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Surviving Ireland

By: Colm Tobin

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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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Surviving Ireland

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How Authors' Minds Make Stories

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

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How Authors' Minds Make Stories

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as "simulations." Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields, Patrick Colm Hogan develops a rigorous theory of the principles governing simulation that goes beyond any existing framework. He examines the functions and mechanisms of narrative imagination, with particular attention to the role of theory of mind, and relates this analysis to narrative universals. In the course of this theoretical discussion, Hogan explores works by Austen, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Racine, Brecht, Kafka, and Calvino. He pays particular attention to the principles and parameters defining an author's narrative idiolect, examining the cognitive and emotional continuities that span an individual author's body of work.

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Cambridge University Press

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110703440X

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Sixteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 2)

The Incomplete Conquest – Irish Landlords and the Extension of English Royal Power

By: Colm Lennon

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Sixteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 2)

The Incomplete Conquest – Irish Landlords and the Extension of English Royal Power

By: Colm Lennon

Colm Lennon's Sixteenth-Century Ireland, the second instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, looks at how the Tudor conquest of Ireland by Henry VIII and the country's colonisation by Protestant settlers led to the incomplete conquest of Ireland, laying the foundations for the sectarian conflict that persists to this day. In 1500, most of Ireland lay outside the ambit of English royal power. Only a small area around Dublin, The Pale, was directly administered by the crown. The rest of the island was run in more or less autonomous fashion by Anglo-Norman magnates or Gaelic chieftains. By 1600, there had been a huge extension of English royal power. First, the influence of the semi-independent magnates was broken; second, in the 1590s crown forces successfully fought a war against the last of the old Gaelic strongholds in Ulster. The secular conquest of Ireland was, therefore, accomplished in the course of the century. But the Reformation made little headway. The Anglo-Norman community remained stubbornly Catholic, as did the Gaelic nation. Their loss of political influence did not result in the expropriation of their lands. Most property still remained in Catholic hands. England's failure to effect a revolution in church as well as in state meant that the conquest of Ireland was incomplete. The seventeenth century, with its wars of religion, was the consequence. Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Table of Contents Introduction - Town and County in the English Part of Ireland, c.1500 - Society and Culture in Gaelic Ireland - The Kildares and their Critics - Kildare Power and Tudor Intervention, 1520–35 - Religion and Reformation, 1500–40 - Political and Religious Reform and Reaction, 1536–56 - The Pale and Greater Leinster, 1556–88 - Munster: Presidency and Plantation, 1565–95 - Connacht: Council and Composition, 1569–95 - Ulster and the General Crisis of the Nine Years' War, 1560–1603 - From Reformation to Counter-Reformation, 1560–1600

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717160408

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9780717160402

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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Ulcerative Colitis

By: Colm A. O'Morain

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Ulcerative Colitis

By: Colm A. O'Morain

Ulcerative colitis is a disease characterized by its chronic nature, exacerbation, and remissions. The disease is of unknown etiology and has stimulated a substantial amount of research into the condition and its cause. This book provides a comprehensive review of the subject, covering topics such as the immunological, infective, psychological and dietary factors of its etiology; clinical presentation; extraintestinal manifestations; histopathology; mediators of inflammation; medical treatment, including dealing with the acute attack, maintenance of remission, and a review of new treatment; surgical methods; and the social toll and prognosis for the future. Ulcerative Colitis is a useful reference resource for internists, gastroenterologists, gastrointestinal surgeons, gastrointestinal researchers, nutritionists, dieticians, the pharmaceutical industry, and medical undergraduates.

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CRC Press

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0849354986

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Waterford Through Time

By: Colm Long

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Waterford Through Time

By: Colm Long

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Waterford has changed and developed over the last century.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144563953X

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Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts

A Guide for Humanists

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

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Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts

A Guide for Humanists

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

The rise cognitive science has been one of the most important intellectual developments of recent years, stimulating new approaches to everything from philosophy to film studies. This is an introduction to what cognitive science has to offer the humanities and particularly the study of literature. Hogan suggests how the human brain works and makes us feel in response to literature. He walks the reader through all of the major theories of cognitive science that are important for the humanities in order to understand the production and reception of literature.

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Routledge

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113606978X

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Affective Narratology

The Emotional Structure of Stories

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

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Affective Narratology

The Emotional Structure of Stories

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

Stories engage our emotions. We?ve known this at least since the days of Plato and Aristotle. What this book helps us to understand now is how our own emotions fundamentally organize and orient stories. In light of recent cognitive research and wide reading in different narrative traditions, Patrick Colm Hogan argues that the structure of stories is a systematic product of human emotion systems. Examining the ways in which incidents, events, episodes, plots, and genres are a function of emotional processes, he demonstrates that emotion systems are absolutely crucial for understanding stories. Hogan also makes a case for the potentially integral role that stories play in the development of our emotional lives. He provides an in-depth account of the function of emotion within story?in widespread genres with romantic, heroic, and sacrificial structures, and more limited genres treating parent/child separation, sexual pursuit, criminality, and revenge?as these appear in a variety of cross-cultural traditions. In the course of the book Hogan develops interpretations of works ranging from Tolstoy?s Anna Karenina to African oral epics, from Sanskrit comedy to Shakespearean tragedy. Integrating the latest research in affective science with narratology, this book provides a powerful explanatory account of narrative organization.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803230028

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9780803230026

The Courage to Be Happy

A New Approach to Well-Being in Everyday Life

By: Colm O'Connor

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The Courage to Be Happy

A New Approach to Well-Being in Everyday Life

By: Colm O'Connor

We live in an age in which unhappiness, depression, stress and anxiety are everywhere. We struggle with things like bad relationships, work pressure, low self-esteem, worry and helplessness. The list is endless, because everyone is unhappy for different reasons. Whatever the causes of your unhappiness, this book will lay out a way of looking at yourself that can transform your psychology and behaviour. Presenting the 'why', 'what' and 'how' of happiness, Colm O'Connor will inspire you to take your emotional well-being seriously and show you how to build essential happiness-enhancing disciplines into everyday life. In showing how we need to 'do happiness' rather than how to 'get happiness' you will discover a new way to help awaken your innate happiness and well-being in a deeply human and practical way. Inside you will find a list of the 21 things that are essential for happiness, the 15 principles of happiness, and a method that is easy to integrate with daily routines. To get access to free interactive material to accompany this book please visit www.couragetobehappy.ie

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717151778

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The Politics of Interpretation

Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

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The Politics of Interpretation

Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature

By: Patrick Colm Hogan

This interpretive study analyzes the complex politics of literature, criticism, and professionalism. While affirming the profound importance of political analysis--from the ideological critique of literary texts to the social and economic critique of academic institutions--Hogan reassesses the poststructuralist doctrines that underlie much recent work in this area. He presents extended expositions and criticisms of the views of several influential poststructuralist writers, including Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray. In keeping with recent "post-poststructuralist" trends in France and elsewhere, Hogan argues for the political necessity of rational inference, and empirical enquiry, guided by ethical, and more specifically Kantian, considerations. In the process, he convincingly formulates a general theory of ideology that recognizes the crucial link between literary politics and the concrete political issues that affect the lives of real men and women in the real world of social and material life. His study concludes with an economic analysis of the institutions of literary study, outlining some anarchist implications for their restructuring.

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Oxford University Press

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0195362713

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A Guest at the Feast

Essays

By: Colm Toibin

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A Guest at the Feast

Essays

By: Colm Toibin

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions! From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature. “IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS.” So begins Colm Tóibín’s fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Tóibín survives, but he has entered, as he says, “the age of one ball.” The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and ’60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of Tóibín’s novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. Tóibín describes his education by priests, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse. He writes about Irish history and literature, and about the long, tragic journey toward legal and social acceptance of homosexuality. In Part Two, Tóibín profiles three complex and vexing popes—John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. And in Part Three, he writes about a trio of authors who reckon with religion in their fiction. The final essay, “Alone in Venice,” is a gorgeous account of Tóibín’s journey, at the height of the pandemic, to the beloved city where he has set some of his most dazzling scenes. The streets, canals, churches, and museums were empty. He had them to himself, an experience both haunting and exhilarating. “A tantalizing glimpse into Tóibín’s full fictional powers,” (The Sunday Times, London) A Guest at the Feast is both an intimate encounter with a supremely creative artist and a glorious celebration of writing.

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Simon and Schuster

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147678521X

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Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Colm Toibin

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Brooklyn

A Novel

By: Colm Toibin

From the author of "The Master" comes a moving novel about a young immigrant in 1950's Brooklyn who is torn between her Irish roots and the man who wins her heart.

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Book's by Colm Tobin

Surviving Ireland

Surviving Ireland

Surviving Ireland

Surviving Ireland

How Authors' Minds Make Stories

How Authors' Minds Make Stories

Sixteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 2)

Sixteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 2)

Disciplinary Procedures in the Statutory Professions

Disciplinary Procedures in the Statutory Professions

Ulcerative Colitis

Ulcerative Colitis

Waterford Through Time

Waterford Through Time

Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts

Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts

Affective Narratology

Affective Narratology

The Courage to Be Happy

The Courage to Be Happy

The Politics of Interpretation

The Politics of Interpretation

A Guest at the Feast

A Guest at the Feast

Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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