-12-01,Gay Lynch,Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History,Hardback,978-1-4438-2560-3,39.99,"Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History establishes that apocryphal stories, in all their transformations, contribute to collective memory. Common characteristics frame their analysis: irreducible and enduring elements, often embedded in archetypal drama; lack of historical verification; establishment in collective memory; revivals after periods of dormancy; subjection to political and economic manipulation; implicit speculation; and literary transformations.

This book contextualises Unsettled, an Australian novel about a convict play, derived from the Irish apocryphal story of The Magistrate of Galway, and documents previously unpublished primary material, including apocryphal stories passed through generations of descendents of settlers, Martin and Maria Lynch, and The Hibernian Father, a play by Irish convict, Edward Geoghegan.

It puts forward new hypotheses: that the Irish hero Cuchulain may have provided a template for the archetypal and apocryphal story of the Magistrate of Galway; that disgraced Trinity College medical student and aspiring writer, Edward Geoghegan, enacted and recounted the same father-son archetypal conflict when he was transported to Botany Bay in 1839, and wrote the The Hibernian Father based on the Magistrate of Galway; that working-class Irish families were marginalised in South-east South Australian historical records; that oral apocryphal Lynch stories may be true; that Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (2006) offers an alternative history of the Hawkesbury River settlement, by some definitions apocryphal. The mystery of Geoghegan’s disappearance is solved, and knowledge about his life increased. French theorist Gerard Genette’s notion, advanced in Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (1997), of all novels being transtextual, provides a model for the analysis of relationships between these key apocryphal texts.






","“Dr Lynch structures her separate arguments to evoke parallels, echoes and resonances amongst the different research strands, the whole coming together as an astute exegetical study of the layering of influences that goes into building a complex creative product.”
—Nigel Krauth, Griffith University

""[This book] will be of great interest to those working in Irish theatre studies especially, as it provides an insight into a lost Irish playwright, Edward Geoghegan, and his successful play 'The Hibernian Father'. Its main focus, however, is on the role of apocryphal stories in shaping Irish-Australian texts and the insights provided are intriguing.""
—Dr. Dymphna Lonergan, Flinders University, Australia.

""Apocryphal and Literary Influences on Galway Diasporic History by Dr Gay Lynch provides useful strategies for creative writers in the transformation of history and apocryphal texts into fiction.""
—Jeri Kroll, Professor of English and Creative writing, Flinders University, September 2010

“Gay Lynch has competently pursued convict playwright Edward Geoghegan's Irish origins and later life in Australia. Her detailed research has not only informed her Irish-settler novel but will enlighten future scholars of The Hibernian Father, his most successful play.”
—Janette Pelosi, Senior Archivist, NSW Archives Department



",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-01-01,"Gerhardt Gallagher, Gisela Holfter and Mícheál Ó hAodha",Connections~Verbindungen: Irish-German Perspectives through Etching,Hardback,978-1-4438-2636-5,44.99,"When artist Gerhardt Gallagher came across a series of etchings by his German grandmother Margarethe, it launched a sequence of events, which led to an exhibition and then this book. Magarethe’s artistic career had been severely disrupted by two wars and Gerhardt conceived a project, which would allow Margarethe’s works to be exhibited in Ireland along with his own. Gisela Holfter of the Centre for Irish-German Studies in the University of Limerick, when approached, supported the project enthusiastically and when Micheal O’Haodha of the Glucksman Library saw the works hanging there he thought them worthy of publication. Together they created this volume connecting Irish and German cultures through the work of two artists, a family history and the artistic links between both countries.




",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-01-01,Alison O’Malley-Younger and John Strachan,Ireland at War and Peace,Hardback,978-1-4438-2633-4,39.99,"The essays in this collection examine Ireland at war and peace from the Revival period to the present day, examining key aspects of Irish literature and history—culturally rich but politically turbulent—from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Ireland at War and Peace examines important social, political and aesthetic contexts which have shaped modern Irish society and culture, from the First World War and the Easter Rising of 1916 through to the Troubles and beyond. A key focus is on the ideological and artistic significance of Irish culture in a wide sense; the volume includes essays on the cultural significance of commodity culture and advertising in Ireland, images of the child in Irish culture, the importance of the horse in the Irish imagination, and the manner in which narratives of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Irish uprising, execution and imprisonment informed Irish theatre both before and after the 1916 Uprising.

The book’s dual focus is exemplified in its opening essays on Padraig Pearse as both rebel-rousing separatist polemicist and Volunteer leader, and on his related careers as dramatist, story writer and educationalist. Subsequent essays deal with Yeats and the Easter Rising, consumer culture in James Joyce’s Ulysses, the riotous reception afforded J. M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World and Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars, and Samuel Beckett’s vexed relationship with his homeland. There are also important essays here on the contemporary Irish writers Seamus Heaney and Deirdre Madden. The focus of the collection is wide, ranging from canonical literary figures such as Joyce, Beckett, and Yeats, modern-day authors such as Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, through to popular-cultural phenomena from Dion Boucicault’s nineteenth-century melodrama Robert Emmet, to Alan Parker’s movie of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments and that great Irish sitcom Father Ted.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-01-01,"Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland",Ireland's New Religious Movements,Hardback,978-1-4438-2588-7,49.99,"Until recently, Irish religion has been seen as defined by Catholic power in the South and sectarianism in the North. In recent years, however, both have been shaken by widespread changes in religious practice and belief, the rise of new religious movements, the revival of magical-devotionalism, the arrival of migrant religion and the spread of New Age and alternative spirituality.

This book is the first to bring together researchers exploring all these areas in a wide-ranging overview of new religion in Ireland. Chapters explore the role of feminism, Ireland as global ‘Celtic’ homeland, the growth of Islam, understanding the New Age, evangelicals in the Republic, alternative healing, Irish interest in Buddhism, channelled teachings and religious visions.

This book will be an indispensable handbook for professionals in many fields seeking to understand Ireland’s increasingly diverse and multicultural religious landscape, as well as for students of religion, sociology, psychology, anthropology and Irish Studies. Giving an overview of the shape of new religion in Ireland today and models of the best work in the field, it is likely to remain a standard text for many years to come.




","“For centuries to be Irish has meant that one was a Catholic. There have long been some Protestants, of course, but these are from across the water and have not always been considered really Irish. Today, however, the situation is changing, and changing rapidly. Not only has the taken-for-granted Catholic culture been severely, possibly irreparably, damaged through the exposure of the ‘Magdalene Laundries’ and of the widespread sexual abuse of young boys and girls by priests, but there has been flourishing of new religious and spiritual alternatives throughout the country.

Until recently very little in the way of reliable knowledge was publicly available about these new religions and spiritualities, but in 2009 a conference at the National University of Ireland Maynooth brought together a number of researchers who have been exploring the changes within and alternatives to Catholicism. The papers covered an extraordinarily wide variety of groups and movements ranging from new atheisms to revivals of Celtic lore, and from the home-grown Fellowship of Isis to the American channelled ‘Course of Miracles’, interspersed with novel Irish manifestations of traditional religions from the East.

This collection of essays that emerged from the Maynooth conference offers a unique insight into the emerging scene. The papers are well-written and informative, combining both empirical data and theoretical insight. It is a book that should be read well beyond the confines of Ireland – and it will be an enjoyable read for scholars and lay alike.”
—Prof. Eileen Barker, OBE, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics. Prof. Barker is one of the world’s leading experts on new religious movements and the author of many publications on the subject, including New religious movements: a practical introduction, Of Gods and men: new religious movements in the west, The making of a Moonie and Freedom and religion in Eastern Europe. She is the founder and chairperson of the UK’s INFORM (Information Network Focus on New Religious Movements), an internationally-recognised source of professional expertise on the subject.

“This scholarly collection of studies provides a comprehensive map of an area of Irish culture that has been previously ignored. It shines an important new light on the diversity of religious life in Ireland. With the decline in the significance of insititutional religions, it reveals the alternative ways in which contemporary Irish people seek to be spiritual and moral. It is a remarkable achievement.”
—Prof. Tom Inglis, Department of Sociology, University College Dublin, is the leading figure in the study of Irish religion. He is the author of many publications on globalisation, secularisation and identities, including Moral monopoly: the rise and fall of the Catholic church in modern Ireland, Truth, power and lies: Irish society and the case of the Kerry babies, Discourses of sexuality in Ireland and Global Ireland: same difference.

“Ireland’s New Religious Movements is a truly significant publication; the first of its kind to appear in Ireland. Not only does it mark the 'coming of age' of the academic study of religions in Ireland, where for too long the study of any religious topic outside the Catholic-Protestant theological nexus has been virtually unknown, it also heralds a new and very significant Irish academic voice within the big debates about new and minority religions in Europe and worldwide. As exemplified in chapters such as those on Irish Islam and Irish Buddhism, research on religions relatively new to Ireland can readily challenge knowledge about these traditions produced and consumed elsewhere. This is not because Ireland is intrinsically exceptional, special or different - although research on new and minority religions in a Catholic-majority, postcolonial European context can pose obvious challenges to theories and histories of religion from colonial, Protestant-dominated European cultures. It is, rather, because Irish contributions (both in Ireland and among the huge worldwide Irish diaspora) to the global and multifaceted history of religions new to Europe have so far remained virtually unknown, and the reason is that these topics have not  - until now - been the focus of much concentrated academic research. The breadth and depth of scholarship and the wide range of topics addressed in this volume signal a new energy, resolve and spirit of co-operation among the growing ranks of scholars of religions in Ireland. This is in every sense a pioneering volume, for apart from its own merits it is undoubtedly the first of many publications in the coming years which will bring thought-provoking academic research on the whole range of religions in Ireland to the attention of a global audience.”
—Prof. Brian Bocking founded the first non-confessional department of religious studies in Ireland. Previously Professor of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, he is the author of many publications on Japanese religion, Buddhism and the Study of Religions, including The oracles of the three shrines, A popular dictionary of Shinto and Nagarjuna in China.

""With its captivating chapters on (among other subjects) Irish Buddhism and Islam, Neo-paganism, New Age groups and a generic Celtic spirituality infusing other non-institutional religious expressions, the volume, edited by Olivia Cosgrove, Laurence Cox, Carmen Kuhling and Peter Mulholland, succeeds in filling in the tapestry of contemporary Irish religion.""

Religion Watch, March-April 2011


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-03-01,Marty Sanders,Looking at the Broad Picture: Smarter Software Development for Irish Companies,Hardback,978-1-4438-2397-5,39.99,"Companies change how they implement their processes and develop their products on a regular basis. It is not always easy for them to know what developmental changes are best, however. Looking at the Broad Picture: Smarter Software Development for Irish Companies is a story of how ten Irish software companies evolved in this regard during the last decade. Software, and how to manage it effectively, has now gone through several iterations. This volume describes some of these iterations and illustrates what happened to a range of Irish companies as they progressed from training to a newer way of doing business. Specific change-processes and the benefits of each are discussed here, along with suggested developments for the future.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-04-01,Jill M. O’Mahony and Mícheál Ó hAodha,The Willow’s Whisper: A Transatlantic Compilation of Poetry from Ireland and Native America,Hardback,978-1-4438-2846-8,39.99,"The Willow’s Whisper brings the voices of 35 poets from the Irish and Native American communities together in one compilation. This collection of poems provides an aesthetic commentary on the potential which is beyond and within the everyday. From Gabriel Rosenstock and Biddy Jenkinson to N. Scott Momaday and Karenne Wood, mother-earth comes to life through each sound and syllable, and reawakens our senses to the world at its most beautiful and evocative. This volume will aid us to reconnect with that part of our being which we may have lost touch with; that part of us intimately linked to nature. It will help us see life in every meandering stream as it surges and animates, and in the breeze moving through the branches of a willow—a whisper of hope.


","“One travels hopefully through The Willow’s Whisper. At the heart of this spirited collection rests the perennial wisdom that foreign is native, and native foreign.”
—Dr Peter Van de Kamp, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland

“A marvellous introduction to the contemporary poetry of the North American Indian, and an inspired get-together with Irish poets writing in Irish—so different in their origins, so similar in their humor and sadness.”
—Eoghan Mac Aogáin, Linguistics Institute of Ireland

“This thought provoking and imaginative anthology brings poems and poets from diverse sociolinguistic and cultural traditions together into dialogue. Central yet marginalized within their respective discourses, the genus of this anthology is to change the dominant focus. By pairing these ‘non-canonical’ texts, this anthology opens new vistas, and makes new connections amplifying human and cultural concerns all too often lost in the official Anglo-American literary and cultural canon.”
—Dr Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA


",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-05-01,Pádraic Whyte,Irish Childhoods: Children’s Fiction and Irish History,Hardback,978-1-4438-2861-1,39.99,"While much has been written about Irish culture’s apparent obsession with the past and with representing childhood, few critics have explored in detail the position of children’s fiction within such discourses. This book serves to redress these imbalances, illuminating both the manner in which children’s texts engage with complex cultural discourses in contemporary Ireland and the significant contribution that children’s novels and films can make to broader debates concerning Irish identity at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. 
Through close analysis of specific books and films published or produced since 1990, Irish Childhoods offers an insight into contrasting approaches to the representation of Irish history and childhood in recent children’s fiction.  Each chapter interrogates the unique manner in which an author or filmmaker engages with twentieth century Irish history from a contemporary perspective, and reveals that constructions of childhood in Irish children’s fiction are often used to explore aspects of Ireland’s past and present. 



",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-05-01,Marta Goszczyńska and Katarzyna Poloczek,The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture,Hardback,978-1-4438-2893-2,39.99,"While discussions in the field of Irish Studies traditionally gravitate towards themes of struggle, oppression and death, the present book originates from a contradictory impulse. Without losing sight of Ireland’s troubled history and the complexities that shape its present, it centres on instances of playfulness, light(ness) and air in Irish literature and culture. Refracted through the prism of contemporary philosophy (notably of Italo Calvino, Luce Irigaray and María Lugones), these categories serve as the basis for thirteen essays by academics from Poland, the UK, Germany and Spain. Some of these offer fresh readings of such seminal authors as W. B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney and John Banville; others look at lesser-known figures, such as Eimar O’Duffy and Forrest Reid, who, before now, have received little scholarly attention.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-06-01,Ted Vickey,"Social Capital and the Role of LinkedIn to Form, Develop and Maintain Irish Entrepreneurial Business Networks",Hardback,978-1-4438-2904-5,34.99,"Online social networking services have eliminated the four walls of brick and mortar found in traditional networking and now provide global access in real time to entrepreneurs regardless of industry. This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, in the formation, development and maintenance of professional business networks and in so doing manage social capital.

The objectives of this book are as follows:

·     Ascertain the perceived benefits of networking by Irish entrepreneurs;
·     Explore how Irish entrepreneurs form, maintain and develop their network and
·     Explore how Irish entrepreneurs use technology to manage social capital.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Marisol Morales Ladrón and Juan F. Elices Agudo,Glocal Ireland: Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts,Hardback,978-1-4438-2979-3,39.99,"The transformations undergone by Ireland in the last decades have relocated the country within that liminal space of the local and the global. The country of the deeply-rooted rural traditions, the severely religious impositions and the fragile economic system became in the 1990s a world referent due to its unprecedented and impressive growth. However, the emergence of the so-called Celtic Tiger and the recognition that Ireland had become one of the most globalised nations in the Western world met a dramatic downfall that has left the country (pre)occupied with matters concerning its re-positioning and re-definition within a wider European framework.

The cultural and artistic productivity of this nation has also moved away from the topical insularity of the past, adopting more transnational and universal subjects, at the same time that it has struggled to retain its genuine values and its own signs of identity. For, in Ireland, the more this global progress has grown to be unavoidable, the more evocatively the local has befallen. Therefore, the editors of this volume contend that the global and the local should be understood not as opposed concepts but as two ends of a continuum of interaction. Within this state of affairs, this volume comprises a series of articles that revolve around the issue of glocality in Irish literature, culture and cinema in order to disentangle the complexities that underlie this concept and which are inextricably related to the drastic changes undertaken by Ireland in the years before and after the economic boom and posterior bailout.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-08-01,Louise Morris,Social Trust and Life Insurance: The Impact of Genetic Test Results in the Republic of Ireland,Hardback,978-1-4438-3001-0,54.99,"This book investigates the role of incomplete knowledge, social trust and risk perceptions in influencing acceptance of the perceived risks related to insurers using genetic test results. In addition, the author identifies and explains the factors and conditions that affect this risk acceptance pattern. In order to do so, both survey methods and semi-structured interviews are employed. A review of the ‘necessity’ of life insurance companies to acquire genetic test results is undertaken, followed by an analysis of the speculated consequences of such usage for society. Management of the risks related to insurers using genetic test results is examined and the problems and difficulties inherent in the risk management strategies, suggested and enforced, are explored. This is followed by a comparison between the societal risks produced by insurers using genetic test results and the risks theorised as pertaining to a ‘risk society’ (Beck, 1992) and a ‘runaway world’ (Giddens, 1990, 1999).
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,Gisela Holfter,Heinrich Böll and Ireland,Hardback,978-1-4438-3195-6,39.99,"Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) which was first published in 1957, has been read by millions of German readers and has had an unsurpassed impact on the German image of Ireland. But there is much more to Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland than the Irisches Tagebuch. In this new book, Böll scholar Gisela Holfter carefully charts Heinrich Böll’s personal and literary connections with Ireland and Irish literature from his reading Irish fairytales in early childhood, to establishing a second home on Achill Island and his and his wife Annemarie’s translations of numerous books by Irish authors such as Brendan Behan, J. M. Synge, G. B. Shaw, Flann O’Brien and Tomás O’Crohan. This book also examines the response in Ireland to Böll’s works, notably the controversy that ensued following the broadcast of his film Irland und seine Kinder (Children of Eire) in the 1960s.

Heinrich Böll and Ireland offers new insights for students, academics and the general reader alike.
","“Holfter’s careful analysis of the book is a classic of academic approach and genuine feeling towards her subject. She deepens and broadens the appeal of the Irish Journal with sympathy and understanding . . . All in all Holfter’s scholarly work is excellent; the quality and clarity of her arguments are convincing.”
—John F. Deane, Irish Times, 21 January 2012

“I love when you get books like this that tell you about something that has been forgotten in some ways or has been falling between two stools . . . [Holfter] is very interesting about his life.”
—Sinead Gleeson on Arena, RTE Radio 1, 22 February 2012
",Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,"Micheal O’Flynn, Odette Clarke, Paul M. Hayes and Martin J. Power",Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society,Hardback,978-1-4438-3164-2,39.99,"This book involves a conscious attempt to bridge progressive academic scholarship with activist groups and communities in Ireland and beyond. Taking Howard Zinn’s maxim “You can’t be neutral on a moving train” seriously, the book attempts to examine Irish society, as much as it is possible to do so, from the point of view of those who are actively fighting against ongoing attacks on the pay, conditions, rights and protections that were won by working people through the decades of the twentieth century. This effort comes at a time when the predatory nature of the capitalist system is being revealed on a daily basis, and its consequences exacerbated simultaneously across the globe.

The chapters deal with the various impacts of world capitalism in Ireland, from the revolutionary upheavals of the early twentieth century, to the current economic crash. The individual perspectives of contributing scholars and activists differ substantially; they would not usually be found within the same publication. Nonetheless, they collectively manage to highlight the capitalist character of Irish society, and provide an analysis of its features that is specifically Marxist. They demonstrate that there are alternative ways of looking at Irish history, Irish political economy and the issues currently impacting on the working population and various marginalised or vulnerable groups. They show that the class struggle continues unabated and that progressive social change, now more than ever, requires the development of an organised resistance.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-09-01,Eugene Broderick,"The Boycott at Fethard-on-Sea, 1957: A Study in Catholic-Protestant Relations in Modern Ireland",Hardback,978-1-4438-3173-4,34.99,"This book examines the boycott of the Protestant community of Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford, Ireland, by local Catholics because of a dispute over a mixed marriage. Sheila Cloney, a member of the Church of Ireland, refused to have her two children educated in the local Catholic National School, in accordance with promises she had made before she married her Catholic husband, Sean Cloney. Rather than submit to pressure being put on her by the local Catholic clergy, she took her children to Belfast and then to Scotland. It was alleged that local Protestants had assisted her and, as a result, a boycott of local Protestant businesses was instituted to secure the return of the children. The boycott began in May 1957 and lasted until September of the same year. The drama, which combined personal, religious and political elements, was to be played out in the law courts of Belfast, the pulpits of the land, in the Dail and Senate, but especially in the boycotted shops and Protestant school of Fethard. The incident attracted a great deal of attention in Northern Ireland, and was furiously debated in the Stormont Parliament and on the Orange fields of the Twelfth. International interest was also considerable, with Time magazine suggesting a new word for the English language – fethardism, meaning to practise boycott along religious lines. The great figures of the 1950s in Church and State became involved, as a local incident attracted attention at home and abroad. This book recounts the events of the Fethard boycott, situating them in the broader context of Catholic-Protestant relations since the foundation of the state. This is more than a dramatic, human tale – this story highlights how the independent Irish state treated a religious minority and how that minority responded to the crisis.
",,Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2011-12-01,Averill Buchanan,Mary Blachford Tighe: The Irish Psyche,Hardback,978-1-4438-3387-5,39.99,"The Irish writer, Mary Blachford Tighe (1772–1810), is best known as author of the Spenserian epic Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, first printed privately in 1805. A year after her death, her literary reputation was firmly established when Longmans published Psyche, with Other Poems (1811), a collection that proved so popular that by 1816 it was in its fifth edition. Throughout the nineteenth century Tighe’s popularity endured, but for much of the twentieth, Tighe, like many other women writers of the period, virtually disappeared from public view.

Only since the 1970s, when feminist academics worldwide began the project to rehabilitate neglected women writers, has Tighe’s work become accessible once again. As a result, Tighe has been enjoying something of a scholarly renaissance. Yet much of this renewed interest relies heavily on nineteenth-century accounts of Tighe’s life and work, while her other unpublished work – several dozen short poems, as well as her manuscript novel ‘Selena’ – remains neglected.

Taking its title from William Hayley’s reference to Tighe as the “Psyche of Ireland”, Mary Blachford Tighe: The Irish Psyche brings together previously overlooked archive material and makes extensive use of important new material to reconstruct Tighe’s life and review the entire corpus of her work in the context in which it was written. By piecing together evidence from family memoirs, correspondence, other contemporary accounts, and crucially, Tighe’s own manuscripts, the writer is restored to her historical and literary context, thereby facilitating new understandings of her work.
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2012-02-01,Jim Daems,“A Warr So Desperate”: John Milton and Some Contemporaries on the Irish Rebellion,Hardback,978-1-4438-3510-7,34.99,"“A Warr So Desperate”: John Milton and Some Contemporaries on the Irish Rebellion examines the political and colonial contexts of Milton’s Observations Upon the Articles of Peace, as well as the relatively brief, but significant comments on the Irish Rebellion that occur elsewhere in his work. Commissioned by the Council of State in March, 1649, Milton’s Observations puts forward the Commonwealth’s justifications for the reconquest of Ireland which would soon follow with Oliver Cromwell’s campaign. In doing so, Milton covers some familiar ground – for example, the trial and execution of Charles I, and the intolerance and political hypocrisy of the Presbyterians. However, the Irish Rebellion leads Milton to engage with these in a way which does not fit particularly well with how his views of personal, political, and religious liberties are generally perceived. Beginning with Milton’s pragmatic reading of the documents he cogently critiques in the tract, this book then situates Observations within the polemical contexts of the 1640s and early 1650s, particularly the frequent representation of Irish atrocities (reliant on both anti-Catholic and ethnic prejudices) and Eikon Basilike’s justification of Charles I’s handling of the rebellion, arguing both Milton’s agreement with and complicity in the reconquest.
","“No Miltonist has written so expansively and incisively on Milton and the Irish Rebellion as does Jim Daems in ‘A Warr So Desperate’, which compels its readers to revisit the issue of Milton’s complicity in the military schemes of Cromwell. Daems grippingly disrupts any naïvely conceived vision of Milton as a blameless voice crying out for liberty and tolerance during the civil wars and early years of the Commonwealth by foregrounding the link between the rhetorical force of Milton’s political pamphlets and the brutality of English military forces in Ireland in the 1640s. In so doing, he insightfully delves into Milton’s role as Cromwell’s spinmaster during periods of state-sanctioned violence. For anyone interested in the rich complexity of Milton’s political vision, his rhetorical constitution of a warring and fragile nation, and the ongoing debate on his collusion with ‘terrorists’ or support of ‘terrorism,’ this book is essential reading.”
– Holly Faith Nelson, PhD, Professor of English, Trinity Western University

“Milton’s view of Ireland, fascinating in itself, played a major part in the development of his political thought and in shaping the complexity of his epic poetry. In this, the first book-length study of Milton and Ireland, Jim Daems, in a series of elegant and assured readings, illustrates the subtle and vexed ways in which colonialism, nationalism, and religion are interwoven in the polemical Irish writings of England’s greatest poet.”
– Willy Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow
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2012-02-01,Jill M. O’Mahony and Mícheál Ó hAodha,The Willow’s Whisper: A Transatlantic Compilation of Poetry from Ireland and Native America,Paperback,978-1-4438-3735-4,24.99,"The Willow’s Whisper brings the voices of 35 poets from the Irish and Native American communities together in one compilation. This collection of poems provides an aesthetic commentary on the potential which is beyond and within the everyday. From Gabriel Rosenstock and Biddy Jenkinson to N. Scott Momaday and Karenne Wood, mother-earth comes to life through each sound and syllable, and reawakens our senses to the world at its most beautiful and evocative. This volume will aid us to reconnect with that part of our being which we may have lost touch with; that part of us intimately linked to nature. It will help us see life in every meandering stream as it surges and animates, and in the breeze moving through the branches of a willow—a whisper of hope.
","“One travels hopefully through The Willow’s Whisper. At the heart of this spirited collection rests the perennial wisdom that foreign is native, and native foreign.”
—Dr Peter Van de Kamp, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland

“A marvellous introduction to the contemporary poetry of the North American Indian, and an inspired get-together with Irish poets writing in Irish—so different in their origins, so similar in their humor and sadness.”
—Eoghan Mac Aogáin, Linguistics Institute of Ireland

“This thought provoking and imaginative anthology brings poems and poets from diverse sociolinguistic and cultural traditions together into dialogue. Central yet marginalized within their respective discourses, the genus of this anthology is to change the dominant focus. By pairing these ‘non-canonical’ texts, this anthology opens new vistas, and makes new connections amplifying human and cultural concerns all too often lost in the official Anglo-American literary and cultural canon.”
—Dr Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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2012-03-01,Catriona Ryan,Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre: A Paleo-Postmodern Perspective,Hardback,978-1-4438-3626-5,39.99,"This work analyses the prose and drama of the Irish writer Tom Mac Intyre and the concept of paleo-postmodernism. It examines how Mac Intyre balances traditional themes with experimentation, which in the Irish literary canon is unusual. This book argues that Mac Intyre’s position in the Irish literary canon is an idiosyncratic one in that he combines two contrary aspects of Irish literature: between what Beckett terms as the Yeatsian ‘antiquarians’ who valorize the ‘Victorian Gael’ and the ‘others’ whose aesthetic involves a European-influenced ‘breakdown of the object’ which is associated with Beckett. Mac Intyre’s experimentation involves a breakdown of the object in order to uncover an unconscious Irish mythological and linguistic space in language. His approach to language experimentation is Yeatsian and this is what the author terms as paleo-postmodern. Thus the project considers how Mac Intyre incorporates Yeatsian revivalism with postmodern deconstruction in his drama and short stories.
","“This is a critically independent piece of work that very much constructs and defines its own project, and maps an intellectual terrain of its own. It is an impressively original and also critically self-assured piece. It is marked by a sense of intellectual brio and also by the excitement of discovery.”
– Dr Steven Vine, Swansea University

“Since Tom Mac Intyre is a writer and dramatist who has received very little critical attention, this work intervenes in an under-researched area and offers an innovative and valuable extension of the frontier of knowledge in the field of Irish literary and dramatic studies.”
– Dr Aidan Arrowsmith, Manchester Metropolitan University
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2012-04-01,Gisela Holfter,Heinrich Böll and Ireland,Paperback,978-1-4438-3801-6,16.99,"Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) which was first published in 1957, has been read by millions of German readers and has had an unsurpassed impact on the German image of Ireland. But there is much more to Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland than the Irisches Tagebuch. In this new book, Böll scholar Gisela Holfter carefully charts Heinrich Böll’s personal and literary connections with Ireland and Irish literature from his reading Irish fairytales in early childhood, to establishing a second home on Achill Island and his and his wife Annemarie’s translations of numerous books by Irish authors such as Brendan Behan, J. M. Synge, G. B. Shaw, Flann O’Brien and Tomás O’Crohan. This book also examines the response in Ireland to Böll’s works, notably the controversy that ensued following the broadcast of his film Irland und seine Kinder (Children of Eire) in the 1960s.

Heinrich Böll and Ireland offers new insights for students, academics and the general reader alike.

","“Holfter’s careful analysis of the book is a classic of academic approach and genuine feeling towards her subject. She deepens and broadens the appeal of the Irish Journal with sympathy and understanding . . . All in all Holfter’s scholarly work is excellent; the quality and clarity of her arguments are convincing.”
—John F. Deane, Irish Times, 21 January 2012

“I love when you get books like this that tell you about something that has been forgotten in some ways or has been falling between two stools . . . [Holfter] is very interesting about his life.”
—Sinead Gleeson on Arena, RTE Radio 1, 22 February 2012

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2012-04-01,"Micheal O’Flynn, Odette Clarke, Paul M. Hayes and Martin J. Power",Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society,Paperback,978-1-4438-3889-4,19.99,"This book involves a conscious attempt to bridge progressive academic scholarship with activist groups and communities in Ireland and beyond. Taking Howard Zinn’s maxim “You can’t be neutral on a moving train” seriously, the book attempts to examine Irish society, as much as it is possible to do so, from the point of view of those who are actively fighting against ongoing attacks on the pay, conditions, rights and protections that were won by working people through the decades of the twentieth century. This effort comes at a time when the predatory nature of the capitalist system is being revealed on a daily basis, and its consequences exacerbated simultaneously across the globe.

The chapters deal with the various impacts of world capitalism in Ireland, from the revolutionary upheavals of the early twentieth century, to the current economic crash. The individual perspectives of contributing scholars and activists differ substantially; they would not usually be found within the same publication. Nonetheless, they collectively manage to highlight the capitalist character of Irish society, and provide an analysis of its features that is specifically Marxist. They demonstrate that there are alternative ways of looking at Irish history, Irish political economy and the issues currently impacting on the working population and various marginalised or vulnerable groups. They show that the class struggle continues unabated and that progressive social change, now more than ever, requires the development of an organised resistance.





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2012-06-01,Dennis Gaffin,Running with the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion,Hardback,978-1-4438-3891-7,39.99,"Running with the Fairies: Towards a Transpersonal Anthropology of Religion is a unique account of the living spirituality and mysticism of fairyfolk in Ireland. Fairyfolk are fairyminded people who have had direct experiences with the divine energy and appearance of fairies, and fairypeople, who additionally know that they have been reincarnated from the Fairy Realm. While fairies have been folklore, superstition, or fantasy for most children and adults, now for the first time in a scholarly work, highly educated persons speak frankly about their religious/spiritual experiences, journeys, and transformations in connection with these angel-like spirit beings.

Set in academic and popular historical perspectives, this first scholarly account of the Fairy Faith for over a hundred years, since believer Evans-Wentz’s 1911 published doctoral dissertation The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, integrates a participatory, “going native” anthropology with transpersonal psychology. Providing extensive verbatim interviews and discussions, this path-breaking work recognizes the reality of nature spirit beings in a Western context.

Through intensive on-site fieldwork, the PhD cultural anthropologist author discovers, describes and interviews authentic mystics aligned with these intermediary deific beings. With an extensive introduction placing fairies in the context of the anthropology of religion, animism, mysticism, and consciousness, this daring ethnography considers notions of “belief”, “perception”, and spiritual “experience”, and with intricate detail extends the focus of anthropological research on spirit beings which previously have been considered as locally real only in indigenous and Eastern cultures.
","“Gaffin’s book, enlightened by very recent studies made by other practitioners of religions or holy ways of life, is of great value because it is by a practitioner/scholar of fairyhood and because the field is only sparsely covered in our time. Gaffin shows that his type of fieldwork is appropriate to the evanescent subject matter, fairies: I deeply respect his method here.

We see the difference between these figures and those in straight Chrisitianity. We badly need the fairies’ lightening up, humor, and love of fun. Here is a profound critique of Jung, who termed his spirit figures ‘archetypes’ – which is a word that doesn’t work – and who reckoned always from inside of the person, the individual, not seeing that a great many of us have indeed had visitations from outside ourselves.

This book plays on the leading edge of anthropology, using a relatively humble theme, the personal experiences of a group of people. But for those familiar with spirituality, the book has made a great advance. The innocence of the phenomenon, showing no binding laws or exclusivisms, no structures, is of the very stuff of spirituality. We have now learned about a beautiful new country which grows naturally in its own right. Fascinating.

This book will be immensely popular and most definitely appealing and useful across disciplinary boundaries, to audiences in religious studies departments, anthropology, art, psychology, medicine, Celtic studies, and philosophy.”
– Edith Turner is a distinguished anthropologist who teaches at the University of Virginia. She is known for her fieldwork in Africa with her late husband, Victor Turner, and for her more recent work among the north Alaskan Inupiat. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy; the autobiography Life of an Anthropologist; The Hands Feel It: Healing and Spirit Presence Among a Northern Alaskan People and the groundbreaking article “The Reality of Spirits”. She is an Associate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.

“This is an important work, a careful analysis of the nature of belief in a realm of the supernatural dismissed as childish or superstition by adherents to mainstream religions. It is well-written and well-argued: and packed with data. There is a definite need for this kind of study in anthropology today.

Gaffin quotes recent statements of other mainstream respected scholars in different social science disciplines in support of his approach. I would say that his work fits squarely within this important but under-represented realm of the anthropological study of human experience.

Gaffin’s recognition and admission that he has crossed over into a realm which his professional colleagues eschew, renders his study the more important. He experiences what probably a majority of the world’s people experience – indeed, what is fundamentally human, and the subject of increasing neurological research today. He knows that his attempt to objectively analyze his beliefs is professionally risky, yet he boldly does so, convinced that such analysis is important. And I agree.

This study is valuable, it is well-organized and well-written, and it can be an important contribution to anthropological understanding. Anthropology desperately needs more such careful detailed examinations of the development of beliefs in extraordinary phenomena. The psycho-neuro-bio-cultural processes by which people come to a ‘supernatural’ experience are insufficiently described in anthropology, and here is where Gaffin’s book can make an important contribution.

An important project, very well conceptualized, well constructed, and well-written.”
– Phillips Stevens, Jr. is a Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Author of numerous works, he is the editor of the 2011 four volume Anthropology of Religion: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies (Routledge) and contributor to the Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals.
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2012-08-01,Rory T. Cornish and Marguerite Quintelli-Neary,Crafting Infinity: Reworking Elements in Irish Culture,Hardback,978-1-4438-3987-7,39.99,"     Crafting Infinity is a multi-disciplinary collection of essays that investigates how aspects of traditional Irish culture have been revised, retooled, and repackaged in the interest of maintaining the integrity of Irish myth tales, artistic values, spiritual foundations, and historic icons.  From perspectives on early Irish Christianity to national mythology, traditional Irish music, Irish history represented in film, literary inventiveness, and evidence of the Irish diaspora, this study examines how artists, writers, theorists, and emigrants from Ireland re-interpreted, and reshaped Irish traditions, often invoking Ireland’s relationship with other nations before it acquired independence.
     Because with each retelling of legend, reworking of musical styles, and recreating of historic events, there has been inventiveness and alterations, inconsistencies affirm that the continuators of Irish tradition both preserve and alter their source materials and reshape iconic figures.  The end product of these endeavors is tantamount to infinity, for just as Standish O’Grady, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Jennifer Johnston, and Edna O’Brien craft fiction or rewrite folklore, with Irish characters and themes, while borrowing from other cultural wellsprings (such as Orientalism or French design), so exporters of Irish art forms and dispositions towards musical style, nationalism, and spirituality necessarily reconfigure the original, as no tradition can remain pure indefinitely.
     Each facet of Irish culture takes on the quality of a Celtic knot, artistically infinite in its circular design, and indestructible in its universal presence and recognition.  In Crafting Infinity, each contributor dismantles a quality of Irish history, culture, or the arts, revealing how a multiplicity of interpretations can be applied to Irish traditions.



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