This book is the first in depth analysis of Dublin's upper middle-class homes. Using measured surveys, photographs, and contemporary drawings and maps, it analyses a range of premium houses in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire).
This book retrieves a neglected episode in Left cultural histories, placing Irish writers in the company of a broader international group of poets, writers and journalists, who were part of a Popular Front cultural movement in the Thirties, opposed to fascism and witness to the Spanish Civil War.
This book retrieves a neglected episode in Left cultural histories, placing Irish writers in the company of a broader international group of poets, writers and journalists, who were part of a Popular Front cultural movement in the Thirties, opposed to fascism and witness to the Spanish Civil War.
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the earlier 20th century.
Originally published in 1964, in this work of wisdom, originality, and power, the great Liberal scholar, J. L. Hammond, explores and expounds Gladstone's attempt to secure justice for Ireland against the rising tide of English Imperialist feeling.
Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators, combining Hattie's world famous research expertise with Clarke's vast experience of classroom practice and application. Areas covered include the variability of feedback, student to teacher feedback, the power of peer feedback and the power of within-lesson feedback.
'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone
Demonstrates the importance of anthropology using case studies from academia and practice and argues that symbiotic collaboration with other disciplines is key to the long-term survival of the discipline.
The role of education in prisons, prisoners' decisions regarding education, the impact of prison culture on either encouraging or discouraging such activities, and the potential consequences of education for prisoners' reentry into society all have important implications. This title offers an analysis of prisoner education.
The Construction Contracts Act 2013 introduces adjudication for the construction industry in Ireland for the first time. Leading construction lawyer Anthony Hussey's new book is the first to provide a section by section analysis of the Act itself, an analysis of the Code of Practice which will be implemented by statutory instrument at the same t
Tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population in America, only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists.