Transforming Ireland

Transforming IrelandAs Irelands economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps out a politics of change for Irish society.

Applying the methodologies of the holistic education model to the study of four Shakespearean plays – Othello

Although many of the directors interviewed here have ventured successfully into the terrain of fiction

and Freedman discusses how television’s increasingly congenial creative environment has allowed it to turn out productions whose ability to engage with these larger social questions rivals that of films from the height of cinema’s Golden Age

including power and morality

and its interdisciplinary focus and background ensure its wider relevance to anyone interested in questions of contemporary culture and European affairs in general

and the electronic reader

rooting it (for its own good) in the popular and the ubiquitous

This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life against the backdrop of contemporary interactions with bishops and lay patrons

urban planners and restorers alike

in a youth jail and with street-involved youth

In addition to transcripts of the interviews

(Karamjit S Gill