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When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse

By: Declan Colley

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When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse

By: Declan Colley

Bobby Beasley was a champion jockey. By 26, he had won a Cheltenham Gold Cup, a Champion Hurdle and a Grand National. But when he was 24, Bobby took his first drink and soon succumbed to alcoholism. He turned a corner after his friend, Nicky Rackard, urged him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. Five years later, aged 38, Beasley rode Captain Christy to an amazing victory at the Cheltenham Gold Cup. In the history of unlikely comebacks, that of Irish jockey Bobby Beasley is the most heartwarming of them all.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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1848891121

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9781848891128

Effeminate Years

Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Declan Kavanagh

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Effeminate Years

Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

By: Declan Kavanagh

Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully excluding others on the basis of their perceived effeminacy or foreignness. However, this book is not a literary analysis of the Wilkes affair in the 1760s, nor is it a linear account of Wilkes’s political career. Instead, Effeminate Years examines the cultural crisis of effeminacy that made Wilkes’s politicking so appealing. The central theoretical problem that this study addresses is the argument about what is and is not political: where does individual autonomy begin and end? Addressing this question, Kavanagh traces the shaping influence of the discourse of effeminacy in the literature that was generated by Wilkes’s legal and sexual scandals, while, at the same time, he also reads Wilkes’s spectacular drumming up of support as a timely exploitation of the broader cultural crisis of effeminacy during the mid century in Britain. The book begins with the scandals and agitations surrounding Wilkes, and ends with readings of Edmund Burke’s (1729-1797) earliest political writings, which envisage political community—a vision, that Kavanagh argues, is influenced by Wilkes and the effeminate years of the 1760s. Throughout, Kavanagh shows how interlocutors in the political and cultural debates of the mid-eighteenth-century period in Britain, such as Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) and Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), attempt to resolve the problem of effeminate excess. In part, the resolution for Wilkes and Charles Churchill (1731-1764) was to shunt effeminacy onto the sexually non-normative. On the other hand, Burke, in his aesthetic theorization of the beautiful privileges the socially constitutive affects of feeling effeminate. Through an analysis of poetry, fiction, social and economic pamphlets, aesthetic treatises, journalism and correspondences, placed within the latest queer historiography, Kavanagh demonstrates that the mid-century effeminacy crisis served to re-conceive male heterosexuality as the very mark of political legitimacy. Overall, Effeminate Years explores the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject, which are still the basis of debate and argument in our own time.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611488257

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9781611488258

Essays for Richard Ellmann

Omnium Gatherum

By: Susan Dick,Declan Kiberd

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Essays for Richard Ellmann

Omnium Gatherum

By: Susan Dick,Declan Kiberd

Ellmann's sensitivity to what it meant to be an artist shaped his work from the outset: "The life of an artist ... differs from the lives of other persons in that its events are becoming artistic sources even as they command his present attention. Instead of allowing each day, pushed back by the next, to lapse into imprecise memory, he shapes again the experiences which have shaped him." Richard Ellmann died in 1987. His life and work have touched the lives of many. Some of the essays in this collection commemorate Richard Ellmann and his committment to Twentieth Century literature: most provide a continuing investigation of the Twentieth Century literature to which he devoted his carrer. Contributors include: Alison Armstrong, Daniel Albright, Christopher Butler, Carol Cantrell, Jonathan Culler, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Andonis Decavelles, Rupin Desai, Susan Dick, Terence Diggory, Terry Eagleton, Rosita Fanto, Charles Feidelson, James Flannery, Charles Huttar, Bruce Johnson, John Kelleher, Brendan Kennelly, Frank Kermode, Declan Kiberd, Peter Kuch, Bruce Johnson, James Laughlin, A. Walton Litz, Dominic Manganiello, Ellsworth Mason, Christie McDonald, Dougald McMillan, Sean O'Mordha, Vivian Mercier, Mary T. Reynolds, William K. Robertson, Joseph Ronsley, S.P. Rosenbaum, Ann Saddlemyer, Sylvan Schendler, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Senn, Jon Stallworthy, Lonnie Weatherby, Thomas Whitaker, and Elaine Yarosky.

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528

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773562079

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9780773562073

The Irish Writer and the World

By: Declan Kiberd

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The Irish Writer and the World

By: Declan Kiberd

The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's most prominent scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the award-winning Irish Classics and Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. Kiberd argues that political conflict between Ireland and England ultimately resulted in cultural confluence and that writing in the Irish language was hugely influenced by the English literary tradition. He continues his exploration of the role of Irish politics and culture in a decolonising world, and covers Anglo-Irish literature, the fate of the Irish language and the Celtic Tiger. This fascinating collection of Kiberd's work demonstrates the extraordinary range, astuteness and wit that have made him a defining voice in Irish studies and beyond, and will bring his work to new audiences across the world.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139446002

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9781139446006

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

By: Dr Roy Johnston,Dr Declan Plummer

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The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

By: Dr Roy Johnston,Dr Declan Plummer

Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention especially to contemporary newspapers they reveal a picture of sustained vitality and development that justifies Belfast’s prominent place the history of nineteenth-century musical culture in Ireland and more broadly in the British Isles.

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401

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754663256

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9780754663256

When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse

By: Declan Colley

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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1848891121

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Stone Mad

By: Seamus Murphy

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Stone Mad

By: Seamus Murphy

The authorised biography of the legendary Irish jockey and trainer Michael 'Mouse' Morris, telling of his wild ride on the racing rollercoaster, of days as a jockey and as a trainer, and of financial hurdles, personal crises and tragedy.

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1905172818

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When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse

When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse

Effeminate Years

Effeminate Years

Essays for Richard Ellmann

Essays for Richard Ellmann

The Irish Writer and the World

The Irish Writer and the World

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast

When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse

When Bobby Met Christy: The Story of Bobby Beasley and a Wayward Horse

Stone Mad

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