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Placing the public in public health in post-war Britain, 1948–2012
This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in Britain from the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948, the book presents a new perspective on the relationship between state and citizen. Focusing on health education, health s…
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- 1
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- 9783030186852
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- viii, 141 p: ill.
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- 362.109 ALE p
Morality and nationalism
This book takes a unique approach to explore the moral foundations of nationalism. Drawing on nationalist writings and examining almost 200 years of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, the author develops a theory of nationalism based on its role in representation. The study of nationalism has tended towards the construction of dichotomies – arguing, for example, that there are political and c…
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- 9780415378994
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- 224 hlm
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- 320.5401
Cultural convergence : the dublin gate theatre, 1928-1960
Based on extensive archival research, this open access book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) over the first three decades of its existence, discussing some of its remarkable productions in the comparative contexts of avant-garde theatre, Hollywood cinema, popular culture, and the development of Irish-language theatre, respectively. The overarching objecti…
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- 9783030575625
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- XVIII, 244 p
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- 792.09 OND c
Disorder Contained : Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ir…
Disorder Contained is the first historical account of the complex relationship between prison discipline and mental breakdown in England and Ireland. Between 1840 and 1900 the expansion of the modern prison system coincided with increased rates of mental disorder among prisoners, exacerbated by the introduction of regimes of isolation, deprivation and hard labour. Drawing on a range of archival…
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- 9781108993586
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- ix, 318 p ; ill
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- 365.608740941 DIS C
Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas gov…
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- 9783030701314
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- xi, 292 p.
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- -
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- 909.097124106 REL H
Essays in honour of Eammon Cantwell : Yeats Annual No. 20
This number of Yeats Annual collects the essays resulting from the University College Cork/ESB International Annual W. B. Yeats Lectures Series (2003-2008) by Roy Foster, Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Paul Muldoon, Bernard O’Donoghue and Helen Vendler. Those that were available in pamphlet form are now collectors’ items, but here is the complete series. These revised essays cover such themes a…
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- 9781783741793
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- xlv, 464 p.
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- 821.809 GOU e
Making the void fruitful : yeats as spiritual seeker and petrarchan lover
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats—widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century—this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet’s long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats’s v…
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- 9781800643222
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- viii, 2p. ; ill.
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- 821.8 KEA m
A history of force feeding : hunger strikes, prisons and medical ethics, 1909…
This book is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It also explores the fraught role of prison doctors called upon to perform the…
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- 9783319311135
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- ix, 267p. : ill.
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- 306.09 MIL h
Defying the IRA?: intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Re…
This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing o…
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- 9781781383544
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- xi, 230p.: 24 cm.
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- Reappraisals in Irish history
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- 941.50821 HUG d
Contemporary Irish women poets : memory and estrangement
This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the comple…
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- 9781781381878
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- xi, 241 p.; 22 cm.
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- -
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- 821.09928709415 COL c
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