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The Field is John B. Keanes fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desire. It is dominated by Bull McCabe, one of the most famous characters in Irish writing today. An Oscar-nominated adaptation of The Field proved highly successful and popular worldwide, and starred Richard Harris, John Hurt, Brenda Fricker and Tom Berenger.

Seventy Years Young is one of the great Anglo-Irish memoirs. Originally published in 1937, it now appears for the first time in paperback, with an introduction by Trevor West. It tells the remarkable story of Daisy Fingall (nee Burke) of County Galway, who in 1883, aged seventeen, married the 11th Earl of Fingall of Killeen Castle, County Meath. Daisys vitality possessed and transformed that twilit world of Catholic Ascendancy Ireland, a world in transition from viceregal, country-house Ireland of Dublin drawing-rooms and Meath hunting-fields, now as remote as pre-revolutionary Russia to the Great War, Easter rising and civil war Ireland of the early 1920s and beyond, when the country houses lit a chain of bonfires, and the tobacco-growing Sinn Fein Countess tempered a life of privilege with work for Horace Plunketts Co-operative Societies and the United Irishwomen. Daisy Fingall writes from an intimate knowledge of the leading figures of her day and their milieu. A sparkling parade of personalities Parnell, Wyndham, Haig, Markievicz, Edward VII, AE, Shaw, Moore and Yeats comes alive under her pen. Seventy Years Young reanimates a proximate but forgotten past with all the power of first-class fiction, and the glitter and rarity of a Faberge egg.

A consistent advocate of Green thinking long before it became fashionable, Resurgence has been an influential forum for the discussion of the root causes of our current industrial and materialistic crisis. The Best of Resurgence bring together sixty-four outstanding articles published between 1965 and 1990. They range over subjects as diverse as health, new economics, educations, peace, the arts of the imagination, mythology, native cultures, land use, Green politics, womens issues and traditional wisom; but they share a common thread a concern for the earth and all its creatures. The Best of Resurgence is a feast for heart and mind! Authors include: Vinoba Bhave, Roberts Bly, Fritjof Capra, Andy Goldsworthy, Hazel Henderson, Lawrence D. Hills, Ivan Illich, Petra Kelly, Leopold Kohr, Yehudi Menuhin, Jonathon Porritt, Kathleen Raine, Theodore Roszak, John Seymour, E.F. Schumacher, E.P. Thompson, Barbara Ward.

During the 1980s Ivan Illich added another dimension to his thought through the study of Medieval history. In the current volume he aims to demonstrate the extent to which the groundwork for the institutions that characterize our world today was laid in the twelfth century. The topics with which Illich engages center on health, housing, schooling, literacy, technology, peace and ethical values, his overiding concern being individual freedom realized in personal inter-dependence.

Bright Bewildering Green is a vivid, harrowing tale told from the emotional security of middle age of an impoverished childhood in rural Northern Ireland during the 1950s and early 60s. In its detailed evocation of the realities of life for an orphan family on an Armagh hill-farm, the sentimentality of the family pig is bled to death. William vents his frustrations on John, his sensitive youngest brother, and severe beatings lead to the boys collapse and treatment for epilepsy until he escapes to Coventry. Inherited pluck and fortitude sustain him in a strange city, and from an achieved tranquillity the author allows himself to reflect upon the horrors, and occasional joys, endured as a child and faces them with dispassion. This compelling narrative is the record of a survivor.

Irelands history has long been illuminated, and enlivened, by bizarre, colourful, extravagant, unfettered individuals: ripe country-house eccentrics, saints, scholars, bucks and hell-rakes, duellists, abductors, rhymers and miracle-makers. These factual and fascinating biographical sketches make for delightful reading (Frank Muir).

In Ruin Reconciled, A Memoir of Anglo-Ireland 1913-1959 (that country of the mind), tells the story of an orphan girl adopted by Anglo-Irish parents and brought to live in the Big House of Curragh Chase, Adare, Co. Limerick. Her solitary childhood among "elders and betters" during the 1920s was relieved by visits to her grandmother in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, and a brief schooling at Alexandra College, Dublin. Her father was a Chief Justice in the British colonies, so time was spent at vividly remembered locations in Cyprus, the Seychelles, Kenya, Grenada and Africas Gold Coast. After a spell in London, studying domestic science and working for an unorthodox Harley Street doctor, Joan de Vere returned to Ireland and marriage in 1936. As well as celebrating an individual, the narrative memorializes a house and a way of life now gone. Curragh Chase, her fathers estate, was home to the de Veres from 1657 until its destruction by fire and eventual sale to the Forestry Commission in 1957. As the last child to grow up there, Joan de Vere recalls its owners and inhabitants - Victorian writers and philanphropists among them - with an intimate precision. In Ruin Reconciled illuminates corners of life lost to the late twentieth century with memorable cameos of people and places, and is a fitting valediction to a family whose 300-year history is part of the landscape of south-west Ireland.

Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) was a highly original author of fantastic fiction - novels and short stories - and a key in Irish conservative poitics during the first half o the Victorian age. This outstanding biography, appearing in a new paperback edition with fresh appendix matter, explores the contradictions of his achievement. It can be thoroughly recommended. - John Arden, New Statesman. One of the qualitites of this excellent studies is the train of associations which is provokes. It is far from more than a revaluation of Le Fanu, though this is incidentally provided in a discriminating and scholarly way ... The massive hint is, as with Ulysses, in the title Victorian Ireland ... it is the world which Dr McCormack illuminates, along with the more private and tortured uiverse of Le Fanu himself. - Roy Foster, Times Literary Supplement

The Valley of the Squinting Windows (1918), Brinsley MacNamaras first published novel, so enraged the Westmeath community in which he lived that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated and his father, the local schoolteacher, boycotted and driven into exile. MacNamara (1890-1963) was never to live in the Irish midlands again but wrote about it for the rest of his days in an outpouring of fiction and drama. No writer has ever delineated the rural Irish mentality with such precision. Where was The Valley? Whom did it portray? Why did it cause such offence? The extraordinary story behind the book - its origins, the burning, the school boycott, the trial in Dublin - is a real-life drama as strange, poignant and compelling as the book itself. That story is told here for the first time, interwoven with an account of the authors early life and subsequent career, and backed by original research. The Burning of Brinsley MacNamara sets the record straight after generations of conjecture, and lays to rest the ghosts of The Valley. Excellent... OFarrell presents a balanced and sympathetic account of a case which began as a burst of local anger but can also be seen as a symbol of the Ireland of its time. - Sean Dunne, Cork Examiner OFarrell has done a magnificent job in chronicling the social, historical, religious and cultural forces that came into play. - Seamus Hosey, Irish Stage and Screen

In south Kilkenny, where Duiske stream joins the river Barrow at Graiguenamanagh, lies one of Irelands many Norman-Cistercian abbeys. Song of Duiske is a novella set amongst this monastic community in the year 1304, a century after the abbeys foundation. It evokes the textures and rhythms of a medieval religious settlement, its peaceful routines as well as occasional trials, and celebrates with quiet lyricism the seasons and their solaces, the open sky, the fields and the woods.

Inicialmente o presente trabalho deveria ser uma segunda edição do livro Procedimentos Técnicos de Manutenção Preditiva em Instalações Industriais. Como este livro foi utilizado em vários cursos de e