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Welcome to Irish Academic Press Irish Academic Press is a long established Dublin-based publisher of high quality books of Irish interest. Our publishing programme includes Irish History, Contemporary Irish History, Military and Political History, Literature, Arts and the Media, Social History, Women's Studies and Genealogy. We hope that among our past and present titles you will find titles of interest.
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|  | Music in Irish Cultural History
Smyth, Gerry
Winner: Michael J. Durkan Prize 2010
'a groundbreaking study that emphasizes the notion that music in and of itself is worthy of consideration in Irish Studies'
The Judges
This collection of essays covers a variety of musical genres and periods in a coherent volume, a significant intervention within the field of Irish music studies. Articles include the (re-)establishment of music as a key object of Irish cultural studies, the theoretical limitations of traditional musicology, and the development of new methodologies specifically designed to address the demands of Irish music in all its aspects. Chapters range from the politics of betrayal in the songs of Thomas Moore to the music in the film Once, offering analyses of key moments from Irish cultural history considered from the perspective of music.
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|  | The Gaelic Athletic Association, 1884-2009
Cronin, Mike; Murphy, William; Rouse, Paul
Winner: North American Society for Sport History Award for the best collection of sport history related essays published in 2009
This book brings together some of the leading writers in the area of Irish history to assess the importance of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Irish society since its founding in 1884 and it is the first key book to center on the GAA and Irish history. While there has been much written about the GAA, the bulk of work has concentrated on the sporting aspects of the Association ó the great games and famous players ó rather than the role that the GAA has played in wider Irish history. The chapters cover a large chronological span dating back to the origins of hurling, through the foundation of the GAA, its role in the political life of the nation and ending with an assessment of some of the main issues facing the GAA into the twenty-first century. Importantly, the book also offers original and insightful work on areas including the class make up of the GAA, the centrality of Amateurism in the Association, the role of the Irish language, and the ways in which films have featured Gaelic games.
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|  | Ambushes and Armour
The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921
Kautt, W.H.
The Irish Revolution (1916-1923) was a war of 'firsts'. This study focuses on the development of ambush and counter-ambush doctrine, and in examining how the British forces (army, RIC, ADRIC) learned to counter these threats. By disregarding the politics and social issues, as much as possible without losing context and perspective, the focus is on the military aspects of these operations. Further, the examination of the tactics, rather than the strategies, reveal truths about how the opposing forces functioned 'on the ground'.
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|  | The Blue Wall of Silence
The Morris Tribunal and Police Accountability in Ireland
Conway, Vicky
Framing two men for a murder that never occurred. Orchestrating fake IRA bomb 'finds' either side of the border. Planting guns and drugs. False arrests, abuse of detainees, and securing false confessions. These were the institutionalized activities in the Donegal division of Siochana that were the subject of a landmark tribunal conducted by Justice Morris. Its findings catalogued corruption, negligence, misconduct, and 'a blue wall of silence' on an unprecedented scale. The book makes a substantial contribution to national and international debates on police accountability, raising within democratic societies the crucial relationships between official inquiries, policy reform, and police governance.
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|  | Irish Women and Street Politics, 1956-1973
'This could be contagious'
Keenan-Thomson, Tara
Irish Women and Street Politics presents a probing history of radicalism in both parts of Ireland by charting the interaction between feminism and republicanism, civil rights advocacy, housing activism, and left-wing politics. It brings together for the first time a comprehensive analysis of women's roles within the wider spectrum of Irish radicalism throughout Ireland, Britain, and the US, and it draws on a broad range of source material to do so. These women created activist networks that redefined their roles as women in Irish society, and through their work they demonstrated that a new concept of womanhood was possible.
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|  | Ireland's Theatre on Film
Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen
Monahan, Barry
This book examines the association between Irish theatre and film across a significant period of the last century. It considers the relationship historically between the Abbey Theatre and film practitioners from the beginning of the sound period; explores the adaptation for screen of a number of plays from the Abbey repertoire; and looks at the implications for a cinematic style of performances by stage actors. Monahan introduces an original perspective on understanding a theatricality of film, and brings to light new information gathered from wide archival sources to explain the significance of the theatre and film relationship in Ireland.
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|  | Jonathan Swift
Hammond, Brean
This book offers an accessible, single-volume introduction to a wider range of Jonathan Swift's writing than is usually covered in such treatments of him. Primarily a work of biographically-inflected literary criticism, it draws on insights furnished by feminist and postcolonial literary theories when those are relevant. Its portrait of this charismatic writer confronts the complexities in character, style, and rhetorical posture that make him enduring and important. Swift is situated as a career-clergyman rather than an imaginative writer, whose ecclesiastical politics, geographical and national situation in Ireland, and obliquities of temperament made him the challenging writer he was.
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|  | James Joyce
Latham, Sean
This book draws on the work of leading contemporary scholars to provide an original and detailed overview of Joyce's life and writings. The essays introduce major works like Ulysses and address topics like feminism, literary theory, cultural studies, and reception history. The book offers an effective introduction to Joyce's life and work and is useful to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as those seeking to learn more about perhaps the most influential author of the twentieth century. It is written in a lively and accessible format, and is useful both to seasoned scholars as well as novice readers.
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|  | Other Edens
The Life and Work of Brian Coffey
Keatinge, Benjamin; Woods, Aengus
This new volume of essays provides a critical re-evaluation of Brian Coffey, a leading figure in Ireland's post-Independence poetic avant garde. With contributions from younger scholars as well as veteran Coffey commentators, the book casts new light on one of the most fascinating yet least understood figures in twentieth-century Irish letters. The collection situates Coffey as a distinctive and original voice in Irish poetry whose influence and importance have been overlooked. The critical essays are interspersed with a number of personal reflections by friends and family.
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|  | Between Shadows
Modern Irish Writing and Culture
Foster, John
Between Shadows is a sequel to John Wilson Foster's acclaimed Colonial Consequences (1991) and, like its predecessor, is a widely-ranging encounter with modern Irish writers and modern Irish culture. Among the writers are Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, Trevor, and Barry. The wartime Ulster literary scene, Bloomsday, Irish nationalism, and the Great War are among the cultural episodes and phenomena the author engages with in this varied set of critical engagements.
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|  | Faith and Patronage
The Political Career of Flaithri O Maolchonaire, c. 1560-1629
Hazard, Benjamin
The Franciscan friar Flaithri O Maolchonaire was a man of many roles: Gaelic scholar and educator, special envoy, and consummate politician with deep religious convictions. He left Ireland and studied in Salamanca, leaving him ideally placed to act as agent between the Ulster earls and the Spanish crown. He found employment for Irish veterans in the Spanish armed forces, and with the favor this gained him in Spain, he established St. Anthony's College at Leuven, providing the foundations for a new network of Irish Franciscan colleges throughout Europe. His desire to see the restoration of Catholicism and the Ulster earls in Ireland made his religious and political aims indivisible.
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|  | Crisis of Confidence
Anglo-Irish Relations in the Early Troubles
Craig, Tony
This book studies the history of diplomatic and security relations between Ireland and Britain, giving context to the role of Anglo-Irish relations in the early years of the Northern Ireland Troubles. From the deep trust evidenced by cooperation in the 1960s, as Anglo-Irish relations change, so too does the nature of the book. Craig illustrates the limits of state action in Northern Ireland, and the need for community reconciliation over military or paramilitary escalation. The conclusions are controversial. It is a history of a relationship, rather than any particular state, and thus contains criticism of all actors, including those in the Stormont government.
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|  | Ulster's Last Stand?
Reconstructing Unionism after the Peace Process
McAuley, James
This book considers the politics of the Protestant Unionist Loyalist population in Northern Ireland during and following the peace process, and the political positioning of the main organizations representing them as they inch towards a post-conflict society. One central question remains: how, if at all, unionism has changed following the political accord and the establishment of devolved government. McAuley sets out in detail how senses of identity and political processes are understood within unionism and how unionists and loyalists interpret these as a basis for social and political action.
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|  | Legion of the Rearguard
Dissident Irish Republicanism
Frampton, Martyn
Legion of the Rearguard offers the first academic analysis of 'dissident' Irish republicanism and its evolution down to the present day. Drawing on first-hand interviews with leading protagonists and detailed analysis of a range of documents and other sources, the author examines the phenomenon in all its forms and explores the 'when, where, whom, what and why' of dissident republicanism.
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|  | The End of Irish-America?
Globalisation and the Irish Diaspora
Cochrane, Feargal
This book explores the changing relationship between Ireland and America in the modern world. Its main themes examine the shifting patterns of Irish migration over time and the implications of these changes for the political and cultural relationship between the two countries. The central argument made in the book is that the historic connection between Ireland and America is at a transitional point, and that while Irish-America is not disappearing altogether, it is changing in fundamental ways, mediated by the forces of globalisation and modernity.
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|  | Cinema on the Periphery
Contemporary Irish and Spanish Film
Holohan, Conn
This book takes a comparative approach to contemporary Irish and Spanish cinema in order to examine the ways in which the films produced have been marked by Ireland and Spain's distinctive encounters with modernity. In successive chapters, the book explores the representation of gender, sexuality, space, and history within contemporary Irish and Spanish film, arguing that these representations should be read in relation to the particular process of modernisation which occurred within Ireland and Spain, whereby an insular, conservative national culture was supplanted within a short period of time by an urbanised, European secularism.
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|  | Dissident Dramaturgies
Contemporary Irish Theatre
Jordan, Eamonn
From Boston to Berlin, and from Belfast to Beijing, the performances of Irish plays have been greeted with critical and box-office acclaim. This book examines the domination approaches and exemplifies the recurrent and variable dramaturgical patterns to the writings of writers from 1980 to the present. Six specific, dominant configurations or constructions that shape the blatant dramaturgy of Irish Theatre are considered in individual chapters. In all of the work produced both locally and abroad, Ireland, and a coerced and admired notion of 'Irishness' function, in part as a commodity but also as something uniquely defiant, liberating, and dissident in itself.
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|  | Michael Davitt: New Perspectives
Lane, Fintan; Newby, Andrew
Michael Davitt (1846-1906) is a man often hailed as one of the main figures of nineteenth century Irish history, and is remembered in particular as the father of the Land League. In spite of this, research on his life and significance has been limited. It is the purpose of this collection of essays to highlight areas of Davittís life which have remained in the background (such as his impact on the British labour movement, and especially Scotland, his education in Lancashire and his own views on education in a free Ireland) and to reassess Davittís position in Irish history and popular imagination.
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|  | Ireland's 'Moral Hospital'
The Irish Borstal System 1906-1956
Reidy, Conor
This book examines the treatment and reformation of the 'juvenile-adult' offender class at Clonmel borstal in county Tipperary. It was the first and only such institution in Ireland, opened in 1906 for the purpose of reforming male offenders aged between sixteen and twenty-one years. The book explores the renewed government interest and investment in the borstal in the aftermath of the 'Father Flanagan controversy', following its return to Clonmel in 1946. With signs that the system might finally be on course to fulfill its potential, a number of factors ensured that this optimism was to be short-lived and, in 1956, Clonmel borstal ceased operations and the institution was transferred to Dublin. It utilises primarily unpublished official sources to analyse the daily operation of Clonmel borstal.
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|  | Benign Anarchy
Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland
Butler, Shane
The story of how Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was established in 1946, and how it gradually became a mainstream Irish institution. AA is described as a hybrid institution, straddling healthcare and religion, and the book looks at how early Irish members negotiated working relationships with the mental health system and the Catholic Church. It is recognized that AA in Ireland could not have negotiated such a smooth entry without the energies and skills of its early leaders, and Butler documents their activities who - with the assistance of AA in the United States - strategically managed the fellowship's establishment in a potentially hostile environment.
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|  | The Church of Ireland and the Third Home Rule Bill
Scholes, Andrew
The third Home Rule crisis dominated Irish politics between 1910 and 1918. General elections bookend a period colored by hugely dramatic and controversial events that still resonate today, such as Ulster Day, the Larne Gun-running, the Easter Rising, the Somme offensive, and the Conscription Crisis. The Church of Ireland, as the largest Protestant church in Ireland, played a key role in many of these events. The book is essential reading for historians of the third Home Rule crisis and their students, and will interest any general reader interested in the history of Ireland and the role of religion in this period.
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