Cork University Press

Living with Motor Neurone Disease: A complete guide is designed to guide the reader through this complex progressive neurological condition that attacks the motor neurones, or nerves, in the brain and spinal cord.

Family Therapy: Conversations for change brings readers directly into the therapy room with some of Ireland's most eminent front-line systemic psychotherapists.

A powerful and enthralling first collection of short stories. Each of the stories is possessed of its own unique style and each one introduces the reader to a different and complex series of characters.

Study of the context of the Cork based revival in poetry in Irish

Hailed in the Irish Times as a ‘great Irish novelist’, Neil Jordan is, in the words of Fintan O’Toole, ‘a peculiarly emblematic figure of cultural change’. Yet, extraordinarily, such critical acclaim has come about without detailed scholarly engagement with Jordan’s most sustained interrogation of Ireland and notions of Irishness: his fiction. Neil Jordan: Works for the Page fills this gap in contemporary Irish literary criticism, and, while Jordan’s filmmaking is often discussed, the focus here is on his published work: his early volume of short fiction, his many novels, and several of his uncollected stories.

Between the fifth century and the ninth, several thousand churches were founded in Ireland the premise of this book is that landscape archaeology is one of the most fruitful ways to study them.

Landscapes across Europe were transformed, both physically and conceptually, during the early medieval period (c AD 400-1200), and these changes were bound up with the conversion to Christianity and the development of ecclesiastical power structures. This is the first book to adopt a comparative landscape approach to this crucial subject.

The book comprises an ensemble of articles and essays offering its readers engagement from an ethnological perspective with significant facets of the domain of Irish Studies.

Considers the interrelationships between sport and media in an Irish context

An accessible book that places O'Casey in his context, the frontier between literature and politics

This book explores the stories of 20 Irish men and women who navigated a changed migration circuit to understand how they adapted to life 'here' and 'there' across the Atlantic.