cork university press sep 2017 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 from the hands of infants. Neighbours stole each other's rations. People even killed for food. And this callousness extended to the dead. Human bodies were dumped in mass graves or left unburied to be ravaged by dogs and pigs, rats, ravens, and gulls. There were reports too of cannibalism. In later years, some people, who themselves suffered in the 1840s, were ashamed of having failed to offer human solidarity to others in distress. Yet if there were subjects lacking words--things difficult to describe or explain--those who had been to the abyss did talk of it. Survivors of other humanitarian crises have shown human beings to be remarkably resilient. And, in the case of Ireland, there is no basis for the facile and insular notion that the Great Famine was 'so deeply tragic as to be too traumatic to recall'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The devastation of disease, the pace of death, and fears of contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped its visual representation and ongoing patterns of remembrance. Paintings and illustrations reflect on aspects of pre-Famine conventions around death, burial, and mourning, which drew on a culturally rich and complex range of Christian and Celtic-pagan traditions. Later, Famine-era images and objects reveal some of the distressing modifications to mortuary and funerary practices during the Famine years. Since then, photographic archives, artworks, monuments, memorial parks, cemetaries, and unmarked burial grounds provide spaces for remembrance across the landscape of Ireland, where visitor engagement is informed by competing forces of historical and touristic practices. This folio encompasses a cross section of representational forms and strategies of remembrance of the Famine dead, who were, to borrow Giorgio Agamben's term, the 'ultimate witnesses' to that terrible time'--Back cover.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How do we give a future to the past How do we perform acts of double remembrance which honor both sides of the story-- spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and forgotten One hundred years after the Easter Rising, Twinsome Minds explores the complexities of commemoration against the backdrops of the famine and 1916. Using word and image artist Sheila Gallagher and philosopher Richard Kearney retrieve some neglected micro-narratives of Irish historical trauma to illustrate how memory occurs at the cross section of story and history. In an inventive combination of archival imagery, historical records and narrative imagination, they mine the past for potential futures in a process of healing and recovery.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book looks at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish-born post-war soccer migrants to Britain. It draws on interviews with thirty Irish-born soccer players, each of whom has played league soccer in England or Scotland, using two players each from the Republic and Northern Ireland per decade. This is the first book to use these migrants as a quantitative source, and to illustrate their experiences. It draws on extensive research conducted through a database of every Irish born player who played league soccer in England or Scotland between 1945 and 2010. An examination of the birthplaces of these players is offered along with the reasons for their geographical diversity. It discusses their childhood influences and assesses the recruitment process and identifies the clubs which have produced the most players. The impact of the Northern Ireland Troubles on the migration of Northern Ireland-born players is discussed while the attitudes of a number of players to this are assessed. An assessment of their working conditions and the culture of professional soccer is given while the book also examines the changing nature of the post-playing careers of these players. In locating the study of Irish soccer migrants within the study of Irish migration to Britain and comparing the experience of Irish-born soccer players with those from other nations, this book is the first of its kind.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Previously published as: The kick: a life among writers, London: Granta, 2002.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It presents an investigation into the liturgical music of Sean and Peadar O Riada through an examination of three Roman-Rite mass settings composed in the Irish vernacular from within the cultural context of the West-Cork Gaeltacht of Muscrai. The main part of the work, running from Chapters Three to Six, consists of a detailed analysis of the contents of the mass settings, a body of material which is considered from the following perspectives: as emanating from a living culture of native traditional song; as part of a historical continuum of monophonic liturgical composition for the Roman Rite, having at its origins the compositional traditions of plainchant; as part of a broader aesthetic context of text-music relationships found in the repertoires of plainchant, medieval song and folksong; and finally, as part of the new liturgical reality existing since the Second Vatican Council which requires viable and sustainable musical approaches to the setting of vernacular texts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Atlas of the Irish Revolution draws together existing and ongoing new research into the revolutionary period in a broad ranging and inclusive manner. It includes contributions from leading scholars across a range of disciplines.