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Global military integration is yet a missing link towards abolishing war and nuclear weapons. Only if all state were joined in a truly Global NATO would it be possible to overcome the security dilemma and hence war

Providing unique and new perspectives that have been evolved mostly from papers read at an international conference held in Kyoto, Japan, this collection attempts to reassess and explore the values of Irish literature in a global context.

This volume affords an opportunity to reconsider international connections and conflicts from the specific standpoint of translation as a dynamic, sociocultural activity. The chapters pivot around the relationships that are established between translation and ideology, re-narration, identity, cultural representation and knowledge reproduction.

Peter Raina's study, with its admirable selection of "Dadie" Rylands' marvellously lucid radio talks (hitherto unpublished) and its sampling of the multitude of letters he wrote and received, brings to life this legendary figure in academic and theatrical circles of the twentieth century.

Modern Death is written in the form of a symposium, in which a government agency brings together a group of experts to discuss a strategy for dealing with an ageing population.

This volume embraces the critical turn of new materialism in order to address how creative and social practices allow for the definition of alternative subject positions and to examine how power relations operate at an embodied, relatable level: it proposes to think global but act local.

This book presents an analysis of more than 30 plays written by Irish dramatists and poets that are based on the tragedies of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. These plays proceed from the time of Yeats and Synge through MacNeice and the Longfords on to many of today's leading writers.

This is the first book to provide comprehensive treatment of Robert Lowell's engagements with Irish poetry. It includes original contributions by leading and emerging scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.

Analyses the influence of the Guinness brand's provenance on advertising campaigns aimed at consumers living in Ireland between 1959 and 1999, and the extent to which Guinness's advertising has influenced Irish culture and society.

Combining traditional archival with innovative digital research, this book narrates global integration and imperial governance through individuals, from Boy Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell and imperialist Alfred Milner to Canadian Mountie Sam Steele, and, foremost, thousands of SAC men.

I saggi raccolti in Iconografie pirandelliane esplorano una fitta serie di domande relative alle molteplici sfaccettature della cultura visiva nell'opera e nell'immagine pubblica di Luigi Pirandello. Il volume offre una panoramica variegata e unica sui molteplici temi legati a Pirandello e alla cultura visiva.

In light of changes to the English national educational policy context since the Academies Act 2010, this book examines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the English State with regard to the provision of education in diocesan Catholic schools

#NousSommes represents a moment when social media became embroiled in collective expressions of unity, solidarity and resistance. This book explores the role of the digital in the collective today, drawing on the work of important French philosophers like Nancy, Derrida and Deleuze and addressing issues such as ecology, automation and addiction.

Makes a case for the value of trauma and memory studies as a means of casting new light on the meaning of Irish identity in a number of contemporary Irish cultural practices, and of illuminating present-day attitudes to the past.

Queering Paradigms VIII brings together critical discourses on queer-feminist solidarity between Western, post-Soviet and post-socialist contexts. It highlights transnational solidarity efforts against homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. It celebrates the alliances and solidarities between activism, community building, art and culture.

This book explores the role of the flute in Scottish musical life, primarily in the long eighteenth century, including players, repertoire, manuscripts, and instruments. Evidence for ladies having played the flute is examined, as are possible connections between flute playing and bagpipe playing.

The Gastarbeiter (guest worker) agreement between Greece and Germany in 1960 sparked the biggest wave of emigration to central Europe in the history of the modern Greek state. This book examines the impact of this agreement on Greek migrants, partcularly in relation to the role that their social and cultural background played in integration.

Speech acts - such as requests, invitations and offers - pose particular challenges for dubbing translators due to cultural differences. This volume draws on data from over 700 episodes of twenty different television series and introduces a multidimensional model for capturing dominant patterns in translating speech acts.

Claudio Magris is considered an authority on central European literature and culture. This book explores why he has become such a relevant figure, demonstrating how his ideas about history, ethics and identity are so fundamental for Europe's future.

This volume collects the voices of descendents of African American soldiers who liberated Germany from fascist rule. Black German writers here convey their experiences through life writing, interviews and literary works as well as through research essays that illuminate this almost forgotten history of US American-German relations.

Loiterature, perhaps Ross Chambers's most famous book, prescribes slow and careful reading practices but also quick-witted analysis. This collection draws together tributes, essays and critical responses to his wide-ranging work from Romanticism to the present, all demonstrating, through practice, the generative value of "loitering".

The book records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work of major contributors, and captures the activities of all at St Patrick's College up to its incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a university college in Ireland

The book records and interprets key musical developments, appraises the work of major contributors, and captures the activities of all at St Patrick's College up to its incorporation into Dublin City University in 2016. It represents a major scholarly work that details the progress of music at a university college in Ireland

Within the theoretical framework of Hegel's epistemic interactivism and Esan epistemology, this book exposes the epistemic interactivism of Esan thought which unified the subject and person-object of knowledge; thus providing adequate basis for personhood and resolving the dehumanised relationship between the subject and person-object of knowledge.

This book offers the first ever academic study of women's cricket in Britain from its origins in the 18th century to the present day. Through use of interviews with many former players, the book argues that women's cricket was a site of feminism across its history and an important source of empowerment to women who participated in the sport.

Martin Heidegger was engaged in a continual struggle to find new words for his radical form of philosophy. This book is the first study that provides a full account of Heidegger's language and writing style, revealing his ongoing self-questioning and reflectiveness about his philosophical quest.

This edited volume showcases essays revolving around diverse translation discourses and practices in China, Korea and Japan. The contributors bring together different areas of expertise, such as the history of translation, political activism and translation, literary translation, transcreation and the translation profession.