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  • 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

  • Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy

    Edited by Derek Hand, Eamon Maher ...
    This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning in Ireland. The reason why so many people felt his loss so keenly is probably due to the fact that McGahern’s attention to detail, his ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeking Success and Confronting Failure

    The British Army’s campaigns in Ireland and Northern Ireland, 1919 to 2007

    by Geoffrey Sloan, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 145 - Reimagining Ireland
    The conventional view of the British Army’s two Ireland campaigns - first in Southern Ireland [1919-1921] and then, two generations later, in Northern Ireland [1969-2007] – are that the first was an outright defeat and the second, a military stalemate. This book challenges these judgements. Deploying hitherto unused or misunderstood archival materials, it documents how in both campaigns the Army, ... Read more

    $41.39 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

    $54.99 USD

  • 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

    $22.29 USD

  • The Catholic Church in Ireland Today

    by John C. Waldmeir, Brian R. Calfano, John Littleton, Eamon Maher, Matthew J. O'Brien, Elizabeth A. Oldmixon, James Silas Rogers, Andrew Auge, Agata Piekosz0, Michele Dillon1, Dr Bernadette Flanagan2 ...
    From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware of plunging Mass attendance, the Irish Church today is confronted with the loss of its ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Reimagining Ireland Reader

    Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future

    Edited 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

  • The SDLP, Politics and Peace

    The Mark Durkan Interviews

    by Graham Spencer, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 135 - Reimagining Ireland
    «Compelling, informative, essential»(Senator George Mitchell)«Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly witty.»(Michael Lillis, diplomatic advisor to Garret FitzGerald and Irish government negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Agreement)«Once ... Read more

    $20.89 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

  • From prosperity to austerity

    A socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath

    Edited by Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien ...
    This collection examines the Irish economic phenomenon of the Celtic Tiger and the financial disaster that came in its wake, from a socio-cultural perspective. It focuses on how these financial developments have been reflected in writing, film and culture in order to offer a more rounded analysis of the effects of this momentous period on people’s lives.Employing a wide range of cultural lenses, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • New Beginnings

    Perspectives from France and Ireland

    Edited by Máirtin Mac Con Iomaire, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 20 - Studies in Franco-Irish Relations
    This collection emerged from a conference held in TU Dublin at a time when the theme of «New Beginnings» seemed particularly apposite. In the few years prior to the gathering, COVID-19 had brought the world to almost a complete standstill. The need to recalibrate, to find new and more effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis, domestic and international politics, literary expression, and ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Sounding the Margins

    Literary examples from France and Ireland

    Edited by Sarah Nolan Balen, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 19 - Studies in Franco-Irish Relations
    Sounding the Margins is the second of two publications to emerge from the highly successful AFIS conference hosted by the Université de Lille in 2019. Concentrating on the literary manifestations of marginality in Ireland and France, the essays treat of various texts that demonstrate the extent to which marginality is a recurring trope. This may well be because writers tend to situate themselves ... Read more

    $59.29 USD