Read Ireland Book News - Issue 45
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Veronica Guerin: Life and Death of a Crime Reporter by Emily O'Reilly (Paperback; 8.25 IRP / 12.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
At 1pm on 26 June 1996, the Sunday Independent's crime reporter Veronica Guerin was shot dead by a motorcycle pillion passenger as she waited at traffic lights on the outskirts of Dublin - the victim of her own crusading expose of leading criminals. Her death profoundly shocked the country. Both the President and the Taoiseach attended her funeral; tributes were paid to her in the Dail, and members of the public placed hundreds of bouquets of flowers in her memory. Within a month the government had introduced new anti-crime measures and two of the leading murder suspects had fled the country. While Guerin was hailed as a heroine, the finest journalist of her generation, the Sunday Independent was busy denying culpability in her death, and its officials vigorously refuted accusations that the paper's cult of personality and cynical controversialism put its writers in danger. This book exposes the frightening moral bankruptcy of the media in Ireland and the devastating consequences of this - for the individual and for Irish society.
Jews in Twentieth-Ceutury Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust by Dermot Keogh (Paperback; 16.99 IRP/ 25.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book analyses the relationship between the Irish state and the Jewish community in the 1930s and throws new light on the rise of anti-Semitism and on Nazi propaganda activity in the pre-war years. The anti-Semitism of the Irish envoy in Berlin, Charles Bewley, is evaluated in the context of the country's restrictive refugee policy. Particular emphasis is placed on the friendship between the Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera and Chief Rabbi of the Irish Free State, Isaac Herzog, which endured through the war years. The author assesses Ireland's humanitarian record during the Holocaust and its aftermath and examines the place of the Holocaust in the memory of Irish people, and finally traces the history of the Irish Jewish community from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Fellowship of Freedom: The United Irishmen & the Rebellion of 1798 from the National Library of Ireland (CD-ROM; 15.95 IRP / 24.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
To commemorate the Bi-Centenary of the United Irishmen of 1798, the National Library in association with the National Museum have produced this interactive CD-Rom. There are four major sections on the disc, accessed through popular patriotic prints, displayed on a Victorian style living room wall. In the first section, Francis Wheatley's spectacular painting "The Volunteers on Stephen's Green" is used to explore the political context of the late 18th century. The trial of William Orr in 1797 is reconstructed using consutmed actors to open up the fascinating world of Ulster Prebysterianism. Orr, the first republican martyr was a respected and respectable Ulster Presbyterian United Irishman. His dignified behaviour on the scaffold electrified Antrim and Down. The third section features the five principal theatres of war: Bantry Bay, South Leinster, the Dublin area, East Ulster, and Connaught and are accessed through period maps. A series of interactive animated battle plans follow the military campaigns throughout Ireland and French efforts to assist the campaign. The final section provides an illustrated biography of 23 of the leader of the United Irishmen movement. (Apple Macintosh and PC compatible. Minimum requirements: 2x CD-Rom; 8 MB RAM; 256 Colour Display; 20 MD Free Hard Disk space).
Andrew Bryson's Ordeal: An Epilogue to the 1798 Rebellion edited by Michael Durey (Paperback; 8.99 IRP / 14.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
Andrew Bryson was the son of a Prebysterian leaseholder and prominent United Irishman in County Down. Though rapidly promoted to 'colonel', he does not seem to have participated in the county's few skirmishes during the rising of 1798. After a few months in hiding, he was punished not by execution or transportation, but by cumpulsory enlistment in the regular army. In a long and reflective letter to his sister, written in 1801 after his escape to New York, Bryson provided a vivid chronicle of his enforced travels through Ireland and beyond. The chaotic state of the Irish jails, and the casual cruelty often displayed by jailers and yeomanry, is described in sometimes painful detail. Sustained by his idealism and native wit, Bryson survived the long march from Belfast to Waterford and even the more rigorous voyage to Martinique. The letter ends with an absorbing account of sadism, sickness and the Irish expatriate solidarity in that exotic Caribbean setting. The edited reconstructs the fraternal and intellectual bonds which supported Ulster's United Irishmen, even after their dispersal across the globe. The publication of this forgotten manuscript is a major contribution to the bicentennial commemoration of Ireland's bloodiest rebellion.
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland edited by Anthony Bradley and Maryann Gialanella Valiulis (Paperback; 15.50 IRP / 22.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This collection of stimulating essays focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Irish history, biography, language, literature and drama. While the contributors employ a variety of methodological and critical perspectives, they share the conviction that the gendering of Ireland - not only of the nation, but also of the actual Irish men and women - is a construction of culture and ideology and not simply one of nature.
Table of Contents: Queering the Irish Renaissance: The Masculinities of Moore, Martyn, and Yeats by Adrian Frazier; Cathleen ni Houlihan Writed Back: Maud Gonne and Irish National Theater by Antoinette Quinn; Nationalism, Pacifism, Internationalism: Louie Bennett, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, and the Problems of 'Defining Feminism' by Margaret Ward; The Fionnuala Factor: Irish Sibling Emigration at the Turn of the Century by Maureen Murphy; 'Oh, Kathleen Ni Houlihan, Your Way's a Thorny Way!': The Condition of Women in 20th Century Ireland by Mary E. Daly; The posthumous Life of Roger Casement by Lucy McDiarmid; Gender, Sexuality, and Englishness in Modern Irish Drama and Film by Elizabeth Butler Cullingford; 'Our Bodies' Eyes and Writing Hands': Secrecy and Sensuality in Ni Chuilleanain's Baroque Art by Dillon Johnston; 'The More with Which We are Connected': The Muse of the Minus in the Poetry of McGuckian and Kinsella; Godly Burden: The Catholic Sisterhoods in 20th Century Ireland by Margaret MacCurtain; The Changing Face of Cathleen ni Houlihan: Women and Politics in Ireland, 1960-1966 by Catherine B. Shannon; 'Hello Divorce, Goodbye Daddy': Women, Gender, and the Divorce Debate by Carol Coulter; Language, Stories, Healing by Angela Bourke
It Means Michief by Kate Thompson (Paperback; 6.99 IRP / 10.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
Young Dublin actress Deirdre has just landed her first big role and desperately wants to shine --and to impress David, the director she has fallen madly in love with. But while Deirdre loves David, David loves leading lady Eva. Meanwhile, Sebastian and Rory wait in thewings … A funny, entertaining and sexy backstage tale set in Dublin's theatre world, the romantic adventures of a young woman who - during one long hot summer - discovers the difference between infatuation, lust and love.
The Road to Vinegar Hill: A 1798 Love Story by Harry McHugh (Paperback; 7.99 IRP / 12.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
Forced to fly from his school in France to escape the horrors and dangers of the French Revolution, Conal O'Carran sets out to return to his native Duncarran in the north of Ireland. In his naivety he looks forward to reclaiming the family lands he has not seen since infancy. But when he arrives at Duncarran he finds that English colonists have appropriated the estates and the O'Carran castle lies in ruins.
At the same time, Nuala Grogan leaves her Academy for the Daughters of Gentlemen in Dublin, expecting to embark on a life of luxury, gaiety and excitement. But her father is deeply in debt, he too at the mercy of Sir Julius Besant, the English owner of Duncarran.
Circumstances bring Conal and Nuala together but they face a dramatic and heart-rending struggle to shape their own destinies in the face of events beyond their control. The exciting incidents of the novel unfold against the backdrop of a fascinating and tragic period of Irish history.
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