Famous for his Ancient music of Ireland, Bunting was trained in classical music. In 1813 he organized a festival in Belfast with Messiah as a highlight, for which unusually complete records survive. Johnston also charts the relationships between the various versions of Handel's work in Britain and Ireland.
Roy Johnston and Declan Plummer provide a refreshing portrait of Belfast in the nineteenth century. Before his death Roy Johnston, had written a full draft, based on an impressive array of contemporary sources, with deep and detailed attention especially to contemporary newspapers. With the deft and sensitive contribution of Declan Plummer the finished book offers a telling view of Belfast‘s thriving musical life. Largely without the participation and example of local aristocracy, nobility and gentry, Belfast‘s musical society was formed largely by the townspeople themselves in the eighteenth century and by several instrumental and choral societies in the nineteenth century. As the town grew in size and developed an industrial character, its townspeople identified increasingly with the large industrial towns and cities of the British mainland. Efforts to place themselves on the principal touring circuit of the great nineteenth-century concert artists led them to build a concert hall not in emulation of Dublin but of the British industrial towns. Belfast audiences had experienced English opera in the eighteenth century, and in due course in the nineteenth century they found themselves receiving the touring opera companies, in theatres newly built to accommodate them. Through an energetic groundwork revision of contemporary sources, Johnston and Plummer 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.
This work is the study of a family's century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913. He then published his anti-Carson book Civil War in Ulster, attacking the process which culminated in the 1914 Larne gun-running. He contributed significantly to the emergent national movement. He wrote critically about 1930s economic policies, and went on the serve in the Irish Senate/Sennad from 1939 to 1954. His son RJ (b.1929) was a pioneer of the student left in TCD in the 1940s, and was associated with the post-war attempt to bring European Marxist thinking into the Irish labour movement, with the foundation of the Irish Workers League in 1948. After a period in London in the early 1960s, he returned to Dublin, this time as a research scientist, and helped Cathal Goulding in his attempt to get the 1960s generation of republicans to go political, in a democratic left-wing mode, decoupling from the Stalinist incubus. He helped set the stage for the emergence of the Civil Rights approach to reform in Northern politics, as a means of opening up an all-Ireland perspective. His opponents in the Republican movement, the Provisionals, opted for violence . In the ensuing decades he participated in various politicising processes which may, in the end, show the counter-productive nature of the role of the gun in politics, in Ireland and elsewhere. Roy Johnston lives in Dublin and continues to be politically active. "An important addition to any library of 20th century Irish Studies" Professor J.Skelly
Cluster physics is the foundation of the increasingly important field of nanotechnology. Clusters, ranging in size from a few to many millions of atoms, constitute a fascinating field of research in physics, chemistry and materials science. They are formed by most of the elements of the Periodic Table, and the types of bonding and the resultant clusters are equally as varied. This book introduces atomic clusters, ranging from weakly-bonded clusters of argon to strongly-bonded carbon clusters and metal nano-particles. It includes worked examples to enable lecturers and students to gauge their understanding and progress. Atomic and Molecular Clusters describes the experimental generation, detection and interrogation of clusters and theoretical approaches developed to aid understanding of their physical properties. It classifies clusters according to their bonding types and gives examples of present and possible future applications of clusters in electronic, optical and magnetic devices.
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional health-based environmental regulation. Regulatory laws and institutions themselves strongly influence the direction of scientific research by creating a system of rewards and penalties for science. As a consequence, regulatory laws or institutions that are designed naively end up incentivizing scientists to generate and then publish only those results that further the substantive regulatory goals preferred by the scientists. By relying so heavily on science to dictate policy, regulatory laws and institutions encourage scientists to use their assessment of the state of the science to further their own preferred scientific and regulatory policy agendas. Additionally, many environmental and natural resource regulatory agencies have been instructed by legislatures to rely heavily upon science in their rulemaking. In areas of rapidly evolving science, regulatory agencies are inevitably looking for scientific consensus prematurely, before the scientific process has worked through competing hypotheses and evidence. The contributors in this volume address how institutions for regulatory science should be designed in light of the inevitable misfit between the political or legal demand for regulatory action and the actual state of evolving scientific knowledge.
LEVEL 3This book includes explanation on the master symbol (Dai Ko Myo). Homework and Lessons about meditation, the History of Reiki. Aura and Psychic Bonds, the Crystal Grid with Reiki and Sacred Geometry.This manual contains detailed information Explanation for table session and the integration of master symbol. Level 4. This book includes explanation on the Tibetan master symbols (Raku, Fire Serpent, Dai ko Mio). It covers breathing techniques, purple breath and blue kidney breath, meditation in motion, different Reiki, sharing style and Reiki evening with teacher.It covers the value and spiritual importance of a master teacher, How to teach, the importance of Meditation, homework and daily practice.It includes class administration, business development and marketing ideas. Completely illustrated attunement for level 1,2,3,4 healing attunement and psychic attunements.It also covers the criterions of the Canadian Reiki Associationit is available in black and white or colour.206 pages, 210 picturesAbout the authorSonya received her Reiki 1 training in Vancouver in 2012 from Chrysta-Lynn. She continued her Reiki level 2 training in Vancouver in 2013 with Chrysta-Lynn. She received her Master Practitioner training from Gail Thackray in Vancouver in 2013 and then her Master Teacher training from Merrie Baker. She has been a member of the Canadian Reiki Association since 2013. In 2015, She created a Shamanic Reiki course based on her grand-mother's teaching. During her Reiki initiation at level 2, she had a vision of Master Mikao Usui who gave her the long-distance symbol for long distance reiki HSZSN. She continued her training with Karuna Reiki and Holy Fire(R) in Hawaii in 2016 with William Rand. Sonya was already practicing energy healing as her grand-mother Marie Jeanne Laniel-Desrosiers had taught her at the age of 14. She published her spiritual transformation in her book called I Dragon: biography of a spiritual transformation.She founded a wellness center in Vancouver naming it the Redu Wellness Center in 2013 and started offering energy healing treatments and giving reiki classes and other shamanic training. In 2017, she opened the Institut de la Conscience Éveillée in Québec and now offers classes in French, English in Canada, United-States, Europe and South America.
Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious and cultural beliefs behind them. What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerberos, who was captured by Herakles. For mere mortals, ritual and religion offered possibilities for ensuring a happy existence in the beyond, and some of the richest evidence for beliefs about death comes from southern Italy, where the local Italic peoples engaged with Greek beliefs. Monumental funerary vases that accompanied the deceased were decorated with consolatory scenes from myth, and around forty preserve elaborate depictions of Hades’s domain. For the first time in over four decades, these compelling vase paintings are brought together in one volume, with detailed commentaries and ample illustrations. The catalogue is accompanied by a series of essays by leading experts in the field, which provides a framework for understanding these intriguing scenes and their contexts. Topics include attitudes toward the afterlife in Greek ritual and myth, inscriptions on leaves of gold that provided guidance for the deceased, funerary practices and religious beliefs in Apulia, and the importance accorded to Orpheus and Dionysos. Drawing from a variety of textual and archaeological sources, this volume is an essential source for anyone interested in religion and belief in the ancient Mediterranean.
Level 2This book includes explanation on The Symbols (Chokurei, Seihiki, Honshazeshonen), Multiple Long Distance Healing techniques, REIKI on animals, Mental and Emotional healing.This manual contains detailed information Explanation for table session (on the back only). It also covers the criterions of the Canadian Reiki Associationit is available in black and white or colour.87 pages, 49 photosabout the author: Sonya received her Reiki 1 training in Vancouver in 2012 from Chrysta-Lynn. She continued her Reiki level 2 training in Vancouver in 2013 with Chrysta-Lynn. She received her Master Practitioner training from Gail Thackray in Vancouver in 2013 and then her Master Teacher training from Merrie Baker. She has been a member of the Canadian Reiki Association since 2013. In 2015, She created a Shamanic Reiki course based on her grand-mother's teaching. During her Reiki initiation at level 2, she had a vision of Master Mikao Usui who gave her the long-distance symbol for long distance reiki HSZSN. She continued her training with Karuna Reiki and Holy Fire(R) in Hawaii in 2016 with William Rand. Sonya was already practicing energy healing as her grand-mother Marie Jeanne Laniel-Desrosiers had taught her at the age of 14. She published her spiritual transformation in her book called I Dragon: biography of a spiritual transformation.She founded a wellness center in Vancouver naming it the Redu Wellness Center in 2013 and started offering energy healing treatments and giving reiki classes and other shamanic training. In 2017, she opened the Institut de la Conscience Éveillée in Québec and now offers classes in French, English in Canada, United-States, Europe and South America.
Level 1This book includes explanation on what is Reiki, how does it heal and work, the energy of Reiki, the Chakras, the history of Reiki, Japanese terms. It also covers the 5 principles of Reiki. This manual contains detailed information about self-Reiki session, chair session, explanation for Reiki table session (front and back)Level 2This book includes explanation on The Symbols (Chokurei, Seihiki, Honshazeshonen), Multiple Long Distance Healing techniques, REIKI on animals, Mental and Emotional healing.This manual contains detailed information Explanation for table session (on the back only). It also covers the criterions of the Canadian Reiki Associationit is available in black and white or colour.142 pages, 210 picturesabout the author: Sonya received her Reiki 1 training in Vancouver in 2012 from Chrysta-Lynn. She continued her Reiki level 2 training in Vancouver in 2013 with Chrysta-Lynn. She received her Master Practitioner training from Gail Thackray in Vancouver in 2013 and then her Master Teacher training from Merrie Baker. She has been a member of the Canadian Reiki Association since 2013. In 2015, She created a Shamanic Reiki course based on her grand-mother's teaching. During her Reiki initiation at level 2, she had a vision of Master Mikao Usui who gave her the long-distance symbol for long distance reiki HSZSN. She continued her training with Karuna Reiki and Holy Fire(R) in Hawaii in 2016 with William Rand. Sonya was already practicing energy healing as her grand-mother Marie Jeanne Laniel-Desrosiers had taught her at the age of 14. She published her spiritual transformation in her book called I Dragon: biography of a spiritual transformation.She founded a wellness center in Vancouver naming it the Redu Wellness Center in 2013 and started offering energy healing treatments and giving reiki classes and other shamanic training. In 2017, she opened the Institut de la Conscience Éveillée in Québec and now offers classes in French, English in Canada, United-States, Europe and South America.
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