The Writings of Ivor Browne: Steps Along the Road: The Evolution of a Slow Learner

Policing for peace in Northern Ireland: The Clarissa von Ranke letters and the Ranke-Graves correspondence, Edwin Mellen Press, Histories, memories and representations of famine in Ukraine and Ireland. Liverpool University Press, The ethics of love: University Press of Southern Denmark, Seamus Heaney and East European poetry in translation: Modern Humanities Research Association, Irish women in medicine, c.

The writings of Ivor Browne: Steps along the road, the evolution of a slow learner.

Some journals are not online, some will only be available in an archive later, and some are simply far more attractive in their paper form. Besides, visiting the Periodicals Room and browsing through your subject area, you discover many articles that you would never have deliberately searched online.

I went looking for History Ireland, in search of a particular photograph Frances Browne, which is in a issue , and ended up noticing quite a number of interesting articles, all in the Irish history area of DA to DA The current issue of History Ireland is devoted to the Lockout of of course. The most recent issue of The Irish Review Autumn includes a substantial review section in addition to the following articles:.

The Periodicals Room is now on the second floor of the Hesburgh Library.

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If you have questions about Irish Studies periodicals, I will be happy to help. Women of Ireland, from economic prosperity to austere times: Marie-Jeanne Da Col Richert. The condition of female laundry workers in Ireland Apparently it is possible to make a list and then do full text searching within that collection of digital texts. When I saw the search capability, I thought the results might all appear together, but it is still a multi-step process.

However, the resulting information is a very nice little snippet that shows the word in context.

Bibliographies advertised as Forthcoming Spring , so I expect to see them soon: Our next shipment from Ireland includes a number of books in Irish. Watch the catalog or let me know if you want to be the first to read any of them:. Garret Fitzgerald agus Paddy Hillery: There are excellent online sources for biographies of Irish people no longer living.

The Dictionary of Irish Biography: In addition to searching for people by name, you can search by place, dates, occupation and even by free text which means you can find any words occuring in the text. Biographies are added all the time and at this point new additions include people who died in and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Also a subscription, this has been around far longer than the Irish one, and includes many biographies of Irish people.

There are also websites freely available to all. Those I know about and use frequently are Ainm. All kinds of people associated with the Irish language are included in Ainm. Ricorso is mainly a bibliographic database but includes a short biographic summary of each Irish writer. Biographies from the whole province of Ulster are included in the Dictionary of Ulster Biography. He returned to Ireland determined to put what he had learned into practice and it was his initiative which took the care of mental patients away from large institutions into the community.

He conceived and was director of the Irish Foundation for Human Development. This set up the first Community Association in Ireland in Ballyfermot one of the early large housing estates in Dublin. Ballyfermot was merely a housing estate without any facilities, he went in with a professional team and helped the residents to turn it into a thriving working class community.

This project was so successful that an offshoot was established in Derry, called the Inner City Trust which not only rebuilt, but transformed the city of Derry during the years it was being torn down by both sides in the conflict. The work of rebuilding was done by young people of Derry, who were trained by the Trust and inspired away from taking part in the destruction of their home town. Derry was made a model for The Prince of Wales' urban village development project and other urban renewal developments around the world.

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