Read Ireland Book Review
Issue 233
Ireland, Neutrality and European Security Integration by Roisin Doherty
Hardback; 80 Euro / 90.00 USD / 65.00 UK; Ashgate, 285 pages [Add To Basket]
In this book the author provides an innovative insight into European security policy by concentrating on Ireland through an analysis of compatibility of Irish neutrality with security integration. She also analyzes the factors influencing security integration. This contemporary analysis of neutrality also deals with the development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and examines the factors pushing forward the development of European Union security policy.
Lawless v Ireland (1957-1961): The First Case Before the European Court of Human Rights by Brian Doolan
Hardback; 92.50 Euro / 110.00 USD / 75.00 UK; Ashgate, 270 pages [Add To Basket]
The case of Lawless v. Ireland is a landmark in the development of human rights jurisprudence. Stemming from the introduction of detention without trial by the Irish government in response to the resurgence of political violence, much of the material relevant to the case brought before the European Court of Human Rights has remained closed to public scrutiny. This book is the first to provide a detailed documentary of the case, assessing the adequacy of the investigatory processes provided under the European Convention and questioning whether the factual conclusions reached by the European Commission on Human Rights were correct.
Partnership Governance in Northern Ireland: Improving Performance by Jonathan Greer
Hardback; 83.50 Euro / 95.00 USD / 70.00 UK; Ashgate, 300 pages [Add To Basket]
Drawing together a broad range of material on Partnership Governance, this book provides an invaluable contribution to a fast growing area of political science. Powerful synthesis and a robust analytical framework accompany three empirical case studies focusing on how the transition from government to governance in Northern Ireland is being superimposed on the deep historical divisions that still exist.
Childhood and Its Discontents edited by Joseph Dunne and James Kelly
Trade Paperback; 20.00 Euro / 25.00 USD / 15.00 UK; Liffey Press, 240 pages [Add To Basket]
Subtitle: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures. Today there is heightened sensitivity to the needs and rights of children. At the same time, strong pressures tend toward the creation of a less child-friendly society. While children are now more prized than ever, shocking revelations have also brought unprecedented awareness of the extent to which they have been abused by adults in positions of authority and trust. Greater appreciation of ambivalence and contradiction in attitudes towards, and treatment of, children points to the need for more searching inquiry into the nature of childhood and the complex dynamics through which different childhoods are constructed by adults. This book aims to advance this inquiry and will be of particular interest to parents, educators and policy-makers. By bringing together perspectives from psychology, sociology, history and philosophy, the book is intended as a contribution to greater understanding of children themselves and of adults' imaginative and emotional investments in them. The essays collected in this volume were first delivered as lectures in the inaugural series at St. Patrick's College, Dublin.
Ireland's Banner County: Clare from the fall of Parnell to the Great War, 1890-1918 by Daniel McCarthy
Hardback; 30.00 Euro / 35.00 USD / 25.00 UK; Saipan Press, 213 pages [Add To Basket]
The turbulent, dramatic past of an Irish county and its people is depicted against the national backdrop of cultural, socio-economic, political and military upheaval on the eve of this birth of the Republic in this comprehensive historical record of County Clare. Very much an island county, Clare has a distinct personality and has been synonymous with the 'strong man' or leader since the time of Boru and the 1890-1918 era threw up no shortage of leaders in the county, from Michael Cuscak to Willie Redmond and Colonel Martin Meaney, from Bishop Fogarty to Peadar Clancy and Eamon deValera. Just prior to the Easter Rising, Clare was described by a prominent local unionist as 'the most Roman Catholic county in Ireland and the most disloyal and disaffected towards the English connection.' Yet by the end of the Great War, over 500 Claremen lay dead upon the killing fields of Europe. How this and other contradictions came to be are explored in this book.
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
Paperback; 15.50 Euro / 20.00 USD / 10.50 UK; NYRB, 169 pages [Add To Basket]
This classic novel was first published in France in 1947 as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara. It is a manifestation of the author's sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. The author's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut - his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s - exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple.
A Short History of Orangeism by Kevin Haddick-Flynn
Paperback; 11.95 Euro / 14.00 USD / 9.50 UK; Mercier Press, 104 pages [Add To Basket]
Tracing the development of the Orange tradition from its beginning during the Williamite War (1688-91) to the present day, this book comprehensively covers all the main events and personalities. It provides information on such little-known organizations as the Royal Black Preceptory and the Royal Arch Purple Order, as well as institutions like the Apprentice Boys of Derry. Military campaigns and rebellions are set against a background of political intrigue and infighting, and anti-Catholic rhetoric is matched with anti-Orange polemic. This compelling book narrates the history of a quasi-Masonic organization and looks at its rituals and traditions.
Southword: Journal of the Munster Literature Centre
Paperback; 5.00 Euro / 6.00 USD / 4.00 UK; MLC, 80 pages [Add To Basket]
This journal contains poetry by Gerry Murphy, Robert Welch, Aidan Harman, Mary O'Connell, John Mee, George Harding, John W. Sexton, Dympna Dreyer, Rosemary Canavan, Ann Egan, Susan Facknitz, Gabriel Rosenstock, Kathleen Donovan, and Gregory O'Donoghue. It contains prose by: William Wall, Desmond Hogan, Aidan Harman and Augustus Young.
Belfast Songs
Paperback book and CD pack in slipcase; 20.00 Euro / 25.00 USD / 15.00 UK; Factotum, 60 pages, with photos [Add To Basket]
This book and CD set contains 14 essays by 14 prominent writers on songs about Belfast: Paul Muldoon on Still Little Fingers, Martin McLoone on Van Morrison, Stuart Watson on Nanci Griffith, Glenn Patterson on James Taylor, Suzanna Chan on Golden Palominos, Will Bradley on Simple Minds, and Aaron Kelly on Elton John, among others. The CD contains 12 new Belfast songs.
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