Author: Patricia Boyne
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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John O'Donovan was an important figure in Irish intellectual history. He translated many old Irish manuscripts, collecting place names and investigating other antiquities.
Author: John O'Donovan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781898471172
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: G. H. Reilly (edited by)
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: John O'Donovan
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Category : Meath (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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"John O'Donovan's Letters are reports written from the field to the Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey, Thomas Larcom, discussing the English orthography of the names to be printed on the first edition of the Survey's maps. O'Donovan began work in Meath in July, 1836." -- back inside flap of dust jacket.
Author: Joachim Grage
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527500438
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Comparative philology was one of the most prolific fields of knowledge in the humanities during the 19th century. Based on the discovery of the Indo-European language family, it seemed to admit the reconstruction of a common history of European languages, and even mythologies, literatures, and people. However, it also represented a way to establish geographies of belonging and difference in the context of 19th century nation-building and identity politics. In spite of a widely acknowledged consensus about the principles and methods of comparative philology, the results depended on local conditions and practices. If Scandinavians were considered to be Germanic or not, for example, was up to identity politics that differed in Berlin, Strasbourg, Copenhagen and Paris. The contributors here elaborate these dynamics through analyses of the changing and conflicting versions of imaginative geographies that the actors of comparative philology evoked by using Scandinavian literatures and cultures. They also show how these seemingly delocalized scientific models depended on ever-different local needs and practices. Through this, the book represents the first distinctly transnational dynamic geography and history of the philological knowledge of the North – not only as a history of a scientific discourse, but also as a result of doing and performing scientific work.
Author: Brad Kent
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773548629
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Sean O’Faolain (1900-1991) was Ireland’s leading social and political critic in the period following the country’s independence from the United Kingdom. Since his death, scholarly opinion has alternately cast him as an arch-revisionist, a liberal nationalist, and a frustrated republican. The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain reassesses his reputation by showing that he wrote in the tradition of post-Enlightenment European intellectuals, and that while he was a significant figure in Ireland, his work extends beyond immediate national concerns. This volume includes over fifty unabridged essays by O’Faolain on a wide range of subjects – from canonical writers to architecture, from religious scandals to economics, from nationalism to internationalism, from long-dead historical figures to recent controversies. O’Faolain’s fearlessness in taking on the major political, cultural, and religious figures of his day, his masterly use of rhetoric, and his intellectual acuity have contributed to his works being quoted often by scholars working across several disciplines. Many of these essays appear here in print for the first time since they were published in the foremost periodicals of their day. An extensive introduction and helpful annotations contextualise and explain them for a new audience. In his re-readings of history and challenges to dominant historiographical trends, O’Faolain has become a pariah to some and a hero to others. The Selected Essays of Sean O’Faolain bridges some of these competing visions, presenting a more complex figure through his varied corpus of writing.
Author: Murphy & Chamberlain
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326519204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Publisher: Field Day Publications
ISBN: 0946755493
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Daibhi O Croinin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198217374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1398
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'A New History of Ireland' provides a comprehensive synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, onwards.
Author: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191543454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume I begins by looking at geography and the physical environment. Chapters follow that examine pre-3000, neolithic, bronze-age and iron-age Ireland and Ireland up to 800. Society, laws, church and politics are all analysed separately as are architecture, literature, manuscripts, language, coins and music. The volume is brought up to 1166 with chapters, amongst others, on the Vikings, Ireland and its neighbours, and opposition to the High-Kings. A final chapter moves further on in time, examining Latin learning and literature in Ireland to 1500.
