Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of
expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages …

Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary
provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad …

Derek Hand's A History of the Irish Novel is a major work of criticism on some of the greatest
and most globally recognisable writers of the novel form. Writers such as Laurence Sterne …

Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture presents a radical re-reading of the cultural
history of the Irish state, by demonstrating through original historical research and insightful …

During the 1960s, the physical landscape of Dublin changed more than at any time since the
eighteenth century. In this period, the government began to invest in town planning, new …

In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre, which
quickly became renowned for producing stylistically and dramaturgically innovative plays in …

Ireland has passed through numerous identity crises in the last century, keeping the
meaning of Irishness in constant flux. This book explores how diverse writers have …

The purpose of the research was to elaborate on the relationship between sport national
team identity and national identity. The relationship has been documented anecdotally and …

Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic advances an innovative and
compelling approach to writing comparative studies of performance in transnational …

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 …