Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 32 results for “eamon maher”
Skip side bar filters

  • Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

    From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

    by Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien ...
    This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary, both of whom were subsequently revealed to have been engaged in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The John McGahern Companion

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 150 - Reimagining Ireland
    This collection of essays by established McGahern scholars and others interested in his work was put together to assess the writer’s current status some 20 years after his death in 2006. The Companion covers various aspects of McGahern’s oeuvre: the reception of his books among readers and literary critics; his epistolary exchanges with publishers, friends and family, and the adaptations that have ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Paving the Path to Peace

    Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 137 - Reimagining Ireland
    From the Foreword:«This important contribution...to the history of this period shines a light on voices often left in the shadows of history's formal and established narrative, voices that reached across divides, laying down the roots of trust and shared humanity that would make the peace process possible. This work serves as both a reminder and a call. It is a reminder of the vital contributions ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Freedom of Speech in the Press in Times of Conflict

    Historical Perspectives from Ireland and Europe

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 26 - Studies in Franco-Irish Relations
    In times of conflict, especially times of war, pressures on freedom of the press, even in societies that value a free press, inevitably increase – and often involve formal government censorship. Support of one’s country or, in the case of internal conflicts, of one side or another – usually, indeed, of the authorities – can be regarded as a duty. Dissent, even criticism, in the press is less ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Limerick Boycott in Context

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 136 - Reimagining Ireland
    'Historically it has been fashionable to view the Limerick Boycott as a deplorable but isolated incident. The essays in this volume expertly challenge this view, assiduously placing the boycott in much wider religious and political contexts.'- Geoffrey Alderman, Professor Emeritus, University of Buckingham'The contributors brilliantly embed the Limerick Boycott amid the land and cultural movements ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Prophetic Voice

    Jean Sulivan's Ongoing Relevance in France and Ireland

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 25 - Studies in Franco-Irish Relations
    A deft, masterful study of the life and work of Jean Sulivan. Maher makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of Sulivan’s writings in challenging times and illuminates crucial and often neglected intersections between faith and fiction. A book to cherish. — Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)Thanks to Eamon Maher’s tireless work, Sulivan’s output is now reaching the wider audience ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • 'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror'

    200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While his name is well known to aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Reimagining Ireland Reader

    Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 0 - Reimagining Ireland
    To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, carefully chosen to give a flavour of the diversity and multidisciplinary nature of the series. Following a chronological order, it begins with an essay by Luke Gibbons tracing the roots of modernity from the middle decades ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Ireland and the North

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 91 - Reimagining Ireland
    Ireland and the North is an edited collection of chapters engaging with the relationship between Ireland and the Nordic countries. As a spatial and geographical point of reference for the formation of political and cultural identities in Ireland, the idea of «the North» encourages the identification of overlooked connections between Ireland and the Nordic countries, which, like Ireland, are also ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Recalling the Celtic Tiger

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 93 - Reimagining Ireland
    This book looks at various effects, symptoms and consequences of the period in Irish culture known as the Celtic Tiger. It will trace the critical pathway from boom to bust – and up to the current beginnings of a similar, smaller boom – through events, personalities and products. The short entries offer a sense of the lived experience of this seismic period in contemporary Irish society.While ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Voices from the Margins

    Gender and the Everyday in Women’s Pre- and Post- Agreement Troubles Short Fiction

    by Mercedes del Campo, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 107 - Reimagining Ireland
    Voices from the Margins explores the particular emphasis that women writers of Troubles short fiction have placed on gender and the everyday, two areas which have often been relegated to the margins of the «official story» about the Northern Irish conflict and peace process. Women’s Troubles short stories integrate the domestic plot into the larger historical framework of political violence, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Giving Shape to the Moment

    The Art of Mary O'Donnell: Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 88 - Reimagining Ireland
    This is the first book to provide a critical assessment of the work of the Irish author Mary O’Donnell. The essays collected here engage with O’Donnell’s writing across multiple genres and explore the themes and preoccupations that have characterized her oeuvre. Alongside her creative work, O’Donnell’s has been a steady and continuing voice for many years within the world of theatre criticism, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD