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Irish Culture and the People

Populism and Its Discontents

By: Seamus O'Malley

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Irish Culture and the People

Populism and Its Discontents

By: Seamus O'Malley

This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fog of populist discourse and expose the hollowness of its claims. Yet in both politics and culture, populism can be a generative force. Daniel O'Connell, and later the Land League, utilized populist discourse to advance Irish political freedom and expand rights. The most powerful works of Lady Gregory and Ernie O'Malley are their portraits of The People that borrows from the populist vocabulary. While we must be critical of populist discourse, we dismiss it at our loss. This study synthesizes existing scholarship on populism to explore how Irish texts have evoked The People--a crucial rhetorical move for populist discourse--and how some writers have critiqued, adopted, and adapted the languages of Irish populisms.

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Oxford University Press

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0192858416

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9780192858412

The Conversion of Ignatius Moriarty

By: Seamus McNinch

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The Conversion of Ignatius Moriarty

By: Seamus McNinch

It is an account of actual events in Ireland and the ongoing conflict there. The author, as depicted in his CV, was an active participant as a member of the British Army and MI6.

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201

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524517003

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9781524517007

Selected Poems 1988-2013

By: Seamus Heaney

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Selected Poems 1988-2013

By: Seamus Heaney

A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet Often considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with "the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values." Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was "the only poet I can think of who was recognized worldwide as having moral as well as literary authority." Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney began to compile Selected Poems 1988–2013, and although he was unable to complete the project, his choices have been followed here. This volume encapsulates the finest work from Seeing Things (1991) with its lines of loss and revelation; The Spirit Level (1996) where we experience "the poem as ploughshare that turns time / Up and over."; the landmark translation of Beowulf (1999); Electric Light (2001), a book of origins and oracles; and his final collections, District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010), which limn the interconnectedness of being, our lifelines to our inherited past.

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241

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Macmillan

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0374535612

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9780374535612

Human Chain

Poems

By: Seamus Heaney

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Human Chain

Poems

By: Seamus Heaney

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present—the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems that stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other "hermit songs" that weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled "Route 101" plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s childhood to the birth of a first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead—friends, neighbors, family—that is yet wholly and movingly vernacular. Human Chain also includes a poetic "herbal" adapted from the Breton poet Guillevic—lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things and landscapes that exclude human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466855673

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9781466855670

Opened Ground

Selected Poems, 1966-1996

By: Seamus Heaney

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Opened Ground

Selected Poems, 1966-1996

By: Seamus Heaney

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry.

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468

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466855703

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9781466855700

The Spirit Level

Poems

By: Seamus Heaney

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The Spirit Level

Poems

By: Seamus Heaney

In The Spirit Level, as ever with Seamus Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466855746

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9781466855748

Stepping Stones

Interviews with Seamus Heaney

By: Dennis O'Driscoll,Seamus Heaney

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Stepping Stones

Interviews with Seamus Heaney

By: Dennis O'Driscoll,Seamus Heaney

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney, from his infancy to his Nobel Prize in 1995, and also discusses his post-Nobel life, family, writings, and other related topics.

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576

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Macmillan

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0374269831

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9780374269838

Interpreting the 'Spirit of Assisi'

Challenges to Interfaith Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

By: Thomas Joseph Herbst,Kevin McDonald,Marc Saperstein,Seamus Mulholland,Chris Dyczek,Bridget Tighe,Reza Shah-Kazemi,Jeremy Worthen,John Hind,Ralph Norman,Martin Ganeri,Monica Tobon,Gavin D'Costa

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Interpreting the 'Spirit of Assisi'

Challenges to Interfaith Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

By: Thomas Joseph Herbst,Kevin McDonald,Marc Saperstein,Seamus Mulholland,Chris Dyczek,Bridget Tighe,Reza Shah-Kazemi,Jeremy Worthen,John Hind,Ralph Norman,Martin Ganeri,Monica Tobon,Gavin D'Costa

Interpreting the Spirit of Assisi Challenges to Interfaith Dialogue in a Pluralistic World Edited by Maria Diemling and Thomas J. Herbst Pope John Paul II convened the Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi on 27 October 1986. It brought together believers from Christian denominations and representatives from many other religions to pray for peace. Some regard it as one of the most important religious events of modern times. This book presents the proceedings of a conference held in Canterbury commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Popes ground-breaking initiative. The contributions reflect on the legacy of this meeting and appraise its significance, explore the radically changed religious landscape since 9/11 and engage with interfaith encounters from historical perspectives. The first part of the book examines the Assisi meeting within the ecclesiological context following the Second Vatican Council. In the second part, scholars offer historical perspectives on interfaith engagement from a specifically Franciscan point of view. Part three looks at theological challenges in interfaith dialogue both from contemporary and historical perspectives. Reflecting John Paul IIs invocation to Pray for Peace, the final part of the book deals with prayer and spirituality.The volume includes contributions by Gavin D Costa, Christopher Dyczek OFM, Martin R. Ganeri OP, Thomas J.Herbst OFM, John Hind, Kevin McDonald, Seamus Mulholland OFM, Ralph Norman, Marc Saperstein, Reza Shah-Kazemi, Bridget Tighe FMDM, Monica Tobon and Jeremy Worthen. Maria Diemling (Dr. Phil. University of Vienna) is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University.Thomas J. Herbst OFM (D.Phil. Oxford University) is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology and Church History and Course Director of the BA/MA Theology at the Franciscan International Study Center.

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362

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Tau Publishing

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1619562014

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9781619562011

Book's by Seamus Mulholland

Irish Culture and the People

Irish Culture and the People

The Conversion of Ignatius Moriarty

The Conversion of Ignatius Moriarty

Selected Poems 1988-2013

Selected Poems 1988-2013

Human Chain

Human Chain

Opened Ground

Opened Ground

The Spirit Level

The Spirit Level

Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones

Interpreting the 'Spirit of Assisi'

Interpreting the 'Spirit of Assisi'

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