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The University of Limerick (UL), the first university to be established since the foundation of the Irish state, came about through determined local campaigns. This sumptuously illustrated volume celebrates UL' s fiftieth anniversary, presenting fifty contributions from or about people associated with the university.A wide diversity of writings ranges from scholarly essays to students' tweets, through poems, presentations and personal memoirs. Voices include those of Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Donal Ryan, Denise Chaila, President Michael D Higgins, Donnah Sibanda Vuma, Paul O' Connell, Dr Sindy Joyce, Bill Whelan, Mary O' Malley, Noel Hogan of The Cranberries, Kathy Rose O' Brien and the late Mí cheá l Ó Sú illeabhá in.

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist Benedict Kiely (1919–2007) was not only one of the best-known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its people, and the many-voiced quality of its traditions, has secured for him a unique place in the country’s literary history.His substantial body of fiction and non-fiction is a repository of lore and learning, which amply rewards the interest shown in it over many years, by both the general public and Irish and international literary scholarship.In a Harbour Green reveals this interest with fresh insight and awareness. Written by leading Irish and international critics, these essays illuminate all facets of Benedict Kiely’s output, providing for the first time a comprehensive account of its formal variety and artistic range, its historic origins and inimitable style.The result is a long-awaited, informative and warmly appreciative assessment of Benedict Kiely’s imaginative accomplishments and cultural significance. In a Harbour Green breathes new life into his work and places the artist himself at the heart of Irish literature, where he belongs.

Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historical in scope and overwhelmingly male in content. Too often the 'shadow of the gunman' has dominated. Little recognition has been given to the part women have played, yet over the centuries they have undertaken a variety of roles - as combatants, prisoners, writers and politicians. In this exciting new book the full range of women's contribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by writers whose interests range from the historical and sociological to the literary and cultural. From the little-known contribution of women to the earliest nationalist uprising of the 1600s and 1700s, to their active participation in the republican campaigns of the twentieth century, different chapters consider the changing contexts of female militancy and the challenge this has posed to masculine images and structures. Using a wide range of sources, including textual analysis, archives and documents, newspapers and autobiographies, interviews and action research, the authors examine sensitive and highly complex debates around women's role in situations of conflict. At the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, this is a major contribution to wider feminist debates about the gendering of nationalism, raising questions about the extent to which women's rights, demands and concerns can ever be fully accommodated within nationalist movement.

This striking and pioneering collection offers fresh and diverse perspectives on the impact of the Great Famine in Ireland, with particular reference to the experience in the province of Ulster - much neglected in histories, but which prompted the political geography and sectarian divisions that persisted into the twentieth century. This important new volume, edited by Patrick Fitzgerald and Anthony Russell, addresses many issues previously under-explored and delves into the immeasurable impact of starvation, illness, and emigration on Irish society and the diaspora. The use of relatively neglected sources shines a vital new light on the experience of Famine migrants entering British North America; John Mitchel, the international radical and renowned thinker, is similarly examined in both Old and New World environments, providing original insights. Through history, geography, literary studies, demography, folklore, biography, and local and family studies, the authors address new questions and prompt fresh debates. The Legacy of the Great Irish Famine redefines all notions of this epochal moment in Irish history - a legacy previously unwritten. [Subject: Irish Studies, History, Famine Studies]

"This pioneering collection focuses on the politics and economics of the island of Ireland in the aftermath of the struggle for Independence. It overturns traditional thinking on the formation of the Irish state, the birth of democracy and national identity in modern Ireland. Included is a fascinating study of the Shannon hyro-electric posters and the birth of the Senate."--Publisher's website.