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BOOKS
A small selection of books which we have in
stock and which may be sold at meetings. They may also be obtained
here
Athol
Books
On Ireland
- Derry and the Boyne
- by Nicholas Plunket. Introduction by Brendan
Clifford
- A contemporary account of the Siege of Derry,
the Battle of the Boyne and the general condition of Ireland
in the Jacobite war. £7.50
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- From Civil Rights to National War - Northern Ireland Catholic politics, 1964-74
- by Pat Walsh
- A description and assessment of political
developments in the Cathoic community in Northern Ireland from
the lemass/O'Neill meetings of the mid-sixties to the fall of
the Sunningdale Executive in 1974. £7.50
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- Ulster Presbyterianism - The historical perspective, 1610-1970
by Peter Brooke
The history of a highly distinctive and intellectually lively
religious tradition which for a long period of time almost formed
a complete political community in its own right. Essential reading
for understanding the problems of Northern Ireland. £10.00
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- On Europe
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- The Crime Against Europe
by Sir Roger Casement
Casement's support for Germany during the First World War has
usually been interpreted as a case of 'England's difficulty is
Ireland's opportunity'. These essays show that Casement had a
well-worked out and sympathetic understanding of European politics
and of Britain's reasons for going to war. They stand in marked
contrast to the wave of pro-British jingoism that afflicted the
mainstream Irish Home Rule movement at the time. £08.00
Hitler and Mussolini
by James Murphy
Essays designed to explain Naziism and Fascism to an English
readership in the 1930s. Explanatory material by Brendan Clifford
discusses the English dimension to Nazi thought and looks at
the rise of antisemitism in Eastern Europe, putting it in the
context of the First World War's work of destroying the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. £08.00
Moabite Sonnets
by Albrecht Haushofer
Haushofer was the son of Karl Haushofer whose theories of 'geopolitics'
greatly influenced Hitler and Rudolf Hess. Although himself a
Jew according to Nazi criteria, he moved in high Nazi circles
largely through the protection of Hess. Implicated in the von
Stauffenberg attempt to assassinate Hitler, he was imprisoned
in the 'Moabite' prison in Berlin and executed shortly before
the arrival of the Russians, who found this extraordinary little
volume of poems clasped in his hand. The German text is given
with an English translation. An introduction by Angela Clifford
discusses the influence on Karl Haushofer, and therefore on Hitler
and Hess, of the geopolitical ideas of Sir Halford Mackinder,
long-term director of the London School of Economics. £10.00
- Slovak Spring
- by Ladislav Novomesky. Translated and
introduced by John Minahane
- Ladislav Novomesky was a fine and sensitive
poet who was also a leading member of the Slovak Communist Party
and a minister in the post war Czechoslovak government. Both
his own work and the introductory essay by John Minahane are
a powerful evocation of the drama through which he lived, of
the conflict between his conscience as a poet and his duty as
a Communist, and between his conscience as a Communist and the
political pressures of the post war period of the purges and
the consolidation of power. £9.00
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Francis Boutle Publishers
Looking at the Mermaid - A Reader in Cornish
Literature, 900-1900
edited by Alan Kent and Tim Saunders
Extensive selections from major works of Cornish literature,
in Cornish (and Latin, Anglo Saxon and French) with English translations.
Includes extracts from the ritual plays, the Ordinalia
(covering the whole scheme of God revealed in the Bible), the
Life of St Meriasek and The Creation of the World.
£15.00
The Awakening - Poems newly found
by Jack Clemo
Previously unpublished work by the great Cornish Christian poet.
£07.95
Trotsky and the origins of Trotskyism
by Alfred Rosmer et al
The French Communist Alfred Rosmer was a close associate of Trotsky's
especially during his years in exile. He was a privileged witness
of the early history of the 'Trotskyist' movement. This volume
gives a selection of contemporary essays by Rosmer and his associate
Boris Souvarine with some modern commentary. It includes Rosmer's
completion of Trotsky's My Life and a critique of the
mainstream Trotskyist movement which, it is suggested, could
more properly be called 'Zinovievist' - the mirror image of the
'Stalinism' it was established to oppose. £10.00
Series: Painting and Its Laws (edited
by Peter Brooke)
Art and Religion, Art and Science, Art
and Production
by Albert Gleizes
A profound reflection on the wider implications of the changes
which occurred in painting in the early twentieth century. Gleizes
argues that they indicate a radical change in the 'state of mind'
the need for which was also being felt in the fields of religion,
science and political economy - 'These are lucid and fascinating
texts and fully deserve this re-publication.' Burlington Magazine
April 2002 £10.00
From Cubism to Classicism and Painting and Its Laws
by Gino Severini and Albert Gleizes, respectively
The Cubist painter Albert Gleizes and the Futurist Gino Severini
reflect on the experience of Cubism and Futurism in the 1920s.
£12.50
The Aesthetic of Beuron
by Desiderius Lenz
A nineteenth century German Benedictine monk anticipates many
of the ideas associated with twentieth-century art the
rejection of naturalism and perspective and an insistence on
'abstract', geometrically based principles for painting.
'Their writings are nothing short of masterly
and, indeed, inspired ... highly recommended, not only for art
historians of Cubism and Futurism, or of the Nabis, or for the
foundation of several streams in twentieth-century art, but also
for philosophers of art and aesthetics, and even for studying
the psychology of why human beings cannot live without art.'
- The Art Book reviewing the Severini, Gleizes and Lenz
books, Sept 2003 £12.00
Other publishers
Sanctions on Iraq
Proceedings of a conference hosted by the Campaign
Against Sanctions on Iraq in Cambridge in 1999. Historical
background with authoritative analyses of the devastating effects
of sanctions on Iraqi society, of the use of depleted uranium,
of the rationale of the British and US governments including
the supposed threat posed by Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction.'
£04.00
The Contention of the Poets
by John Minahane
In the late sixteenth century, when Ireland was suffering a process
of invasion and massacre under the 'Elizabethan plantation',
the bards of Ireland, who still possessed great political influence,
engaged in a poetic debate about the genealogy of the High Kings
of Ireland. Historians have seen this as a classic case of Nero
fiddling while Rome burnt but John Minahane argues that a sophisticated
and important political debate was taking place between those
(largely Franciscans based in Louvain in France) who advocated
outright opposition to the English and to the Reformation, and
those who felt some form of accommodation with the invader was
unavoidable. £05.00
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