A view of the Irish. [Origins and the time warp -- The Irish Free State -- A classless society -- The church -- Women -- Drink -- Literature -- A question of culture -- Crime -- The Fair City -- Final thoughts -- Irish words in English -- The tinkers and their language -- Censorship -- Books on Ireland -- Irish at work -- Irish Marxism -- The Irish in the First World War -- De Valera's St. Patrick's Day speech, 1943]

Seller

Joseph Valles - Books (US)

Seller's Inventory #

006637

Title

A view of the Irish. [Origins and the time warp -- The Irish Free State -- A classless society -- The church -- Women -- Drink -- Literature -- A question of culture -- Crime -- The Fair City -- Final thoughts -- Irish words in English -- The tinkers and their language -- Censorship -- Books on Ireland -- Irish at work -- Irish Marxism -- The Irish in the First World War -- De Valera's St. Patrick's Day speech, 1943]

Author

Cleeve, Brian Talbot, 1921-

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - Very Good

Jacket Condition

No Jacket

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN 10

0907675174

ISBN 13

9780907675174

Publisher

London : Buchan & Enright, 1983

Place of Publication

London

Date Published

1983

Keywords

alcohol Anglo-Irish bank robbers banned beautiful bishops British Catholic Catholic marriage Celtic Celts century Church Civil claim clergy coinage contraceptives Cork critics culture drink drinkers drug Dublin England English fact figures Finglas Flann O

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