The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey. It includes chapters on key historical texts such as Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, and on contemporary writers including Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Kevin Barry. It sets a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places. Situated within contemporary conversations about the blue and the environmental humanities, this book builds on the upsurge of interest in seas and coasts in literary studies, presenting James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, John Banville, and many others in new coastal and maritime contexts. In doing so, it creates a literary and visual narrative of Irish coastal cultures across a seaboard that extends to a planetary configuration of imagined islands.

Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled

Literature & Fiction

Allen, Nicholas

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

The first two decades of Irish independence were fraught and the formation of the post-imperial state was a continual controversy. The conditional perception of what Ireland was, should, or might be coincided with a revolution in the arts. Now forgotten cultures flared and disappeared, little magazines, cabaret clubs, riots and theatres erupting in a fluctuating public sphere. Nicholas Allen reads the crisis of Irish independence as formative of newly experimental relations between novels, poems, paintings, artists and audiences. The conditional, unfinished spaces of the modernist artwork were an unfinished civil war. In connecting these texts and times, Allen locates Joyce, Beckett, Jack and W. B. Yeats in the controversies surrounding the Irish state after 1922. With its interdisciplinary perspective on artists and contexts, this book is a major contribution to the study of Irish culture of the 1920s and 30s and of modernism's histories.

Modernism, Ireland and Civil War

Cambridge University Press

Adderbury: A Thousand Years of History

Adderbury History Association

Phillimore Co Ltd

Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current political debate. Drawing on original data, this book is the first general account of popular understandings of political ethics in contemporary British politics. It offers new insights into how citizens understand political ethics and integrity and how they form judgments of their leaders. By locating these insights against the backdrop of contemporary British political ethics, the book shows how current institutional preoccupations with standards of conduct all too often miss the mark. While the use of official resources is the primary focus of much regulation, politicians' consistency, frankness and sincerity, which citizens tend to see in terms of right and wrong, are treated as 'normal politics'. The authors suggest that new approaches may need to be adopted if public confidence in politicians' integrity is to be restored.

Ethics and Integrity in British Politics: How Citizens Judge their Politicians' Conduct and Why It Matters

Politics & Social Sciences

Birch, Sarah

Politics & Government

Ethics and Integrity in British Politics

In this collection of oral histories, residents of the Galloway Ridge community in Fearrington, North Carolina, tell their stories. The histories preserved within contain rich memories of the narrators' lives and demonstrate the vibrancy and challenges of later life. Collected by researchers at the Southern Oral History Program, these interviews are being published as a gift to the narrators who gave them and the community they share.

voices: a community oral history at Galloway Ridge

History

Independently published

Ernie O'Malley was a revolutionary Irish republican and writer. This vibrant new collection of letters, diaries, and fragments opens up the broad panorama of his life to readers. It enriches the history of Ireland's troubled independence with reflections on loss and reconciliation. It conducts a unique conversation with the past. ""This volume contributes significantly to the ever expanding literature written by or about Ernie O'Malley... Ever an astute observer, O'Malley's writings provide perceptive commentary about the social and cultural ambience in Ireland and America.""-Irish Literary Supplement Fall 2012

Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters from Ernie O'Malley, 1924-57

Biographies & Memoirs

O'Malley, Cormac

Historical

The Lilliput Press

Now available in paperback! George Russell (1867-1935), poet and author, was a central figure of the Irish literary revival. He was a radical intellectual involved with anarchism, labor and Sinn FÃ?Â?Ã?Â©in, his passions evidencing a revival in Irish thought that merged literature and culture with politics and revolution. This book brings the reader to a world of constant controversy, of journals, little magazines, pamphlets and propaganda, narrated here in one major synthesis. *** "The story [Allen] has to tell is a fascinating retrieval of cultural debate in the crucial years of the founding of the State. In this important new book, AE appears primarily not as painter, poet, or bicycling organiser of rural cooperatives, but as the brilliant editor of the Irish Homestead (1905-23) and the Irish Statesman (1923-30). Alongside first publication of works by Joyce, Kavanagh, O'Casey, O'Connor, Ã?Â?Ã?Â? FaolÃ?Â?Ã?Â¡in, O'Flaherty, Shaw, Stuart and Yeats, [Russell] propagandised on behalf of a remarkable sequence of causes, from co-operative creameries and collective banks, to the Shannon hydroelectric scheme and the commercial potential of an international airport in Ireland." --Adrian Frazier, Irish Times [Subject: Irish Cultural History, Irish Literature, Modern History, Irish Studies]

George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30

Arts & Literature

Four Courts Press

George Russell (1867-1935), poet and author, was a central figure of the Irish literary revival. He was editor of early 20th-century Ireland's two most important journals, the Irish Homestead (1905-23) and the Irish Statesman (1923-30). Russell published work across four decades by Joyce, Kavanagh, O'Casey, O'Connor, Ã“ FaolÃ¡in, O'Flaherty, Shaw, Stuart and Yeats. He was a radical intellectual involved with anarchism, labor and Sinn FÃ©in, his passions evidencing a revival in Irish thought that merged literature and culture with politics and revolution. This book brings the reader to a world of constant controversy, of journals, little magazines, pamphlets and propaganda, narrated here in one major synthesis.

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