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European Encounters: Essays in Memory of Albert Lovett

Essays in Memory of Albert Lovett

This volume of essays by members of the Department of History at University College Dublin is dedicated to the memory of their colleague Albert Lovett (1944-2000). The essays provide lively reading on subjects covering a wide range of time and place, reflecting Professor Lovett’s own interests.

432 pages

History: British and Irish History


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Table of Contents

Hugh Gough, Albert Lovett - An Appreciation Howard B. Clarke, 1066, 1169 and All That - The Tyranny of Historical Turning Points Seymour Phillips, The Reputation of a King - Edward II from Chronicle and Written Record to Compact Disc and Internet Edward Coleman, The Lombard League - History and Myth Tadhg hAnnrach in, A Typical Anomaly? The Success of the Irish Counter-Reformation Declan M. Downey, Irish-European Integration - The Legacy of Charles V James McGuire, A Lawyer in Politics - The Career of Sir Richard Nagle c.1636-99 Maurice J. Bric, Ireland and Colonial America - The Viewer and the Viewed David Doyle, Towards Democracy - Irish-Born Elites in Canada and the United States 1820-1920 Ronan Fanning, The Anglo-American Alliance and the Irish Question in the Twentieth Century Jane Toomey, Britain’s Second EEC Application - The Irish Dynamic Elva Johnson, A Sailor on the Seas of Faith - The Individual and the Church in The Voyage of Mael Dain Eamon O’Flaherty, Medical Men and Learned Societies in Ireland, 1680-1785 John McCafferty, "Precedent Covenants" - Daniel Maclise’s Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife and the Writers of Irish history Richard Aldous, Newman’s Dream Realised - Elgar, Gerontius and the Catholic Origins of Modern Englishness David Kerr, "La Revolution Introuvable" - Raymond Aron, May 1968 and Symbolic Violence in the French Revolutionary Tradition Mary E. Daly, Nature and Nationalism in Modern Ireland William Mulligan, The Wehrmacht Exhibition and the Politics of History in Germany Judith Devlin, The City as Symbol - Architecture and Ideology in Post-Soviet Moscow.

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