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This book describes and analyses the increasing complexity of later Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age burial in Ireland, using burial complexity as a proxy for increasing social complexity, and as a tool for examining social structure.

Cormac McSparron

May

Archaeopress

9781789696318

220  Pages

€40.86

Paperback / softback

United Kingdom

Irish history

Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the use of Norbert Elias's figurational sociology, Michael Dunning explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two centuries.

Michael Dunning

May

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

9783030722999

332  Pages

€71.68

Hardback

Switzerland

Sociology

This book represents the first systematic study of the impact of Brexit on the political and economic future of Northern Ireland and Ireland.

Paul Teague

May

Routledge

9780367720612

154  Pages

€139.23

Hardback

United Kingdom

General, economic conditions

The notion that all Gaelic peoples were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the English royal courts in Ireland, upon the advent of the English in 1167, has become so accepted in academic and popular histories of Ireland.

Stephen Hewer

May

Brepols N.V.

9782503594576

420  Pages

€98.62

Hardback

Belgium

Ireland, British and Irish history

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated concepts-house, home and homeland-are represented in contemporary global art.

Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK); Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University, UK)

May

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

9781350203068

226  Pages

€94.00

Hardback

United Kingdom

Art history

There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing.

Pauline Garvey; Daniel Miller

May

UCL Press

9781787359680

254  Pages

€54

Hardback

United Kingdom

Ireland

Authoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist.

Sandra Johnston; Cherie Driver; Paula Blair

May

Intellect Books

9781789383720

312  Pages

€36

Paperback / softback

United Kingdom

Individual artists, art monographs

An A to Z of quirky facts and stories about Limerick county.

Sharon Slater

May

The History Press Ltd

9780750995030

160  Pages

€14.99

Paperback / softback

United Kingdom

Local history

This is the first book of essays by a major new Irish non-fiction writer from the West of Ireland, comparable to the celebrated Kilkenny essayist Hubert Butler first published by The Lilliput Press and subsequently widely acclaimed. Gerard McCarthy's writing is no less distinguished than Butler's. McCarthy writes of his book: "Perhaps the Philosophers who had the most enduring influence on me were the contrary figures of Nietzsche and Marcus Aurelius. The reading of each was an antidote to the other, but I was drawn to both by an instinctive affinity.They were augmented subsequently by the gargantuan figure of Michel de Montaigne. My interest has continued to be in the region where Philosophy merges into Literature, with a preference for a language of metaphor rather than of abstract reasoning.These eight essays were written over the course of more than a decade.The fact that they have all been published in the one place, by the good offices of Irish Pages, has allowed me see the continuity between them, and to hope that they might be seen by the reader to form a unity."

Gerard McCarthy

2021

Irish Pages

9.78184E+12

£18.00

Hardback

Britain

Prose: non-fiction (DN)

Caustically humorous and polemically compulsive, Trump Rant is a work of meticulous political portraiture: a deep-delving and epoch-spanning investigation into the nature of power in American life, made luminous by Agee's nuanced, exploratory understanding of authoritarian drift and thwarted democratic aspiration in a number of world-historical contexts, from Belfast to the Balkans to the formerly Confederate South. Free-roaming in its breadth of reference and tonal range, the Rant is at once viscerally personal and unsettlingly resonant, infused throughout with an almost hypnotic sense of scale, largesse, and historical moment. Already renowned as a poet of emotional delicacy and singular stylistic vision, Agee's hallmark gifts of writerly intimacy and ethical resolve are here expanded and reconfigured on a panoramic canvas - moving from a pared-back opening section to the accelerating pace and barrage-like linguistic assaults of the latter addenda. But for all its freewheeling furies, shifting emotional registers and Kubrick-like black humour, it remains a remarkably formal work, moored to the relentlessly dangerous drumbeat of Donald J. Trump. The result is a combination of long-form radicalism and eclectic satire, startingly unique in its blend of aphorism, acuity and epic cultural imagining. Composed chronologically for nearly four years (from early 2017 until Election Day 2020), Trump Rant is a triumph of artistic witness and denunciation; an urgent retort to a global culture of imperilled legal standards and depleted literary response; and an incisive model of enlightenment and outrage in a "post-truth" world being visibly darkened by its criminal shadows.

Chris Agee

2021

Irish Pages

9.78099E+12

£16.00

Hardback

Britain

Poetry (DC)