Product Description: A gothic, bone-chilling Irish ghost story first published in 1941 and now brought back into print. The title benefits from an introduction by well-known academic Professor Luke Gibbons and Martin Scorsese and various critics, including William K...read more

Product Description: This was the first comprehensive study of film production in Ireland from the silent period to the present day, and of representations of Ireland and ‘Irishness’ in native, British, and American films. It remains an authority on the topic...read more

Product Description: Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare (1710-91) was one of 18th-century Ireland's greatest scholars, who wrote in both Irish and English. His work was clearly influenced by the Enlightenment and he regularly corresponded with the important intellectual and cultural figures of his day...read more

A guide to treating eating disorders tells how to spot early warning signs, how to assess the roles of family history, socialization, and self-esteem, and why eating disorders persist for years

Product Description: The first academic study of Irish film stars in Hollywood, Acting Irish in Hollywood contains ten essays on leading Irish stars: Barry Fitzgerald, George Brent, Maureen O'Sullivan, Maureen O'Hara, Constance Smith, Richard Harris, Stephen Rea, Gabriel Byrne, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Farrell...read more

Product Description: One of the main objectives of the Encyclopedia will be to bring conceptions of Irish identity fully up-to-date and in to line with developments in modern, or post-modern culture. Though the Encyclopedia deals extensively with the face Ireland presents to the 'outside' world, its most important function will be to address the complex dialogues which Irish people are having with themselves in a period of uncertainty and change, of both anxiety and optimism...read more

Product Description: John Ford's "The Quiet Man" (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home; for others, it is a showcase for the worst stereotypes of stage-Irishry...read more

Product Description: Over the last decade the Irish economy has experienced a period of unprecedented growth which has earned it the title Celtic Tiger. This success has been interpreted by academic commentators as marking a social and cultural transformation, what some have called the reinvention of Ireland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From a variety of perspectives, the essays explore the complex intersections between culture and politics, nation and state, periphery and centre, and 'high' and 'popular' culture in Irish life. Cultural representations are shown not as simply reflecting, but actively helping to constitute and transform social experience...read more