'Dreimire Pharthais is i an phaidir...' [English translation below]T ceol is filocht an phobail le fil sa dolaim shuntasach seo de phaidreacha dchasacha Gaeilge n Mhenaois go dt an l inniu - paidreacha a tugadh ghlin go glin mar chuid den traidisin bil. Le domhan na Gaeilge a bhaineann na paidreacha seo, agus t teanga is rithim na seanamhrn le sonr iontu.Seo chugainn na haingle agus na haspail; Brd agus a brat; Michel agus a sciath; Naomh Pdraig agus Colm Cille Dhn na nGall. Maisithe le saothar Evie Hone, an t-ealaontir crifeach, tugtar dinn sa leabhar seo meascn de phaidreacha d'cid ar leith, d'fhilt ar leith agus roinnt paidreacha mra, ina measc 'Lireach Phdraig' agus 'Caoineadh na dTr Mhuire'. T an creideamh le sonr iontu i nDia grmhar - chomh maith le ceiliradh ar gach rud 'n n is sle crannchuir go dt an t-ainm is airde'. /'The prayer is a ladder to ParadiseThe music and poetry of the Irish people is to be found in this wonderful anthology that spans two thousand years of devotion. Emerging from oral culture, these prayers are charged with the language and rhythms of traditional song.Here are the angels and the apostles; Brd and her cloak; Michael and his shield; and the great Irish saints Patrick and Colm Cille. Featuring reproductions of works by stained glass artist Evie Hone, this book presents prayers for every season and occasion. At every turn they sing the praises of a loving God - and celebrate all of creation, 'from the lowliest thing to the highest name'.

The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and achievement by bringing together 36 leading scholars of modern Ireland and embracing 400 years of Irish history, uniting early and late modernists as well as contemporary historians. The Handbook offers a set of scholarly perspectives drawn from numerous disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, and the Irish language. It looks at the Irish at home as well as in their migrant and diasporic communities. The Handbook combines sets of wide thematic and interpretative essays, with more detailed investigations of particular periods. Each of the contributors offers a summation of the state of scholarship within their subject area, linking their own research insights with assessments of future directions within the discipline. In its breadth and depth and diversity, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History offers an authoritative and vibrant portrayal of the history of modern Ireland.

Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies—typewriters, gramophones, print, radio, television, computers—have influenced Irish literary practices and cultural production, while also examining how technology has been embraced as a theme in Irish writing. Once a largely rural and agrarian society, contemporary Ireland has embraced the communicative, performative and consumptive habits of a culture utterly reliant on the digital. This text plumbs the origins of the present moment, examining the longer history of literature's interactions with the technological and exploring how the transformative capacity of modern technology has been mediated throughout a diverse national canon. Comprising essays from some of the major figures of Irish literary and cultural studies, this volume offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive account of how Irish literature and culture have interacted with technology.

"This book provides a unique portrait of life in an Irish parish, Kilfearagh, Co. Clare, in the years before the Great Famine ... [It] describes old customs, the Kilkee Races, hurling and dancing on the green and strand, the drink and temperance scenario, and faction fighting; and then there were the tourists and visitors (including day trippers) and a summer 'transplanting of a little Limerick" in the hotels and lodges of Kilkee, all nicely and humorously described."--Back cover.