The Liffey Archive

Author : Bob Harley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475932227

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The Liffey Archive by Bob Harley Pdf

Bob Harley is a typical 1950's suburban teenage boy when his father's job is transferred to Holland and Bob's family moves to Europe. He finds himself in a strange new world when he is sent to boarding school in Ireland, where his mother grew up. Bob is at first confused by the English spoken by the people around him. Accustomed to comfort, his new school has bad food and no heat. Even worse, the teachers use a bamboo cane on students as punishment. One of them even seems so nuts that the other boys say hes a Martian. Bob only wants to go home. Then Bob falls in with a group of friends who prod him out of some of his misery. He discovers the teacher he finds the most frightening (the one assigned to cane the boys) is the one he likes the best. He and his friends create hilarity with their suspenseful pranks and, inspired by the Goons comedy radio show, they commit acts of theater which culminate in Bob bringing American rock and roll to the other boys for the very first time.

Author : Anderson Linda Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474432450

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Contemporary Poetry Archive by Anderson Linda Anderson Pdf

Explores critical and creative responses to the contemporary poetry archiveProvides an innovative new dialogue between critics and creative writers on the value and practice of the literary archiveExpandes the scope for understanding perspectives on, and the opposition between, creative and critical relations to archival materialsOpens up a new cross-disciplinary agenda for thinking the archive as both a source for scholarship and a source of inspiration for creative practiceThese 13 newly commissioned chapters examine the impact of archival poetry collections on both literary scholarship and poetic practice. They examine what we can learn from the drafts, notebooks and personal libraries left behind by poets and look at the ways in which the growth of poetry archives has changed the way poets think about their work. The contributing poets and scholars - including Susan Howe, Sean O'Brien and George Szirtes - present an in-depth account of the significance of poetry archives for contemporary literature. The collection provides a new cross-disciplinary agenda for thinking about the archive as both a source for scholarship and inspiration for creative practice.

Author : Public Archives of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archives
ISBN : HARVARD:HNI59S

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Report of the Work of the Public Archives ... by Public Archives of Canada Pdf

Author : Public Archives of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archives
ISBN : IOWA:31858029729575

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Report on Canadian Archives and on the System of Keeping Public Records by Public Archives of Canada Pdf

Author : Sir John Thomas Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081110827

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Historic and Municipal Documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172-1320. From the Archives of the City of Dublin, Etc by Sir John Thomas Gilbert Pdf

Author : John-Thomas Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z220041502

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Historio and municipal Documents of Jreland a.d. 1172-1320. From the archives of the city of Dublin etc. edited by J. T. Gilbert by John-Thomas Gilbert Pdf

Author : Douglas Brymner,Public Archives of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Archives
ISBN : NYPL:33433056835758

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Report on Canadian Archives by Douglas Brymner,Public Archives of Canada Pdf

Author : Public Archives of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030009293988

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Report on Canadian Archives by Public Archives of Canada Pdf

Author : Public Archives Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Archives
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027831317

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Report Concerning Canadian Archives by Public Archives Canada Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781400004904

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Fodor's 2011 Ireland by Anonim Pdf

With an array of dazzling full-color photographs, this revamped edition deftly guides the traveler through all the sights and experiences that make the Emerald Isle one of Europe's most popular destinations. Includes a pull-out map.

Author : Eric G. E. Zuelow
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815632258

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Making Ireland Irish by Eric G. E. Zuelow Pdf

From the dark shadow of civil war to the pastel-painted towns of today, Making Ireland Irish provides a sweeping account of the evolution of the Irish tourist industry over the twentieth century. Drawing on an extensive array of previously untapped or underused sources, Eric G. E. Zuelow examines how a small group of tourism advocates, inspired by tourist development movements in countries such as France and Spain, worked tirelessly to convince their Irish compatriots that tourism was the secret to Ireland’s success. Over time, tourism went from being a national joke to a national interest. Men and women from across Irish society joined in, eager to help shape their country and culture for visitors’ eyes. The result was Ireland as it is depicted today, a land of blue skies, smiling faces, pastel towns, natural beauty, ancient history, and timeless traditions. With lucid prose and vivid detail, Zuelow explains how careful planning transformed Irish towns and villages from grey and unattractive to bright and inviting; sanitized Irish history to avoid offending Ireland’s largest tourist market, the English; and supplanted traditional rural fairs revolving around muddy animals and featuring sexually suggestive ceremonies with new family-friendly festivals and events filling today’s tourist calendar. By challenging existing notions that the Irish tourist product is either timeless or the consequence of colonialism, Zuelow demonstrates that the development of tourist imagery and Irish national identity was not the result of a handful of elites or a postcolonial legacy, but rather the product of an extended discussion that ultimately involved a broad cross-section of society, both inside and outside Ireland. Tourism, he argues, played a vital role in “making Ireland Irish.”

Author : Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400007097

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Ireland 2009 by Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications Pdf

Describes points of interest in each region of the country, recommends restaurants and hotels, and includes information on shopping and entertainment

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780330462471

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Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Pdf

In this book can be heard the merest edge of an enormous conversation. As they never were in life, we can imagine the speakers all gathered in some vast room, wearing name tags in case they don’t recognize each other (although some recognize each other all too well, and avoid contact). My heroes and heroines are here. An almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is Clive James’s unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record – and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.

Author : Aileen O’Carroll,Don Bennett
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911024873

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The Dublin Docker by Aileen O’Carroll,Don Bennett Pdf

As a port city, Dublin owes much to the labourers who strove against the heavy-duty tide of imports and exports; a league of thousands who were hired on a day-to-day basis for generations, defining the bustle of Dublin city centre – a cornerstone of the urban industrial working class in Ireland. The Dublin Docker is a sumptuously illustrated history that determines the dockers’ and stevedores’ importance as an industrial subculture within the Dublin that they navigated. The authors excavated the archive of the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society to discover a wealth of photographs, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s, that capture the dockers’ arduous labour and the energy of Dublin port. These evocative images bring this beautifully designed social history to life, complementing the inimitable voices revealed in interviews with the dockers themselves. How they negotiated working hours and pay, the changes that came with epochal events – the Dublin Lockout, the First World War, the Easter Rising and War of Independence – and the innumerable myths and ‘dark stories’ that shrouded their image: The Dublin Docker is a history of the dockers and their deep-woven connection to the city.

Author : Katrina Goldstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000291018

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Irish Writers and the Thirties by Katrina Goldstone Pdf

This original study focusing on four Irish writers – Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers – retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to the Spanish Civil War and the USSR, the book examines the lives and work of Irish writers through their writings, their witness texts and their political activism. The relationships of these writers to George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Nancy Cunard, William Carlos Williams and other figures of cultural significance within the interwar period sheds new light on the internationalist aspects of a Leftist cultural history. The book also explores how Irish literary women on the Left defied marginalization. The impetus of the book is not merely to perform an act of literary salvage but to find new ways of re-imagining what might be said to constitute Irish literature mid-twentieth century; and to illustrate how Irish writers played a role in a transforming political moment of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural history and literature, Irish diaspora studies, Jewish studies, and the social and literary history of the Thirties.