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Mobilising Classics : Reading Radical Writing in Ireland.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (228 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780719095016
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mobilising ClassicsDDC classification:
  • 303.48399999999998
LOC classification:
  • PR478.R33.M63 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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