Author: Andy Bielenberg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 178
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This collection of scholarly essays provides a background to the figures involved in the Shannon Scheme and gives a detailed historical assessment of the scheme, which transformed the east Clare landscape.
Author: Sorcha O'Brien Publisher: ISBN: 9781911024675 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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The visual story of the greatest industrial initiative of the fledgling Irish Free State: the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme. Lavishly designed, the book examines the construction of this mammoth of modern ingenuity and its symbolic power during the dawn of electrical technology in Ireland.
Author: Roy H. W. Johnston Publisher: Academica Press,LLC ISBN: 1930901763 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 584
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This work is the study of a family's century long involvement with Irish self rule and political freedom. Joe Johnston (1890-1972), from a Tyrone Presbyterian small-farm background, had 3 elder brothers who made their careers in the Indian Civil Service. The family were 'Home Rule within the Empire' supporters in the Ulster liberal tradition. After studying classics and ancient history in Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and then in Oxford, JJ became a Fellow of Trinity in 1913. He then published his anti-Carson book Civil War in Ulster, attacking the process which culminated in the 1914 Larne gun-running. He contributed significantly to the emergent national movement. He wrote critically about 1930s economic policies, and went on the serve in the Irish Senate/Sennad from 1939 to 1954. His son RJ (b.1929) was a pioneer of the student left in TCD in the 1940s, and was associated with the post-war attempt to bring European Marxist thinking into the Irish labour movement, with the foundation of the Irish Workers League in 1948. After a period in London in the early 1960s, he returned to Dublin, this time as a research scientist, and helped Cathal Goulding in his attempt to get the 1960s generation of republicans to go political, in a democratic left-wing mode, decoupling from the Stalinist incubus. He helped set the stage for the emergence of the Civil Rights approach to reform in Northern politics, as a means of opening up an all-Ireland perspective. His opponents in the Republican movement, the Provisionals, opted for violence . In the ensuing decades he participated in various politicising processes which may, in the end, show the counter-productive nature of the role of the gun in politics, in Ireland and elsewhere. Roy Johnston lives in Dublin and continues to be politically active. "An important addition to any library of 20th century Irish Studies" Professor J.Skelly
Author: Princess Grace Irish Library Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780389208570 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 296
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Contents: R.V. Comerford, Political Myths In Modern Ireland; Hugh Leonard, The Unimportance of Being Irish; Louis Le Brocquy, A Painter's Notes On His Irishness; Patrick Rafroidi, Defining The Irish Literary Tradition In English; Maurice Harmon, Definitions of Irishness In Modern Irish Literature; Terence Brown, Awakening From the Nightmare; Irish History in Some Recent Literature; Richard Kearney, The Transitional Crisis of Modern Irish Culture; Mary E. Daly, The Impact of Economic Development on National Identity; Joseph Lee, State and Nation in Independent Ireland; David Harkness, Nation, State and National Identity in Ireland: Some Preliminary Thoughts; John A. Murphy, Religion and Irish Identity; Dermot Keogh, Catholicism and the Formation of the Modern Irish Society; Maurice Goldring, National Identity and Class Conscience; Mark Mortimer, The Anglo-Irish Influence In The Shaping of Irish Identity; Garret Fitzgerald, Towards A New Concept of Irishness; John Hume, A New IrelandóThe Healing Process; Andy O'Mahony (Moderator). A Round Table On A Changing Concept; Appendix 1. The Conference Programme and List of Participants; Appendix 2. Irishness in Print: A Selective Bibliography; Notes; Notes on Contributors; Index^R.
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