Bøker av Neil Murphy

John Banville offers a close analysis of most of Banville’s major novels, his Quirke crime novels, and his dramatic adaptations of Heinrich von Kleist’s plays. It asserts that Banville’s fiction can be viewed both as an extended interrogation of the meaning and status of art, and that it is itself representative of the type of art admired in the pages of the novels.

This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague of Provence in the 1720s represented the development of a new and 'modern' form of public health care under the control of the absolutist monarchy, it shows that the key elements in this system were established centuries earlier because of the actions of urban governments. It moves away from taking a medical focus on plague to examine the institutions that managed disease control in early modern France. In doing so, it seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s. It shows that the French developed a polycentric system of plague care which drew on the input of numerous actors combat the disease.

The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how England and Scotland defended their frontier, and how political issues drove the wars.

This Collection seeks to understand how literature always been deeply engaged with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise.

Neil Murphy's third book embraces the subject of the Irish 'Troubles' during the chaotic period between the Easter Rising in 1916 and the signing of the Treaty in 1921. Lord Keppel, a psychopathic Captain in the British army needs money to refurbish his castlein Enniskillen. His American heiress wife will foot the bill. Sadly for Keppel his pregnant bride, a millionaire's daughter, drowns as a consequence of a German torpedo attack on the liner, Moldavia, but not before the child enters the world. She is left in the care of Mossy McGuire, a passing Irish fisherman who rescued the infant.This story follows Keppel's search for his daughter, thwarted by the I.R.A. and friendly locals who are intent on saving the child from the hands of Keppel and returning her to her maternal grandparents in America.

This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that occurred in the display of royal power during John II's four years in English captivity.