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9781851860616 | Raven Arts Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $9.00

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Product Description: This portrait of 1990s, is told with insight and vigor. O'Toole argues that there is no longer an Irish economy, just a Black Hole through which profits and jobs vanish. There is no Irish nation, just a scattered people who still hold a country in their heads...read more
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9781874597018 | Reprint edition (New Island Books, October 1, 1994), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This portrait of 1990s, is told with insight and vigor.

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9781859180945 | Cork Univ Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $15.00

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9781859180907 | Cork Univ Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $7.50

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Product Description: This paper presents an argument for the legalization of psychoactive drugs that are currently prohibited by law. Drawing on international drug policy research, the author examines the Irish policy in its historical, medical, social and political context...read more
By Tim Murphy and Fintan O'Toole (editor)
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9781859180709 | Cork Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This paper presents an argument for the legalization of psychoactive drugs that are currently prohibited by law.

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Product Description: "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel
By Tom Murphy and Fintan O'Toole (introduced by)
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9780413714503 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel

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Drawing on contemporary politics, economics, literature, and history, the author comments on the country's self-image and how that image is changing in response to a world without boundaries (view table of contents)
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9781874597490 | New Island Books, September 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Drawing on contemporary politics, economics, literature, and history, the author comments on the country's self-image and how that image is changing in response to a world without boundaries

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Product Description: Developing medical technology has placed a strain on traditional conceptions of death. This book examines the ways in which medical and legal professionals intervene between the individual and their death. Also examined is the shift in attitude in Irish society towards death and dying, and how recent legislation has impinged on issues such as treatment withdrawal, active euthanasia, and the right to die...read more
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9781859181560 | Cork Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Developing medical technology has placed a strain on traditional conceptions of death.

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A collection of essays focusing on contemporary Irish culture, discussing nationalism, sexual politics, the Church, and Ireland's place in a global economy
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9781859848210 | Verso Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays focusing on contemporary Irish culture, discussing nationalism, sexual politics, the Church, and Ireland's place in a global economy

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9781859841327 | Verso Books, December 1, 1998, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays focusing on contemporary Irish culture, discussing nationalism, sexual politics, the Church, and Ireland's place in a global economy

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Traces the life of the English dramatist, politician, entrepreneur, and revolutionary (view table of contents)
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9780374279318 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1998, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the English dramatist, politician, entrepreneur, and revolutionary

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Product Description: "If you're on bareback you're with the horse... The feeling is youse are together, youse are clicking, you know what I mean, but if you're on a saddle youse are floating on a lump of leather you're not on a horse, but when you are on bareback it's a total feeling, you know...read more
By Ronnie Cooke Newhouse (editor), Perry Ogden and Fintan O'Toole (introduced by)
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9780893818593 | Aperture, March 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "If you're on bareback you're with the horse.

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9781874597193 | Dufour Editions, May 1, 1999, cover price $8.95

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Product Description: Critical study of the life and work of the acclaimed Irish playwright (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781874597759 | Dufour Editions, May 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Critical study of the life and work of the acclaimed Irish playwright

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Product Description: 'The Irish Times Book of the Century' is an outstanding and thought-provoking survey of the twentieth century, written as it draws to its close and seen through the eyes of Ireland's leading newspaper of reference. Fintan O'Toole draws together the key events of modern Irish history, showing how international factors shaped them and recalling the manner in which they were reflected in 'The Irish Times'...read more
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9780717127498 | Newleaf, August 1, 1999, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: 'The Irish Times Book of the Century' is an outstanding and thought-provoking survey of the twentieth century, written as it draws to its close and seen through the eyes of Ireland's leading newspaper of reference.

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Product Description: Great exhibition catalog featuring the artwork of contemporary artists of Ireland. 42 color illustrations of works of art - paintings, sculpture, mixed media, drawings, figures, abstract images, landsacpes, still-lifes. Artists include: Dorothy Cross, Willie Doherty, Alice Maher, Ciaran Lennon, Abigail O'Brien, Billy Quinn, Paul Seawright and others...read more
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9781858940892 | Merrell, September 1, 1999, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Great exhibition catalog featuring the artwork of contemporary artists of Ireland.

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Product Description: The first collection of plays from one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writersThis volume contains four plays: The Lament for Arthur Cleary: "Theatrically rich and socially powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a voyage into the dark heart of a city where Irish theatre has seldom been before" (Irish Times); In High Germany: "Thoughtful, comic, sad and provocative, this monologue of a lost and altered heritage … These two plays [In High Germany and The Holy Ground] are cogent manifestations of a changing Irish world" (Irish Times); The Holy Ground: "A tour de force...read more
By Dermot Bolger and Fintan O'Toole (introduced by)
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9780413745002 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The first collection of plays from one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary writersThis volume contains four plays: The Lament for Arthur Cleary: "Theatrically rich and socially powerful, it takes on the lineaments of an epic voyage, a voyage into the dark heart of a city where Irish theatre has seldom been before" (Irish Times); In High Germany: "Thoughtful, comic, sad and provocative, this monologue of a lost and altered heritage … These two plays [In High Germany and The Holy Ground] are cogent manifestations of a changing Irish world" (Irish Times); The Holy Ground: "A tour de force.

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Product Description: Is Hamlet really mad or is the world mad? Is Othello merely gullible or is there something about his place in society that makes him vulnerable? Why can there be no happy ending to King Lear? In this radical approach to Shakespearean tragedy, Fintan O'Toole, Ireland's foremost theater critic, shows how Shakespeare's plays have been made unintelligible to modern students...read more
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9781862075283 | Granta Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Is Hamlet really mad or is the world mad?

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Product Description: Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic. This collection brings together a wide range of his writings going back to 1980...read more
By Julia Furay (editor), Redmond O'Hanlon (editor) and Fintan O'Toole
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9781904505037 | Carysfort Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theatre critic.

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9780717144464 | Gill & Macmillan, October 1, 2008, cover price $23.45

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Product Description: Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson's life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson's part in creating a nation he did not live to see.
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9780374281281 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 5, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A provocative look at an often overlooked figure in American history focuses on William Johnson, a soldier who forged a vital alliance with the Iroquois Confederacy and trained American troops to fight like Indians.

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9781438427584 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 5, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson's life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson's part in creating a nation he did not live to see.

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Product Description: The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The “Irish Economic miracle” was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up...read more
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9781586488819 | 1 edition (Public Affairs, March 2, 2010), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists.

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9780571252688 | Gardners Books, November 5, 2009, cover price $21.65 | About this edition: Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was the worldwide model of successful adaptation to economic globalisation.

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