Books by John O'Hagan

Over the past 20 years, the economy of Ireland has experienced a Celtic Tiger boom, a recession, a recovery and a global pandemic - all whilst dealing with the realities of Brexit. In order to fully understand these occurrences and their implications, The Economy of Ireland (14th... edition) takes a holistic examination of the main features, performance and associated policy issues of the Irish Economy. The textbook begins by introducing the economic foundations of Ireland, considering the evolution of the Irish economy over time; the policy priorities for a small regional economy in the eurozone; the role of the state in policy making at national and international levels; taxation and regulatory policy; and the challenge of sustainable development. This provides a framework for analysing policy issues at a national level, including the Irish labour market and migration, inequality and poverty, and the care economy - examined both over time and relative to international experiences. Finally, the book considers issues at a sectoral level, from agriculture and trade to education and health sectors. Packed with the latest available data, contemporary examples and references, as well as discussion and analysis of current topical issues, this is an ideal text for students studying modules on Irish Economics and anyone with a general interest in the history and development of the Irish Economy.
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In the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned from a military expedition into Spain, whither he had been led by opportunities offered through dissensions among the Saracens who then dominated that country. On the 15th of August, while his army was marching... through the passes of the Pyrenees, his rear-guard was attacked and annihilated by the Basque inhabitants of the mountains, in the valley of Roncesvaux. About this disaster many popular songs, it is supposed, soon sprang up; and the chief hero whom they celebrated was Hrodland, or Roland, Count of the Marches of Brittany. By the latter part of the eleventh century, when the form of The Song of Roland which we now possess was probably composed, the historical germ of the story had almost disappeared under the mass of legendary accretion. Charlemagne, who was a man of thirty-six at the time of the actual Roncesvaux incident, has become in the poem an old man with a flowing white beard, credited with endless conquests; the Basques have disappeared, and the Saracens have taken their place; the defeat is accounted for by the invention of the treachery of Ganelon; the expedition of 777-778 has become a campaign of seven years; Roland is made the nephew of Charlemagne, leader of the twelve peers, and is provided with a faithful friend Oliver, and betrothed, Alda. Simple almost of bareness in style, without subtlety or high imagination, The Song of Roland is yet not without grandeur; and its patriotic ardor gives it a place as the earliest of the truly national poems of the modern world. This edition follows the translation of John O'Hagan and is printed on premium acid-free paper.
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Translator names not noted above: Eirikr Magnusson, William Morris, and Whitley Stokes. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name Harvard Classics, this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythol...ogy-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XLIX features the earliest works of European literature, epic heroic poems of kings and dragon slayers that created the foundations of much of the literature and popular entertainment that came in the centuries after: [ the Old English Beowulf, the best-known work of Anglo-Saxon tradition [ The Song of Roland, the oldest surviving work from medieval France [ The Destruction of D Derga's Hostel, from Old Irish mythology [ The Story of the Volsungs, from the Icelandic sagas [ Niblungs, from Germanic tradition.
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In this book, cultural participation is analyzed as a substantial aspect of European citizenship, but also as a tool for improving individual and societal wellbeing through educational and inclusive policies. It offers an up-to-date overview of ongoing research on the measurement..., analysis and prospects of traditional and new forms of cultural engagement in Europe. It describes and assesses available methods and cultural participation and seeks to determine how and how much the various drivers, policies and barriers matter. This publication is the final output of the work done by the members of the EU project Assessing effective tools to enhance cultural participation, which brought together social scientists and cultural practitioners in joint projects, conferences and seminars, to reflect on the current situation and the challenges faced by managers of cultural institutions and cultural policy makers. The project was awarded a European Union Grant by the CULTURE 2007-2013 program.
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