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Death and dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe : historical perspectives / edited by James Kelly, Mary Ann Lyons.
- Title
- Death and dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe : historical perspectives / edited by James Kelly, Mary Ann Lyons.
- Publication
- Co. Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GT3247.5.A2 D438 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 378 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Attitude to Death
- Attitude to Death > Great Britain
- Attitude to Death > Ireland
- Death > Europe > History
- Death > Great Britain > History
- Death > Ireland > History
- Europe
- Europe
- Funeral Rites
- Funeral Rites > history
- Funeral Rites > history > Great Britain
- Funeral Rites > history > Ireland
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Europe
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Great Britain
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > Ireland
- Ireland
- Ireland
- Thanatology
- Thanatology > Great Britain
- Thanatology > Ireland
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Engaging with prehistoric life and death : the changing relationship of the living and dead over the course of Irish prehistory / Gabriel Cooney -- Burial in early medieval Ireland : politics and religion / Elizabeth O'Brien and Edel Bhreathnach -- Cromwell and Plunkett : two early modern heads called Oliver / Sarah Tarlow -- The last gasp : death and the family in early modern London / Vanessa Harding -- Suicide in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly -- Rethinking death in the year II : the dechristianization of death in revolutionary France / Joseph Clarke -- Forgetting to remember Orr : death and ambiguous remembrance in modern Ireland / Guy Beiner -- Varieties of Irish famine death / Cormac Ó Gráda -- Suicide statistics as moral statistics : suicide, sociology, and the state / David Lederer -- Death notices and obituaries in provincial Irish newspapers, 1820-1900 / Ciara Breathnach and David Butler -- Wandering graveyards, jumping churches, and rogue corpses : tolerance and intolerance in Irish folklore / Clodagh Tait -- Dying, death, and hunger strike : Cork and Brixton, 1920 / William Murphy -- Problematic kiling during the War of Independence and its aftermath : civilian spies and informers / Eunan O'Halpin -- The mutations of martyrdom in Britain and Ireland, c. 1850-2005 / John Wolffe.
- ISBN
- 9780716531913 (paper)
- 0716531917 (paper)
- 9780716531883
- 0716531887
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library