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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2018Everyday life after the Irish conflict
by Cillian McGrattan, Elizabeth Meehan
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Political oppression & persecutionEveryday life after the Irish conflict
by Edited by Cillian McGrattan and Elizabeth Meehan
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March 1994Der Kartentrick
Die unsauberen Machenschaften von American Express
by Meehan, John; Friedman, Jon / Englisch Rosbach, Heike; Englisch Marzin, Florian F.; Englisch Dok, Netti van
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October 2015Weihnachtsherzen
Die schönsten Geschichten zum Fest
by Sternberg, Emma; Willig, Lauren / Beiträge von Callan Rogers, Morgan; Beiträge von Ashton, Juliet; Beiträge von Corry, Jane; Beiträge von Cramer, Sofie; Beiträge von Engelmann, Gabriella; Beiträge von George, Nina; Beiträge von Geraghty, Ciara; Beiträge von Hennig, Tessa; Beiträge von Mommsen, Janne; Übersetzt von Feldmann, Claudia; Übersetzt von Sandberg-Ciletti, Mechtild; Übersetzt von Geng, Claudia; Übersetzt von Sturm, Ursula C.; Übersetzt von Naumann, Katharina; Herausgegeben von Tente, Anne
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October 2014Weihnachtsherzen
Die schönsten Geschichten zum Fest
by Sternberg, Emma; Willig, Lauren / Beiträge von Ashton, Juliet; Beiträge von Callan Rogers, Morgan; Beiträge von Corry, Jane; Beiträge von Cramer, Sofie; Beiträge von Engelmann, Gabriella; Beiträge von George, Nina; Beiträge von Geraghty, Ciara; Beiträge von Hennig, Tessa; Beiträge von Mommsen, Janne; Herausgegeben von Tente, Anne; Übersetzt von Feldmann, Claudia; Übersetzt von Sandberg-Ciletti, Mechtild; Übersetzt von Geng, Claudia; Übersetzt von Sturm, Ursula C.; Übersetzt von Naumann, Katharina
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Biography & True StoriesOctober 2013Going Solo on Lake Como
by Ciara O'Toole
Sometimes flying by the seat of your pants is the best thing you can do … When Ciara O’Toole and her husband move to Lake Como, Italy, they make plans – to run their own businesses, to learn the language and to immerse themselves in the Italian way of life. But just a few months into the adventure Ciara’s marriage ends and she finds herself alone in a country where she doesn’t speak the language. She is faced with a choice: return to Ireland or stay in Italy and make her new life work. Determined to make a go of it, she throws herself into everything – forging new friendships – whirlwind romances, attempting to eat her own weight in four-cheese pizzas … and learning to fly a seaplane! Her new passion grips her as she works tirelessly towards an all-important milestone: her first solo flight. Told with warmth, humour and disarming honesty, Going Solo on Lake Como is the inspirational story of how one woman finds her wings and takes to the skies. ‘It made me laugh, it made me cry. It is epic in scope but incredibly intimate.’ Jane Maas
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The ArtsThe Book of Kells
by Bernard Meehan
This work is an invitation to dive into the secrets of the Book of Kells, a priceless treasure of the Trinity College in Dublin and one of the most famous medieval illuminated manuscripts in the world. Created in the ninth century - when Irish monasteries represented a cultural seedbed for Europe and monks devotedly copied and decorated the texts of the Gospels in sumptuous letters and designs - it has miraculously survived to our day going through a series of wars and fires for more than 1200 years, making it a venerable witness to early Christian art. This book can build on the work done during the process of making its facsimile edition, resulting in an absolutely exceptional quality of reproduction and a rigorous scientific text by Bernard Meehan, former Curator of the Manuscripts at the Trinity College Library in Dublin, bringing out all the richness of the decorations and all the importance for the history of art and of medieval civilization.
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FictionThe Geography of your Memory
by Laia Soler
Ciara has returned to the village where she grew up with one clear aim: she wants to renovate the house her mother left her in her will and use the money made from selling it to start afresh somewhere else, far from that little village in the south of Ireland where rumours are the daily currency and everybody criticises her behind her back. She knows what they say: “what a bad daughter, she abandoned her mother”. However, Ciara cannot escape voices from the past which resurge with every plate she throws out, with every piece of furniture she takes apart and every wall she paints. Each memory, each secret, further distorts what she thought she knew about her family and turns her past into unknown territory. And what if she never knew the truth about her mother? What if she only knew how to see the sad, wrinkled, fragile Edna? When you open doors to the past, you run the risk of not being able to close them.
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The ArtsSeptember 2021Strategy: Get Arts 35 Artists Who Broke the Rules
35 Artists Who Broke the Rules
by Edited by Christian Weikop
Edited by Dr Christian Weikop, a Professor in Art History at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), this is the first print publication to consider the remarkable formation of the ground-breaking and oft-cited exhibition Strategy: Get Arts, staged at ECA in the late summer of 1970. At the cutting edge of contemporary art, this was unlike anything seen in the United Kingdom to that date, certainly challenging a Scottish art world still struggling to come to terms with the legacy of the Scottish Colourists. It was an exhibition that received international press attention and had a considerable impact on the public, critics, and other curators who saw it, shaking up the conservativism of the British art scene. Strategy: Get Arts (SGA) brought many figures of post-war art, who were based in the exciting cultural city of Düsseldorf, to the United Kingdom for the first time. These artists, who took over ECA, transforming the college into a ‘total work of art’ through their extraordinary actions and installations, were unknown to a British public in 1970. The roll call of talented participants included the likes of Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Daniel Spoerri, Stefan Wewerka, Dieter Roth, Sigmar Polke, Günther Uecker, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and many others who subsequently achieved international fame. In addition to first-hand accounts of the exhibition by Douglas Hall (the first Keeper of the Gallery of Modern Art, National Galleries of Scotland), Jennifer Gough-Cooper (SGA co-ordinator), and Alexander Hamilton (co-editor of Studies in Photography and SGA gallery assistant in 1970), the publication also includes new essays by the editor, Christian Weikop, on Richard Demarco and the Formation of Strategy: Get Arts; Düsseldorf in Edinburgh: The Importance of the Germans; and Strategy Get Arts and Broadcast Media. It also features short essays on the photography of SGA by Karen Barber (a specialist in the history of photography), the controversy concerning the Palermo Restore project by Andrew Patrizio (Professor of Scottish Visual Culture at ECA), the creation of a 2016 archive exhibition on SGA by National Galleries of Scotland archivist Kirstie Meehan, as well as two fascinating Forewords by Keith Hartley (Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Modern and Contemporary Art), and Professor Juan Cruz (Principal of ECA). Many unknown and rare photographs of the artists and artworks at the art college, especially by the German performance artist and photographer, Monika Baumgartl, as well as eye-catching photographs by George Oliver and Richard Demarco, are presented here for the first time. The publication is a triumph of archival detective work, effectively reconstructing the exhibition, profiling all 35 artists who took part, and fully revealing the challenges and dramatic events that unfolded before and during the course of this unique event.
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Global warmingI want to live.
by James Kilcullen
Global warming has reached its peak; the area between the tropics of Cancer and Capriciorn is so hot it can no longer support human or animal life. People are dying or moving north and south to cooler climates, which have closed their borders as they cannot cope with increased populations. Violence is widespread. James Laffoy,earth scientist, has failed to persuade the powers to take drastic action before it's too late. He retreats to his late father's uninhabited island off the west coast of ireland and, over a number of years, with a small number of like minded people, prepares for the worst. Can they survive in a world that's closing down rapidly?
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FictionJune 2021Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories
by Lynda Clark
Contains ‘Ghillie’s Mum’ – shortlisted for the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award, 2020 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award and regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Europe and Canada. From the award-winning short story author, Lynda Clark, comes this debut collection of sixteen stories, all written in Lynda’s darkly humorous style and playing on themes of multiple realities and dystopian futures. In ‘My Invisible Wife’, a man is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In ‘Dreaming in Quantum’, there’s a murder to be solved with echoes through different dimensions only accessible in dreams. In ‘Ghillie’s Mum’, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form or lose her son. And in ‘Blanks’, people are paying to create clones of themselves so they’ll never die.
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Inverted Triangles
by Karen Fagan
Set between Dublin and London in 2006/7, INVERTED TRIANGLES is where Tales of the City meets Sex in the City for the LGBTQ+ community. Exploring love and its loss, gay relationships and friendships, and the deception of self and others, the story follows the crises and triumphs of four increasingly interlinked lives. Filled with comedy, warmth and memorable characters, INVERTED TRIANGLES has the potential to break through commercially as few LGBT novels have done before.
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Travel writingVitali's Ireland
Time Travels in the Celtic Tiger
by Vitali Vitaliev
Vitali’s Ireland offers a unique perspective on 21st century Irish cultural identity, delivered in a style rich with his typical sardonic wit. Ukrainian-born Vitali Vitaliev, an award-winning travel writer and journalist, uses his outsider’s perspective to recount his Irish adventures. A renowned cultural observer, he muses on the nation’s quirks and stereotypes, whilst his reference to mid-19th century guide books provides an insightful historical comparison. The result is an affectionate if slightly perplexed portrait of a nation in transition.
