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Name: Propaganda as Anti-HistorySubtitle: Peter Hart's 'The IRA and its Enemies' examinedAuthor: Sheridan, OwenEditor:Category: Irish CollectionPublisher: Aubane Historical SocietyPublished: 2008ISBN: 9781-903497-41-8Contents: Because historians tell the story of humanity, we depend on them for our understanding of who and what we are. But writers of history can also distort the story, presenting their subjects, not as people, but as caricatures of good and evil. When such distortion becomes serious and deliberate, Owen Sheridan describes it as anti-history.
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Name: Puritanism And The TheatreSubtitle:Author: Clifford, BrendanEditor:Category: GeneralPublisher: Belfast Historical & Educational SocietyPublished: 2014ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-872078-Contents: It is not well known that the English Reformation suppressed the theatre in England, not once but twice. First there was Henry VIII's suppression of the mediaeval theatre, because traditional culture was permeated by the old religion. Miracle plays and suchlike became a form of thought-crime. Henry's absolute State required a thorough re-moulding of the populace and that included theatrical life. Half a century later the State encouraged the development of a new development of theatre, to provide entertainment for Elizabeth and her courtiers. The Stuarts who followed her also promoted a new form of theatre which flourished, and which had a marked anti-Puritan bias. Stuart (or Jacobean) theatre was anathema to the new Puritan religious development. A coup d'etat was brought about by Puritan forces in 1641. England became a rigorous Protestant theocracy and Oliver Cromwell abolished theatre for a second time. English social life came under the control of forces nowadays described as fanatical, radical or fundamentalist. Dating from this era, William Prynne's comprehensive Christian case against the theatre is described. After the Cromwellian governing arrangement ran into the ground, the Stuarts were brought back to power. With them came a new development of theatre after 1660, but only in a limited form under Government licence. In 1740 an attempt at political theatre was nipped in the bud. This is discussed in connection with Charlotte Brooke, an early translator of Irish verse, whose father wrote the banned play Gustavus Vasa. These events were described in an entertaining manner in a series of articles for The Heresiarch (Editor, Joe Keenan) which are reproduced here. Then there is a comment on Synge and Sean O'Casey, questioning a suggestion made on Radio Eireann that The Playboy and The Plough were met with hostile demonstrations because their authors were Protestants. Around the theme of Showgirls, the depiction of sex in popular discourse is considered. The overall surprising conclusion is that Puritanism abolished, along with theatre, the traditional communal medium of social life, creating a vacuum which is filled in the Anglo-sphere by an upsurge of theatre. The population lives its community life through theatrical presentations on stage, screen and air-waves.Extracts: There are no extracts at this time.Errata: There are no errata at this time.Price: £12.00Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Air Mail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Readings from Pearse Ferriter (Please Note. This publication is not currently available.)Subtitle:Author: Ferriter, PearseEditor:Category: Gaelic CollectionPublisher: Aubane Historical SocietyPublished: 1999ISBN:Contents: Readings of Pearse Ferriter's Gaelic poems by Boscó Ó Concúir.Extracts: No extra online material at this time.Errata: No errata available at this time.Price: £4.00Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Remembering GallipoliSubtitle: President McAleese's Great War CrusadeAuthor: Walsh, PatEditor:Category: Irish CollectionPublisher: Athol BooksPublished: 2010ISBN: 978 1 903497 24 3Contents: The Irish President Mrs. Mary McAleese pays an official visit to Turkey to unveil a memorial to the Irish who died in the British invasion at Gallipoli in 1915. Such a visit is an unusual departure for Ireland, given the historical perspective of the independent Irish State.
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Name: Roger Casement on the Great War:Subtitle: A commentary on 'Sir Roger Casement on Sir Edward Grey' and on 'A Pacific Blockade'Author: Walsh, PatEditor:Category: German/IrishPublisher: Athol BooksPublished: 2017ISBN: 978-0-85034-134-8Contents: The war against Germany was decreed years ago by those powers that own the Foreign Office and drive, not guide, the English people, and the personality of the Foreign Minister had as little to do with the result achieved as the personal character of an Archbishop of Canterbury has to do with the policy of the Church of England.Extracts: There are no extracts at this timeErrata: There are no errata at this timePrice: £5.00Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within Britain and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Air Mail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Roger Casement: A Reassessment Of The Diaries ControversiesSubtitle:Author: Wilson, MaireadEditor:Category: Irish CollectionPublisher: Athol BooksPublished: 2005ISBN: 1 0 85034 112 4Contents: Published for the Roger Casement Foundation by Athol Books.Extracts: No extra online material at this time.Errata: No errata available at this time.Price: £5.00Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Scripture PoliticsSubtitle: Selections From The Writings Of Rev. William Steel DicksonAuthor:Editor: Clifford, BrendanCategory: United Irish CollectionPublisher: Athol BooksPublished: 1991ISBN: 0 85034 044 6Contents: Selected and introduced by Brendan Clifford. This selection includes extracts from his "Narrative Of Confinement And Exile" (1812); his writing on the American War (1778); his'Sermon On The Propriety And Advantages Of Acquiring The Knowledge And Use Of Arms" (1777); "Scripture Politics" (1793); "Retractions" (1813), produced in the course of his dispute with the leaders of the Synod Of Ulster; and "Last Sermons" (1817). 160 pp.Extracts: No extra online material at this time.Errata: No errata available at this time.Price: £10.00Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Sean Moylan - In His Own WordsSubtitle: His memoir of the Irish War of IndependenceAuthor: Moylan, SeanEditor: Clifford, BrendanCategory: Irish CollectionPublisher: Aubane Historical SocietyPublished: 2003ISBN: 1 903497 11 0Contents: Sean Moylan was the Republican military commander in North Cork during the most intense phase of the War of Independence. Thirty years later he wrote an account of his part in that war—and it was placed in the Bureau of Military History along with the accounts of many others. These memoirs of the people who actually conducted the war were to have been held in a closed archive for a certain period before being opened to the public. That period was extended several times but the material was finally made available in March 2003. Sean Moylan was perhaps the public figure who was most representative of the men who ensured that the British state could not peacefully cast aside the electoral mandate of the 1918 election in Ireland, and who compelled it to concede to force at least part of what it denied to the ballot-box. He was a carpenter by vocation. There were, of course, soldiers by vocation amongst his colleagues in the war—Tom Barry whom he admired, and Ernie O'Malley whom he took good-humouredly with a pinch of salt being the outstanding ones—but Moylan never became one of them. He went to war from a sense of duty founded in the self-respect of a republican citizen, and then he gave up the business of soldiery. He later became a Government Minister, having been drawn into politics thanks to the Civil War—being one of those who brought about the resurgence which developed the defeated side in the Civil War into the party which has dominated the state ever since 1932: Fianna Fail. And, when he wrote his memoir of the War of Independence, it was not for publication! He was Minister for Agriculture when he died in 1957. This is an account of a piece of history by a man who made it. The present work includes Moylan's memoir, along with a number of his speeches and poems. An epilogue by Brendan Clifford provides the context in which Moylan and his colleagues were forced to win by the bullet what Britain refused to concede to the ballot, and reviews current misrepresentations of the War of Independence.Extracts: To read a sample chapter please click here.
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Name: Seán Moylan - was he a rebel?Subtitle: A review of Aideen Carroll's Seán Moylan - rebel leaderAuthor: Lane, JackEditor:Category: Irish CollectionPublisher: Aubane Historical SocietyPublished: 2010ISBN: 978 1 903497 61 6Contents: A full biography of Sean Moylan was long overdue and anyone interested in Moylan and his inside story of the War of Independence would welcome any additional information on his life and actions. This biography provides some interesting and useful new information. As the biographer, Aideen Carroll, being a granddaughter of Moylan, had access to family records it also includes very interesting family records and photographs that have not hitherto been published. However, this review argues that there are aspects of the biography that do not do justice to Moylan and presents a less than accurate and fair account of some of his political positions.Extracts: No online extracts available at this time.Errata: No online errata available at this time.Price: £5.00Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Seán O'HegartySubtitle: O/C First Cork Brigade Irish Republican ArmyAuthor: Girvin, KevinEditor:Category: Irish CollectionPublisher: Aubane Historical SocietyPublished: 2007ISBN: 9-781903-2973-02Contents: A first and long overdue biographical study of Seán O'Hegarty, Officer Commanding, First Cork Brigade, Irish Republican Army, during the Irish War of Independence. O'Hegarty was one of the most effective military commanders in the Cork area during the period of greatest strain and activity from 1920 to 1921. A direct successor of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, his significance has long been overshadowed by his martyred comrades.
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