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Author : Patrick C. Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1408893908
Author : Patrick C. Power
Publisher : Templegate Pub
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Reference
ISBN : 087243060X
Author : Nicholas Nigro
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781612834146
The Irish are renowned for their unrivaled capacity to spin a yarn and tell a story. They have a singular gift for gab and delight in the art of conversation. Being Irish means finding both humor and insight on life’s roller coaster ride of highs and lows. Indeed, the Irish narrative is chock-full of wit, fellowship, and merriment, but it is also deeply rooted in a revolutionary past of severe hardship. This volume is an Irish treasure trove of words and sentiments for any and all occasions that both entertains and informs. Here are over 500 quotes that fall into the following categories: Blessings and Toasts; Drinking, Humorous, and Specialty Toasts; Saint Patrick, Saint Brigid, and Special Prayers, Curses, Proverbs, and Sayings; Poetry and Rhymes; He Said, She Said; and Ballads and Songs.
Author : A. D. Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 085779356X
Author : Nina Witoszek,Pat Sheeran
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004485051
Talking to the Dead is an essay on death and its tenacious hold on Irish culture. There are few traditions in which funerary motifs have been so ubiquitous in literature, popular rituals, folk representations, public rhetorics, even constructions of place. There are even fewer cultures in which funerary genres and preoccupations constitute the central thread of continuity. The Irish Theatrum Mortis is not simply an obsession of writers from the bards to Beckett and Heaney. Nor is it confined to contemporary Republican iconography. It is to be found in the pages of the local press, in acts of ritual resistance to unpopular decisions, in the way in which significant public events are narrated and framed. Though the funerary Ireland presented here may well yield to the new, positive self-image of the Celtic Tiger, it is the authors' contention that at the end of the twentieth century the funerary sign continues to define Irish identity. For good and ill, it is the centre that holds.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Blessing and cursing
ISBN : 0717135470
Decorated keyrings have long been a favourite with buyers young and old. Now here is a range of attractively priced keyrings with miniature books attached. The books are light-heartedly written and come in four different titles - Irish Jokes, Irish Curses, Irish Facts and Irish Blessings Each book is bound in a clear plastic cover with press stud so that it stays firmly closed whilst not in use. An easy pick up gift for the home and tourist market. A display tree which contains ten copies of each title is available - ISBN 07171 35454.
Author : MARTIN. CASELLA
Publisher : Samuel French, Incorporated
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0573709432
New version approved for virtual performance! What "The Irish Curse" is - and how it manifests itself - is the raw centerpiece of this wicked, rollicking and very funny new play. From its blistering language to its brutally honest look at sex and body image, The Irish Curse is a revealing portrait of how men, and society, define masculinity. In doing so, it dares to pose the fundamental question that has been on the minds of men since the beginning of time: "Do I measure up to the next guy?" Size matters to a small group of Irish-American men (all professionally successful New Yorkers) who meet every Wednesday night, in a Catholic church basement, at a self-help group for men with small penises. This alleged Irish trait is the focus of their weekly sessions, as they all feel this "shortcoming" has ruined their lives. One evening, when a twentysomething blue-collar guy joins the group, he challenges everything the other men think about "the Irish Curse"... tackling their obsession with body image and unmasking the comical and truthful questions of identity, masculinity, sex and relationships that men face every day.
Author : Padraic O'Farrell
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781171127
Irish people have blessings, toasts, and curses for every occasion and are renowned for yarns and stories. They have a gift of the gab which may come from kissing The Blarney Stone! This collection of humourous quotations is full of wit and merriment but the sayings come from times of revolution, famine, and hardship. This volume is a treasure trove of blessings, toasts, and curses and is an ideal gift for those of Irish heritage seeking to celebrate St. Patrick's Day (or St Patty's Day!) and St Brigid's day, which is now a national bank holiday in Ireland.
Author : A. D. Graham
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1500884669
Could the events of more than four hundred years ago really have some bearing on the murder of a brilliant history student? When a long lost journal, written by an Irish General in the seventeenth century, arrives at the university, apparently sent by the student before he died, Professors Latimer and Reilly know they must investigate – not least to quell accusations that the student was involved with illegal drugs and, somehow, the university is responsible.Although the words in the journal are in code, the student has included the key to the cipher. It remains a long, tedious task to unravel the full, unbelievable story. Meanwhile, the two professors' investigations are drawing them deeper and deeper into a world of witches and the occult, that seems to centre on a tiny Irish town where the violent, unnatural happenings of 1689 have never been fully resolved…
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489127
Author : Sarah Covington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192587671
In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell's powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the 'Cromwellian': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded also, tellingly, from the accounts of the past, and especially by those which viewed him as an embarrassment or worse. In addition to exploring the many reasons why Cromwell was so vehemently remembered or forgotten in Ireland, Sarah Covington finally uncovers the larger truths conveyed by sometimes fanciful or invented accounts. Contrary to being damaging examples of myth-making, the memorializations contained in martyrologies, folk tales, or newspaper polemics were often productive in cohering communities, or in displaying agency in the form of 'counter-memories' that claimed Cromwell for their own and reshaped Irish history in the process.
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 1927492734
Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where "sinful" behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century - and most of the people engaged in recording and commenting upon Highland life and tradition were puritanical ministers and priests who left out the racy bits. So, while there are many useful books that provide a wide range of Scottish Gaelic vocabulary to express many aspects of daily life - except, for the most part, the topics covered in this book.
Author : Laura O'Connor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0801884330
Haunted English explores the role of language in colonization and decolonization by examining how Anglo-Celtic modernists W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Marianne Moore “de-Anglicize” their literary vernaculars. Laura O'Connor demonstrates how the poets’ struggles with and through the colonial tongue are discernible in their signature styles, using aspects of those styles to theorize the dynamics of linguistic imperialism—as both a distinct process and an integral part of cultural imperialism. O'Connor argues that the advance of the English Pale and the accompanying translation of the receding Gaelic culture into a romanticized Celtic Fringe represents multilingual British culture as if it were exclusively English-speaking and yet registers, on a subliminal level, some of the cultural losses entailed by English-only Anglicization. Taking the fin-de-siècle movements of the Gaelic revival and the Irish Literary Renaissance as her point of departure, O'Connor examines the effort to undo cultural cringe through language and literary activism.
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : SCHOLASTIC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0439014360
This volume tells you about centuries of dreadful deeds, from cruel Celtic chieftains and suffering saints to the troubled 20th century. Visit the chamber of horrors, try a game to make you hurl and the top 20 Irish curses and find out the tragic truth about the foul famines and savage sieges.
Author : José Lanters
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813209862
Certain moments in history, especially periods of cultural turmoil and political change, appear to be conducive to the writing of Menippean satire. Unauthorized Versions is the first integral study of Menippean satires written in Ireland in the three decades following the declaration of the Irish Free State in 1922. The book discusses works by Darrell Figgis, Eimar O'Duffy, Austin Clarke, Flann O'Brien, and Mervyn Wall in the context of political and social developments, particularly relating to economic policy, the role of the Church, and censorship. Mikhail Bakhtin defines Menippean satire as an unresolved dialogue between actual and/or implied voices designed to test a truth or philosophical idea. The Irish satirists of the first half of the twentieth century use medieval Ireland as a setting for addressing contemporary concerns, or borrow characters from medieval Irish texts that they place in a modern context. Each satire thus creates a series of dialogues: between the past and present; between characters who represent opposing values and ideologies; and between the older texts and their modern reworkings. Unauthorized Versions reveals the double bind at the core of every Menippean satire. Each writer discussed in the book expresses an awareness of the paradox of an author writing in the vacuum created by official censorship, seeking to engage his audience in the dethroning of the very authorities by whom he is deprived of his audience. By revealing his own ambiguous position, the satirist knowingly subverts his own authority along with that of his opponents. This study will appeal to students and scholars interested in Irish literature, genre studies, the reception of the Middle Ages, and the relationship between literature and history. Jos Lanters, associate professor of classics at the University of Oklahoma, will begin her position as associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Fall 2000. She is author of Missed Understandings: A Study of Stage Adaptations of the Works of James Joyce and coeditor of Troubled Histories, Troubled Fictions: Twentieth-Century Anglo-Irish Prose. "Irish satire in the twentieth century has awaited a critic as intelligent and well-informed as Jose Lanters, whose Unauthorized Versions nicely complements Vivian Mercier's pioneering efforts. For several of the works she discusses, Lanters here provides the only substantial criticism they have received to date. Her approach combines sensitivity to form and expression with a constant attentiveness to historical context, while her study is anchored in a lucid and suggestive use of Bakhtin. Every library with an interest in Irish writing will want this book."--R. Brandon Kershner Alumni Professor of English, University of Florida "Lanters' well-argued volume will be a valuable resource for the study of modern Irish prose at the upper-division undergraduate level and above."--Choice Works discussed in Unauthorized Versions Darrell Figgis The Return of the Hero Eimar O'Duffy King Goshawk and the Birds The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street Asses in Clover Austin Clarke The Bright Temptation The Singing-Men at Cashel The Sun Dances at Easter Flann O'Brien At Swim-Two-Birds The Third Policeman Mervyn Wall The Unfortunate Fursey The Return of Fursey
