<div>Eigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and verse ranging from Old Irish down to the modern language and including items from oral narration have appeared in its pages. It regularly includes important contributions on grammar, lexicography, palaeography, metrics, and the history of the Irish language, as well as on a wide variety of Irish literary topics. There is a special emphasis on all aspects of the study of the language and literature of Modern Irish.</div>

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Reference

Mathuna, Liam

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Four Courts Press

The Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher on 15 November 1985 was unique in providing a treaty-based arrangement for the government of a territory disputed between two States. In effect it gave the Irish Government an intrusive role in the processes of the government of Northern Ireland. Sir David Goodall, formerly Deputy Head of both the Foreign and Cabinet Offices, kept a personal journal throughout the negotiations from September 1983 to December 1985. He later transformed this into a single narrative account which has until now remained under personal and official embargo. His account is gripping and frequently astonishing in its frankness. He captures the heart-stopping fluctuations in the tide of negotiation between the two sides as it tottered continuously between collapse and survival under Mrs Thatcher’s dislike and distrust of Irish nationalism. He does not hold back from recounting the sometimes-dramatic exchanges between the two sides. Even more surprising perhaps are his accounts of the internal tensions on his own side: those between the Cabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office at political and official levels and those between the Prime Minister and her own negotiators. This is an extraordinary account by a gifted insider of an historic negotiation to rival the diary of Tom Jones (Lloyd George’s trusted adviser) of the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, and also recalling other classic accounts of diplomatic negotiations that have shaped the world. The book contains a foreword by Maurice Manning (Chancellor of the National University of Ireland), and an introduction by Morwenna Lady Goodall. There are also contributions from Stephen Collins (columnist at the Irish Times), Michael Lillis (diplomatic adviser to the Taoiseach, Irish Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, and David Goodall’s opposite number on the Irish negotiating team), Charles Powell (Mrs. Thatcher’s influential Private Secretary during the negotiations) and Robin Renwick (foreign policy adviser to Mrs. Thatcher and British Ambassador to the USA).

The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: A Memoir by David Goodall

History

Europe

Drawing on the latest research on diaries, personal correspondence, memoir reflections, newspaper reports and State archives, this collection of essays by leading scholars on Douglas Hyde and the Irish language revival traces developments in the formulation and explication of Irish revival ideology. It also interrogates pivotal aspects of the revival movement' s impact and influence as well as its interaction with the Irish diaspora and Celtic scholars in North America and Continental Europe.

Eigse: A Journal of Irish Studies: Douglas Hyde: Irish Ideology and International Impact

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

É igse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research on the Irish language and its literature, embracing both textual and contextual studies. Volume 42 contains articles ranging from an edition of a medieval Irish text to modern regional dialects. Other contributions in both Irish and English, are from established and emerging scholars in Ireland and abroad.

Eigse: A Journal of Irish Studies: Volume 42 (42)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of home rule, while others may have joined up to secure a decent living; however, by 1918 and the end of the war, the political landscape in Ireland had changed radically and those who had served in the British army found themselves relegated to the shadows of a war that was rarely discussed. In 1919, the National University of Ireland compiled a war list of all students, graduates, and staff of University College Cork, University College Dublin, and University College Galway, who had died or served in the Great War. As part of the NUI' s Decade of Centenary programme, the original Honour Roll is reprinted here along with a collection of explanatory essays.

The National University of Ireland First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays

World

My Angel will go before you

Huber, George

Rakes and ruffians: The underworld of Georgian Dublin

Walsh, John Edward

The first published collection of homilies by Monsignor Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer ranges through the Church's liturgical year. The teaching which it contains constantly reflects the connection which should exist between a Christian's mos ordinary and therefore most human interests and the tanscendence of God. 'Heaven and earth,' he says, 'seem to merge on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.'

Christ is Passing By - Homilies

JOSEMARÌA ESCRIVÀ DE BALAGUER

On being a Christian: The Hans Küng debate

Scheffczyk, Leo

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