Most full length critical and biographical studies of Flann O’Brien(the nom de plume of Brian O’Nolan an otherwise inoffensive Irish public servant) tend to push aside the leviathan of “Cruiskeen Lawn”a commodious, encyclopedic work of some two million words and focus instead on his novels in English. Dr. Donohue in this important new study considers all of O’Nolan’s work including college writings, letters to the editor(raised to a form of national genius by F O’B.) and works in Irish.

New approaches to the Augustan concept of madness and Swift’s own as well as material on Gulliver’s Travels and other key Swiftian works. Madness and memory in Swift explored in hitherto unpublished material by the author.

“…highly recommended. First rate discussion of crucial Swift themes.”
Professor Robert Mahony, CUA

Few monographs have studied the methodology and rationale of social science observation and field work from the point of view of the observed, the other. Professor Dabulskis-Hunter examines the power relationships and informational deformations that occur during fieldwork and research expeditions in Native America (both Canada and the USA). The negative effects of such knowledge production and the moral quandary of the observed and the exotic are skillfully described.

The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change as been demonized by President Robert Mugabe and his regime as a neo-colonial stooge and traitor. Mr. Tvangirai has been imprisoned by British; white Rhodesian and Zimbabwean authorities in the course of a career marked by non violent protest leadership and de facto recognition as the one person who can save his country from complete collapse and chaotic self destruction.

Studies over the last twenty years show that understanding the social and economic forces that govern society and create vulnerability should have the same emphasis as understanding the physical causes of vulnerability.

Dr.Bongyu’s research work on African States and the African union is well known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional village life.

A major research work, this study examines one of America’s most distinguished Afro-American jurists from the point of view of his legal and philosophical beliefs as practiced from the bench. This monograph is a product of 31 years of research and investigation and includes material derived from interviews with Justice Marshall and his colleagues on the Supreme Court then and now. Justice Clarence Thomas and his role vis a vis the Marshall legacy is also discussed at length.

This volume of the Irish Critical Receptions Series traces the development of the literary reputation of Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and the contemporary reception history of her writings. One of the most widely reviewed and commercially successful authors of her time, until recently Owenson's literary reputation was largely eclipsed by her contemporaries Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott. It has only been in the later decades of the twentieth century that scholars have begun to re-examine Owenson as a pivotal figure in post-Union Irish literature and culture.

The transformation of Western civilization into a planetary society of information and communication compels us to pose some philosophical and political questions about the influence of these new technologies on education. This author, a philosopher, journalist, literary critic, and also a member of the board of Les Temps Modernes, has concluded that Information Science and Internet do represent grave dangers for education, since they rather show us a way of avoiding the teacher and teaching (“how not to teach”) than help teach.

This volume contains over a hundred original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1922 to today.