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Gothic Art in Ireland, 1169-1550

Enduring Vitality

By: Colum Hourihane

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Gothic Art in Ireland, 1169-1550

Enduring Vitality

By: Colum Hourihane

It will come as a surprise to many that a wealth of Gothic art and architecture can still be found in Ireland. This text examines the most westerly expression of Gothic - on the edge of Europe - and traces its development from the beginning of the 13th century to the Reformation. Colum Hourihane offers insights into Gothic Irish art, and he presents a revised view of art in Ireland in the Middle Ages.

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Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies

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0300094353

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9780300094350

Time in the Medieval World

Occupations of the Months and Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art

By: Colum Hourihane

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Time in the Medieval World

Occupations of the Months and Signs of the Zodiac in the Index of Christian Art

By: Colum Hourihane

This volume is a rich resource for the study of time as represented by the signs of the zodiac and occupations of the months, documented in the comprehensive files of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University. The measurement and documentation of time has been a universal issue since the dawn of civilization&—and no more so than in the medieval period, when images representing the signs of the zodiac and occupations of the months were commonly used. Nature and the occupations or labors that each month brought were reflected in earthly calendars, while the movements of the heavens and their impact on mankind were recorded in the signs of the zodiac. The changing compositions that were used to represent these twin calendars in several hundred works of art are documented in this volume, which provides an unrivaled visual record for the student and scholar.

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420

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Penn State Press

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0976820234

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9780976820239

TransAtlantic

By: Colum McCann

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TransAtlantic

By: Colum McCann

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. On his travels he inspires a young maid to go to New York to embrace a free world, but the land does not always fulfill its promises for her. From the violent battlefields of the Civil War to the ice lakes of northern Missouri, it is her youngest daughter Emily who eventually finds her way back to Ireland.Can we pass from the new world to the old? How does the past shape the future? In TransAtlantic, National Book Award-winning Colum McCann has achieved an outstanding act of literary bravura. Intricately crafted, poetic and deeply affecting it weaves together personal stories to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.

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322

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A&C Black

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1408829371

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9781408829370

Everything in This Country Must

A Novella and Two Stories

By: Colum McCann

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Everything in This Country Must

A Novella and Two Stories

By: Colum McCann

Colum McCann's Everything in This Country Must, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children. In the title story, a teenage girl must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratitude to the British soldiers who have saved the family's horse. The young hero of Hunger Strike, a novella, tries to replicate the experience of his uncle, an IRA prisoner on hunger strike. And in Wood, a small boy does his part for the Protestant marches, concealing his involvement from his blind father. Writing in a new form, but with the skill and force and sparkling poetry that have brought him international acclaim, Colum McCann has delivered masterful, memorable short fiction.

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122

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466848677

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9781466848672

Everything in This Country Must

A Novella and Two Stories

By: Colum McCann

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Everything in This Country Must

A Novella and Two Stories

By: Colum McCann

In a daring tour de force, one of our writers takes on the most intractable of conflicts-the Troubles in Northern Ireland. In his fourth book, Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the Troubles and reveals, as only fiction writers can, the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children. In the title story, a teenage girl must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratitude to the British soldiers who have saved the family's horse. The young hero of Hunger Strike, a novella, tries to replicate the experience of his uncle, an IRA prisoner on hunger strike. And in Wood, a small boy does his part for the Protestant marches, concealing his involvement from his blind father. Writing in a new form, but with the skill and force and sparkling poetry that have brought him international acclaim, Colum McCann has delivered masterful, memorable short fiction.

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160

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Metropolitan Books

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0805063986

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9780805063981

Songdogs

By: Colum McCann

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Songdogs

By: Colum McCann

Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.

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241

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526617315

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9781526617316

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Stories

By: Colum McCann

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Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Stories

By: Colum McCann

Twelve stories about Irish misfits by the author of Songdogs include the tale of the anorexic nun who dies in a Long Island hospital and the talkative beautician who works with corpses.

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212

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Macmillan

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0312423381

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9780312423384

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Gothic Art in Ireland, 1169-1550

Gothic Art in Ireland, 1169-1550

Time in the Medieval World

Time in the Medieval World

TransAtlantic

TransAtlantic

Everything in This Country Must

Everything in This Country Must

Everything in This Country Must

Everything in This Country Must

Songdogs

Songdogs

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

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