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James Joyce’s Mandala

By: Colm O’Shea

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The Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as "sacred circle." Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical sophistication, making manifest a geometry with layers of esoteric meaning for both the mandala artist and the initiated spectator. James Joyce’s Mandala outlines and explains this iconic sacred geometry, and assesses to what extent Joyce’s works of literature, in particular Finnegans Wake, can be understood as mandalic constructs. Using exam-ples from Dubliners to the Wake, we see how fundamental to Joyce’s fiction is the issue of spiritual paralysis (a problem the mandala attempts to dissolve) and also how fascinated he was by geometric imagery and symmetry, the technical devices employed in mandala construction. This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala. Never discounting the richness of Joyce’s genius, it uses his "collideorscape" to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000617742

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9781000617740

Disciplinary Procedures in the Statutory Professions

By: Simon Mills,Aideen Ryan,Colm Scott-Byrne

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Disciplinary Procedures in the Statutory Professions

By: Simon Mills,Aideen Ryan,Colm Scott-Byrne

Winner of the Irish Law Awards Book of the Year 2023 Various disciplinary and regulatory bodies have different rules, powers and procedures, even while sharing a basic legal framework. This book allows a legal practitioner who is appearing before such a body to prepare their case by setting out what powers the body has, what evidence it can hear, the form the procedure will take, whether they can call witnesses, and what sanctions it can impose. This book is the first title to consider the specific question of the regulation of statutory professions in Ireland including architects, surveyors, teachers, pharmacists, health and social care professionals and accountants. Part I deals with general principles and practice, covering such areas as complaints, fair procedures and sanctions. Part II examines each of the relevant professions in turn. Covers the following developments, legislation and case law: The difference of between professional misconduct conduct and poor professional performance Teaching Council (Amendment) Act 2015 Healthcare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 Corbally v Medical Council & Others Medical Council v Lohan-Mannion Doocey v Law Society TM v Medical Council This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Irish Employment Law online service.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526508532

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9781526508539

Gooch - The Autobiography

By: Colm Cooper

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Gooch - The Autobiography

By: Colm Cooper

The greatest Gaelic footballer of all time.' Pat Spillane When Colm Cooper retired from inter-county football in 2017, he left behind a remarkable legacy. The holder of five All-Ireland medals and eight All-Stars, he was Kerry’s stand-out forward for fifteen years. From a family steeped in Gaelic football, and a core member of the Dr Crokes team, Colm was still in his teens when he first played for Kerry at senior level. Overcoming struggles with injury and personal tragedy, Cooper became one of the GAA’s most recognizable and best-loved figures at a time of tumultuous change in the game. But the man known nationally as ‘Gooch’ is also an intensely private figure who has never courted publicity and his personal story remains largely untold. Now Gooch – The Autobiography unlocks a previously unopened door, tracing a compelling path through the life beyond the headlines. This is the story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary footballer.

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Random House

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1473526485

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Claiming de Wayke

By: Colm O'Shea

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Claiming de Wayke

By: Colm O'Shea

What would you do if someone offered you the keys to a limitless reality? Tayto is a saint—someone addicted to their VR halo. He’s uneducated, unmotivated, and loath to quit his habit and embrace the real world: the Wayke. When the mysterious Zeke Zohar contacts him, offering him a chance to be raptured into a VR paradise forever, it seems too good to be true. The catch: Zeke believes this chance hinges on them finding Tayto’s genius brother, and his plan involves journeying to Tayto’s childhood home, navigating the detested Wayke in the process. For all the weirdness of the VR universe, it’s the real world that Tayto finds truly strange. His journey forces him to confront a gang, a cult, and the two great questions that addicts often face: Is it possible to come home? Is it possible to escape from it?

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Crossroad Press

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1637898568

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9781637898567

Bertie Ahern: The Man Who Blew the Boom

Power & Money

By: Colm Keena

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Bertie Ahern: The Man Who Blew the Boom

Power & Money

By: Colm Keena

The fascinating story of the man who blew the boom. Colm Keena, the journalist who first broke the story of Bertie Ahern's finances, gives us an in-depth examination of the former Taoiseach's character, his lust for power and his obsession with money. Keena scrutinises the evidence produced by the Mahon Tribunal about Ahern's personal finances and his personal political machine, and illustrates the lengths to which Ahern went in his effort to hide the truth about what he was up to. Ahern's political career is re-charted in the light of what we now know about his character. Keena looks at how his desire for power existed alongside an almost complete absence of political conviction, this lack of which left him open to the influence of those with strong opinions, and did nothing to arrest his mismanagement of the Irish economy. His lust for popularity brought Ireland from rude good health to economic disaster. An historic opportunity was squandered, but Bertie walked away from the wreckage with his wallet bulging. His legacy: the near-destruction of a European economy and the collapse of one of the most successful political parties of the past hundred years.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717151883

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9780717151882

Dumping Corporate Garbage

Christy O'Hara Trilogy 1 Disaster Recovery Blink of an Eagle's Eye Dancing with a Dragon

By: Colm Andrew Swift

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Dumping Corporate Garbage

Christy O'Hara Trilogy 1 Disaster Recovery Blink of an Eagle's Eye Dancing with a Dragon

By: Colm Andrew Swift

What do you do if you are a self-educated genius multimillionaire college student, who has just been raped by her stepfather? The same stepfather who has been looting her mother's corporation? If you are Christy McMichael you trap yourself a husband and retaliate massively in "Disaster Recovery". "You move your investigative business to Ireland and continue to hunt down and stomp out corporate cockroaches while recording a Celtic music album backed by Galway Samhain in "Blink of an Eagle's Eye." "Finally, you identify and confront the adversary who had been trying to destroy your business and assassinate your family in "Dancing with a Dragon.

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451

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Booktango

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1468936646

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9781468936643

Current Legal Problems 2009

Volume 62

By: Colm O'Cinneide

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Current Legal Problems 2009

Volume 62

By: Colm O'Cinneide

This year's volume covers topics such as military detention, English criminal law, terrorism, democracy, human rights, civil liberties, the media and international law, family law, child welfare, health, feminism, economic theory, corporate law, competition regulation, contract law, biotechnology, biodiversity and more.

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Current Legal Problems

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0199583730

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9780199583737

Current at the Nanoscale

An Introduction to Nanoelectronics

By: Colm Durkan

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An Introduction to Nanoelectronics

By: Colm Durkan

Aimed at a general, physics-literate audience, but also useful for the expert, this text offers a simple, easily applicable introductory approach to understanding current flow. Durkan draws on parallels between macroscopic and quantum descriptions of resistance and Ohm's law

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Imperial College Press

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1860948235

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9781860948237

Surviving Ireland

By: Colm Tobin

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Surviving Ireland

By: Colm Tobin

It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin* takes the reader by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life. As well as providing all the tools you’ll need to navigate this often tricky little island (except a compass or anything even resembling a fact), the book will take you through some of the country’s fraught history, asking some searing questions in the process: how did we get here, where are we going and who in the name of God is going to pay for it all? Surviving Ireland takes in culture and politics, town and country, food and drink, birth, death and everything in between. Let it be your definitive guide to this strange and bewildering rock, cowering from the cold Atlantic swells. Oh, and it’s got some funny drawings in it as well. * Not the Booker Prize-nominated author Colm Tóibín.

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Random House

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1473525632

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9781473525634

The Fallen: Gardai Killed in Service 1922-49

By: Colm Wallace

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The Fallen: Gardai Killed in Service 1922-49

By: Colm Wallace

In 1922 the fledgling Irish Free State decided to replace the RIC with the Civic Guard (An Garda Síochána). This new Irish police force found itself dealing with an unsettled population, many of whom were suspicions of law and order after centuries of forceful policing by the British. It was decided that the Gardaí would uphold the law with the consent of the people however, and that they would remain unarmed. This brave decision may have been popular with ordinary Irishmen and women, but it left members of the force vulnerable to attack and even murder. Many Gardaí met their death in the first decades of the Irish State. This is their story.

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The History Press

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0750984503

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9780750984508

The Sign of the Cross

Travels in Catholic Europe

By: Colm Tóibín

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The Sign of the Cross

Travels in Catholic Europe

By: Colm Tóibín

Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself traveling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discovered how it still resonated in his own. In this beautifully observed work of travel writing and spiritual reportage, Toibin turns his eye on Catholicism's rituals and processions, its high-minded fanatics and humble communicants. He shows how it ripples outward into the history and politics of homelands. Yet Toibin also encounters the cross-shaped wound that lies at his own center--and it is his unflinching examination of that wound that makes The Sign of the Cross as moving as it is perceptive and urbane. "A writer of considerable poetic gifts. Toibin's descriptions are enlivening."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "An extraordinary document."--Entertainment Weekly

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Vintage Books USA

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0679758550

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9780679758556

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James Joyce’s Mandala

James Joyce’s Mandala

Disciplinary Procedures in the Statutory Professions

Disciplinary Procedures in the Statutory Professions

Gooch - The Autobiography

Gooch - The Autobiography

Claiming de Wayke

Claiming de Wayke

Bertie Ahern: The Man Who Blew the Boom

Bertie Ahern: The Man Who Blew the Boom

Dumping Corporate Garbage

Dumping Corporate Garbage

Current Legal Problems 2009

Current Legal Problems 2009

Current at the Nanoscale

Current at the Nanoscale

Surviving Ireland

Surviving Ireland

The Fallen: Gardai Killed in Service 1922-49

The Fallen: Gardai Killed in Service 1922-49

The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross

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