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• Contents: Nicholas Grene: Irish English as a Literary Language: Authority and Subversion - Brigitte Bastiat/Frank Healy: Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty. From Written Translation to Stage Interpretation - Bertrand Cardin: Authorities in Crisis and Intertextual Practice: The Example of Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin - Audrey Robitaillie: "Come Away, Stolen Child": Colum McCann's and Keith Donohue's New Readings of the Yeatsian Motif - Mehdi Ghassemi: Authorial and Perceptual Crises in John Banville's Shroud - Virginie Girel-Pietka: Looking for Oneself in Denis Johnston's Plays: Authorities in Crisis and Self-Authorship - Chantal Dessaint: "Suffer the little children ...": Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's Strategies of Subversion - Mathew D. Staunton/Nathalie Sebbane: Authority and Child Abuse in Ireland: Rethinking History in a Hostile Field - Valerie Peyronel: The Banking Crisis in Ireland and its Resolution: Authority(ies) in Question? - Marie-Violaine Louvet: Challenging the Authority of the Irish State on the Question of the Middle East: The Two Gaza Flotillas of May 2010 and November 2011 - Michel Savaric: The IRA and 'Civil Administration': A Challenge to the Authority of the State? - Fabrice Mourlon: The Crisis of Authority in You, Me and Marley - Claire Dubois: "Through Darkest Obstruction": Challenging the British Representation of Ireland (1880-1910) - Ciaran Brady: An Old Kind of History: The Anglo-Irish Writing of Irish History, 1840-1910.
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This volume sets out to investigate how various forms of authority in Irish culture and history have been challenged and transformed by a crisis situation. In literature and the arts, a reappraisal of the authority of canonical authors - and also of traditional forms, paradigms and critical discourses - principally revolves around intertextuality and rewriting, as well as the wider crisis of (authoritative) representation. What is the authority of an author, of a text, of literature itself? How do works of fiction represent, generate or resolve crises on their own aesthetic, stylistic and representational terms? The Irish Republic has faced a number of serious crises and challenges since it came into existence. In recent years, the collapse of the Celtic Tiger has acted as a catalyst for change, revealing various structures of political, religious and economic authority giving way under pressure. In Northern Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement has led to major developments as new authorities endowed with legislative and executive powers have been set up. In its focus on the subject of authority and crisis in Ireland, this book opens up a rich and varied field of investigation.
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• INTRODUCTION--
• 4. RESISTANCE TO THE ORMOND PEACE.
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The success of the Irish Counter-Reformation was a crucial development in the history of the island and subsequently a vital component in the troubled relationship between Ireland and Britain. For centuries the politics of the archipelago have been affected by conflicts whose deepest roots are located in the religious changes of the seventeenth century. This book offers a scholarly and dramatic reappraisal of a central episode in the extension of Catholic reform to the island, the papal nunciature of GianBattista Rinuccini. Tadhg O hAnnrachain situates Rinuccini's mission in its wider European context, and provides an entirely new perspective, not only on the man at the heart of events during the turbulent 1640s, but also on the seventeenth-century penetration of Catholic reform into Ireland and on the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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• 1. The State and Civil War 1921-1923
• 2. The Civilianization of Internal Security 1923-1932
• 3. Ireland's Defence Dilemma 1923-1932
• 4. Internal Security and External Defence 1932-1939
• 5. External Defence and Security 1939-1945
• 6. Security Operations and Covert Activities 1939-1945
• 7. Ireland in the Post-War World
• 8. Unresolved Questions: Defence, Security, and Subversion since 1969
• Conclusion.
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This fascinating and original book is the first to analyse the evolution of internal security policy and external defence policy in Ireland from independence to the present day. Professor O'Halpin examines the very limited concept of external defence understood by the first generation of Irish leaders, going on to chart the state's repeated struggles with the IRA and with other perceived internal and external threats to stability. He explores the state's defence and security relations with Britain and the United States and, drawing extensively on newly released records, he deals authoritatively with problems of subversion, espionage, counterintelligence and codebreaking during the Second World War. In conclusion, the book analyses significant post-Second World War developments, including anti-communist co-operation with Western powers, the emergence of UN service as a key element of Irish foreign and defence policy, the state's response to the Northern Ireland crisis since 1969, and Ireland's difficulties in addressing the collective security dilemmas facing the European Union in the post-Cold War era. It is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the development of independent Ireland since 1922.
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• 1. The state and civil war, 1921-3
• 2. The civilianization of internal security, 1923-32
• 3. Ireland's defence dilemma, 1923-32
• 4. Internal security and external defence, 1932-9
• 5. External defence and security, 1939-45
• 6. Security operations and covert activities, 1939-45
• 7. Ireland in the postwar world, 1945-69
• 8. Unresolved questions: defence, security and subversion, 1969
• Notes, Bibliography, Index.
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This book is the first to draw together the various strands of Irish national security policy and practice in a single chronological study, from independence in 1922 right up to the present day. Dr O'Halpin analyses the rapid emergence of a complex external security policy combining an absolute commitment to military neutrality and independent defence with close co-operation with Britain over issues of joint concern such as security and immigration. He traces the development of the army and police force in the new Irish state; and examines the state's reaction to the enduring republican threat, casting fresh light on how far the state was willing to put key constitutional protections into abeyance in its conflict with the republican movement. The book also examines the clandestine intelligence activities of belligerent powers during the Second World War, documenting the growth of the state's close wartime security understandings with the Allied powers, and the evolution of Cold War links with MI5 and the CIA. It investigates the evolution of post-war defence policy, and the activities of the defence forces in relation to the Northern Ireland crisis, as well as in their primary tasks of defending the state from external aggression and of contributing to UN peace-keeping operations. Dr O'Halpin highlights continuities as well as innovations in state security policy as the obligations and opportunities of European Union membership grate more and more against the absolutist rhetoric of neutrality. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the development of the Irish state in the twentieth century.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
• 3. Income Poverty
• 4. Measuring Deprivation
• 5. Income, Resources, and Deprivation
• 6. Income, Deprivation, and Poverty
• 7. Class, Underclass, and Poverty
• 8. Implications for Conceptualizing and Measuring Poverty
• 10. Conclusions
• Appendices
• References
• Index.
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Poverty alleviation is a central aim of economic and social policy, and yet there is no consensus about what poverty means or how it is best measured. Often, the households below an income poverty line are counted as poor, but there may be no firm basis for concentrating on that particular income level. There may also be wide variations among the households below any income poverty line in terms of their actual living standards. This book explores what poverty means in developed countries, and shows that understanding and measuring it requires widening the focus beyond curent income. By using broader measures of resources and information on living patterns and concrete indicators of deprivation, it shows how those who are effectively excluded from participation in society due to a lack of resources can be more accurately identified, and the processes producing such exclusion better understood. The core issue of this book is how to define and measure poverty in relatively rich countries in a way which is valid, meaningful in the context, and valuable for policy-making. Extensive tables of data from a specially designed survey of a large representative sample of Irish households are used to illustrate this issue.
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A selection of extracts from the work of James Joyce, accompanied by photographs of Ireland.
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• What we did or tried to do, by W.B. Yeats. - Irish coinage past and present, by J.J. McElligott. - Summary of the proceedings. ...

• Settlement in the West
• London Irish.

This is a biography and critical analysis of Sir John Lavery (1856-1941), best-known as one of the "Glasgow Boys" and one of the most "French" of the British impressionists. Born in Belfast in 1856, he studied at Haldane Academy in Glasgow, and from there he travelled to France where he came under the influence of Bastien-Lepage. In 1885 he achieved international recognition for "The Tennis Party", a rendition of the sons and daughters of late-Victorian industrialists at play. After the International Exhibition at Glasgow in 1888, Lavery took on commissions as a portraitist and "visual reporter". He was a highly skilled on-the-spot sketcher as well as a painter of carefully planned ceremonial portraits which reveal the profound effect of Whistler's influence. His sitters were members of the aristocracy, leading politicians and personalities from three generations covering the period from 1880 to 1940. Ever versatile, Lavery produced memorable images on his sojourns in Tangier and his travels to France, Switzerland and the United States. Despite advancing years he was a daring official war artist and a recorder of the struggle for Irish independence. Two notable trips to Hollywood and Palm Springs, just before his death, introduced him to the world of cinema.
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