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An Irish Jansenist in Seventeenth-Century France
Charles James O'Donnell, born in Donegal and educated in Galway, provided in his will (1935) for a bequest to each of the Universities of Oxford, Wales, Edinburgh, National University of Ireland and Trinity College, to establish an annual lecture in each of the institutions - the lecture in the National University of Ireland to be on the history of Ireland since the time of Cromwell, with particular reference to the histories, since 1641, of old Irish families. The lecture series was established in 1957 and continued until 1986. Due to a lack of funds there was a gap of some years, but the NUI Senate was pleased to be able to revive the series, to be presented annually in each of the NUI Con...
Great Power Complex
This book examines the new framework of ideas (since 1989) which will inform our understanding on how development in the old Third World should be understood
January 7th: The Day Nobody Was Born
Will Stills is the most ordinary boy in the world.Trouble is, the whole world is convinced he is far from ordinary.Every January 7th, Will is forced to celebrate his birthday in the most peculiar way.But it is not his proud parents who are planning these bizarre parties!The "brains" behind the world's biggest media company, ViewYou, are pulling the strings.But what exactly are they trying to prove?What is it they want the world to see?Why are they and everyone else so obsessed with Will Stills?
No Shadow in the City
Glasgow's Southside is scorching in unaccustomed heat and the neighbourhood teeters on the edge, simmering and riot-ready. In the city's docklands, a taxi driver murders his family in a bloody daylight massacre.A bitter dispute between a union and a politically-connected business family escalates into firebomb attacks and violence.Meanwhile, racist gangs organise violent confrontation after a white girl is raped and a Muslim woman attacked with acid in apparent retaliation...police and politicians struggle to prevent the tension turning into war on the streets.And Stevie McCabe isn't a player in any of this. He's four hundred miles away, in London, planning to work for a bank, bird-watching and learning how to play Go. He's four hundred miles away...for now.
Clip Their Little Wings
Mired in a world of errant wives, missing persons fleeing mundane bills, businesses pursuing dishonest staff and petty personal transgressions, Glasgow detective Stevie McCabe is suddenly asked to investigate the affairs of a Labour MP.Although he knows his client is lying, the commission gets his attention, especially because his unrequited lust for the owner of a jazz club has somehow turned into an asylum appeal for one of her singers and most especially because an old friend he can barely remember is asking him for a pro-bono investigation of the lurid death of his junkie brother.Through the peeling tower blocks and smart sandstone tenements of the city, from university to squalid bed and breakfast hotels, McCabe pursues the trails of the dead junkie and the questionable MP, knowing that they should be unconnected, yet knowing, too, that the strict limits of coincidence are being bent and broken by the ways in which the stories intertwine.A Stevie McCabe novel from www.glasgownoirfiction.com
Not Goats…Children!
They will be what we make of them Written as a collection of ideas, tips and suggestions for the education of primary school children, Not Goats... Children! contains three core messages for any teacher. Focusing firstly on the concept of respect, Callaghan explores the importance of adults respecting children – not just children respecting adults. The second message highlights the need for the teaching of the English language in England to be more heavily weighted within the curriculum. Thirdly, with a higher awareness of obesity in children, Callaghan looks at the importance of sport in education; encouraging good health, fighting obesity and teaching good 'sporting' behaviour. The book ...
Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn
Philosophers will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just how Aquinas might contribute to contemporary debates. Traditionally, the camps of realism and idealism fiercely engaged one another in the field of epistemology. Thomists participated in confronting idealism from their unique realist position. Post-Wittgenstein, the conflict has been dominated by a form of epistemology that grounds all knowledge in linguistic practice. Since Thomists work in a textual and historical mode, their response to the technical approach of the analytic philosophy in which most of the linguistic epistemologists write has been slow in coming. O’Callaghan expertly closes that gap by successfully bringing together these fields.
The Labour Party and Foreign Policy
This book provides a penetrating new study of the Labour Party’s thinking on international relations, which probes the past, present and future of the party’s approach to the international stage. The foreign policy of the Labour Party is not only neglected in most histories of the party, it is also often considered in isolation from the party’s origins, evolution and major domestic preoccupations. Yet nothing has been more divisive and more controversial in Labour’s history than the party’s foreign and defence policies and their relationship to its domestic programme. Much more has turned on this than the generation of tempestuous conference debates. Labour’s credentials as a cre...
Crisis? What crisis?
Over thirty years later, the ‘winter of discontent’ of 1978–79 still resonates in British politics. On 22 January 1979, 1.5 million workers were on strike. Industrial unrest swept Britain in an Arctic winter. Militant shop stewards blocked medical supplies to hospitals; mountains of rubbish remained uncollected; striking road hauliers threatened to bring the country to a standstill; even the dead were left unburied. Within weeks, the beleaguered Callaghan Labour government fell from power. In the 1979 general election, Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, beginning eighteen years of unbroken Conservative rule. Based on a wide range of newly available historical sources and key interviews, this full-length account breaks new ground, analysing the origins, character and impact of a turbulent period of industrial unrest. This important study will appeal to all those interested in contemporary history and British politics.
The Girl with the Zipped-Up Lips
Eleven-year-old Willow hasn't spoken a single word for almost four years.When she and her father set off in search of yet another fresh start, things quickly turn stale.The principal of her new school insists endless tests are "the only way to learn", the school's number one bully loves to make her blood boil while her only friend is a girl that nobody else will talk to.But after the principal is unexpectedly suspended, a mysterious replacement arrives to deliver an eye-popping, jaw-dropping assembly which kick starts a crazy week that just might help Willow find her voice.
