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The Surnames of Ireland

6th Edition

By: Edward MacLysaght

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Ireland was one of the earliest countries to evolve a system of hereditary surnames. More than 4,000 Gaelic, Norman and Anglo-Irish surnames are listed in this book, giving a wealth of information on the background and location of Irish families. Edward MacLysaght was a leading authority on Irish names and family history. He served as Chief Herald and Genealogical Officer of the Irish Office of Arms. He was also Keeper of Manuscripts of the National Library of Ireland and was Chairman of the Manuscripts Commission. This book, which was first published in 1957 and now is in its sixth edition, is being reprinted for the fourth time and remains the definitive record of Irish surnames, their genealogy and their origins.

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Irish Academic Press

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1911024647

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The Surnames of Ireland

6th Edition

By: Edward MacLysaght

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6th Edition

By: Edward MacLysaght

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Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period

By: Edward Larrissy

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Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period

By: Edward Larrissy

In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject, Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period. In detailed studies of literary works he goes on to show how the topic is central to an understanding of British and Irish Romantic literature. While he considers the influence of Milton and the 'Ossian' poems, as well as of philosophers, including Locke, Diderot, Berkeley and Thomas Reid, much of the book is taken up with new readings of writers of the period. These include canonical authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Keats and Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as less well-known writers such as Charlotte Brooke and Ann Batten Cristall. There is also a chapter on the popular genre of improving tales for children by writers such as Barbara Hofland and Mary Sherwood. Larrissy finds that, despite the nostalgia for a bardic age of inward vision, the chief emphasis in the period is on the compensations of enhanced sensitivity to music and words. This compensation becomes associated with the loss and gain involved in the modernity of a post-bardic age. Representations of blindness and the blind are found to elucidate a tension at the heart of the Romantic period, between the desire for immediacy of vision on the one hand and, on the other, the historical self-consciousness which always attends it.

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240

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748632018

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9780748632015

Yeats The Poet

The Measures of Difference

By: Edward Larrissy

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Yeats The Poet

The Measures of Difference

By: Edward Larrissy

This work addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of measure. It then explores how this relates to freemasonry, Celticism and Orientalism and looks at the Blakean esoteric language of contrariety and outline which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.

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Routledge

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1317866665

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With the Irish Set

In Set Dance Land

By: Richard Edward Devlin

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With the Irish Set

In Set Dance Land

By: Richard Edward Devlin

Four years ago, the author started out on a journey to learn Irish set dancing, at an age, he says When most men and women are pulling the stool closer to the turf fire and dreaming of life when life was young. The journey took him from Nova Scotia to Milwaukee, Killarney, Ballinasloe and many lesser-known places in between, including a wacky little burg in the Catskills where Irish dreamers had painted green shamrocks on the pavement all up and down the principal street. Along the way, Devlin says, he met the wildest assortment of Irish and Irish-American characters imaginable and chapter by chapter, Devlin brings these fascinating people and their sometimes amusing, but always endearing, ways, close to your chair and into your heart. Like all of us who cling to our sense of an Irish heritage, Devlin says, Like a moth to a bright light, I am drawn to Irish ways. As a reader, if you share this life view, you will love this book. ________________________________________________________________ A hilarious account from deep inside the mind of a new set dancer progressing from his wifes reluctant partner to a fully obsessed set dancer who meets a host of entertaining and endearing characters along the way. Bill Lynch; Publisher, Set Dancing News. Swaggering, comical, and shrewd, Devlins memoir is an insiders entertaining tale of the oddities and magical allure of the Irish set dancing world.. Cynthia Neale; Author of the Irish Dresser and Norah.

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1496907116

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9781496907110

Where There Are Mountains

An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians

By: Donald Edward Davis

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Where There Are Mountains

An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians

By: Donald Edward Davis

A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.

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370

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University of Georgia Press

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0820324949

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9780820324944

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The Surnames of Ireland

The Surnames of Ireland

The Surnames of Ireland

The Surnames of Ireland

Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period

Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period

Yeats The Poet

Yeats The Poet

With the Irish Set

With the Irish Set

Where There Are Mountains

Where There Are Mountains

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