Cork University Press

How does our social identity and the workings of the wider society have an impact on our self-esteem, our self-confidence, our sense of empowerment, our leadership, our social visibility, and the quality of our relationships?

Cancer causes one in six deaths worldwide and this cookbook takes the most recent evidence-based recommendations for cancer prevention and translated them into an easy to use cookbook

As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal. Located within the realm of lived experience however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific constraints.

This is book is a history of the birds of County Cork from the earliest times to the present. It provides a comprehensive account of the ecology of all species known to have occurred in the county, with an emphasis on distribution, population change and migration.

Newgrange is an archaeological site in Ireland. Every year around 250,000 people come to the see this Neolithic passage tomb. This book is designed for the general reader with an interest in Irish prehistory. It explains the results of decades of excavation and analysis.

'Say my baby's name' walks the reader gently and gradually through the journey of loss experienced by the five men and twenty-seven women who courageously shared their stories. We learn about every aspect of the journey - from the moment news of the pregnancy breaks, to the sense of foreboding that something is not quite right, and on towards the devastating loss at different stages of pregnancy and birth.

People living in Ireland do not expect to encounter a tornado. But, why not? They have been part of the Irish climate and have tracked across the land for hundreds of years. Indeed, during the last three decades they have visited every county in Ireland.

The book and accompanying cd consists of song, music and lore of the acclaimed Conamara tradition bearer, Colm O Caodhain (1893 - 1975) from Glinsce, Carna, County Galway. During the golden era of collecting in the twentieth century, Colm's contribution to collectors in Ireland and abroad is exceptional.

This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics.