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The Irish Women's History Reader is an exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time this unique book draws together key articles published in the fields of Irish women's history and women's studies over the past two decades, including contributions from Ireland, North and South, England, USA, Canada and Australia. The Irish Women's History Reader explores the lives of ordinary Irish women since 1800, looking at the key themes of: * Historiography and the development of, and writing of, women's history in Ireland * Politics and the variety of political activities undertaken by women including suffrage, nationalism and unionism * Health and sexuality revealing hidden histories of sexual activity, mental illness and attempts to control fertility * Religion and the experiences of catholic nuns, protestant evangelicals and salvationists * Emigration and the pattern of female migration to USA, Britain and Australia * Work including both paid and unpaid employ inside and outside the home.
An exciting collection of essays revealing the tremendous diversity of women's experiences in Ireland's past. For the first time this unique book draws together key articles published in the fields of Irish women's history and women's studies over the past two decades, including contributions from Ireland, North and South, England, USA, Canada and Australia. It explores the lives of ordinary Irish women since 1800, looking at the key themes of: * historiography and the development of women's history in Ireland * politics and the variety of political activities undertaken by women * health and sexuality revealing hidden histories of sexual activity, mental illness and attempts to control fertility * religion and the experiences of catholic nuns, protestant evangelicals and salvationists * emigration and the pattern of female migration to USA, Britain and Australia * work including both paid and unpaid employ inside and outside the home.
The series that launched a career and inspired a television legend.
The cases of POLICE SURGEON uncovered, described and explored! 'Dr
Brent's Casebook' tells the story of 'Police Surgeon', a
short-lived 1960 television series that gave Ian Hendry (The Lotus
Eaters', 'Get Carter') his first regular starring role. It made its
mark in TV history not for what it was but for what it led to - the
world beating show 'The Avengers'. Unlike its illustrious
successor, 'Police Surgeon' has faded from public memory and has
rarely been revisited for the purposes of research or retrospective
celebration. Richard McGinlay and Alan Hayes now redress the
balance, revealing information about the creation of the series,
its production, transmission and narratives - including the
mysterious 'Diplomatic Immunity', which never appeared in TV
listings - and the circumstances that caused 'Police Surgeon' to be
brought to a sudden end after just 13 weeks.
Two Against the Underworld brings together eight years of research
to tell the story of The Avengers from both sides of the camera. It
has now been further revised following the recovery of the episode
Tunnel of Fear. The authors lift the lid on all 26 Series 1
episodes. Comprehensive chapters detail the narratives in extended
synopsis form, as well as the production, transmission and
reception of each episode, and the talented personnel who made
them. The creation of The Avengers, Ian Hendry's departure, the
series' destiny and the mystery of the missing episodes are
explored in a series of essays, each of which has been revised.
Avengers writer Roger Marshall and Neil Hendry both contribute
forewords to this volume. The book also boasts black-and-white
illustrations by Shaqui Le Vesconte and 70 pages of appendices that
deal in depth with the unproduced episodes of Series 1, Keel and
Steed's further adventures in the comic strip The Drug Pedlar and
the novel Too Many Targets, and much more.
The Avengers was a revolutionary series that always playfully
twisted perceptions, pushed the boundaries of its genre and defied
those who wished to pigeonhole it. The team behind The Avengers
never forgot its primary objective was to entertain. And entertain
it certainly did, inspiring successive generations to welcome The
Avengers into their hearts. Right from its foreword by pioneering
television historian Dave Rogers to its afterword by Jason Whiton
of SpyVibe, Avengerworld celebrates the series, its international
fandom and its fans. Over the course of more than forty essays,
Avengers fans the world over relate how they first encountered the
series, how they grew up with it at their sides, made friends,
engaged with fandom and were inspired to do extraordinary things.
Proceeds from this book will be donated to Champion Chanzige, a
charity organisation that exists to improve conditions for
underprivileged children at a primary school in Southern Tanzania -
and helps them to do extraordinary things too.
Skeletal muscle is a highly plastic tissue that constitutes
approximately thirty percent of total body mass and adapts rapidly
to changing functional demands. Many factors including age, gender
and physical activity levels have previously been reported to
affect the structure or metabolic characteristics of skeletal
muscle. This book reviews the literature describing the
maladaptations that occur in skeletal muscle in response to the
most common lifestyle associated chronic diseases: heart failure
and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus and discuss the
mechanisms behind the maladaptations as well as potential therapies
to halt or reverse the changes.
"John Brennan" (Madame Sidney Gifford Czira) was a woman of the
twentieth century, and along with her five sisters, the Giffords,
she contributed to many of the developments of that time. Born
Sidney Gifford in 1889 into a well-off Protestant unionist family,
she was attracted to the nationalist cause and started publishing
articles as a school girl for Arthur Griffith's Sinn Fein. For the
next 65 years she was well-known as a journalist, broadcaster and
political activist, and counted as her friends and associates, the
men and women who were leaders of the nationalist struggle. In The
Years Flew By, her memoir first published in 1974, she recounts her
memories of these people. More than biographical portraits, she
gives an insider's view which is perceptive, entertaining and
enlightening and adds greatly to the study of the political
developments of the early decades of the last century. She also
provides us with a vivid picture of some of the customs and social
life in Dublin in the early twentieth century, and recounts the
exciting developments in theatre during this Irish literary
renaissance. This edition includes "John's" original manuscript of
The Years Flew By, complete with a foreword by Gifford Lewis (who
knew her and was the original publisher of that book), a
biographical article on "John" and her five sisters, by Alan Hayes,
and selections from the journalism of "John Brennan".
Pauline Bewick is an Irish artist, most associated with
watercolours.
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