Visions Of The Irish Dream

Author : Marguerite Quintelli-Neary
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443803977

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Visions of the Irish Dream by Marguerite Quintelli-Neary Pdf

Visions of the Irish Dream assembles essays that examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans, looking at aspirations of 19th-century emigrants to Canada and the United States, political and educational goals of the Irish, historic trauma, contemporary xenophobia, and artists’ renditions of “Irishness.” Whether the dreams are fulfilled or deferred, they all strive to come to terms with what it means to be Irish; sometimes the definition involves bringing a piece of the old country with you, buying facsimiles of “genuine Irish goods,” or redefining self in a way that frees Ireland of the colonial model. This study explores the conflicted and shifting visions of the people who inhabit or have left an isolated island that has moved from a search for independence to integration into a European union. From discussion of the politics of translation in Ferguson and Mangan to the establishment of the National schools, the movement of the Celts from continental Europe as evidenced in Joyce to the translatlantic flight of the Irish to the Americas in a drama by Nicola McCartney, and the re-invention of the feminine force in the writings of novelists Jennifer Johnston and Roddy Doyle to the feminine voice expressed in the work of poet Eiléan NíChuilleanáin, the collection underscores the significance of the dream in Irish history and the arts.

Author : Rosemary Dawson
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781452531649

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Rosin Dubh: The Irish Dream Catcher by Rosemary Dawson Pdf

Our dreams represent the urgings of our soul, pushing us to change, grow, become successful and stop sabotaging ourselves. So many of us dismiss these as “only dreams.” But what if you could make use of the information given to you in dreams? In Rosin Dubh: The Irish Dream Catcher, author and psychic medium Rosemary Dawson presents the secret code to unlocking the symbolism of dream language. She shares a method that has been handed down by her family, through a long line of healers, psychics, and clergy with deep spiritual connections. Dawson offers a foolproof method for contacting relatives who have passed over, along with a simple technique of demystifying the messages that the soul sends. Through this unique four-step method presented in anecdotal style, you can easily access all the help that those in spirit are waiting to give you. This guide to understanding dreams and the messages given within them seeks to help you develop your intuition and grasp the opportunities available to you through the spirit world.

Author : Janet McLean
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500772232

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Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art by Janet McLean Pdf

Marking the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, celebrated Irish writers find inspiration in its magnificent collection In 1864 the National Gallery of Ireland opened to the public in Dublin. It then housed just 112 paintings. Today the gallery holds over 15,000 works of European art and is notable both for its extensive collection of Irish art and its Italian baroque and Dutch masters paintings. For this anthology, published to mark the 150th anniversary of the National Gallery of Ireland, fifty-six Irish writers have contributed short stories, essays, and poems inspired by pictures in the collection. These literary responses to art are by turns profound, playful, and insightful. Authors include acclaimed figures in contemporary Irish literature, such as Colm Tóibín, John Banville, John Boyne, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Paula Meehan, Paul Muldoon, John Montague, and Seamus Heaney. The pictures that the writers have selected are intriguingly diverse. They range from old master paintings by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, El Greco, and Velázquez to works by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre Bonnard, as well as works by Irish artists such as Jack B. Yeats, John Lavery, Gerard Dillon, and Paul Henry. The book is organized alphabetically by writer and each text is illustrated with the chosen work in color. Edited with preface by Janet McLean, Curator of European Art 1850–1950 at the NGI.

Author : Caitlin Matthews
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780282725

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Celtic Visions by Caitlin Matthews Pdf

Through prayers, chants, and practical exercises, Celtic Visions teaches readers how to tap into their inner spiritual power, enabling them to experience heightened perception and open portals to other realms of existence. Drawn from ancient Gaelic and Welsh sources, this visionary guide reveals the truth behind the prophetic visions of the druids and seers. It explains their methods for communicating with the Otherworld through omens and fairy lore and explores the Celtic gift of "second sight"—the ability to perceive both the visible and the invisible aspects of reality.

Author : Richard Bonaccorso
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0887065368

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Sean O'Faolain's Irish Vision by Richard Bonaccorso Pdf

This book examines the personality, cultural inheritance, social commentary, literary art, and representative qualities of Sean O'Faolain, dean of modern Irish literature. It updates O'Faolain's significance as a world-class writer and reinterprets his career of over fifty years from a universalist perspective. It also explores O'Faolain's vital relationship with his native culture, conceiving him as representative Irish writer, self-conscious Irishman and Irish citizen-of-the-world.

Author : Eugene Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UFL:31262092176576

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A Vision of Ireland, by Eugene Davis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1412862337

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Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dana L. Robert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780631236191

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Christian Mission by Dana L. Robert Pdf

Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief history examines Christian missions and their relationship to the current globalization of Christianity. A short and enlightening history of Christian missions: a phenomenon that many say reflects the single most important intercultural movement over a sustained period of human history Offers a thematic overview that takes into account the political, cultural, social, and theological issues Discusses the significance of missions to the globalization of Christianity, and broadens our understanding of Christianity as a multicultural world religion Helps Western audiences understand the meaning of mission as a historical process Contains several new maps that illustrate demographic shifts in world Christianity

Author : John Singleton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000996753

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John McGahern by John Singleton Pdf

John McGahern (1934–2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s artistic and poetic vision – his ‘ways of looking’, examining the shifting focus of this vision: how and why it develops, what effects such developments have on the work’s forms and how these forms evolve, at what times and in response to what stimuli. This volume demonstrates that such developments mirror an analogous social expansion during the latter half of the twentieth century and argues that McGahern’s literary spaces relate to his efforts to realise a more accommodating form to envelop the structureless society. While the number of critical studies on McGahern has increased markedly in recent years, research still tends to fall into the well-established camps of social realism or literary aestheticism. This text aims to explore the common ground between the material context and social worlds of each work and the hermeneutics of a ‘traditional’ literary investigation. It traverses such divides through close readings of McGahern’s work, with attention to the topopoetical production of images of the house, the home and the family unit. The book ultimately shows how attention to McGahern’s literary spaces provides a greater understanding of the aesthetic, vision and form of each novel and allows us to understand those aspects relative to the social, cultural and political undercurrents of the works individually and collectively.

Author : Liam Harte
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198754893

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction by Liam Harte Pdf

Presents essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction that provide authoritative assessments of the breadth and achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers.

Author : Mahesh Jethmalani
Publisher : Mahesh Jethmalani
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781393398592

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The Ladder of Success by Mahesh Jethmalani Pdf

Few people know that the Ladder of success is crowded at the bottom, but it is not so at the top. Why? The reasons, thereof, and nine rules to check whether the ladder you are climbing is leaning against the right wall or not have been discussed in the book. This is necessary to check before climbing because there have been people who climbed the ladder and on reaching the destination, they found that the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall. They had to start from scratch. Procrastination is "the natural assassin of an opportunity." It is "the slow death" because it starves action to death, rather than dealing it one fatal blow. This book also discusses how to beat the procrastination and do things now. In nature, the homing pigeon is a remarkable bird. It has an uncanny instinct that enables it to fly back to its home roost, no matter how far away it starts or in what direction it must go. Our body also has such system which helps us achieving success once we write our goals and start working for our goals. The book discusses specifically that success system of our body. Most people do what they don't love because many of them don't know what they love to do. This is known as one's Passion. If you do what you love, then chances of your mega success increase and those of failure decrease. This book has detailed coverage on how to find one's passion, which will be very useful for all the readers. The book also discusses in details the prioritization of the activities to save time so that more work can be done in less time. Besides, the book highlights many other essential topics like how we are conditioned since our childhood which damages our belief system severely, attitude and its development, visualization of success even before you realize it, how to avoid failures in your life and take failures as opportunities, delayed gratification and many more.

Author : Laurie Atkinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846925

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Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision by Laurie Atkinson Pdf

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of profound change in ideas of authorship, in which a transition from a "medieval" to a "modern" paradigm took place. In England and Scotland, changing approaches to Chaucer have rightly been considered as a catalyst for the elevation of English as a literary language and the birth of an English literary history. There is a tendency, however, when moving from Chaucer's self-professed poetic followers of this time to the philological approach associated with William Caxton and the 1532 Works, to pass over the literary careers of the English and Scots poets belonging to the intervening half-century: John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas. This volume redresses that neglect. Its close and comparative readings of these poets' stimulating but critically neglected dream visions and related first-person narratives reveal a spectrum of ideas of authorship: four distinct engagements with tradition and opportunity, united by their utilisation of a particular form. It regards authorship as a topic of invention, a discourse for appropriation, which is available to but not inevitable in late medieval and early modern writing. Overall, it facilitates newly focussed study of an often obscured literary-historical period, one with a heightened interest in the authors of the past - Chaucer, Lydgate, Petrarch, Virgil - but also an increasingly acute perception of the conditions of authorship in the present.

Author : Jennifer E. Spreng
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786416752

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Abortion and Divorce Law in Ireland by Jennifer E. Spreng Pdf

In 1991, the people of Ireland elected Mary Robinson, a women's rights crusader who supported legalized birth control and divorce, as their president. The country seemed poised for massive social and legal change, but it became apparent that even though Ireland at the dawn of the 21st century would be very different from the Ireland of the past, many fundamentals would remain the same. This book examines Irish abortion and divorce law in their historical, religious, and cultural contexts. Its main focus is on the well-publicized referenda and court cases of the 1980s and 1990s, with special attention given to their roots and potential long-term effects on the communitarian Irish culture and opportunities for Irish women. The author identifies and discusses three forces that have affected Irish law and mores, especially those relating to abortion and divorce: economic insecurity; a sense of group loyalty and identification, particularly within families and churches; and Catholic teaching about the common good.

Author : Michaela Schrage-Früh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319407241

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Philosophy, Dreaming and the Literary Imagination by Michaela Schrage-Früh Pdf

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming. Drawing on perspectives from literary theory, philosophy of mind and dream research, this study investigates dreaming in relation to creativity and waking states of imagination such as writing and reading stories. Exploring the similarities and differences between the 'language' of dreams and the language of literature, it analyses the strategies employed by writers to create a sense of dream in literary fiction as well as the genres most conducive to this endeavour. The book closes with three case studies focusing on texts by Kazuo Ishiguro, Clare Boylan and John Banville to illustrate the diverse ways in which writers achieve to 'translate' the experience and 'language' of the dream.

Author : George Butler Bradshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018570623

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Condemned for Their Country; Or, "No Irish Need Apply;" an Authentic, But Startling, Expose of the Delinquencies of South Kensington Museum; and a Plea for the Projected "Royal Irish Institute.". by George Butler Bradshaw Pdf