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1	Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement more books like this by Benjamin H Johnson (Editor), Patrick Kavanagh (Editor), Kevin Mattson (Editor) add to wishlist Welcome to academia in the 21st century, where 60 percent of tenured professors have been supplanted by underpaid graduate students or part time adjuncts. The professoriate is no longer a "community of scholars" that governs itself, but a group of employees whose work is reviewed by administrators who cut deals to put cheaply packaged courses on ... see all copies from $11.45! new only from $38.27! \| first editions
2	Tarry Flynn more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist A man's mother can be a terrible burden sometimes. For Tarry Flynn - poet, farmer and lover-from-afar of beautiful young virgins - the responsibility of family, farm, poetic inspiration and his own unyielding lust is a heavy one. The only solution is to rise above all - or escape over the nearest horizon. Like "The Green Fool", his autobiography, ... see all copies from $8.63! new only from $13.25! \| first editions
3	Selected poems more books like this by P. J. Kavanagh add to wishlist Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as "Tinker's Wife" and "Inniskeen Road: July Evening" to his tragic masterpiece "The Great Hunger" (1942) and his celebratory later verse, "To Hell with Common Sense" and "Come Dance with Kitty Stobling", which show his increasing comic ... see all copies from $13.86! new only from $13.86!
4	Sixers more books like this by John Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh: An Anthology more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh, Tom Stack (Editor) add to wishlist As poets go, Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) enjoys an exceptionally popular and influential place in the hearts of the Irish public. He offers us a uniquely distilled reflection of ourselves as a people and uncovers for us an intriguing spiritual landscape, both rich and recognisable. In this, his poetry is both original and enduring. It is noteworthy ... see all copies from $3.22! new only from $17.32! \| SVS
6	The Oxford Book of Short Poems more books like this by James Michie (Photographer), Patrick J Kavanagh (Editor) add to wishlist This is an excellent anthology... Every library at every level must have this anthology.'___Martin Seymour-Smith in British Book News . see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement more books like this by Susan J Rippberger, Patrick Kavanagh, Benjamin H Johnson (Editor) add to wishlist Steal This University documents the rise of the American corporate university over the past twenty years as well as the academic labour movement that has developed in response. Universities are increasingly looking to corporations as their model for reform, investing in merit-pay packages, partnerships with hi-tech companies, and anything that ... see all copies from $104.46! new only from $116.24!
8	No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh: An Anthology more books like this by Tom Stack (Editor), Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist Patrick Kavanagh's poems are widely quoted nowadays in all kinds of religious writing and discourse, from theology to spirituality. Key phrases of his, like 'God is in the bits and pieces of every day' are almost cliches by now in religious writing in Ireland. However, the theological background to his writing, and the originality and creativity ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $43.69!
9	The Last of the Name more books like this by Charles McGlinchy, Brian Friel (Editor), Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist 'So whenever I die, they will know where to bury me. And after my day the grave will not be opened again, for I'm the last of the name' Charles McGlinchey (1861-1954), weaver and tailor, lived his entire life on the Inishowen Peninsula in Donegal. Never married, he outlived his brothers and sisters, none of whom left an heir and so he became 'the ... see all copies from $26.33! new only from $26.33!
10	Collected poems [of] Patrick Kavanagh. more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $6.86! first editions
11	By Night Unstarred: An Autobiographical Novel more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $34.00! first editions
12	Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney more books like this by Ivor Gurney, Patrick J Kavanagh (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $19.94! first editions
13	Lough Derg more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $90.98! first editions
14	Selected Poems of Ivor Gurney more books like this by Ivor Gurney, Patrick J Kavanagh (Editor) add to wishlist This is a selection of Gurney's most successful pieces of poetry, inspired by his native Gloucestershire, the war poems and the poems which chronicle Gurney's descent into madness after the war. see all copies from $10.00! first editions
15	Tarry Flynn : a novel by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $53.00!
16	A Poet's Country: Selected Prose more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh, Antoinette Quinn (Editor) add to wishlist Patrick Kavanagh was above all a poet, but for most of his writing life he was also a prolific producer of critical and autobiographical prose. Work for newspapers and magazines was often his main source of income, and it provided him with a necessary outlet for his views on the writers of his time, and past times, on the spiritual function of ... see all copies from $16.05! new only from $16.05!
17	The green fool more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. There are tales of schoolboy ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $13.00! \| first editions
18	The complete poems more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh, Peter Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $22.00! first editions
19	Kavanagh's weekly. by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $56.65!
20	The great hunger. more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $1,100.00!
21	Gaff topsails more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist Set in an Irish Catholic parish on the coast of Newfoundland, most of the events in this text take place on 24 June 1948 on the feast of St John the Baptist, the bringer of light commemorated with bonfires ignited on the headland. But it is also Midsummer's Day. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798: Derived from Every Available Written Record and Relia by Patrick F Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $18.99! new only from $18.99! \| SVS
23 view cover	A Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798 by Patrick F Kavanagh add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: safety as best they could. He himself, with seven companions, effected a retreat in the darkness of the night to the lesser Collon. Being pursued to this retreat by ... see all copies from $20.65! new only from $20.65!
24	Self Portrait. more books like this by Patrick Kavanagh add to wishlist see all copies from $100.00! first editions
25 view cover	Collected Poems by Patrick Kavanagh; Antoinette Quinn add to wishlist The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully independent country, both politically ... see all copies from $26.70! new only from $26.70!

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