There is a tragic inevitability about Irish history: "hatred answering hatred", as Lady Gregory wrote. Four events in particular, Yeats' "four deep, tragic notes", ring through Irish history: the Catholic revolt against Elizabeth; the battle of the Boyne, which established the Protestant Ascendancy; the impact of the French Revolution; and the ...
To those who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and spiritual emptiness. The mystical and the earthly, liberations and faithfulness, literal poverty as well as the blessed poverty of the spirit.
"REA ... Real review, Real practice, Real results." Take your teaching career to the head of the class.CSET MULTIPLE SUBJECTS, PLUS WRITING SKILLS, 2nd Edition"For California Licensure" Are you prepared to excel on the CSET? * Get to know the test, how it is scored, and much more.* Set up a study schedule by following our flexible, results-driven ...
The first-ever biography of the most famous of Ireland's High Kings. Brian Boru king of Munster, was among the most successful of all medieval Irish monarchs. Succeeding to the kingship of Dal Cais on the death of his brother Mathgamain in 976, he managed in the course of his long reign, by a combination of military skill and political astuteness, ...
This comprehensive volume addresses developmental disabilities and intellectual disabilities across the lifespan. Drawing on the expertise of dozens of internationally renowned authors, the book covers the following topics: a historical overview; definitions; current views; approaches to supports, rights, and laws; ethical considerations; early ...
Specially written by experienced teachers, this easy to use and completely up-to-date course provides a step-by-step approach to spoken and written Irish with no prior knowledge of the language required. What makes "Colloquial Irish" your best choice in personal language learning?: emphasis on the language of East Connemara, with a clear ...
Máire Cruise O'Brien explores the republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she was growing up, the fallout of the Civil War, and life in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland almost a century ago. Máire spent two years studying in post-war Paris where she met Beckett and Sylvia Beech, among others. She became the first ever ...
Students in the humanities often struggle with concepts drawn from the social sciences and find quantitative and statistical information inaccessible and daunting. This book provides a simple guide to the process of conducting research in the humanities. Topics covered include choosing a research question and method; instrument design and pilot ...
This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection is partly about Germany itself, addressing questions of trauma, historical memory, politics, fascism, and democracy. The essays range from ...
The man who came to be known as Patrick was a grand mythic figure and a very real historical person: a slave turned missionary, a passionate pilgrim, and a revered religious writer and teacher. Now for the first time his story--from his youth in Roman Britain to his emergence from slavery in Ireland--is fully reconstructed and recaptured. Maire de ...
Population growth and its related issues have long been on the political agenda in France in a way which distinguishes her from her European neighbours and particularly from Britain. This work explores recent developments in population studies and the policies which spring from them. It examines such areas as: women, birth and motherhood; ...
In "System-on-Chip Architectures and Implementations for Private-Key Data Encryption", new generic silicon architectures for the DES and Rijndael symmetric key encryption algorithms are presented. The generic architectures can be utilised to rapidly and effortlessly generate system-on-chip cores, which support numerous application requirements, ...
The world-famous Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital has a reputation second to none, and its Institute of Child Health is renowned for its research into child health and illness. This book, an established favourite with parents, draws together the expertise of its highly qualified staff and offers reassuring advice about all aspects of ...
Maire MacSwiney Brugha is the only child of Terence MacSwiney, one of the greatest figures in Ireland's history, who died after seventy-three days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison on 25 October 1920. His death became worldwide news. After her father's death, Maire was taken by her mother to live on the continent. For nine years she lived away ...
Maire Loughran draws on her years of experience to show you how to turn your passion for beautiful jewelry into a profitable sideline or full-time business.
This book deals with how changes in organ function can affect the way the body handles drugs. Most books on this subject deal with how drug treatments affect organ function. This book approaches it from the other way round. The information in this book will allow safer prescribing of drugs to critically ill patients. This is a clinical governance ...
A combination of 50 well-known and rare Irish tunes, all written in the keys in which they are most often played. Also includes extensive notes on playing this type of music.
This storybook is part of the Letterland "Reading at Home" series. The books come in three colour-coded stages with approximate age ranges making it easy for parents to choose books suitable to their child's age.
Drawing on the diverse views of over 1,300 children in the UK between the ages of 6 and 12, 'Dear BBC' discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children's relationship with the media, especially television drama. Maire Messenger Davies draws on material gathered from an audience research project commissioned by the BBC, based on ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2005, held in Brisbane, Australia, in July 2005. The 76 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining ...
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A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
