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Ireland Under the Union, II: 1870-1921Volume VI opens with a character study of the period, followed by ten chapters of narrative history, and a study of Ireland in 1914. It includes further chapters on the economy, literature, the Irish language, music, arts, education, administration and the public service, and emigration....

The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public-and fast. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is conventionally assumed, will necessarily follow one from...

An Approach to Irish Literary HistoryThe Cold of May Day Monday offers an indvidual view of the history of Irish literature from its very earliest phases up to the present day, more or less, with discussions of major writers such as Friel, Heaney, Derek Mahon, McGahern, and John Banville. Robert Welch traces the roots of Irish literature in myth...

Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare&'s tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music.  In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play&'s changing fortunes to changes within society and the theatre and investigates...

Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied ParisJean Guehenno&'s Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1945 is the most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Parisand a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "e;a remarkable...

Criminology and GenocideOffering the author&'s reflections on how to interpret genocide as a crime, this book endeavours to understand how the theories of criminal motivation might shed light on these stunning events and make them comprehensible, including a new and compelling account of the dynamics of the 1994 Rwanda genocide....