Featuring contributions from 30 leading Irish thinkers, this book considers various issues, including Coping with Affluence, Cherishing All the Children Equally, The Death Throes of the Irish Language?, Securalisation and the Loss of Religious Identity, the Irish Imagination and Reconciling Orange and Green.
“Well, his honor here, I know what he plans to do with them, see. ... “What's the matter with that? ... I have a pint of Guinness, which slides down well, and look forward to a second to go with my usual fare, lamb chops and chips.
Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden's parents erased his Irish heritage in the quest for respectability. In this passionate book he explores the losses wrought by such conformism.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This dramatic story of a father’s unbearable loss and his discovery of life after death offers hope to the bereaved and compelling evidence that death may not be the end.
Whether it's exploring the Burren in its floral glory or seeing the Walls of Derry, or even sitting at home in your armchair planning your next walk, this book will prove popular with ramblers, holiday makers and anyone who loves the Irish ...
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Does modern Ireland still have a soul? From the evidence of the sixteen deeply personal interviews in this book, the answer is a resounding yes. Representing a cross-section of the...
. . . This book is a paean to nuance, decency and possibility."—Colum McCann, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon.
( ix ) Portia Coughlan's world is a cold one , haunted and possessed by death . It is a world where love seems ... Portia's fated journey back to a state of original unity is the journey of the play . This internal journey must be ...