1,229円 In 16th and 17th century Ireland religion and nationality fused together in a people’s struggle to survive. In that struggle the country’s links with Europe provided a life line. Members of religious orders, with their international roots, played an important role. Among them were the Irish Jesui...

17,246円 This book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with many of the key participants of the peace process, newly released archival material and the existing scholarship on the conflict, it explains the decisio...

700円 Lovina grew up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania, on her father's death bed he whispers "You have Irish Bones". This sends Lovina on a mission to find her Irish past. When she finds her Irish Granddad is still alive and living in New York she sets out to meet him. Granddad tells Lovina the stories ...

827円 “The Saxon in Ireland: or, The Englishman in Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland,” published in 1851 by John Hervey Ashworth, discusses the prospects of redeveloping lands in Ireland at the time, more than twenty years after the potato famine devastated Ireland, explained in terms helpf...

827円 William Francis Ainsworth (1807-1896) was an English surgeon, traveller, geographer and geologist, known also as a writer and editor. He was first trained as a surgeon and physician, serving at various hospitals in England and Scotland, and also serving at hospitals in Ireland during an outbreak ...

1,229円 This account of the Irish Jesuits from 1695 to 1811 is concerned with those who lived and worked in Dublin and, in particular, with a central figure, the quite remarkable educationalist and pastor, Thomas Betagh. As we shall see, two other Jesuits also played a large part in the life of Betagh: J...

530円 A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift - To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical 'solution' suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay 'A Modest Proposal' (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armoury and corrosive wit, finding his targets - the...

4,230円 Here for the first time are gathered together the extant letters of George Faulkner, Irish printer in eighteenth-century Dublin. These firsthand accounts give an unprecedented view of Anglo-Irish social and political events, as well as a view of an Anglo-Irish printer-publisher at work. Faulkner ...

1,700円 Dove affonda le sue radici l’Italia di oggi? Viviamo in una fase di transizione, o si è delineato sotto i nostri occhi un approdo non effimero della vicenda repubblicana? E dove cercare le ragioni e le cause di questo approdo: in un astorico «carattere nazionale» o nel lungo confliggere di modi d...

2,600円 Il medioevo è forse il periodo più frainteso della storia. Su di esso pesano la vastità degli spazi e la lunga gittata delle periodizzazioni, come pure le difficoltà interpretative delle fonti: tutti fattori che spesso espongono al rischio di indebiti schematismi e di forzate generalizzazioni. Pe...

1,700円 Da oltre quarant’anni le contee nordirlandesi sono tormentate dal conflitto etnico-nazionale tra cattolici e protestanti. L’attuale congelamento del conflitto è solo apparente: i sicari della pace, un lungo elenco di sabotatori, hanno impedito il superamento dell’ostilità tra i due segmenti etnic...

9,285円 This book presents a set of original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins. Through these letters, the volume explores their shared ideas of culture, art, aesthetics, an...