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This work is intended for children aged 9-14 years. By combining the Gaelic myths and Celtic folklore of ancient Ireland with modern day festivals and celebrations, "Ireland The Culture", presents the traditions and customs of old Ireland with the contemporary works and influences of modern artists. Historic Ireland is captured through dramatic photographs of castles, churches and prehistoric tombs. Other topics include: Celtic mythology; Irish literary revival; the castles of Ireland; holidays and festivals; Irish pilgrimages; and prehistoric tombs and ancient monasteries. ... Read more

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The Irish experience of the Great War, and its commemoration, is the setting for Nuala Johnson's pioneering examination of "the landscape of the national imaginery".Her study represents a major contribution to cultural geography and to the historiography of remembrance. The book combines theoretical perspectives with original primary research revealing how memory literally occurred in post-1918 Ireland, and the various conflicts and struggles that were both cause and effect of the process. ... Read more

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More than merely containers for holy bodies and objects, reliquaries powerfully mediated the experience of holy objects for their medieval audiences, creating socially charged spaces. Sacral Geographies: Relics and Reliquaries in Medieval Ireland demonstrates how the sacred space of reliquaries intersected with the territorial spaces of secular kingship, with the hierarchical spaces of monastic enclosures, and with the devotional spaces of cultic communities. The patrons of reliquaries, usually prominent secular rulers or Church leaders, employed performance, ritual and narrative (both visual and textual) to reinforce the efficacy of relics and, consequently, to authorize political relationships. The space of the 'holy body' therefore functioned as a foundation for the social geographies of early Ireland. Sacral Geographies explores the role of reliquaries such as the Domnach Airgid book shrine, the Shrine of St Brigid's Shoe, and St Manchan's Shrine in the construction of spatial identity in early Ireland. While chapters on tomb-shaped shrines and crozier-relics appraise connections between Continental and Irish forms, and the effect of localized political agendas on material traditions, this book locates Irish spatial practices in an insular context, positing an Irish 'topographical consciousness.' ... Read more

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Highlighting the work of both established and emerging scholars in Irish studies, this collection brings together fifteen essays working at the intersection of two important and developing fields of Irish studies: gender studies and cultural geography. Developed from papers first presented at a regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies in South Carolina in 2006, not only does this work suggest the importance of linking gender and geography, but it also suggests, in the range of literary and historical topics, the rich interdisciplinary nature of Irish studies at present. Central to all of the essays is an attention to intersections of gender and sexual identity formation with the politics of place and space. Although considerations of geographic space have long been staples of Irish cultural studies, especially in relation to political identities, these pieces suggest the critical importance of linking spatial and geographic analysis more clearly to ongoing examinations of gender and sexuality. From institutions such as the Magdalen laundries and the prison to the domestic garden and home, across urban and rural landscapes, from the Dublin GPO to a St. Patty's festival in the southern United Statesthis book examines the local and human contexts of identity formation and performance. ... Read more

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This study of literary geography examines the relationship between landscape and identity in the works of nine Irish writers who published English language novels between 1929-1946. Focusing upon the distinct experiences and depictions by these Irish writers, an engagement with Mikhail Bakhtin's 'Historical Poetics' sets the periodicity of early post-independent and partitioned Ireland in rhythm with the distinct senses of spaces of culture to which each writer's works give birth. The novels of Peadar O'Donnell and Patrick Kavanagh, offer contrasting 'native' literary perspectives of the cultures inhabiting the rural seascapes, boglands, drumlin fields and townlands of western and south-eastern Ulster. Forrest Reid and Michael McLaverty's works also visit regional Ulster sites, as well as the cityscape of Belfast, but are rendered by the urban gaze of their respective Unionist and Nationalist heritages and traditions.The novels of Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane chronicle the fading 'House-Island' lifeworlds of the Protestant Ascendancy culture, in southern Ireland, while Kate O'Brien's work recounts the centripetal forces linking the Catholic bourgeois, the provincial town and the political discourses of Saorstat Eireann during the adoption of the 1937 Bunreacht na hEireann. Flann O'Brien's surreal depiction of the 'real' and 'imagined' spaces of Dublin, contest and lampoon the city's appropriation by cultural lobbies espousing a retro-grade Irish nationalism. The works of Samuel Beckett are colored by aesthetic and philosophical sensibilities which deconstruct the Cartesian comedy he intuited framing the perception of place with the irony of his own self imposed experience of emigration and exile. ... Read more

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This title explains the geographical diversity of Northern Ireland. It seeks to give children a deeper understanding of the environment around us and the rocks beneath our feet. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: E. Stanford ; [etc., etc .]; Publication date: 1891; Subjects: Geology; Physical geography; Glacial epoch; Science / Environmental Science; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology; ... Read more

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This is the first student-level human geography of Ireland for over twenty years. Since the 1970s Ireland has become a member of the European Community, has experienced economic change, both growth and recession, enormous urban development, the transformation of traditional social structures and population patterns particularly in the countryside and the intensification of the tragic political consequences of the "Troubles". Professor Johnson, distinguished Irish geographer and experienced writer of textbooks, has produced an up-to-date, thoughtful and stimulating analysis of Ireland's human geography, stressing the historical legacy and roots of the landscape, and the impact of recent dramatic changes. He begins by considering the distinctiveness of Ireland, and the factors that have shaped its geography. He then considers the nature of the environment, and contemporary environmental problems. Chapters deal with the rural landscape and agriculture and the evolution of the population and the urban system. Individual chapters on Dublin and Belfast then follow.The final four chapters deal with modern economic development and regional planning, the political geography of the south as well as the north, and Ireland and the future, particularly as a peripheral element of the European Community and the economic convergence between north and south. ... Read more

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Poverty is not uniformly distributed throughout Ireland. Some areas clearly experience much higher levels of poverty than others, whether urban public housing estates or peripheral rural areas. However, the spatial dimensions of poverty are, at best, only partially understood. This book brings together disparate sources of information on the geography of poverty and initiates a debate from which can emerge more effective policy responses. It should be of interest to students of geography and the social sciences, and should appeal to policy-makers and practitioners concerned with spatial responses to poverty, such as those involved in urban, rural and community interventions. ... Read more

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Ireland underwent a dramatic economic and social transformation from the 1990s onwards, earning it the title the "Celtic Tiger". Rapid economic growth was accompanied by substantial in-migration. However in the later 2000s Ireland is also experiencing a severe economic recession.

This book examines the nature and geographies of the Celtic Tiger, focusing on the evolution of industries such as information and communication technology and pharamaceuticals. It also examines the changing nature of social ties in cities, trends amongst knowledge workers and the experiences of return migrants. It concludes with reflections on the nature of the Celtic Tiger phenomenon and how this will shape Ireland’s geography and society into the future.

This book was published as a special issue of Irish Geography.

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The essays in this volume describe some of the problems that bedevil the study of dialect and the methodological solutions employed to minimize them. They also survey the contributions that linguistic cartography can make to the study of English and the of language in general. ... Read more