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NMRC Receives Funding
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A Bright & Clear Universe
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Retirement Lunch
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New Staff
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Books
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A Walk On The Northside
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ROGHA DÁNTA (Selected Poems) Michael Davitt
Introduced by Louis de Paor Selected by Louis de Paor and Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt is a very well known writer and broadcaster for RTE. He founded
the poetry broadsheet and journal Innti and was a central figure in a new
movement in Gaelic poetry in the 1970s. He became a friend of Seán
Ó Ríordáin, to whose metaphysical wit he gave a sharp
vernacular edge. He was also influenced by the linguistic virtuosity of the
American e.e. cummings, the Beat poets and American popular culture. His poems
have a wide awake conscience that holds a mirror to contemporary Irish society,
while his poems about and for people he admires capture their force and
vitality. Michael Davitt is a broadcaster for RTE. His previous publications
include Gleann ar Ghleann (1982), Bilgeard Sráide (1983), An Tost a
Scagadh (1993) and Scuais (1999). Publisher: CUP
Paperback: £14.95 |
SCIENCE, COLONIALISM AND IRELAND Nicholas Whyte
Looking at the activities of Irish scientists between 1890 and 1930, at the
very moment of independence, revolution and civil war, this book demonstrates
how the activities of science are shaped by the society in which it is
situated. The different fates of the Royal Dublin Society, Trinity College, the
Royal College of Science, the Royal Irish Academy and the National University
show the decisive impact which political events had on Irish science and on
individual scientists in Ireland. The issue of colonialism, though 'proved' in
the areas of literature and culture, is not easily resolved with regard to
science. Using case studies - the Atlantic slope crustacea, the Tyrone
trilobite and the Wright foraminifera - and research on other 'colonial' or
'imperial' sciences, Whyte demonstrates the complex relationship between
imperial and Irish science. The other major question revolves around the
Catholic church's restrictions on the practice of scientific research. Whyte
contends that there is very little evidence to show that this was the case in
nineteenth- or twentieth-century Ireland. Neither was the relationship between
Irish nationalism and science as hostile as has been suggested. The continued
Protestant dominance of science and of scientific institutions until
independence is shown to have been due more to the legacy of the Ascendancy
than to any reluctance from Catholics or nationalists to emerge. Nicholas Whyte
is presently working for an international organisation in Bosnia Herzegovina.
Publisher: CUP
Hardback: £40
Paperback: £17.95 |
REMEMBERING AHANAGRAN STORYTELLING IN A FAMILY'S PAST Richard
White
Historian Richard White revisits the stories and reminiscences of his mother's
rural childhood in the small village of Ahanagran in the west of Ireland and
her experiences as a young émigrée in Chicago, unravelling the
often contradictory strands of historical 'fact' and personal recollection.
Sara Walshe was born in a land of storytellers in 1919, in Ahanagran in the
west of Ireland. Chapters and events in her life filled the stories she told
her children: stories of her early years in Ireland, her migration to the
United States when she was sixteen, her life in Chicago as she struggled to
become American, and her marriage during World War II to Harry White, the son
of Russian Jewish immigrants, a graduate of Harvard and an officer in the
United States army. Sara's memories, as recaptured in this unusual book by her
son Richard White, are neither history nor memoir but something much larger and
brighter than both. White succeeds brilliantly, with the close collaboration of
his mother, in forcing history, as it is traditionally written into
conversation with personal recollections. Together they paint a more balanced
picture of Sara Walshe's past. Remembering Ahanagran is much more than a
fascinating tale of one woman and her family; it is a passionate story that
expresses the dignity and excitement of ordinary lives. Richard White,
Professor of History, University of Washington, is the author of The Middle
Ground: It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own; The Roots of Dependency: Land
Use, Environment, and Social Change and The Organic Machine. His books have won
the Francis Parkman Prize and Albert Beveridge and Western Heritage awards.
Publisher: CUP
Paperback: £14.95 |
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