A CONCISE HISTORY OF IRISH ART
Author : BRUCE ARNOLD
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1977
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Irish Art
Author : Bruce Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 1989-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780500201480
Book Description
Irish art of the early Christian era is justly celebrated. So, too, are the individual contributions of artists such as Jack B. Yeats. What is perhaps less widely accepted is the existence of a continuing and developing tradition of Irish art from the earliest times to the present day. Bruce Arnold traces the complex evolution of Irish art through three millennia, showing how it has drawn on Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Mediterranean and other diverse sources. As the story unfolds, Arnold repatriates Irish artists who are frequently regarded as 'English'--including William Mulready, Daniel Maclise and James Barry--and shows how Irish painting and sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, metalwork and architecture together form a rich and distinctive cultural heritage.
Great Irish Artists
Author : S. B. Kennedy
Publisher : Gill
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
This book introduces 15 of Ireland's most interesting painters and reproduces a selection of their work.
Irish Art and Architecture from Prehistory to the Present
Author : Peter Harbison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780500277072
Book Description
Ireland stood at the forefront of Westem European artistic culture in antiquity, when great passage graves were built; during the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when the Irish produced masterpieces of metalwork and manuscript illumination; and during the 18th century, an age of classical elegance. The achievements of these periods and others survive largely intact. This survey describes the whole sequence of Irish art and architecture.
A Concise History of Ireland ...
Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Ireland
ISBN :
Book Description
Life in Ireland
Author : Conor W. O'Brien
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785373862
Book Description
This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before the first people set foot here. In Life in Ireland, Conor O’Brien guides the reader on a journey around the island to explore the history of natural life here, from the Jurassic Coast of Antrim to the great Ice Age bone-beds of Cork. Along the way, we’ll meet some of the astonishing creatures to have called Ireland home through the ages: shelled monsters; huge marine lizards; armoured dinosaurs; giant deer; mighty mammoths. Vital strands in the story of life on Earth have left their mark here, including some of the first creatures to crawl onto land or take to the wing. This epic journey will take us from the first fossils to the present day, to see how our wildlife has adapted to the human age and explore what the future might hold for life in Ireland.
A Concise History of Ireland
Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Ireland
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Book Description
A Brief History of Ireland
Author : Richard Killeen
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1780330731
Book Description
From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture. Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Scots, Huguenots. It has imported huge ideas, none bigger than Christianity which it then re-exported to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In the Tudor era it became the first colony of the developing English Empire. Its fraught and sometimes brutal relationship with England has dominated its modern history. Killeen argues that religion was decisive in all this: Ireland remained substantially Catholic, setting it at odds with the larger island culturally, religiously and politically. But its own culture and identity have stayed strong, most obviously in literature with a magnificent tradition of writing from the Book of Kells to the modern masters: Joyce, Yeats, Beckett and Heaney.
A History of Ireland in 100 Words
Author : Sharon Arbuthnot
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781911479185
Book Description
A history of Ireland in 100 words has been shortlisted for 'best Irish-published book of the year' at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2019. November 2019. Did you know that Cú Chulainn was conceived with a thirst-quenching drink? That 'cluas', the modern Irish word for 'ear', also means the handle of a cup? That the Old Irish word for 'ring' may have inspired Tolkien's 'nazg'? How and why does the word for noble (saor) come to mean cheap? Why does a word that once meant law (cáin) now mean tax? And why are turkeys in Irish French birds? From murder to beekeeping and everything between, discover how the Irish ate, drank, dressed, loved and lied. This book tells a history of Ireland by looking at the development of 100 medieval Irish words drawn from the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language. Words tell stories and encapsulate histories and this book captures aspects of Ireland's changing history by examining the changing meaning of 100 key words. The book is aimed at a general readership and no prior knowledge of the Irish language is required to delve into the fascinating insights it provides. The book is divided into themes, including writing and literature; food and feasting; technology and science; mind and body. Readers can explore words relating to particular concepts, dipping in and out where they please.
Eroticism and Art
Author : Alyce Mahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192807335
Book Description
Art? Erotica? Or Pornography? Discussions of what actually constitutes erotic art are incredibly complex and usually highly controversial. The naked body in art has been with us since the earliest examples of Greek art and sculpture. The creation and display of such works of art has always inflamed opinion and today, even withour supposed relaxation of the codes of behaviour surrounding nudity, such images are considered provocative, dangerous, and are often unwelcome in the public sphere.Now - focusing on the last 150 years of western art, these debates are finally explored in an imaginative and engaging way using the latest research and analysis into this and related subject areas - by a woman.
