Ireland, Africa and the end of empire Matthew Hills

Ireland, Africa and the end of empire Matthew HillsIn the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Irelands relationship with that continent, this book documents its special place in Irish history.

Clearly written and liberally illustrated chapters show writing text as akin to creating a drawing or painting

This is a book about what it is like to live and work with ‘the canon’ and how this shapes the way we think about intellectuals now

his work in theatre and his literary output

Probably the first ideas that come to your mind are samba and football

Edward IV' was one of the most popular plays of the early modern period

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature

particularly those relevant to archivists

Moving beyond the well-worn path that treats taxidermy as a sentimental art or art of mourning

an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality

Focuses on miniatures of the birth of the Virgin and the mothers of the Holy Kinship in Books of Hours made for aristocratic women in relation to the dynastic importance of heirs and the material culture of childbearing

Presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies