Memory and foresight in the Celtic World : perspectives from the Late Medieval through Modern Period...
Memory and foresight in the Celtic World : perspectives from the Late Medieval through Modern Period...
Memory and foresight in the Celtic World : perspectives from the Late Medieval through Modern Periods / edited by Lorna G. Barrow and Jonathan M. Wooding.
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University of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, 2020.
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English
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1 online resource (vi, 285 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
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text
still image
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Intro -- Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World -- Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World -- Introduction: Wishful Returns and Futures Foreseen -- Cultural Identities and Visions -- Scottish Diasporas -- Irish-Australia -- 1 Fable and Fiction in the Creation of Contemporary Beliefs about the Pas...
Under Milk Wood -- 5 Ireland's Lexical Memory: Irish Words in English-Language Texts, 1800-2016 -- Appendix: glossary of Irish-language words used in English-language writing 1830-2016 -- 6 Remembering the Celts: Celtic Designs on Modern Coins -- Ireland -- United Kingdom -- Isle of Man -- Continent...
Memories of a Highland Past in New South Wales -- 9 'To the Land of My Praise': Memories of Hugh Boyd Laing -- Appendix -- 10 Nicholas O'Donnell on the Origins of Munster O'Donnells -- Adelaide Attack on Backsliders -- Family Tradition re Ulster Heroes -- Study and Letter Writing -- Medieval O'Donne...
May Gahan (later O'Carroll) -- Conclusion -- 13 Dancing Bodies, Living Memories: Irish Immigrants in Sydney -- The Different Genres of 'Irish Dancing' -- Dancing and Irish Immigrants -- Bodies, Senses and Places -- Memory Evocation and Recent Immigrants -- Conclusion -- About the Authors -- Index.
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Publisher
University of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World delves deep into the experience of Celtic communities and individuals in the late medieval period through to the modern age. Its thirteen essays range widely, from Scottish soldiers in France in the fifteenth century to Gaelic-speaking communities in rural New South Wales in the twentieth, and expatriate Iri...
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Memory and foresight in the Celtic World : perspectives from the Late Medieval through Modern Periods / edited by Lorna G. Barrow and Jonathan M. Wooding.
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Sydney series in Celtic studies ; 19
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access : Available online.
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74VKaORkVpEZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaORkVpEZ
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ISBN
9781743327142 EPUB
DDC
940.04916 909.04916
MMS ID
991024377318302626
How to access this item
National edeposit: Onsite at State Library of New South Wales
