Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea

Arts & Photography

Healy, James N. (ed)

Music

The Mercier Press

Self Portrait

Keane, John B.

Letters of a Successful T.D.

John Brendan Keane

A good copy, faded covers, spotting to end papers, text is clean and unmarked. The Thomas Davis lecture series

The Years of the Great Test

Francis MacManus

Pleasant Land of Ireland

DANAHER, Kevin

Patrick J. Dowling, M.A., Ph.D., is Secretary of the Irish Literary Society in London. He has taught in Ireland and England, and lectured in Education at the University of London Institute of Education. He is the author of The Hedge Schools of Ireland.Looking at the history of education in Ireland P. J. Dowling traces the conflict of loyalties implicit in almost every age. From the days of the Bardic Schools, monastic establishments and the schools of Tudor times loyalties were divided between the recognized patrons and those who regarded themselves as successors to a more ancient heritage.Brought to a standstill by the imposition of the Penal Laws, education in Ireland began to take second place to the scholars of Irish learning on the Continent but the underground 'hedge' schools began to root and proved for long to be a force on the Irish scene. From this point the British government saw that education had to be controlled and the story of the intensive negotiations between State and Church is told here with clarity and depth of research.One of the outstanding features of this history is the link that is maintained between the past and each effort to ensure a form of popular education. This background is an essential to an understanding of the tortuous paths followed by both British and native governments in their efforts to weld both 'ancient heritage and modern outlook on to an educational system for a small country.

A history of Irish education: A study in conflicting loyalties

Education & Teaching

Dowling, P. J.

Schools & Teaching

In this, the first of an eight volume series of William Carleton's Traits and Stories we are given four works which display his genius in all its versatility and variety. In The Lough Derg Pilgrim he recalls his adventures at Lough Derg when, as a future candidate for holy orders, he first made that famous pilgrimage.Ned M'Keown, the one totally comic tale of the four, immortalizes in seemingly artless dialogue the travails of Irish marriage and the consolation offered by the visitations of mysterious strangers to the hearth.In The Lianhan Shee and Wildgoose Lodge the tone becomes progressively darker, shading perceptibly from ironic observation to tragic participation. In the first of these Carleton holds a mirror up to the Irish nature, reflecting in this tale the deeply superstitious Mary O'Sullivan and her confrontation with the tormented figure alienated from church and community, the Lianhan Shee. In Wildgoose Lodge, Carleton gives an intensely moving account of another aspect of Irish life and tells a nightmare tale, very much in the manner of Poe.

Wildgoose Lodge and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

William, Carleton

Short Stories & Anthologies

Letters of an Irish Publican

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Irish Love & Marriage Jokes

Comics & Graphic Novels

MacHale, Des

Graphic Novels

Folk Music and Dances of Ireland

Breathnach, Breandan

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