Liam Francis Costello's Books

Don't Bet the Farm

By: Liam O'Brien

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The most comprehensive reference book on betting and gambling on the market with over 1200 cross referenced entries. It explores the history, systems, theory, law, word origins and slang as well the scandals, scams and the huge array of unforgettable characters and audacious coups.

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1060

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eBook Partnership

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1783013710

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9781783013715

Unhappy the Land

The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?

By: Liam Kennedy

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Unhappy the Land

The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?

By: Liam Kennedy

In Unhappy the Land Liam Kennedy poses fundamental questions about the social and political history of Ireland and challenges cherished notions of a uniquely painful past. Images of tragedy and victimhood are deeply embedded in the national consciousness, yet when the Irish experience is viewed in the larger European context a different perspective emerges. The author’s dissection of some pivotal episodes in Irish history serves to explode commonplace assumptions about oppression, victimhood and a fate said to be comparable ‘only to that of the Jews’. Was the catastrophe of the Great Famine really an Irish Holocaust? Was the Ulster Covenant anything other than a battle-cry for ethnic conflict? Was the Proclamation of the Irish Republic a means of texting terror? And who fears to speak of an Irish War of Independence, shorn of its heroic pretensions? Kennedy argues that the privileging of ‘the gun, the drum and the flag’ above social concerns and individual liberties gave rise to disastrous consequences for generations of Irish people. Ireland might well be a land of heroes, from Cúchulainn to Michael Collins, but it is also worth pondering Bertolt Brecht’s warning: ‘Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.’

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232

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Irish Academic Press

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1785370472

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9781785370472

On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education

By: Liam Gearon

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On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education

By: Liam Gearon

Religion has had notable and renewed prominence in contemporary public and political life. Religious questions have also been freshly examined in philosophy and theology, the natural sciences, the social sciences, psychology, phenomenology, politics and the arts. These fields reflect complex, multi-disciplinary understandings of religion, some hostile, some accommodating. For religious education this has all contributed to its own international renaissance. Religious education, in ensuring it is contemporary, shares with these fields the same criticality, the same distance between the study of religion and the religious life. Yet what are the grounds of this modern religious education? Through a systematic historical and contemporary cross-disciplinary analysis, answering this question is the ambitious task of the book. Chapters include: philosophy, theology and religious education the natural sciences and religious education the social sciences and religious education psychology, spirituality and religious education phenomenology and religious education the politics of religious education the aesthetics of religious education. The central problem of all modern religious education remains this: what are the grounds of religious education when religious education is no longer grounded in the religious life, in the life of the holy? Although this primarily appears to be an epistemological problem, it soon becomes a moral and existential one. The book will be of key interest to teachers, theorists and researchers working in religious education.

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224

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Routledge

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1136304452

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9781136304453

Through the Veils of Morning

An Inner Journey in the Pathways of Francis and Clare of Assisi

By: Liam Francis Costello

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Through the Veils of Morning

An Inner Journey in the Pathways of Francis and Clare of Assisi

By: Liam Francis Costello

Noted Irish author Liam Costello masterfully combines his national heritage and his religious training to bring forth the spiritual treasures of both the Franciscan tradition and the Celtic legacy.

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267

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Veritas Publications

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1853905003

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9781853905001

Book's by Liam Francis Costello

Don't Bet the Farm

Don't Bet the Farm

Unhappy the Land

Unhappy the Land

On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education

On Holy Ground: The Theory and Practice of Religious Education

Through the Veils of Morning

Through the Veils of Morning

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