Cork University Press

Public concerns about the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry have intensified in recent years. Paradoxically, these concerns center on the over-consumption of medicines of dubious benefit in...

This collection is a record of some of the most important performative ideas and embodied interventions that have shaped queer culture and theatre and performance practice in Ireland in recent times,...

This book is an account of the life and early career of John Edward Redmond (1856-1918). Breaking off at the watershed year of 1900 when Redmond became chairman of the Irish Party, it is the first...

This book provides a great deal of detail on working-class militancy between 1917 and 1923. It stresses the large scale and considerable impact of mass action and labor activism, challenging...

Roddy Connolly was the son of James Connolly and a significant political figure in his own right. In a career that lasted over sixty years, he played a central role in many of the Irish Left's most...

This book focuses on Joyce's interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre. Leading Joyce and film studies scholars look at cinema's...

Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713) was an English clergyman who spent his later life in Ireland, initially as Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and ultimately as Archbishop of Armagh. Despised by Jonathan...

On the hundredth anniversary of the production of Se?n O'Casey's Dublin plays at the Abbey Theatre, this timely book, Se?n O'Casey: Political activist and writer situates O'Casey in the literary and...

This is the first comprehensive study--completely in Gaelic--of the work of the great nineteenth century collector, translator, editor, and publisher of Gaelic verse, an important figure in the...

Sexual/Liberation addresses the past and future of Irish LGBT politics in the wake of marriage equality and analyses the depiction of gay men (such as Leo Varadkar) in contemporary Irish media and...

The first interdisciplinary study of violence and the modern Irish experience, Shadows of the Gunmen contributes to both Irish studies and the broader examination of violence in the modern world...

This book charts soccer's development in Munster from its earliest days as a game played by an elite few to a game of the everyman. Along the way, it explores the ups and downs of the sport as it was...

A comprehensive anthology of sources and documents relating to the history and development of visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day, collected into a single volume. Author:...

This book examines the development of sports in Victorian Ireland using the example of Westmeath as a case study. It explores the development of hunting, racing, commercial sports (golf, cycling and...

The Celtic Tiger era witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of transnational migrants entering Ireland. By the 2011 Census, 17% of the population was born outside Ireland and much of what had...

* An exciting new interpretation of 1916 as theatre and its later representation on the stage, with a particular focus on gender."Both stylistically and conceptually, the author works in broad vivid...

In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places, so "reduced" that they treated each other with brutal callousness. Husbands abandoned wives and children. Mothers snatched food...

Profound transformations have occurred in our everyday environments during the twentieth century. This book addresses these transformations through a series of case studies of changes in landscape...

Teaching Literature is a challenging re-evaluation of the reasons behind why and how we teach literature. Judy Kravis, an experienced writer and university teacher asks fundamental questions of well...

The publication of The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van signaled the emergence of a significant new voice in Irish fiction. The significance lay not only in the description of a particular...

This study provides the first sustained address of The Book of Howth and its compiler, Christopher St. Lawrence, 7th baron of Howth (ca. 1510-1589). The Book of Howth ultimately offers a unique and...

This book explores the Skelligs, Ireland's most dramatic and beautiful Atlantic islands, and focuses particularly on Skellig Michael, a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site. It considers why the...

* Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader* Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion* Collaboration between Cork University Press...

This book looks at the development of sport in Donegal from 1880 until 1935. It is the first book to offer a full length examination of the rivalry between organizers of Gaelic football and soccer in...

The city of Cork experienced a political odyssey between Easter 1916 and the end of 1918. Wartime policies conceived in London manifested themselves unexpectedly in Cork--The Defence of the Realm Act...

This is a six chapter study of the image of the female in Ni Chuilleanain's poetry, emphasizing the ways in which she revises conventional cultural images of women in order to challenge stereotypical...

Liam O'Flaherty's novel The Informer (1925) is what the author of this fascinating study calls a "mythogenic text" - one that lends itself easily to adaptations, recreations and renditions. To date...

Partly thematic, partly chronological, this account of dance in Ireland emerges out of a broader interest in the body in society as well as in the construction of national and gender identities. It...

This book presents courtroom-based research which unveils the largely hidden decisions and processes of the Irish District Court while also providing valuable insights into Irish policing priorities...

This wide-ranging book surveys the landscape of the Irish novel from the Act of Union to the end of the Edwardian era. Thirty representative works are selected for fluent and accessible discussion...