Pru irvine biography books
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BEST, Richard Irvine (1872–1959)
Ag 3 Sráid Bishop, Doire, a rugadh é ar 17 Eanáir 1872. Henry Best, oifigeach máil a bhí ag obair in Paisley na hAlban ag an am a athair. Margaret Jane Irvine a mháthair. I ndiaidh scolaíochta i gColáiste Foyle fuair sé post cléirigh i mbanc i Londain. Tá sé spéisiúil gur chuir iar-phríomhoide Choláiste Foyle, Maurice C. Hime, meamram faoi bhráid an Choimisiúin um Oideachas Meánach a thacaigh go láidir le teagasc na Gaeilge sna meánscoileanna (i gcló in An Claidheamh Soluis 26 Bealtaine 1900). Seans gurbh é Hime a spreag spéis Best i léann na teanga Gaeilge an chéad lá. Ach i gceann tamaill fuair sé le huacht beagán airgid a lig dó dul go Páras. I bPáras thug J. M. Synge é chun léachtanna d’Arbois de Jubainville i dtaobh na Sean-Ghaeilge. D’aistrigh sé leabhar an scoláire sin, Le cycle mythologique Irlandais et la mythologie Celtique, go Béarla in 1903 (bhí sé á shrathú san United Irishman sular foilsíodh mar leabhar é). Ar ais i mBaile Átha C
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Biography
My research interests span environmental anthropology and the antropologi of tro, and inom carry out fieldwork in the UK and Mongolia.
In my recent projects inom have examined land use change, energy transitions, and the way that people learn about (and evade) environmental fara. Out of this has grown an interest in the disjuncture between human rhythms and the deep time of geological processes, which inom explore in my book An antropologi of Deep Time (Cambridge University Press, 2020). At what temporal resolution should we view human activity? In beställning to understand the processes of change that shape the landforms under our feet and the resources upon which we depend, we need to think beyond the short-term time-horizons of rapid economic transactions and electoral cycles – the days, months, and years of biographical time. Yet, if we attempt to place human activity against the backdrop of the vast and gradual time-scale of Earth’s geological history, the temporal span
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Dear Olivia
In this fascinating follow-up to the highly successful Dear Francesca, Mary Contini writes to her other daughter, Olivia, to tell the story of her great-grandparents, the humble Italian shepherds who emigrated to Edinburgh and then helped to transform Britain’s food culture. Sharing some of the recipes that they brought over, the tomatoes, the garlic, the sausage, the wine, this is a mouthwatering memoir of family and food. It is also a brilliant evocation of life between the wars, a triumphant story of survival against all the odds, that captures the sights and smells of Italian life and culture, at home and abroad.
“A charming story … she unravels the family history like a precious thread. Contini’s writing has a naturalness and honesty about it that brings a lump to the throat on occasion.”
sunday Herald
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“A happy blend of epistle, storytelling, memoir.”
the Times
“Refreshingly down to earth, the book is eminently readable.”
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