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Marie served on the Medical Council of Ireland(2008?13) and on the Council of the Psychological Society of Ireland (2014?17) She has presented internationally, from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London to Peking 2 9781782054559 Dublin's Natural History Museum Science, knowledge, and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland English by Sherra Murphy 6.09 x 9.3 in | 1 gr Oct 01, 2021 Hardcover $60.95 CAD 240 pages Dublin?s Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. While its polished cases and stuffed animals show us Cork University Press what the museum looked like in its heyday, this book is the first detailed exploration of its early history, showing how and why it came into being, and what it meant in nineteenth-century Irish Cork University culture. From its earliest days as a small collection at the Royal Dublin Society to the gala Press inauguration of its new home on Merrion Square in 1857, everyone had an idea about what it was ART for, and how natural science would benefit Ireland. It was the first public museum in Ireland, a project of the RDS that was supported by central government as an educational venue, and was frequented Distributor: UTP by ordinary citizens and visitors as well as leading lights of natural science. Its history offers a view of Distribution science in Ireland showing that the museum was built over time by donations from citizens and scientific amateurs as well as professionals, and that Irish men of science shaped new knowledge from the raw material in the collections. 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Nuns are known from history, but this book considers Cork University Press their archaeology and upstanding architecture through perspectives such as gender and landscape. It discusses the archaeological remains associated with female monasticism in Ireland as it is Cork University currently understood and offers insights into how these religious communities might have lived and Press interacted with their local communities. It briefly includes female religious of the early medieval HISTORY period, other female religious, such as anchorites, while providing a wider European monastic context. While some nunneries used what is considered a typical monastic layout?of a church and Distributor: UTP other buildings arranged around a central area?this research has found that in many cases a Distribution nunnery was a small church with attached accommodation, or a separate dwelling; particularly when nuns lived in towns. Medieval women became nuns for various reasons and followed a daily routine called the divine office, with occasions, like saints? feast days, celebrated in special ways. It is sometimes suggested that all nuns were locked away, but history and archaeology show that they had many connections with the world outside. Nunneries had to maintain these ties in order to function and stay relevant, so the local community and benefactors would continue to support the nunnery as their church, and for some, their place of burial. About the Contributor(s) Tracy Collins is Co-founder and director of an archaeological and heritage consultancy, Aegis Archaeology Limited 4 9781782054573 Sources in Irish Art 2 A reader English by Fintan Cullen, Róisín Kennedy 6.09 x 9.3 in | 1 gr Oct 01, 2021 Hardcover $60.95 CAD 280 pages Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader is an anthology of literary and critical sources for the study of visual art and Ireland. 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About the Contributor(s) Fintan Cullen is an academic, educator and writer Róisín Kennedy is in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin Longleaf Select Fall/Winter 2021 2 Longleaf Services 5 9781782054580 Transitional Playwrights in Irish by Philip O'Leary English Oct 01, 2021 Hardcover $60.95 CAD 6.09 x 9.3 in | 1 gr There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the 296 pages genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of translations.

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