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Ben Jonson : a life by Ian Donaldson.Central Library: PR2631 .D658 2011
"Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. His fame rests not only on the numerous plays he had written, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, if at times stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones..." BOOK JACKET.
Creating Irish tourism : the first century, 1750-1850 by William H. A. Williams.Central Library: G155.I7 W55 2010
Eva Gore-Booth : an image of such politics by Sonja Tiernan.Central Library: PR6013.O59 Z847 2012
"This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage, choosing to live and work among the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus acrobats, flower sellers, and pit-brow lasses is traced in this..." BOOK JACKET.
In gratitude for all the gifts : Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe by Magdalena Kay.Central Library: PR6058.E2 Z726 2012
"In Gratitude for All the Gifts explores the literary and cultural links between the bestselling, Nobel Prize-winning Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney and the preeminent Eastern European poets of the twentieth century, including fellow Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. Magdalena Kay opens new ground in comparative literary..." BOOK JACKET.
Irish culture and colonial modernity, 1800-2000 : the transformation of oral space by David Lloyd.Central Library: DA925 .L57 2011
"From the Famine to political hunger strikes, from telling tales in the pub to Beckett's tortured utterances, the performance of Irish identity has always been deeply connected to the oral. Exploring how colonial modernity transformed the spaces that sustained Ireland's oral culture, this book explains why Irish culture has been..." BOOK JACKET.
Oxford handbook of modernisms edited by Peter Brooker ... [et al.].Central Library: PN56.M54 O95 2010
"This handbook extends the scope and depth of previous synoptic guides, bringing together new approaches to the more obvious themes of modernist studies as well as new research on the variety of cultural, aesthetic, and geographical factors that were intrinsic to the creation of modernism..." BOOK JACKET.
