Death and the Irish: A Miscellany
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (910 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0993351824 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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'A poignant, yet often hilarious salute to what we, the Irish, do best'. Myles Dungan, historian and broadcaster (RTE)'This is a collection that will both entertain and inform. Made-up of 75 short pieces, the book deepens our understanding of death and its rituals in Irish history. In doing so, it has much to say about how we live, and indeed about life itself.'(Professor Patrick Geoghegan, Trinity College Dublin, and presenter of 'Talking History' on Newstalk radio).'An exemplary collection with some lovely pictorial accompaniment and an extensive list of suggested further reading. In fact, the only thing that might really scare you is the degree to which you'll enjoy it'John McCaffer
Among other publications he has edited the three volume work Treasures of Irish Christianity (co-editor with Brendan Leahy). Salvador Ryan is Professor of Ecclesiastical History , Faculty of Theology, St Patrick's College, Maynooth. Dublin: Veritas, 2012-15. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006 and (with co-editor Clodagh Tait) Religion and Politics in Urban Ireland, 1500-1750 (Four cour
This collection will be an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in the social, cultural and religious history of the Irish.. In over seventy articles, it gathers together the expertise of historians, archaeologists, folklorists, sociologists, geographers, Celtic Studies scholars, dramatists, anthropologists, musicologists, theologians, liturgists, undertakers and palliative care specialists, in a wide-ranging and lavishly-illustrated collection, which is, at times, as humorous as it is poignant.Among the topics treated in this anthology is the following: the Galway girl who was buried with her horse in the fifth or sixth century; the account of the curious death of a little-known Irish saint in medieval Norway; the Black Death in Kilkenny; death and sexual transgression in medieval Ireland; grisly deaths from the Irish annals; the funerary monuments of clerical wives in early modern Ireland; the forgotten Connacht massacre of 1647; a seventeenth-century Belfast ghost story; an Irish story of cannibalism on the high seas; the records of an Offaly coroner during the Great Famine; the Derry ghost who imparted information on the missing Franklin expedition in the Arctic in 1849; Jewish burial customs in nineteenth-century Ireland; death and Irish freemasonry; the Irishman whose body was sh