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Ireland's National Theaters

Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement

By: Mary Trotter

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Ireland's National Theaters

Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement

By: Mary Trotter

In the annals of Irish studies and theater history much has been written about the Abbey Theatre. Now, Mary Trotter not only sheds new Light on that company's history but also examines other groups with a range of political, religious, gender, and class perspectives that consciously used performance to promote ideas about nationalism and culture in Ireland at the turn of the last century. This innovative, interdisciplinary work details how different nationalist organizations with diverse political and artistic goals employed theater as an anticolonial tool. In Dublin's turbulent cultural and political arena during the first decades of the twentieth century, nationalist audiences read popular Irish melodramas in subversive ways; the Daughters of Erin staged tableaux of great women heroes; and the Abbey players earned both acclaim and apprehension within the nationalist community. Here is a compelling analysis of these and other groups' prominent role in Irish nationalism in the years before Easter 1916, and the way these political theaters gave birth to modern Irish drama.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815628889

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9780815628880

Janie's Got a Gun

Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith

By: Joseph S. Walker,Steve Liskow,Leone Ciporin,Mary Dutta,Jeffrey Marks,John M. Floyd,Ed Ridgley,Bill Baber,Eve Fisher,Avram Lavinsky,John C. Bruening,Tom Mead,M.E. Proctor,Tom Milani,Jim Winter

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Janie's Got a Gun

Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Aerosmith

By: Joseph S. Walker,Steve Liskow,Leone Ciporin,Mary Dutta,Jeffrey Marks,John M. Floyd,Ed Ridgley,Bill Baber,Eve Fisher,Avram Lavinsky,John C. Bruening,Tom Mead,M.E. Proctor,Tom Milani,Jim Winter

With a career spanning over 50 years, Aerosmith has been a trend-setter in the world of rock and roll. From early hits such as “Dream On” and “Sweet Emotion” to their legendary collaboration with Run DMC for a cover of “Walk This Way” to their contribution of “Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” on the soundtrack for Armageddon, Aerosmith has proved time and again to be a band capable of reinvention and constant influence on the music scene. With their 2024 announcement that the band will no longer tour, 16 crime fiction authors have come together to produce an anthology paying tribute to some of Aerosmith’s greatest hits and their studio albums. This literary trip across the rock and roll landscape is courtesy of multi-award winning editor Michael Bracken with stories by Ed Ridgley, Bill Baber, Eve Fisher. Avram Lavinsky, John C. Bruening, Jeffrey Marks, Mary Dutta, Tom Mead, Steve Liskow, Joseph S. Walker, Adam Meyer, John M. Floyd, Leone Ciporin, M.E. Proctor, Tom Milani and Jim Winter.

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White City Press

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1963479521

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9781963479522

Changing Times

By: Mary Jane Staples

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Changing Times

By: Mary Jane Staples

It is 1953 - Coronation year - and like all of Cockney London the members of the Adams family are looking forward to the celebrations. Chinese Lady, now Lady Finch, worries that her friends will think she is too grand to mingle with them . But her husband has a more pressing worry - the sudden appearance of the lovely but mysterious Katje Galicia, who knows more than she should about his own chequered past. Young Jimmy Adams, meanwhile, is enjoying working at the family clothing factory, where at the retirement party for two of the oldest employees, Bert and Gertie Roper, he meets their lively granddaughter Clare. Before long he has offered her a job on the switchboard, and has hopes of seeing her after working hours as well. And brave Felicity, blinded in the blitz, thinks she notices a glimmer of light appearing in her dark world - but dare not tell her husband, in case it is just her imagination... With the young Queen now on the throne, times are changing for the Adams family.

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Random House

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1446488209

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The Unquiet

By: J. D. Robb,Mary Blayney,Patricia Gaffney,Ruth Ryan Langan,Mary Kay McComas

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The Unquiet

By: J. D. Robb,Mary Blayney,Patricia Gaffney,Ruth Ryan Langan,Mary Kay McComas

Settle in for five startling tales of uncanny suspense and disquieting romance—including an In Death story featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb. Eve and Rourke return to investigate the murders of a series of luckless indigents—and the strange connection to a brilliant young surgeon in J. D. Robb's "Chaos in Death." In Mary Blayney's "Her Greatest Pleasure," a shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish. A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance in Patricia Gaffney's "Dear One." The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow's only salvation in Ruth Ryan Langan's "The Unforgiven." And in Mary Kay McComas's "His Brother's Keeper," a young ghost eases his brother's pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children's books.

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Penguin

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1101544430

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Genealogies of Virginia Families

From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine

By: William and Mary College Quarterly Staff

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Genealogies of Virginia Families

From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine

By: William and Mary College Quarterly Staff

From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806309555

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9780806309552

From Slavery to Freetown

Black Loyalists After the American Revolution

By: Mary Louise Clifford

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From Slavery to Freetown

Black Loyalists After the American Revolution

By: Mary Louise Clifford

During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause. Those who responded to this promise found refuge in New York. In 1783, after Britain lost the war, they were evacuated to Nova Scotia, where for a decade they were treated as cheap labor by the white loyalists. In 1792 they were finally offered a new home in West Africa; over 1,200 responded and became the founders of Freetown in Sierra Leone. This history follows ten of these freed slaves from their escape from masters in Virginia and the Carolinas to their sojourn in wartime New York, their evacuation to Nova Scotia and finally their exodus to Freetown, where they struggled for another decade for not only freedom and dignity but the right to worship as they choose, make an honest living, and govern themselves.

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McFarland

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1476607222

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The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage

The Essence of Opera

By: Mary May Robertson

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The Marriage between Perfume and the Lyric Stage

The Essence of Opera

By: Mary May Robertson

“But what is this scent of balmy air? What this ray of light in my tomb? I seem to see an angel, amid a scent of roses” sings Florestan in Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera. The role of scents, smells, fragrances, and odours in opera has long been neglected, just as how much opera and its stars have influenced the world of perfumery from the nineteenth century to the present day. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the relationship between opera, perfumes, and their respective protagonists in order to map out the previously undiscussed connection between the two. Through compelling close readings of librettos and rigorous research through thousands of bottles of perfume, the reader will come to appreciate and recognise the influences and exchanges between operas and perfumes and their ultimate marriage in the previously unrecognised genre of Operatic Perfumes, which is to say, perfumes named after operas, composers, and their divas.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527531287

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A Coach’s Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience

Work Hard, Be Kind

By: Mary Fry,Lori Gano-Overway,Marta Guivernau,Mi-Sook Kim,Maria Newton

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A Coach’s Guide to Maximizing the Youth Sport Experience

Work Hard, Be Kind

By: Mary Fry,Lori Gano-Overway,Marta Guivernau,Mi-Sook Kim,Maria Newton

This book guides sport coaches, parents and administrators in creating a caring and task-involving sport climate that helps athletes perform their best and have an enjoyable and meaningful sport experience. It introduces the concept of a caring and task-involving climate and provides a "how to" guide to creating this climate in sport. Firstly, this guide introduces the caring and task-involving climate and summarizes research highlighting its many benefits. Secondly, the five features of this climate are presented along with the reflective exercises for developing them within a team. Coaches will see strategies in action, sample conversations, and a variety of ways to implement the features of a caring and task-involving experience. By describing how it may be implemented and methods for overcoming possible challenges, this book finally highlights how parents and sport administrators can support the creation and preservation of caring and task-involving climates. By helping teams develop caring climates that optimize athletes’ sport experience and performance, this book is essential reading for coaches, sport administrators, parents, and sport psychology practitioners. It will also be of great interest to those who have minimal training in sport psychology, but who are involved in sport at many levels, such as youth and high school.

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Routledge

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1000690997

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The Underground Railroad

An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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The Underground Railroad

An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.

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Routledge

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1317454162

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9781317454168

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the reign of Elizabeth, 1591-1594

Preserved in her majesty's public record office

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the reign of Elizabeth, 1591-1594

Preserved in her majesty's public record office

By: Mary Anne Everett Green

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752563699

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9783752563696

Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.B., etc., from his Family Papers

Vol. I

By: Mary Combermere

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Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, G.C.B., etc., from his Family Papers

Vol. I

By: Mary Combermere

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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3752579412

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9783752579413

A Diary from Dixie

By: Mary Boykin Chesnut

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A Diary from Dixie

By: Mary Boykin Chesnut

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

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Harvard University Press

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0674202910

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9780674202917

Sources for Modern Irish History 1534-1641

By: R. W. Dudley Edwards,Mary O'Dowd

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Sources for Modern Irish History 1534-1641

By: R. W. Dudley Edwards,Mary O'Dowd

A critical analysis of the written sources for early modern Irish history.

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Cambridge University Press

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052127141X

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9780521271417

'Tinkers'

Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller

By: Mary Burke

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'Tinkers'

Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller

By: Mary Burke

Irish playwright J.M. Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of travellers or 'tinkers'. This work traces the history of the 'tinker' back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forward to contemporary US screen depictions.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199566461

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Pioneer Spirit

Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

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Pioneer Spirit

Catherine Spalding, Sister of Charity of Nazareth

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

Mother Catherine Spalding (1793–1858) was the cofounder and first leader of one of the most significant American religious communities for women—the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth near Bardstown, Kentucky. Elected at age nineteen to lead the order, Spalding also founded several educational institutions, Louisville's first private hospital, and the first social service agency for children in Kentucky. Pioneer Spirit is the first biography of Catherine Spalding, a woman who made it her life's work to serve the citizens of the Kentucky frontier. Catherine, who lost her mother at a young age and was raised in many different homes before she was ten years old, eventually came to be raised in a colony of Catholic families. These formative years taught her independence, the value of hard work and an enduring spirit, and the importance of education, all of which would figure prominently in her later career. Spalding became increasingly interested in health care, services for orphans, and education, and her business skills and strong sense of purpose allowed her to achieve her goals with little interference from outsiders. She showed a natural gift for administration, and the scope and services of the Sisters of Charity expanded under her leadership. In the midst of this ministerial work, however, Spalding always maintained the connection of her ministry to spiritual and communal life, ascribing great importance to all three facets of her calling. Author Mary Ellen Doyle notes that in Spalding's correspondence with the Sisters, she repeatedly emphasized the heart of charity: "genuine interest in each other and sisterly affection free of personal ambition or jealousy." By the time of Catherine Spalding's death, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth extended beyond Nazareth to more than one hundred sisters in sixteen convents. Spalding's legacy of service continues today with more than six hundred members worldwide, and her story of progressive and compassionate leadership offers unique insights into the growth of a religious order and the struggles of developing America's frontier communities.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813188946

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9780813188942

The Christ Child in Medieval Culture

Alpha es et O!

By: Mary Dzon,Theresa M. Kenney

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The Christ Child in Medieval Culture

Alpha es et O!

By: Mary Dzon,Theresa M. Kenney

The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period. The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.

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University of Toronto Press

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144262518X

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9781442625181

A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800

By: Mary O'Dowd

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A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800

By: Mary O'Dowd

The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island. Gaelic society based on dynastic lordships and Brehon Law gave way to an anglicised and centralised form of government and an English legal system.

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1317877241

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Guarding the Caesars

Roman Internal Security Under the Flavian Dynasty

By: Rose Mary Sheldon

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Guarding the Caesars

Roman Internal Security Under the Flavian Dynasty

By: Rose Mary Sheldon

This book is the story of the survival of the Flavian emperors in Rome, a place where seventy-five percent of all emperors died of assassination. It explores the methods used by the emperor Vespasian to establish a new dynasty out of the chaos of civil war, to maintain his power, and to pass along the dynasty to his two sons, Titus and Domitian.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538181150

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