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Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
This book examines the way in which late twentieth-century European cinema deals with the neglected subject of civil war. Exploring a range of films about the Spanish, Irish, former Yugoslavia, and Greek civil wars, this comparative and interdisciplinary study engages with contemporary debates in...
To Be Published July 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present, providing an excellent case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and after the First...
To Be Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
Irish Civilization provides the perfect background and introduction to both the history of Ireland until 1921 and the development of Ireland and Northern Ireland since 1921. This book illustrates how these two societies have developed in common but also those elements where there have been, and...
To Be Published October 8th 2012 by Routledge
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic...
To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
To Be Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
Irish Political Prisoners, 1920-1962 is the second in a three-volume set which offers a detailed and gripping overview of the political use of imprisonment in modern Ireland. Covering the period from the formation of the Northern Ireland state to the release of the last border campaign prisoners,...
To Be Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
First published in 1975, Donald Akenson’s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex interrelations of Irish education, institutions and...
To Be Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
First published in 1973 Professor Akenson’s book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government’s admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a non-sectarian school system in the early 1920s, the...
To Be Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
The twentieth century in Ireland saw colonial rule, the nationalist movement, the attainment of independence through a divisive treaty, civil war, poverty, the Northern Irish Conflict, and more recently the Celtic Tiger, the impact of globalization and secularization. Each of these changes brings...
To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
