The Silence Of Barbara Synge

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A unique cultural history which describes the various maneuvers of the Synge family in its negotiations with Irish history.

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Genre : Dramatists
Author : W. J. McCormack
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release : 2003
File : 330 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0719062780


Performance Modernity And The Plays Of J M Synge

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Explores concepts of performance, modernity and progress by combining performance studies and historical research with contextualised readings of Synge's plays.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Hélène Lecossois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2020-11-26
File : 237 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108487795


It S Silence Soundly

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It’s Silence, Soundly, It’s Nothing, Seriously and It’s Absence, Presently, continue The ‘It’ Series published by Matador since The Book of It (2010). They constitute another stage in an artistic journey exploring the visual and audial dialectic of mark, word and image that began over 25 years ago. In their aesthetic form the books are a decentred trilogy united together in a new concept of The Bibliograph. All three present this new aesthetic object, which transcends the narrow limits of the academic bibliography. The alphabetical works also share a tripartite structure and identical length. The Bibliograph itself is characterised by its strategic place within each book as a whole as well as by the complex variations in meaning of the dominant motifs – nothing/ness, absence and silence – which recur throughout the alphabetical entries that constitute the elements of each text. It’s Nothing, Seriously, for example, addresses the amusing paradox that so much continues to be written today about – nothing! The aleatory character of the entries in the texts encourage the modern reader to reflect on each theme and to read them in a new way. The reader is invited as well to examine their various inter-textual relations across given conventional boundaries in the arts and sciences at several levels of physical, psychical & social reproduction.

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Genre : Literary Collections
Author : John McGreal
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release : 2016-04-21
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781785892233


An Irish Literature Reader

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In a volume that has become a standard text in Irish studies and serves as a course-friendly alternative to the Field Day anthology, editors Maureen O’Rourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey thirteen centuries of Irish literature, including Old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs, and drama. For each author the editors provide a biographical sketch, a brief discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography. In addition, this new volume includes a larger sampling of women writers.

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Genre : Literary Collections
Author : Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Release : 2015-02-01
File : 579 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780815630388


Echoes Down The Corridor

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Essays on contemporary Irish theatre

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Genre : Drama
Author : International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. Conference
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release : 2007
File : 224 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1904505252


Playboys Of The Western World

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Essays on the production and performances of J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World including a study of the acclaimed Druid production directed by Garry Hynes.

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Genre : Drama
Author : Adrian Fraser
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release : 2004
File : 206 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1904505066


Land Agent

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This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpacking the nature and processes of their power, 'The Land Agent' explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.

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Genre : History
Author : Lowri Ann Rees
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release : 2018-06-08
File : 272 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781474438889


Discovering The End Of Time

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Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at last, final judgment and deep eternity. In Discovering the End of Time, Donald Akenson traces the primary vector of apocalyptic millennialism to southern Ireland in the 1820s and ’30s. Surprisingly, these apocalyptic concepts – which many scholars associate with the poor, the ill-educated, and the desperate – were articulated most forcefully by a rich, well-educated coterie of Irish Protestants. Drawing a striking portrait of John Nelson Darby, the major figure in the evolution of evangelical dispensationalism, Akenson demonstrates Darby’s formative influence on ideas that later came to have a foundational impact on American evangelicalism in general and on Christian fundamentalism in particular. Careful to emphasize that recognizing the origins of apocalyptic millennialism in no way implies a judgment on the validity of its constructs, Akenson draws on a deep knowledge of early nineteenth-century history and theology to deliver a powerful history of an Irish religious elite and a major intersection in the evolution of modern Christianity. Opening the door into an Ireland that was hiding in plain sight, Discovering the End of Time tells a remarkable story, at once erudite, conversational, and humorous, and characterized by an impressive range and depth of research.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 2016-04-01
File : 553 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773598508


Maria Spilsbury 1776 820

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Maria Spilsbury Taylor (1776-1820) lived and worked in London and Ireland and was patronized by the Prince Regent. A painter of portraits, genre scenes, biblical subjects and large crowd compositions - an unusual feature in women's art of this period - she is represented in major museums and art galleries as well as in numerous private collections. Her work, hitherto considered on a purely decorative level, merits closer attention. For the first time, this volume argues the relevance of Spilsbury's religious background, and in particular her evangelical and Moravian connections, to the interpretation of her art and examines her pervasive, and often inovert references to the Bible, hymnody and religious writing. The art that emerges is distinctly Protestant and evangelical, offering a vivid illustration of the mood of patriotic, Protestant fervour that characterized the quarter century succeeding the French revolution. This focus may be situated in the general context of increasing interest in the religious faith of historical actors - men and women - in the eighteenth century, and in the related contexts of growing acknowledgement of a religious aspect to "enlightenment" art, as well as investigations into Protestant culture in Ireland. The book is extensively illustrated and contains a list of all of Spilsbury's known works.

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Genre : Art
Author : Charlotte Yeldham
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-07-05
File : 218 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351559232


Protestant Millennialism Evangelicalism And Irish Society 1790 2005

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This volume documents the evolution and impact of one of the most enduring sources and symbols of sectarian conflict in Ireland - Protestant millennialism. The volume explores new sources and offers new conclusions, setting a new research agenda and emphasizing the vitality of religious discourse in Irish studies.

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Genre : History
Author : C. Gribben
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2006-07-10
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780230595941