Living in Viking-age towns / David Griffiths -- Towns and identities in Viking England / Gareth Williams -- Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver / Emer Purcell and John Sheehan -- Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes. -- Beyond Longphuirt? Li…
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King Charles I's execution in January 1649 marked a moment of deliverance for the victors in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but for thousands of Royalists it signaled the onset of more than a decade of penury and disillusionment in exile. Driven by an enduring allegiance to the…
James Joyce's Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world's literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of …
"This book examines how emerging concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings. Using insights from a variety of scholarly fields such as history, anthropolog…
"Drawing on sources such as the land, the Church, the past, changing politics, and literary styles, Irish writers ranging from W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Augusta Gregory to Roddy Doyle, Kate O'Brien, Colm Toibin, John Banville, and Seamus Heaney explore what it means to be a w…
"Drawing on sources such as the land, the Church, the past, changing politics, and literary styles, Irish writers ranging from W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Augusta Gregory to Roddy Doyle, Kate O'Brien, Colm Toibin, John Banville, and Seamus Heaney explore what it means to be a w…
