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Please read on to discover our exciting new titles for AW20 2 UCD PRESS SS20 UCD PRESS SS20 3 ARCHITECTURE HISTORY SEPTEMBER 2020 NOVEMBER 2020 300pp 400pp 244x244 mm 234x156 mm HARDBACK /IMAGES PAPERBACK FLAPS INDEX INDEX €40.00 / £35.00 €30.00 / £25.00 9781910820568 9781910820582 IN SPANISH TRENCHES THE MIND AND DEEDS OF MAKING BELFIELD THE IRISH WHO FOUGHT FOR SPACE + PLACE AT UCD THE REPUBLIC IN THE SpaNISH CIVIL WAR edited by finola o’kane & by EMMET O’CONNOR ELLEN ROWLEY AND BARRY MCLOUGHLIN AUTHOR BIO AUTHOR BIO The Spanish Civil War has an enduring fascination, not least for the way it Finola O’Kane is a landscape Richly designed and illustrated, Making Belfield reflects on the making Barry McLoughlin retired as drew some 35,000 non-Spaniards to risk their lives to halt the march of historian, architect and and shaping of UCD to celebrate 50 years of college life at Belfield Senior Lecturer for Irish and fascism. It has also acquired renewed relevance from the surge of conservation specialist. A (Belfield 50). Dipping in and out of recent architectural histories and Contemporary History from neofascism in Europe. At the same time, the representation of International professor at UCD’s School older and more far flung landscapes, it brings key UCD thinkers on Vienna University in 2016. Brigaders as champions of liberty and stainless heroes has been subject of Architecture, Planning spatial and cultural history together as well as highlighting the libraries He is the author of Left to to increasing scrutiny, notably since the opening up of former Soviet and Environmental Policy, and collections of the university. the Wolves: Irish Victims of archives. her books include Ireland and Stalinist Terror (2007) and five the Picturesque; Design, books (as co-author and This definitive study of the Connolly Column – the Irish who Landscape Painting and Tourism ‘Making Belfield describes the UCD’s campus’s significant international editor) on aspects of fought for Republican Spain – reassesses the Irish experience in the light in Ireland 1700-1830 (Yale impact on the historiography of the Modern Movement, as well Stalinism and Soviet State of sources at home and in Russia, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Britain, University Press, 2013). as placing it firmly within Irish cultural and institutional history. terror, especially in respect driven by a conviction that Ireland was not so isolated in the 1930s and Intrinsically significant, the book’s thematic analysis of Belfield as a of Austrian victims and the needs to be understood in a more comparative way. Interrogating the Ellen Rowley is Assistant large-scale Modernist complex is pioneering for Ireland.’ Austrian Communist Party. publicity generated by the supporters of the Spanish Republic in Ireland, Professor UCD’s School of north and south, it shows too how communist groups in Spain waged Architecture, Planning and –Professor Miles Glendinning, University of Edinburgh, 2020 Emmet O’Connor lectures the war with one eye on its propaganda value back home and uncovers Environmental Policy where in Ulster University. He has fresh evidence on the controversial career of Frank Ryan. she teaches around Ireland’s ‘I warmly welcome this most interesting and valuable book on the published widely on built environment of the landscape and architectural history of Belfield. In the preface to my Labour history, including, The account is exceptional in providing a detailed narrative of twentieth century. She has 1999 history of UCD I wrote that I remained acutely aware of how with UCD Press, Reds and the what the Irish actually did in Spain. In graphic descriptions of combat recently published Housing, much had yet to be researched and written. Making Belfield is certainly a Green: Ireland, Russia, and the and army routine behind the lines, it illustrates how International Architecture significant contribution to that history.’ Communist Internationals Brigades units operated, how politics affected their efficiency, and and the Edge Condition (2004), A Labour History of what their command systems meant for the life, and death, of ordinary (Routledge, Taylor + –Professor Donal McCartney, University College Dublin, 2020 Ireland, 1824–2000 (2011), brigadistas. Francis), and was a co-editor and one of our bestselling of the landmark Yale series, biographies Big Jim Larkin: Art and Architecture of Ireland Hero or Wrecker? (2015). (Yale University Press/RIA, 2014). 4 UCD PRESS SS20 UCD PRESS SS20 5 POETRY GEOGRAPHY NOVEMBER 2020 SEPTEMBER 2020 250pp 350PP 216×138 mm 247x180 mm HARDBACK HARDBACK €25.00/ £20.00 FULL-COLOUR ILL. 9781910820759 INDEX HOLD OPEN THE €40 / £35 DOOR 9781910820551 edited by MÍCHEÁL MCCANN, SUMMER MELINE, MARCELLA L. IRISH RIVERS A. PRINCE, NIDHI ZAK/ARIA EIPE AND FRANK ORMSBY edited by MARY KELLY- AUTHOR BIO QUINN AND JULIAN REYNOLDS Mícheál McCann is from Derry. His poems appear in AUTHOR BIO fourteen poems, Poetry Ireland Mary Kelly-Quinn is a Review and The Manchester Rivers are said to be the veins, and streams the capillaries, that carry freshwater, freshwater ecologist and Review. His first pamphlet Offering an intimate look at the vast influence of Ireland’s the scarce lifeblood of the Earth. However, freshwaters are experiencing Associate Professor in the of poems - Safe Home - is extraordinary literary heritage, Hold Open the Door: A Commemorative species extinction at a rate faster than any other ecosystem, and human School of Biology and published by Green Bottle Anthology from the Ireland Chair of Poetry highlights how a new Irish activities are threatening our survival through overexploiting and degrading Environmental Science, Press, and he was a grateful poetry is coming to stand alongside the tradition from which it has water quality. Rivers have been channelled, buried underground, dammed, University College Dublin diverted and polluted; some so over-abstracted that their waters no longer recipient of an ACES award grown – leaving that tradition enriched and transformed. from the NI Arts Council reach the sea. With abundant rainfall, Irish rivers are less damaged than many Julian D. Reynolds is of those in other countries, but most have water quality problems that can in 2019. Summer Meline The Ireland Chair of Poetry Commemorative Anthology celebrates is a writer from Northern a freshwater ecologist, impact the quality of our lives and economic activities, as shortages of safe the 25th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s Nobel Prize Award, and the water supplies have demonstrated. California and lives with her and former Head of the subsequent legacy created by the Ireland Chair of Poetry. This timely book aims to raise awareness of Ireland’s fantastic family. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe Department of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin. and often undervalued river resource, and the importance of changing our is a poet, pacifist, and fabulist. This contemporary anthology features original poems and essays from behaviour and policies to ensure that we keep it in a healthy condition for its She is the founder of the P[l] some of the most exciting new and emerging Irish poets as they reflect sustainable benefits, as well as protection of its biodiversity. The book captures ay It Forward Fellowships, on the formative value of mentorship and creative exchange, drawing the expertise of 37 Irish freshwater experts to provide an up-to-date account advisory board member inspiration from renowned poets and artists across the island of on the evolution of Ireland’s rivers and their flow characteristics, biodiversity of Ledbury Poetry Critics Ireland and beyond. and how humans have depended on, used and abused our rivers through time. Ireland, and Next Generation Irish rivers include types that are rare elsewhere in Europe and Artist with the Arts Council support a wide range of aquatic organisms and processes. In Irish Rivers there The collection is collated and edited in collaboration with Frank are chapters on their hydrology and on their animal and plant life, on crayfish, of Ireland.