Close your eyes and imagine Ireland -- an enchanting land blessed with magnificent natural wonders and enriched by its historical traditions. Ireland's people are perhaps its greatest charm, always ready for a bit of a chat. This is a unique book that keeps these and other images alive by recapturing the culture, art, and taste of Ireland. Beautiful watercolours of familiar scenes and landmarks capture the essence of Ireland. Bits of information about the history and culture of Ireland reveal the spirit of the people. And the taste of Ireland is repre-sented by a variety of dishes that you can re-create and share with family and friends. Many examples of "new Irish" cuisine are included. When you can't be in Ireland, pick up this book -- it's the next best thing to being there!
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This collection seeks to address these questions as it maps a landscape of cultural memory in Ireland through theoretical, historical, literary, and cultural explorations by top scholars in the field of Irish studies.
This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories.
rice Halbwachs argued in On Collective Memory) influences how collective memories are recalled—and what types of memories endure. In early twentieth-century Ireland and in the Irish diaspora, the awareness of the Famine years of 1845–52 ...
memory to capture the self-investigative potential of the descent as a narrative framework that Ansgar Nünning may refer to as a 'fiction[] of memory'.94 4 Ireland and the Caribbean My choice to specifically focus on Irish and Caribbean ...
Irish culture is obsessed with the past, and this book asks why and how.
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Ironically, however, the same images that made those memories so compelling for an English public during the course of the War of the Two Kings also enabled the subsequent “Neglect” of Ireland in a British imperial cultural memory ...
Ireland: Memories of Our Childhood
WEST OF IRELAND SUMMERS: A COOKBOOK is a celebration of food.