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Ireland and Europe in the twelfth century : reform and renewal
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ISBN: 9781851828487 1851828486 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts,

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"This book examines the attempt to reform the Irish Church, the developing ideas of Irish nationhood, and the revolutionary impact new artistic ideas had on Irish art, architecture and literature in the course of the twelfth century."--Jacket.


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Dublin in the medieval world : studies in honour of Howard B. Clarke
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ISBN: 9781846821547 1846821541 Year: 2009 Publisher: Dublin: Four Courts Press,

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Among the subjects covered in this celebration of medieval Dublin are: cross-cultural processes between Scandinavian settlers and the native Irish; spiritual and secular aspects of the city; and representations of Viking and medieval Dublin in texts and maps.

Remembrance and imagination : patterns in the historical and literary representation of Ireland in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 1859181112 9781859181119 Year: 1996 Volume: 4 Publisher: Cork Cork university press


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Across the margins : cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago
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ISBN: 1280733942 1847791271 9786610733941 9781526137227 9781847791276 9781280733949 6610733945 1526137224 Year: 2018 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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Contributors to this text discuss what it is to be British or Irish, and how people come to describe themselves as such. The study offers a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of the cultural formation of the Atlantic Archipelago, working across the disciplines of history, geography, literature and cultural studies. It also includes specific case-studies on contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, popular music and art. The essaye respond to recent constitutional developments in Great Britain and Ireland, exploring their implications both for the cultural negotiation of marginality and fo


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Clerics, kings and vikings : essays on medieval Ireland in honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin
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ISBN: 9781846822797 1846822793 Year: 2015 Publisher: Dublin: Four Courts Press,

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This volume contains contributions from leading scholars working at the forefront of Irish medieval studies. It includes essays on archaeology, ecclesiology, hagiography, medieval history, genealogy, language, literature and toponymy. Subjects explored include : Latin and learning in early medieval Ireland; the historical context of early medieval literature; Viking armies and the importance of the Hiberno-Norse naval fleets; Ireland and its connections with the Scandinavian world; recent studies of wooden and Romanesque churches in pre-Norman Ireland; the coming of the Anglo-Normans; hitherto unpublished Anglo Norman charters ; the origin and function of medieval rural deaneries; secular and ecclesiastical histories of later medieval Kilkenny; and the ‘named son’ in 16th-century Ireland.

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