Patrick Geoghegan: King Dan - The Rise of Daniel O'Connell 1775 - 1829 (Gill & MacMillan, 2008)

Patrick Geoghegan’s interpretative biography (the first of two volumes) concentrates on O’Connell’s glory period, culminating in 1829. The book provides a radical new interpretation of O’Connell’s reckless youth, his career as a lawyer, and his titanic struggle to win Catholic emancipation over a quarter of a century. Recognising his flaws as well as his greatness, it shows the forces that drove him to create and lead an entirely new movement in...

• Read More

Marie-Louise Coolahan: Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland

Marie-Louise Coolahan: Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (Oxford University Press: 2010)

This book examines writing in English, Irish, and Spanish by women living in Ireland and by Irish women living on the continent between the years 1574 and 1676. This was a tumultuous period of political, religious, and linguistic contestation that encompassed the key power struggles of early modern Ireland. This study brings to light the ways in which women contributed...

• Read More

Niamh Moore: Dublin Docklands Reinvented

Dublin Docklands Reinvented: The post-industrial regeneration of a European city quarter (Four Courts Press, 2008)

Over the last twenty years, the redevelopment of the docklands has radically altered the physical fabric and social structure of a large part of Dublin City both north and south of the river. What has happened in the city is not entirely unique and has many international parallels in places like New York, London and Sydney. This book sets out to examine how...

• Read More

Kay Inckle: Flesh Wounds

Kay Inckle Flesh Wounds? New Ways of Understanding Self-Injury (PCCS Books: Ross-On-Wye, 2010)

Synopsis:Flesh Wounds? is a collection of ethnographic fictions, or research-based stories, about self-injury (sometimes called self-harm). The stories explore the meaning and purpose of self-injury in an individual’s life; the experiences that might lead to self-injury; and which approaches and responses to self-injury are helpful and which are not. It is...

• Read More

Niamh Puirseil: The Irish Labour Party

The Irish Labour Party 1922-73

(UCD Press, 2007) 408 pp.

The Irish Labour Party 1922-73

(UCD Press, 2007) 408 pp.

During the 1950s, Jack White, the deputy editor of the Irish Times was asked by a foreign colleague to explain the irrelevance of the left-right cleavage in Irish politics. ‘Draw a line, and put all the parties well to the right,’ he explained. ‘But what about...

• Read More

Anna R. Davies: Garbage Governance

The Geographies of Garbage Governance: Interventions, Interactions and Outcomes.

Previously perceived as a local, technical issue for governments, waste management is now also a global, socio-political process involving complex patterns of multi-level governance. Yet these geographical complexities have not previously been considered in any detail. This book examines the neglected geographies of waste management, in particular, the integral...

• Read More