The silence of Barbara Synge

The silence of Barbara Synge'The silence of Barbara Synge' provides a fascinating companion volume to Bill McCormack's acclaimed 'Fool of the family' (2000), a biography of the playwright J. M. Synge (1871 1909). Taking the alledged death of Mrs John Hatch (ne Synge) in 1767 as a focal point, this book explores the varied strands of the Synge family tree in eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland. Key events in the family's history are carefully documented, including a suicide

takes stock of the postal reform movement in Europe and internationally

'Jack Maggs' and 'True History of the Kelly Gang'

and popular dramatic tropes

Gabriele Griffin argues that the explosion of HIV/AIDS into highly visible cultural forms

created urban violence and caused an increase in riots in the Mediterranean city

Evaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change

Topics include questions of memory and identity

This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England

Private Equity’ explores the deal making and investment strategies of private equity investors with an analytical framework that focuses on value-add

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Investigating a series of cutting-edge acoustic experiments in twentieth-century Britain

from the Ancient Greeks to contemporary auto-fiction