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  • The John McGahern Companion

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 150 - Reimagining Ireland
    This collection of essays by established McGahern scholars and others interested in his work was put together to assess the writer’s current status some 20 years after his death in 2006. The Companion covers various aspects of McGahern’s oeuvre: the reception of his books among readers and literary critics; his epistolary exchanges with publishers, friends and family, and the adaptations that have ... Read more

    $73.69 CAD

  • Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy

    Edited by Derek Hand, Eamon Maher ...
    This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning in Ireland. The reason why so many people felt his loss so keenly is probably due to the fact that McGahern’s attention to detail, his ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom of Speech in the Press in Times of Conflict

    Historical Perspectives from Ireland and Europe

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 26 - Studies in Franco-Irish Relations
    In times of conflict, especially times of war, pressures on freedom of the press, even in societies that value a free press, inevitably increase – and often involve formal government censorship. Support of one’s country or, in the case of internal conflicts, of one side or another – usually, indeed, of the authorities – can be regarded as a duty. Dissent, even criticism, in the press is less ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Prophetic Voice

    Jean Sulivan's Ongoing Relevance in France and Ireland

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 25 - Studies in Franco-Irish Relations
    A deft, masterful study of the life and work of Jean Sulivan. Maher makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of Sulivan’s writings in challenging times and illuminates crucial and often neglected intersections between faith and fiction. A book to cherish. — Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)Thanks to Eamon Maher’s tireless work, Sulivan’s output is now reaching the wider audience ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

    From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

    by Eamon Maher, Eugene O'Brien ...
    This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary, both of whom were subsequently revealed to have been engaged in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Reimagining Ireland Reader

    Examining Our Past, Shaping Our Future

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 0 - Reimagining Ireland
    To mark the fact that the Reimagining Ireland series will soon have one hundred volumes in print, this book brings together a selection of essays from the first fifty volumes, carefully chosen to give a flavour of the diversity and multidisciplinary nature of the series. Following a chronological order, it begins with an essay by Luke Gibbons tracing the roots of modernity from the middle decades ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • 'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror'

    200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While his name is well known to aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in the ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Blue Chippers from the Emerald Isle

    A history of Irish footballers and scholarships in the USA in the twentieth century

    by Conor Curran, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 140 - Reimagining Ireland
    «In this excellent, readable and important study,　Curran reveals a rich vein of migrants who went to ply their trade as soccer players in the USA. This textured study illustrates the human side of the story enlivened by rich interviews of both female and male players. It is a must for students of the diaspora and sports studies. A major contribution».(Professor Donald MacRaild, London Metropolitan ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • The SDLP, Politics and Peace

    The Mark Durkan Interviews

    by Graham Spencer, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 135 - Reimagining Ireland
    «Compelling, informative, essential»(Senator George Mitchell)«Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly witty.»(Michael Lillis, diplomatic advisor to Garret FitzGerald and Irish government negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Agreement)«Once ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Catholic Church in Ireland Today

    by John C. Waldmeir, Brian R. Calfano, John Littleton, Eamon Maher, Matthew J. O'Brien, Elizabeth A. Oldmixon, James Silas Rogers, Andrew Auge, Agata Piekosz0, Michele Dillon1, Dr Bernadette Flanagan2 ...
    From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware of plunging Mass attendance, the Irish Church today is confronted with the loss of its ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Republican Solipsist

    The Life and Times of Joseph McGarrity, 1874–1940

    by Seán Creagh, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 144 - Reimagining Ireland
    Republican Solipsist discusses the life of Joseph McGarrity and his role within Irish and Irish American Republicanism including the complicated transatlantic relationship between two opposing visions of an independent Ireland. McGarrity’s militant Republicanism came into regular conflict with the reality of the political situation in Ireland.While the role of John Devoy has been well documented ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Prime the Pump

    Catholicism, Arts Policy and the Post-war Irish Amateur Drama Movement 1949 to 1969

    by Ian G. Kennedy, Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 143 - Reimagining Ireland
    For over seventy years, An Chomhairle Ealaíon/the Arts Council of Ireland has played a critical role in Irish cultural development. The interface between Arts Council policy, Catholicism, and amateur drama, which this book examines, provides an access point for understanding how people responded to the socio-economic crisis facing post-war Irish society. Exploring the cultural impact of amateur ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD