Ionian Islands & Epirus in the Landscapes of the Imagination guide series; providing an in-depth cultural & account of some of the world’s most memorable & evocative landscapes. Presented as a cultural & literary guide, each title in the series explores the cultural history of a landscape, providing an overview of the area’s development from its earliest roots to the modern day. Particular emphasis is placed on the literary, poetic, architectural, cultural & historical elements that make up the landscape & each title is written & researched by an academic expert. An Epilogue offers suggestion for further reading & indices of literary, artistic & historical names & places & landmarks. ...

Len Deighton`s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy
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Challenge those little grey cells & put your IQ to the ultimate test in this fun & entertaining game for all the family. With different categories testing different skills, it`s not what you know, but how you think that`ll keep you top in this game. Where other games test to see who knows the most about pop culture or trivia, this game gets right to the heart of the matter – just who is smartest in your family or circle of friends? With specially designed questions to test intelligence rather than knowledge, this fun family quiz game with a twist has questions based in four key categories, including logic problems, language reasoning, spacial awareness, & memory. ...

Xenophobe’s Guide to the Irish is a pocket-size guide that takes a frank & funny look at what makes the Irish Irish.“ Writers occupy a powerful position in Irish society: the wall of the local pub, to be exact.” Xenophobe’s guides attempt to forewarn readers of the main stereotypes & foibles that are associated with individual nationalities. Each guide explores the characteristics of a country’s people in a series of dedicated sections, encompassing nationalism & identity, behaviour, manners, character, obsessions, beliefs & values, leisure & pleasure, culture, custom & tradition, business, systems, health & hygiene, crime & punishment, government & bureaucracy, conversation & gestures & language. ...

New in paperback in a compact format, an atmospheric portrayal of ten remarkable houses & castles that have survived the vicissitudes of Ireland`s history & are still in the hands of their original families. From cabinets filled with generations of monogrammed heirloom china to canopy beds keeping the chill of an Irish winter at bay to cabbage-rose slip-covered sofas nestled under tall Gothic windows, this book takes the reader on a tour of ten grand Irish country houses, providing an intimate look at a marvellous hotchpotch of rooms & decoration. Specially commissioned, evocative photographs by James Fennell show inviting living rooms & tousled bedrooms, print-lined hallways & well-trampled mudrooms. The houses are not the instant creation of trendy decorators they have evolved over generations, furnished with heirlooms & cherished h&-me-downs, & exuding the mossy scent of peat fires. ” This is a book for lovers of Irel&, history or decoration. An intimate glimpse inside ten wonderful Irish country houses”. (Min Hogg). ” Packed with beautiful pictures, this page-turner allows us all to dream superb”. (” The Irish Times”).”A vivid picture of a unique culture, this is an unrivalled opportunity to tour some of Irelands most atmospheric houses”. (” Country Life”). ...

The Irish File is a stunning collection of images of Ireland that reveals the magnificence of a country whose great beauty ...

This nostalgic & entertaining tour of Ireland`s most individual hostelries presents the historic pubs that epitomize the country`s essential charm. They range from the richly decorated Victorian bars of Belfast & Dublin to country shop bars that double as grocery stores, where the decor consists of shelves laden with tins of fruit & packets of tea. Each pub is covered in four or six pages, with about 1, 000 words of colorful description, history & anecdote, & atmospheric photographs that capture its interior & ambiance. ...

The Irish Times Desktop Atlas of the World is a complete world reference atlas in a convenient & easy to use format. An excellent world atlas for every day look-up at home or work -- broad coverage at a great price. The Irish Times Desktop Atlas of the World provides essential reference information on Ireland & the World in a convenient & compact size. As with the larger Irish Times Universal Atlas of the World it offers great authority, outstanding quality & attention to detail. FULLY UP-TO-DATE MAPPING The authoritative & accurate reference mapping reflects all recent political & geographical changes around the world. Each continent is introduced by a political map showing individual countries, followed by regional maps showing towns & cities, roads, railways, international boundaries & topography. The introductory section covers major world geographical themes -- from earthquakes & volcanoes to population growth, communications & climate change -- giving a global snapshot of our contemporary world. The extensive index to over 25 000 place names illustrates the scope of this world atlas which is ideal for home & business use MAIN FEATURES / Irish section with detailed maps of each of the provinces, / Geographical reference section with flags, statistics & facts for the world's states & territories / All worldwide changes carried with the most significant being changes as a result of development & climate change. / Wide range of topics covered in the world facts & figures section. / Index to over 25, 000 place names. ...

In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, & workplaces of the American city. This process of ” Americanization from the bottom up” was deeply shaped, Barrett argues, by the Irish. From Lower Manhattan to the South Side of Chicago to Boston`s North End, newer waves of immigrants & African Americans found it nearly impossible to avoid the Irish. While historians have emphasized the role of settlement houses & other mainstream institutions in Americanizing immigrants, Barrett makes the original case that the culture absorbed by newcomers upon reaching American shores had a distinctly Hibernian cast. By 1900, there were more people of Irish descent in New York City than in Dublin; more in the United States than in all of Irel&. But in the late nineteenth century, the sources of immigration began to shift, to southern & eastern Europe & beyond. Whether these newcomers wanted to save their souls, get a drink, find a job, or just take a stroll in the neighborhood, they had to deal with Irish Americans. Barrett reveals how the Irish vacillated between a progressive & idealistic impulse toward their fellow immigrants & a parochial defensiveness stemming from the hostility earlier generations had faced upon their own arrival in America. They imparted racist attitudes toward African Americans; they established ethnic ”deadlines” across city neighborhoods; they drove other immigrants from docks, factories, & labor unions. Yet the social teachings of the Catholic Church, a sense of solidarity with the oppressed, & dark memories of poverty & violence in both Ireland & America ushered in a wave of progressive political activism that eventually embraced other immigrants. Drawing on contemporary sociological studies & diaries, newspaper accounts, & Irish American literature, The Irish Way illustrates how the interactions between the Irish & later immigrants on the streets, on the vaudeville stage, in Catholic churches, & in workplaces helped forge a multi-ethnic American identity that has a profound legacy in the USA today. ...

The first Irish photographs date from 1840, a year after Louis Daguerre announced to the world his discovery of the photographic process. In the century that followed, Irish political life was dominated by the struggle for land rights, for Home Rule, & finally for independence. Ireland was to know tragedy & triumph, bitter struggle & agonized compromise. Much of that experience, now so remote, is brought to life here in images so powerful that they remind one of the miracle that photography once seemed. Yet these photographs, which cover the first century of Ireland in the era of photography, do more than tell a gripping political story. They give a wider insight into a people, a landscape, & a lost way of life. They capture the sheer hard labour of rural survival: cutting peat for fuel, gathering seaweed, fishing & tilling the soil, against the magnificence of the often harsh Irish landscape. & they show the grandeur, elegance & complacency of life in the Big House, home & symbol of the doomed Anglo-Irish elite. ...