TY - BOOK AU - Dukelow,Fiona AU - O'Donovan,Orla TI - Mobilising Classics: Reading Radical Writing in Ireland SN - 9780719095016 AV - PR478.R33.M63 2010 U1 - 303.48399999999998 PY - 2010/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Literature and society--Ireland--History KW - Electronic books N1 - MOBILISING CLASSICS: Reading radical writing in Ireland -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Orla O'Donovan and Fiona Dukelow -- 1. Thomas Paine's: The Rights of Man: Bernadette McAliskey -- 2. William Thompson's: Practical Education for the South of Ireland: Eileen O'Carroll -- 3. James Connolly's: Labour in Irish History: Fintan Lane -- 4. Robert Tressell's: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Rosie Meade -- 5. Simone de Beauvoir's: The Second Sex: Fiona Dukelow -- 6. Thomas Szasz's: The Myth of Mental Illness: Orla McDonnell -- 7. Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton's: Black Power: The Politics of Liberation: Robbie McVeigh -- 8. Paulo Freire's: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Mark Garavan -- 9. Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality: Orla O'Donovan -- 10. Adrienne Rich's: On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: Tina O'Toole -- 11. The Brundtland Committee's: Our Common Future: Hilary Tovey -- Concluding remarks: Fiona Dukelow and Orla O'Donovan -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Revisiting classic texts by writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Connolly and Paulo Freire, this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4704961 ER -