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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine please vote

The voting is now open for the Irish Book Awards. I would appreciate your vote at the link below.

 

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Please note that the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine  is listed in two categories so please vote in both of these.

 

Argosy Nonfiction Book of the Year

 

International Education Services Best Irish-published Book of the Year

 

I should be grateful if you would circulate this email to all of your contacts as the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine showcases the high-quality research output of University College Cork.

 

“a powerful, unflinching account of the Famine as the defining event in Irish history…firmly rooted in recent scholarship…it has been a long time since an Irish- studies book appeared that everyone should read”-Irish Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Collins

Publications Director

Cork University Press

 

Inside the Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser

Cork University Press has just published How He Gets into her Head: The Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser. The book  presents some ground-breaking ideas and prompts a radical reappraisal of how we think about and understand male intimate abuse and violence —How He Gets into her Head: The Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser  (ISBN  978-185594-220-2, sbk, 288 pp, 198 x 129mm, October, €14.95/£13.50).       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over the last fifty years an array of resources and interventions have been brought to bear on domestic violence and abuse between intimate partners. Yet intimate abuse continues to be endemic in our society. One of the principal reasons for this lack of effective intervention is that we have ignored a critical ingredient which is the foundation of long-term intimate abuse and violence. This book uncovers the layers of covert tactics which men employ to establish and maintain control over their intimate partner. By deepening our understanding of what is going on the author suggests that we can develop a more efficient and consistent response to the issue.

Working with both the perpetrators and victims of intimate partner abuse has given the author a unique insight into the tactics employed by the male abuser. He suggests that male intimate abuse and violence are driven by an entitlement to sexual priority and that the other tactics of control and violence are motivated by this entitlement. It is this motivation that distinguishes male intimate violence from other forms of ‘domestic violence’ such as female to male violence and elder abuse.

The author details the similarities in tactics and motivation between the paedophile and the male intimate abuser. He has found that by explaining these tactics to victims he has released many of them from the mind-control that they have experienced.

Contents
Introduction; Targeting; The set-up; Grooming (benign tactics); Grooming (sinister tactics); Offending; re-grooming; Re-offending; The target women and us; The offender and us; Primary intervention; What happens to children? What can we do? Principles of the NDVIA
Appendices:  Garda aide-memoire; key risk indicators; brainwashing scale

Don Hennessy is the Director of the National Domestic Violence Intervention Agency (NDVIA).

http://corkuniversitypress.com/How_He_Gets_into_Her_Head:_The_Mind_of_the_Male_Intimate_Abuser/368/

Irish Catholicism and Science

Science and Roman Catholicism have both acted as powerful agents of change in Ireland and elsewhere.  But the interaction between Catholicism and science in Ireland has received very little attention from historians to date.  The purpose of this book, therefore, is to address this longstanding deficiency in Irish historical literature.   There is a strong international dimension to this study.  The period of interest is from the Famine to the “Celtic Tiger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The subject matter encompasses a diverse range of topics.  Issues indigenous to Ireland include recurring controversies about university education, the relative paucity of Catholic scientists in nineteenth-century Ireland, the perception of science as a trait of a Protestant and colonial mindset, anti-Catholicism and science, the economic and political conditions in the Irish Free State which worked against the growth of science in Ireland, and the impact of science and technology on Irish Catholicism in recent decades.  These subjects are interwoven with topics which extend far beyond Irish interest - such as evolutionary debates, the question of whether or not Catholicism was compatible with science, anti-modernism in the Catholic Church, Vatican pronouncements on science, the theological implications of extra-terrestrial life and of Big Bang cosmology, whether human freewill is real or not, and the importance of science in arguments about the existence of God. 

Don O’Leary, Department of Anatomy, University College Cork.

ISBN 978-185918-497-4, €39, £35, Hardback, 234 x 156mm, 360pp

http://corkuniversitypress.com/Irish_Catholicism_and_Science:_From_“Godless_Colleges”_to_the_Celtic_Tiger_/370/

Ard Bia Cookbook -food for modern healthy living

Restaurateur Aoibheann Mac Namara has teamed up with food writer Aoife Carrigy to capture the essence of Ard Bia of Nimmos. Ard Bia is one of Galway's most enduring restaurant operations, now housed in one of the city's most iconic restaurant spaces and has always placed as much emphasis on community experiences and aesthetic stimulation as on serving great food in a fun environment. We believe in having roots in a place whilst having an identity that transcends location and takes inspiration from around the world— Ard Bia Cookbook  (ISBN 978-1-85594-221-9, Hardback, 260 x 198mm, 328pp, €39, £35).

 

 

 

 

The Ard Bia Cookbook is a unique family-friendly cookbook, a source of inspiration for modern healthy cooking, a keepsake for our regular customers, a memento for visitors to Galway and a celebration of the enduring energy of Ard Bia and all involved in it. We believe that the book will be treated in different ways by different readers, or by the same readers at different times. For some, it will be a reference book for basic cooking skills on which they can begin to build a repertoire: how to poach an egg or make your own granola; how to whisk up a mayonnaise, and then turn the whites into meringues for an Ard Bia Mess; how to cook a perfect steak and lovely extras to serve with a full fry. For others, it may offer up some fresh ideas and flavour combinations, or a new take on an old technique: a crimson risotto that uses red wine instead of white; a burger beefed up with anchovies and chorizo; how to preserve your own lemons or ling, or make a rose salt for sprinkling with sumac and pomegranate seeds over slow-cooked torn lamb.

The book represents a day in the life of Ard Bia and the recipes are taken from menus over the last few years, taking the reader through the day, from morning through lunchtime in the cafe to afternoon tea and evening supper or dinner in the restaurant. It also includes a pantry section, where you will find extra explanations: basic techniques like how to cook perfect fluffy rice, alongside more elaborate methods for making your own membrillo, cooking times and temperatures for meat, lists of spices and herbs and how to use them. There is also a seasonal guide to wild food and foraging, an introduction to some of Ireland’s more plentiful fish and recipes for chutneys, preserves and pickles for your pantry.

The Irish Novel 1960-2010

The Irish Novel 1960-2010 is published today by Cork University Press. The book is a wide-ranging survey, accessible and rewarding for both the student and the general public. As with all Cork University Press books this book has gone through peer review.

The increased visibility of the Irish novel in recent years has been one of the outstanding developments in contemporary Irish literature. This development has coincided with a period of significant change in Ireland as a whole. The Irish Novel 1960-2010 is the first book to study how the novel has been involved in discussing the seeds of change and the response to change as it evolved.

 

 

 

 

 Authors covered:

Edna O’Brien, Sam Hanna Bell, John Broderick, Michael Farrell, Samuel Beckett, Brian Moore, Aidan Higgins, Flann O’Brien, Anthony C. West, James Plunkett, J.G. Farrell,

Francis Stuart, Jennifer Johnston, Vincent Banville, Ian Cochrane, Maurice Leitch, Caroline Blackwood, Benedict Kiely, Patrick McGinley, John McGahern, Julia O’Faolain, John Banville, Dorothy Nelson, Bernard MacLaverty, Desmond Hogan, Mary Leland, J.M. O’Neill, Carlo Gébler, William Trevor, Timothy O’Grady, Dermot Bolger, Hugo Hamilton, Patrick McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Dermot Healy, Emma Donoghue, Seamus Deane, Anne Haverty, Joseph O’Connor, Glenn Patterson, Mary Morrissy, Eoin McNamee, Deirdre Madden, Keith Ridgway, Colm Tóibín, Sebastian Barry, Gerard Donovan, Anne Enright, Joseph O’Neill, Colum McCann, Paul Murray

 George O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA and a regular reviewer with the Irish Times.

Ancestral Imprints: Histories of Irish Traditional Music and Dance

This book is about the history and practice of recording Irish traditional music and dance, and the variety of documents that exist as a result of the activities of collectors both in Ireland and in North America.

Essay topics range from analyses of nineteenth-century printed documents, to the earliest wax cylinder recordings, to famous, rather large collections, and small all but unknown ones. Authors examine the role of the fieldworker/collector, the impact of broadcasting on regional style, the idea of “Irish” versus “American” style in early uilleann pipe recordings, and the impact of the recording process and marketing on traditional song, amongst other topics. Approaches vary from the analytical—comparing and analysing various settings of tunes and titles—to the personal—reflecting on the impact of one’s own collecting and fieldwork on a regional tradition.

 

 

 

Authors also interrogate how music serves to create and articulate identity, how changing contexts and emic and etic perspectives on music can influence a music’s evolution. From original manuscripts in the National Library, to printed documents, audio and video recordings, and art work, this book examines the reception history of Irish traditional music and dance.

Thérèse Smith is at the School of Music, University College Dublin

July 2012 ISBN 978-185918-492-9, €39 £35, Hbk, 234 x 156mm, 262pp

Ancestral Imprints is available at www.corkuniversitypress.com

Daniel Corkery’s Cultural Criticism: Selected Writings

Daniel Corkery was the most influential and provocative cultural critic of the early Irish Free State.  Since the 1960s, Corkery’s name, however, has become increasingly synonymous with a narrow-gauge nationalism that, in the eyes of many, has sought to stifle an emerging ‘modern’ Ireland.  This publication makes the case for a reassessment of Corkery’s cultural criticism, and reveals that the commonplace depiction of a parochial and racist Corkery, while not entirely groundless, is based on a reading of his critical writings that is both selective and reductive.  Corkery’s cultural criticism is viewed in this book, not as the product of a backward-looking and insular nationalism, but as intellectual work within an international context of anti-colonialism

 

 

 

 

This collection of Corkery’s writings is a testimony to the sheer productivity of his eighty and more years.  This book brings together oft-cited published material, that is no longer easily available, and unpublished manuscripts from the Corkery archive.  The result is an edited collection that both reveals the central and recurring concerns of Corkery’s critical writings, and offers a unique insight into his wide-ranging cultural interests.  Included in the collection are key chapters from The Hidden Ireland and Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature, newspaper articles, literature reviews, a previously-unpublished essay and a radio broadcast.  The book concludes with a selection of contemporary responses to Corkery’s critical writings.  This section of the book clearly indicates the strong reactions, both positive and negative, that his work originally elicited and allows the reader to situate Corkery within the intellectual debates of his day.   

Heather Laird is a lecturer in the School of English, University College Cork

The Society of the Sacred Heart in 19th century France, 1800-1865

In the wake of the Counter Reformation and more intensely after the French Revolution, religious communities of women sprang up with astonishing rapidity in France.  Today their form of life is coming to an end, at least in Europe, and it is the culmination of  more than three hundred years of religious life, which provided companionship for women and enabled them contribute effective social activity  in society. Such a phenomenon invites analysis,  both of  the origins and the motivations for such an upsurge of women’s communities.

 

 

 

 

 

The aim of this  book is to bring together aspects of the private and public life of  members of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 19th century France by using  the extensive community and personal archives of the Society, as well as  the  collection of 14,000 letters of Madeleine Sophie Barat.  By combining rigorous research and writing within the perspective of women’s history, the lives and achievements, the successes and failures, of these French women are shifted out of hagiography into history. This book is unique. It breaks with the tradition of religious hagiography so prevalent when writing the history of religious women in the Catholic Church.  It addresses the complexity of their personal/ community lives along with their public contribution to society.

Phil Kilroy lives in Dublin, and is the author of Madeleine Sophie Barat. A Life (Cork University Press, 2000)

May 2012 ISBN 978-185918-499-8, €39 £35, Hbk, 234 x 156mm, 326pp

The Society of the Sacred Heart in 19th century France, 1800-1865  is available at www.corkuniversitypress.com

 

The Story of the Irish in Argentina

Thomas Murray’s The Story of the Irish in Argentina was first published in New York in 1919. During the nineteenth century, nearly 45,000 Irish-born individuals emigrated to Argentina. They were members of medium tenant families from Westmeath, Longford, Offaly, and Wexford (though Dublin, Cork, and Clare were well represented as well). 


This edition, with a valuable introductory essay by Michael John Geraghty, who has lived for over 40 years in Buenos Aires, makes an important, critical account of Ireland’s lesser-written-about diasporas available again.Thomas Cornelius Murray  (1871-1959), historian, was born in Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath, probably the son of Patrick Murray and Anne Molloy. In 1897 he emigrated with his family to the United States and in the first years of the twentieth century he went to Argentina. Murray left Buenos Aires in 1913 with the objective to publish in New York his history of the Irish in Argentina as well as some of his poems. The book, The Story of the Irish in Argentina was published by P.J. Kennedy & Sons in 1919 and in 1924 Murray returned to Argentina to promote his work.  The book was received unsympathetically by the Irish-Argentine media and community. "Although there are some assertions when the author advances his own personal opinions, with which we are not in agreement, we find this book intensely interesting" (The Southern Cross). His work remains the only published history, in English, about the Irish emigration to Argentina.

 

 

May 2012 ISBN 978-185918-474-5, €39 £35 Softback 262 x 176mm   366 pages

This new edition of The Story of the Irish in Argentina becomes, then, a landmark on the road to recovering the history and contribution of an Irish emigrant community, and a point of departure - together with other more recently published investigations - for the study of a ‘forgotten’ diaspora.

Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War

Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War by Eve Patten from Trinity College, Dublin is published by Cork University Press today.

Olivia Manning (1908-1980) had a reputation as a difficult personality and this has threatened to obscure her reputation as a writer. The book aims to recover Manning’s place as a pre-eminent novelist of British wartime experience. Manning belonged to a British literary generation which held tenaciously to its diverse Irish connections in the wartime years, but, as with Cyril Connolly or Lawrence Durrell, her claims on Irishness were intermittent and often distinctly pragmatic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The book deals in depth with a diverse range of biographical, historical and literary detail. It examines the troubled interface between public and domestic narratives” and the ways in which Manning developed, through her experiences of living in Romania, Athens, Egypt and Jerusalem, her creative methods of politicising the refugee experience. As well as looking at Manning’s novels within their diverse settings the book also examines the varied literary modes Manning deploys and adapts – the gothic, autobiography and writing the self, the serial novel, the wartime and epic and more.

This full-length study will be of great interest to scholars of modern British literary and cultural history’, with relevance for students of postcolonial and transnational studies, the ‘Middlebrow’ and the Second World War period.

The author is Eve Patten who is Associate Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
May 2012 ISBN 978-185918-482-0, €39, £35, Hardback, 234 x 156mm, 242pp

 

http://corkuniversitypress.com/Imperial_Refugee:_Olivia_Manning’s_Fictions_of_War/359/