This is the first book-length treatment of the Irish border and related themes since Heslinga’s controversial The Irish Border as a Cultural Divide (3rd edn 1979). The approach is multidisciplinary and the papers focus on Partition and the history of the border, attitudes North and South of the border, political and cultural aspects of the border, cross-border relations and current developments concerning the border, including its European dimension.Contributors are Paul Arthur, Ged Martin, Ian S. Wood, Steve Bruce, Etain Tannam, Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, Owen Dudley Edwards and Eberhard Bort.

Irish Border (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures) (Volume 7)

History

Bort, Eberhard

Europe

Liverpool University Press

Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson. Hamish Henderson poet, soldier, scholar, folklorist, song-maker and political activist. Eighteen essays engaging with aspects of Hamish Henderson's remarkable contribution to contemporary Scottish culture - from song-writing and song-collecting to poetry and politics. Edinburgh Folk Club's annual Carrying Stream Festival celebrates the life and legacy of Hamish Henderson. A selection of the Festival's Hamish Henderson Lectures, together with the other contributions, paint a fascinating picture of this multi-facetted Scot-'Father of the Scottish Folk Revival'.(http://www.hendersontrust.org/index.php/en/).

Borne on the Carrying Stream: The Legacy of Hamish Henderson

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Grace Note Publications

This book marks the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and collects views and perspectives on the way the Scottish Folk Revival has evolved over the past sixty years.  The Ceilidh at Oddfellows' Hall was a catalyst for the modern Scottish Folk Revival. It was presided over by Hamish Henderson and recorded by Alan Lomax. Also in 1951, the School of Scottish Studies was founded at the University of Edinburgh.

'Tis Sixty Years Since: The First People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival

Poetry

At Hame Wi’ Freedom marks the tenth anniversary of Hamish Henderson’s death in 2002. It is the third book of a loose trilogy: Borne on the Carrying Stream (Grace Note Publications, 2010), followed by ‘Tis Sixty Years Since (Grace Note Publications, 2011); all revolving around the life and legacy of Hamish Henderson and the Scottish Folk Revival he did so much to inspire and sustain. 'At Hame wi’ Freedom' focuses on Hamish Henderson’s involvement in the revival, his association with Perthshire and the North-East, the emergence of his poetic voice, and his political activism. It also features Pino Mereu’s poetic evocation of the Anzio (Beachhead) Pipe Band and the 2011 Hamish Henderson Memorial Lecture by Owen Dudley Edwards. Further contributions are from Eberhard Bort, Maurice Fleming, Fred Freeman, George Gunn, Tom Hubbard, Alison McMorland, Ewan McVicar, Hayden Murphy and Belle Stewart.

At Hame Wi' Freedom: Essays on Hamish Henderson and the Scottish Folk Revival

Biographies & Memoirs

Dudley-Edwards, Owen

Gunn, George

Bainbridge, Jim

McVicar, Ewan

Hubbard, Tom

Freeman, Fred

Mereu, Pino

McMorland, Alison

Stewart, Belle

Arts & Literature

View from Zollernblick is the second collection of essays based on the European Regionalism symposia at Freudenstadt in Baden-Württ temberg, organised since 1991 by Christopher Harvie and Eberhard Bort. Networking Europe: Essays on Regionalism and Social Democracy was published by Liverpool University Press in 2000. View from Zollernblick Regional Perspectives in Europe. List of Contributors: Eberhard Bort, Peter McCarey, Wolfgang Mössinger, Alison Harvie, David Walker, Tom Hubbard, Paul Gillespie, Klaus Stolz, Lesley Riddoch, Robin McAlpine, James Mitchell, Christopher Harvie, Tom Gallagher, John Osmond, Ian S Wood, Thomas Leuerer, Eberhard Bort, Peter Conradi and Helmut Doka, Henry Cowper, Terry Brotherstone, Patricia Conlan, Paul Salveson, Douglas McLeod, Noel Spare, Irene Quaile-Kersken, Frank Conlan, Stefan Büttner, Sarah Boyack, Richard Demarco, Owen Dudley Edwards, Tessa Ransford, Mario Relich, Allan Massie, Neal Ascherson and Keith Armstrong. Again, an array of regional perspectives on constitutional politics, policy areas and cultural connections reflect the lively and diverse conversations so characteristic for these unique annual meetings of minds in the Black Forest, with contributions by academics, journalists academics, journalists, writers and politicians from Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland, Germany and other European regions.  This book is also a Festschrift for Chris Harvie who, as a Scottish historian, a Professor of British and Irish Studies at the University of Tübingen, and a Member of the Scott ish Parliament, has been the spiritus rector – or Lord of Misrule – at the Zollernblick gatherings.

View from Zollernblick - Regional Perspectives in Europe:: A Festschrift for Christopher Harvie

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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