The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche write by Brian Merriman. This book was released on 2011-10-18. The Midnight Court / Cúirt an Mheán Oíche available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Banned and beloved in equal measure, The Midnight Court is a canonical eighteenth-century text widely considered to be one of the greatest comic Irish poems. Despite its simple storyline, Merriman’s poem addresses a wide range of themes from its satirical treatment of sexuality to its biting social commentary. This volume, the first critical edition, offers readers a fluid translation and five essays that contextualize the poem, making it an ideal text for any student of the poem and eighteenth-century Irish literature.
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 write by N. Rodgers. This book was released on 2007-01-31. Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.
The Midnight Court
The Midnight Court - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Midnight Court write by Brian Merriman. This book was released on 2006. The Midnight Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally written in the Irish language by the 18th-century poet Brian Merriman (circa 1745-1805), The Midnight Court is here translated by one of Ireland's distinguished contemporary poets, Ciaran Carson. This extended satiric poem assesses the growing economic, political, and familial constraints of late 18th-century Catholic Ireland under British colonial rule, while subversively playing on the tradition of the aisling (or vision) poem in which a beautiful woman represents Ireland's threatened sovereignty. At the beginning of The Midnight Court, a dreadful female envoy from the fairies appears in a dream to the unmarried poet. She summons him before the court of Queen Aoibheall in order to answer charges of wasting his manhood while women are dying for want of love. He listens to complaints that vary from the celibacy of the clergy to marriages performed between old and young for purely economic reasons. In all their bawdy tales, the female courtiers praise fertility, as well as sexual fulfillment, and condemn the conventions of the day. At last the Queen pronounces judgment on the poet, who awakens as he is being severely chastised by all of the women of the court. While containing many insights into 18th-century social conditions, The Midnight Court is also an exuberant, even jaunty work of the comic imagination. As the translator Ciaran Carson states in his foreword: "The protagonists of the 'Court, ' including 'Merriman' himself, are ghosts, summoned into being by language; they are figments of the imagination. In the 'Court' the language itself is continually interrogated and Merriman is the great illusionist, continually spiriting words into another dimension."
Black '47 and Beyond
Black '47 and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black '47 and Beyond write by Cormac Ó Gráda. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Black '47 and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics write by Nancy Scheper-Hughes. This book was released on 2001-01-03. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
