In 1967 Fr Walter Forde, an activist in the field of youth welfare work, noted
‘signs of unrest’ amongst Irish youths growing up in the sixties.1 He identified
the ways in which they were ‘being influenced by English ...
Miller, Ian(Cambridge University Press, 2012-10-24)
The activities of Irish medical practitioners in relieving the impact of the Irish Famine (c.1845–52) have been well documented. However, analysis of the function of contemporary medico-scientific ideas relating to food ...
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s first experience of active combat was as a member of the
Lombard Battalion of Volunteer Cyclists and Motorists in the autumn of 1915, when he
fought in the mountains of Trentino at the border ...
The aim of this article is to examine the Futurists’ understanding and interpretation of war noises and sounds before, during and after their First World War combat experiences. Firstly, the article examines the Futurist ...
Daly, Selena(Manchester University Press, 2013-11-30)
The themes of nutrition and digestion fascinated Filippo Tommaso Marinetti for much of his career. The beginnings of this interest can be traced to his pre-Futurist play Le Roi Bombance, published in 1905, in which the ...
Il presente articolo si occuperà di colmare questa lacuna tramite l’esplorazione del rapporto tra i protagonisti dei movimenti: Arrigo Boito e Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. L’analisi sarà incentrata sul periodo pre-futurista ...
McCafferty, John(Embassy of Ireland to the Kingdom of Belgium, 2014-12)
The Irish Franciscan college of St. Anthony at Louvain was granted a bull of foundation by Pope Paul V on 3 April 1607. This small house in what is now Leuven, Belgium, became one of the most intense centres of Irish ...
Flechner, Roy(Université de Bretagne occidentale, 2015-11)
The Gregorian mission to Kent continues to be regarded as the crowning event in the history of the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England and as a spur for the subsequent formation of Anglo-Saxon Christian kingdoms. It also ...