This book examines The Commitments (Parker, 1991) for the first time as a film first and foremost, rather than an adaptation of Roddy Doyle's bestselling novel, and as a significant cultural event in 1990s Ireland.
Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in the Bronze Age Britain and Ireland.
This is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Richard Kearney shows, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters.
A practical resource for speech and language therapists and students, this book covers several aspects of working with this client group. Each section gives the reader, a theoretical background of the subject under discussion, suggestions and formats for assessment, a guide to intervention as well as a clear and worked-out example.
Explores the significance of silence in the arts, business, personal relationships, therapy, faith, politics, and other areas of daily life. Drawing on a range of cross-cultural, literary and historical sources, this book explores the uses and abuses of silence.
This book traces the turbulent history of queer visibility in the Irish media to explore the processes by which a regionally based media system shaped queer identities within a highly conservative and religious population.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief are part of our common understanding of bereavement. This book is suitable for those with an interest in bereavement or the five stages of grief.
A guide to the world and work of the Prison Officer, showing the centrality of staff-prisoner relationships to different operations carried out by officers. It is suitable for those with an interest in the work of a prison officer and established and aspiring officers.
A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey's Gender is the most comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental dimension of a person's identity, interactions, development, and role and status in society.