Fintan Vallely

This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music, song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred mai

Offers a look at the attitudes of Protestant performers to Traditional music in Northern Ireland. This work reflects on Protestant community views of

Fintan O'Toole's history of Ireland in his own time. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during the decades since O'Toole's birth in 1958, a

A handy and stylish pocket guide to Rioja. The Smart Traveller’s Wine Guide is new series of elegant travel guides for the wine-interested traveller a

A historical and contemporary discussion of the enterprise of philanthropy from eminent writer and journalist Paul Vallely.

'An exhaustive look at the newest pope ... a highly worthwhile resource for Catholics and non-Catholics alike.' - Kirkus '...a superb guide into on

On a dark January night in 1914, Glasgow's iconic Kibble Palace at the Botanic Gardens became the target of a bomb attack which shattered 27 large pan

Four men in a rowboat make an historic attempt on the Northwest Passage to focus global attention on an environmental catastrophe.

Explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi Svetambar Jain ascetic community, and examines the central role asceti

The first comprehensive field guide to the birds of Central AmericaBirds of Central America is the first comprehensive field guide to the avifauna of

This book examines the surge of queer performance produced across Ireland since the first stirrings of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, up to the pa

Using recently released archival material from the US and Japan, this book critically re-examines US–Japanese relations during the tenure of Sato Eisa

A comprehensive anthology of sources and documents relating to the history and development of visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present d