Read Ireland Book News - Issue 53
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The Irish Americans: The Immigrant Experience by William Griffith (Hardback; 40.00 IRP / 60.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
The powerful story of the 40 million Irish Americans, descendants of the 7 million who emigrated from Ireland to America over the last three decades, is a richly textured portrait of the struggles and triumphs of a proud and passionate people. This books tells the story of those 7 million Irish men, women and children who left their native land for a chance at a better life. Many went searching for the streets they had heard were paved with gold and found that not only were they not paved with gold, the streets were not paved at all. Not only did the Irish pave the roads, they built the railroads, the bridges, the canals, as well as many city skyscrapers. In the process, America learned to cope with the Irish and the Irish learned to cope with their new land. Over the last 150 years the Irish in America have made the transition from the 'wretched refuse' of America's teeming shore to success in business, recognition in the realms of culture, and mastery in the world of politics. They made the transition from soldiers on the battlefield and players on the sports fields to fully involved and assimilated members of America's mainstream society. Now, having achieved the goal of complete acceptance, they are rediscovering their roots, reclaiming their cultural heritage, and renewing their ties with a reborn Ireland. Through moving text and more than 200 extraordinary images, this book pays tribute to the Irish in America, their courage, their trials, and their triumphs. The book also includes a demonstration CD-ROM of the Family Tree Maker for Windows.
Crime and Poverty in Ireland edited by Ivana Bacik and Michael O'Connell (Paperback; 19.95 IRP / 29.99 USD) [Add To Basket]
The relationship between poverty, crime and sentencing is a controversial topic of debate. The four outstanding essays in this book make a significant contribution to existing research on the links between crime and poverty and will provide a basis for informed discussion on the development of public policy of criminal justice. This book seeks to demonstrate the way in which economic factors underpin the workings of the criminal justice system at every level. It also shows the impact of poverty on patterns of offending in Ireland.
The Wake by Tom Murphy (Paperback; 8.00 IRP / 12.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
The most recent play by one of Ireland's most gifted playwrights which premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in January, 1998. It tells the story of Vera O'Toole, alone, adrift and living dangerously in New York where she survives as a call girl. But she has a sustaining thought, a dream. She is not alone, she feels, because she has a family in Ireland; she belongs; indeed, some day she may even become worthy of that family. Now, as the story begins, she returns home to Ireland to pay her respects to her dead and beloved grandmother and to discover her dream, her sustaining thought, turning into a nightmare.
An Unusual Diplomat: A Biography of W.T. Dobrzynski by Krystyna Dobrynska-Cantwell (Paperback; 9.00 IRP / 14.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
Waclaw Tadeusz Dobrzynski was born a Pole under Russian rule in Kiev in 1884. His early career covered Law, the Army, journalism, and was followed by a late entry into the Diplomatic Service of the fledgling Polish Republic. He arrived in Ireland in 1929 as one of the earliest diplomats and served as Consul General until 1954. This period covered the growing pains of the Irish Republic, the Eucharistic Congress of 1932, WW II, and he continued to represent the Polish Government in exile in the post-war period. He worked towards promoting the Irish -Polish relationship through culture, sport and trade; he wrote and lectured widely on the parallel histories and cultures of the two nations. His life reflects the changing political circumstances of the two countries. This author, his daughter, has researched this book in Ireland, England and Poland and has utilised a wide variety of sources to show many aspects of his unusual life. This book is an essential source of Irish Diplomatic History.
From Sophie to Sonia: A History of Women's Athletics by Noel Henry (Paperback; 9.95 IRP / 15.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is a unique record of the development and progress of Irish women athletes and a fitting tribute to those who strode, often in the face of apathy and prejudice, to pursue and perfect the sport they loved and believed in. As you read this fascinating history, with is record of courage, tenacity, success, failure and shining talent, be thankful that the author - himself a former outstanding athlete and coach - had the patience and enthusiasm to explore and trace the path from the early days of local trial and tribulation to the modern glories of Irish women athletes.
The State of Ireland by Arthur O'Connor edited by James Livesey (Hardback; 25.00 IRP / 37.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
Arthur O'Connor was the most important conduit between French republicanism and Irish political radicalism in the late 1790s. His 'State of Ireland', published in 1798, created a distinctively Irish language of radical democracy out of French sources, by fusing them with the local political tradition and Scottish political economy. O'Connor brought to the revolutionary movement of the 1790s a mind hones on the ideas of Adam Smith - ideas that might not seem revolutionary today, but that had radical implications as adapted by O'Connor and applied to the bizarre political economy of 18th century Ireland. What his work reveals to is a breadth of vision within the United Irishmen and the novelty of their intervention in Irish political culture. O'Connor's text deserves to find a place in the canon of classic political text that have constructed and made possible, or even imaginable, Irish democracy.
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