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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The Irish Renaissance in the early 20th century was a remarkable period for arts, literature, and culture—and it sprang out of the legendary history of the nation. To help us understand this pivotal period, Professor Conner traces the course of Irish history starting with the ancient Celts and running through the Middle Ages.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Despite the breakup of the Soviet Union, NATO continued to exist, and began admitting newly liberated Eastern European countries into the organization. Reflect on Eastern Europe’s place in the western world and what joining NATO and the European Union means for the region. You’ll also explore Russia’s role in the post-Soviet world..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Step back in time with America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Over six innovative decades marked by economic, political, social, and technological upheavals, the U.S. went from an agrarian, isolationist country to the greatest industrial power and a nascent geopolitical superpower. Meet inventors, conservationists, robber barons, civil rights activists, and industrialists, who together forged a new nation..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The combined nation of Poland and Lithuania was a powerful force in the 18th century—and its dissolution is one of the great crimes of the modern era. Civil strife provided the pretext for neighboring empires to swoop in and annex the nation. Consider the results of this partition and the political problem that would plague the region for the next century..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The beginnings of the end of Eastern European communism came with the firing of a shipyard worker in Gdansk, which led to a workers uprising and the founding of the Solidarity political movement. Dive into these exciting events, from rebellion to state crackdown, and meet some of the key players who altered the course of history..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Many political and cultural events sent shockwaves through the Irish world in the 19th and early 20th centuries as Ireland gradually shook off the shackles of British rule. Alongside a long and painful political process arose one of the greatest flourishings of literature in modern times. The Irish Revival that occurred around the turn of the 20th century fused and elevated aesthetic and civic ambitions, fueling a cultural climate of masterful artistic...
87) Corporate Vegas
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
The 1990s brought about changes to Vegas where corporations and large businesses transformed Vegas to the city we know today..
88) Patrick Kavanagh
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The Irish Renaissance had largely succeeded in bringing folk life to the center of cultural consciousness by the 1930s. At that time, the poet Patrick Kavanagh—hailing from the rural farmland—emerged with a critique of the sentimentality and nostalgia of Yeats’s generation. Explore how the next wave of poets carved out their own views of Ireland.
89) Shaw and Wilde
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Irish playwrights faced a conundrum in the 19th century: they could write in Irish and remain relatively obscure, or they could find success by adopting English, the language of the conqueror. Examine how George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde navigated their Irish identity on the London stage. Professor Conner provides political and artistic context to their major works.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The Playboy of the Western World is now regarded as a classic of Modernism and one of Ireland’s defining plays, but when it premiered in 1907, it shocked Dublin and inspired riots. See what made this play so controversial to its original audience—and why the play is a truly great work of art.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Trace the origins of the conservation movement in the 19th century, and its early initiatives to establish federal protection of wilderness in the face of staunch opposition from commercial interests. Grasp the astonishing conservation record of President Theodore Roosevelt, whose efforts created a wide spectrum of national parks, wildlife preserves, and national forests..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
One of the most famous people in Ireland’s struggle for independence is Daniel O’Connell, a 19th-century politician who led the charge for Catholic emancipation as well as the effort to repeal Britain’s Act of Union. Learn about his activism, and then see how the Great Famine completely devastated the nation.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Discover how African Americans fought racism and violence in the early 20th century. Study the system of white supremacy called Jim Crow, and its economic, social, and political oppression. Review significant civil rights activism and legal victories that laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s..
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Shift your attention back to the political sphere where, after the defeat of Parnell’s Home Rule Bill, rebellious organizers began pushing for reforms of their own. Dig into the events surrounding the Dublin lockout, including the Bloody Sunday massacre, and then consider Ireland’s role in World War I.
Publisher
Media Rich
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of startling contrasts. World War I was over. Women got the right to vote, they cut their hair, and their skirts. Alcohol was outlawed and speakeasies and bootlegging filled the void. Babe Ruth was king of the ballpark while Charles Lindbergh ruled the air. It was a period of great economic growth and social transformation, nestled between a Great War and a Great Depression..
Publisher
Media Rich
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Communists and capitalists united in World War II to defeat the Axis powers. But following victory in 1945 the allies became adversaries. The world’s two great superpowers—the United States and Soviet Union—locked in a dramatic showdown over ideology, vision and freedom that would persist for five decades. Under the omnipresent threat of nuclear holocaust, the Cold War became the defining conflict of the twentieth century. The second of two...
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"A real gem, fusing interviews, analysis and some terrific animation into an intriguing whole that plays like an intelligent thriller. " - Variety..Nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the 2012 Goyas, this is the unbelievable story of Manuel Cortes, the ‘mole of Mijas’. When the Spanish civil war ended and the borders closed, hundreds of people were forced to go into hiding to escape Franco’s repression. They lived for decades, hidden...
100) The Abbey Theatre
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Lady Gregory, Yeats, and others recognized the need for a national Irish theater. Witness the founding of this great project in 1897, and meet some of the Abbey Theatre’s early playwrights. Professor Conner connects this beacon of Irish cultural heritage to the changing political landscape of the early 20th century.
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