Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Dubliner, FSA, FRHistS; mostly medieval with an unhealthy interest in James Joyce. Níl ann ach mo thuairim féin.https://t.co/axiJefYcA2
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
J. G. FrazerDr Anne Marie D'ArcyIn 'Landscape and Memory' (one of his best books) Simon Schama discusses contemporary misunderstandings of Frazer's The Golden Bough ... Worth reading ...
Paperback, 2004
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A Social History of Ancient Ireland: Treating of the Government, Military System, and Law; Religion, Learning, and Art; Trades, Industries, and Commer
Patrick Weston JoyceDr Anne Marie D'Arcyin W. Joyce, A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 vols (London, 1903), I, 468 but also in the Roman Breviary of Joyce’s youth. Generations of Irish children in Catholic schools, including those attended by Joyce, learned that Eriugena was ‘celebrated for his knowledge of Greek’
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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington - Volume 3
Richard Robert MaddenDr Anne Marie D'Arcy@Muinchille @BeattieDoug that his Grace was born in a house that formerly stood on the site of the late Royal Irish Academy House, in Grafton Street’ (The Literary Life And Correspondence Of The Countess Of Blessington, ed. R.R. Madden, 3 vols (London, 1855), III, 14).
Paperback, 2012
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Decorative Art in America: A Lecture
Oscar WildeDr Anne Marie D'ArcyIt's only taken me 22 years, since I gave a lecture on Finnegans Wake and the Book of Kells on the premises (Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, TCD), to finish it properly. Can't quite believe it!
Paperback, 2022
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Lord Arthur Savile's crime
Oscar WildeDr Anne Marie D'ArcyAnd then there is Yeats, 'reviewing Lord Arthur Savile's crime and other stories (1891) in Parnell's United Ireland on 26 September 1891, held that English readers of Wilde suffered from "a complete inability to understand anything he says. We should not find him so ...
Paperback, 2014
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Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund FreudDr Anne Marie D'Arcy@MarcPColeman @Muinchille The very common misattribution of the horsey jibe to Wellington owes a great deal to Sigmund Freud, ‘Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious’, Complete Psychological Works, VIII, 1-247 ( 71). In this context, Freud ascribes what was actually Daniel O’Connell’s jibe that ...
Hardcover, 2014
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The Almagest: Introduction to the Mathematics of the Heavens
Claudius PtolemyDr Anne Marie D'Arcy@IanPsDarkCorner @PaulWalsh3 @WalleyVision @AnnaMMcQuinn @IrishRainforest No, he said the term 'British Isles' was introduced by the Elizabethans, which is entirely correct, based on a reference given by a Greek-speaking, Egyptian, who was a Roman citizen: Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 100 – c. 170). In his Almagest (c. 147-8), he refers to an island he ...
Paperback, 2014
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Finnegans Wake
JoyceDr Anne Marie D'ArcyHis brother's book on the Book of Kells had a profound effect on Joyce and its rather euphuistic style is parodied in Finnegans Wake. However, Joyce knew the Book of Kells from lithographs even before its publication in 1914: https://t.co/HYxOZIq4R8
Paperback, 2012
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Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches
James JermanDr Anne Marie D'Arcy@JonathanODea @Iwerzon @Muinchille A. Weir and J. Jerman, lmages of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches (London, 1986); S. Cherry, A Guide to Sheela-na-gigs (Dublin, 1992); C. E. Karkov,'Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland', in From lreland Coming ...
Hardcover, 2016
$230.00$205.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator / eEd. With Notices of his Life and Times by W.J. Fitzpatrick: 1
Daniel O'ConnellDr Anne Marie D'Arcy@MarcPColeman @Muinchille The very common misattribution of the horsey jibe to Wellington owes a great deal to Sigmund Freud, ‘Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious’, Complete Psychological Works, VIII, 1-247 ( 71). In this context, Freud ascribes what was actually Daniel O’Connell’s jibe that ...
Paperback, 2022
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