Ireland, Africa and the end of empire POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays

Ireland, Africa and the end of empire POLITICAL SCIENCE / EssaysIn 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.

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Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II

The book is based on a wide ranging programme of research

the persistence of poverty and crime in the golden land

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the Russian-Romantic author

The last seven days of a man who has chosen to kill himself take on unexpected twists and turns in this exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan – and the culture that has created it – as he chooses how to spend his last days on earth

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The book introduces the omnibus as a key vector for understanding the intersection of urban and literary modernity in France

By illuminating the 1579 Calender’s development