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All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus (Rom. 3:23-4). The author investigates the ways in which...

Looks back to earliest times to trace the story of how and why Claret, a French wine, became what Jonathan Swift fondly called Irish wine.Author: Eamon MaherPublisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International...

It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical...

This book follows the work of a group of right-wing nationalist writers from 1890 to 1960, whose writings both paved the way for the rise of Nazism and continued to stimulate debate about German...

This book offers a comprehensive study of the role of dance in a wide range of contemporary Irish plays, arguing that dance can be perceived as exemplifying the re-embracement of bodily expression by...

Arguing that certain song types constitute forms of collective memory, this book explores Irish theatre from the 1950s and 1960s to show that songs provide valuable insights into changes in the...

In this collection of ten original essays, and an interview with the playwright, the authors address the ways in which Deirdre Kinahan's plays interrogate and seek to renegotiate value systems of...

To mark the bicentenary of Sheridan Le Fanu's birth, this collection brings together established scholars and emerging researchers to shed new light on some of his less famous fiction and celebrate...

This volume explores the impact of violence and resistance on Irish society, and their representations in fiction. Its fifteen chapters, divided into four sections, violence against women, against...

The volume examines the various expressions of violence, its impact, forms of resistance and its representation in Irish society and culture. Its fifteen chapters are divided into four sections,...

This study proposes that in their writing about the region, women travel writers made a significant contribution to the changing representation of Italy and to their own changing reputation as...

This book examines the lives and literature of six Irish novelists - Emily Lawless, L.T. Meade, George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, M.E. Francis and Katharine Tynan - who lived and worked in...

These essays offer fascinating insights into the role played by gastronomy in Irish literature and culture. They explore the importance of food in Irish writing; culinary practices among the 1950s...

This book is a study of the treatment of New Zealand's German-speaking settlers during the course of the Great War. As with Britain's other dominions, New Zealand's German and Austro-Hungarian...

The thirteen essays in this book, presented in honour of Dr A.V.C. (Carl) Schmidt, are designed to reflect the range of his interests. Dr Schmidt, who was a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from...

One of the most controversial yet least studied pages of Ukraine's Second World War history is that of the Waffen SS 'Galicia' Division. This book examines the variety of often conflicting narratives...

The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been 'imagined' through the medium of the...

A fascinating, well-paced, beautifully written memoir. (Professor Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Author and Director, MA in Creative Writing, University of Limerick, Ireland) A wonderfully honest, often...

Written for those new or returning to educational and action research, the author travels from definitions of key terms, through data collection and academic writing, to the finished research report...

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the cultural impact of the Great War in the Mediterranean territories. With a comparative approach, the great variety of representations of the...

The military man has long been one of literature's archetypal figures. Using a comparative framework, this book traces the transformation of the military man in eighteenth-century British and French...

In this musical collection, Lorraine Byrne Bodley reflects upon composer Se?irse Bodley's musical settings of Goethe's poetry by examining the cultual and poetic contexts key to their construction...

This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian Jo?o Paulo Borges Coelho. The book advances new critical paths within...

This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose by analysing three versions of the Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. This book...

A panoramic, chronological account of the cultural history of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 2022, this book examines Cuban revolutionary culture and its control by the state. The book is...

This volume brings together diverse contributions from an international team of scholars, asking what has sustained Russian cultural development across the centuries and how Russian culture has...

This is the untold story of Counteract, the trade union sponsored anti-sectarian unit tackling violent sectarianism in the workplace in the Northern Ireland conflict.Author: Eamon MaherPublisher:...

At the height of the Second World War, Hitler's Deputy, Rudolf Hess, made a dramatic solo flight to the British Isles. His arrival there was sensational news - and it baffled everyone. Why had he...

This book represents a unique visualisation of the world of Irish writer John McGahern through his words and the imagery of artist Paul Butler.Author: Eamon MaherPublisher: Peter Lang Ltd,...

Using largely untapped local press and archive sources, five of these six essays trace the historical emergence of a professionalised sport out of the family of pastimes that were traditional...