Aboard a whale-watching boat, a youngster observes the activities of a humpback whale, and learns about the characteristics of whales found off the New England coast

Product Description: Now available in paperback, this collection of essays on the subject of music and Irish identity covers a number of different musical genres and periods. Representing a significant intervention within the field of Irish music studies, the main articles include the (re-)establishment of music as a key object of Irish cultural studies, the theoretical limitations of traditional musicology, and the development of new methodologies specifically designed to address the demands of Irish music in all its aspects...read more

Product Description: Space has emerged in recent years as a radical category in a range of related disciplines across the humanities. Of the many possible applications of this new interest, some of the most exciting and challenging have addressed the issue of domestic architecture and its function as a space for both the dramatisation and the negotiation of a cluster of highly salient issues concerning, amongst other things, belonging and exclusion, fear and desire, identity and difference...read more

'Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock' tells the story of modern Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the island during a period of rapid, decisive change.

Product Description: Examines the history, performance, and practice of Irish Rock Music from the 1960s to the present. Using theoretical perspectives drawn from Irish cultural criticism and Rock Music Studies the author shows how Irish rock music has engaged with issues of national identity at every level, from music to performance to distribution...read more

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Product Description: This book reconstitutes the category of 'space' as a crucial element within contemporary cultural, literary and historical studies in Ireland. The study is based on the dual premise of an explosion of interest in the category of space in modern cultural criticism and social inquiry, and the consolidation of Irish studies as a significant scholarly field across a number of institutional and intellectual contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: History is an invention in the present, as much as a representation and interpretation of the past. This has opened up innovative approaches to the research and writing of history, and it is the two ideas central to this theme - that culture is historically conditioned and history culturally conditioned – that this book explores...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An accessible introduction to the concept of culture in Gramsci focusing on the relevance of Gramsci’s approach for anthropologists

Product Description: This study makes a detailed examination of the new novelists and themes emerging in Irish literature, as well as covering the foundations of contemporary Irish fiction. The book focuses on the work of Irish writers including Roddy Doyle, Glenn Patterson, Emma Donoghue and Patrick McCabe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)