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John Hume

John Hume

Irish peacemaker

Seán Farren & Denis Haughey, editors

Foreword by former President Bill Clinton

John Hume, civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP and leading politician in Northern Ireland during the l…
War and peace in Dante

War and peace in Dante

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with John Barnes exploring how Dante’s views on and experience of war are reflected in his literary works. Joseph Canning, addressing Dante’s …
Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno and Paradiso as well as Purgatorio. It ends w…
Guardian of the Treaty

Guardian of the Treaty

The Privy Council Appeal and Irish sovereignty

Thomas Mohr

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was the final appellate court of the British Empire. In 1935 the Irish Free State was recognized as the first part o…
Éigse: a journal of Irish Studies (39)

Éigse: a journal of Irish Studies (39)

Volume 39

Liam Mac Mathúna, editor

Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and vers…
Saothrú na Gaeilge Scríofa i Suímh Uirbeacha na hÉireann, 1700–1850

Saothrú na Gaeilge Scríofa i Suímh Uirbeacha na hÉireann, 1700–1850

Cultivating written Irish in Ireland's urban areas, 1700–1850

Liam Mac Mathúna & Regina Uí Chollatáin, editors

This analysis of the cultivation of the Irish language in urban areas is the result of recent research by both editors and a conference on urban writing practic…
Harp Studies

Harp Studies

Perspectives on the Irish harp

Sandra Joyce & Helen Lawlor, editors

Harp Studies presents new research on the Irish harp, with perspectives from the disciplines of ethnomusicology, musicology, history, arts practice, folklore an…
2016

2016
The Irish Martyrs

The Irish Martyrs

Patrick J. Corish & Benignus Millett OFM, editors

The beatified Irish martyrs are a selection of seventeen of the hundreds of bishops, priests, religious and laity, male and female, who died for their faith in …
They shall grow not old

They shall grow not old

Irish soldiers and the Great War

Myles Dungan

they shall grown no old, as we that are left grow old,
age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
at the going down of the sun and in the morning
we wil…