<p>O'Grady, an American correspondent living in Rome, weaves a compelling narrative that examines the Catholic Church's transformation of the role Rome has long played at the center of Western culture.</p>

Beyond the Empire: The Church in Rome From Constantine

History

O'Grady, Desmond

World

Herder & Herder

<p>Desmond O'Grady has written a history of Rome and the papacy seen through the grid of the twenty-five Jubilees that have occurred since the practice was initiated seven hundred years ago. During each Jubilee Year the Holy See has asserted its centrality, its universal relevance, and responded to various challenges: the Islamic threat, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the loss of the Papal States. The story of the Jubilees is told by means of the following coordinates; the state of the city and of the church at the time, the most memorable episodes, and the reactions of the pilgrims, many of them kings, queens and emperors. These 'liminal', or threshold, moments find the church often at its best and its worst. The final chapter analyzes the announced goals and prospects for Jubilee 2000 and explains how the church hopes to ferry humankind into the third millennium with a new sense of history as a meaningful journey.</p>

Rome Reshaped: Jubilees 1300-2000

Europe

Continuum Intl Pub Group

During the Jubilee Year 2000, the Vatican and the city of Rome will seek to reaffirm their universal relevance to the Catholic Church, and to the world, as they have done for each Holy Year since 1300. The year 2000 is the first Jubilee to coincide with a millennium, and it is expected to inspire the world's largest-ever pilgrimage, bringing some 40 million visitors to Rome. This work studies Jubilees from 1300 to 2000. The first section of the book surveys pilgrimage, the main European focus of which, historically, has been Rome. The second section tells the story of previous Jubilees, and the third section analyzes the prospects of Jubilee 2000.

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Bloomsbury Academic

Raffaello! Raffaello!: A biography of Raffaello Carboni

Hale & Iremonger

A Limerick Rake

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

GALLERY BOOKS

The headgear of the tribe: Selected poems (Gallery books)

Gallery Press

The Battle of Kinsale 1601

Anam Press

Ploughshares Spring 1980 Guest-Edited by Seamus Heaney

FLANAGAN, Thomas

MCGAHERN, John

MULDOON, Paul

Donnelly, Brian

Simmons, James

Cuilleanain, Eilean Ni

KIELY, Benedict

FRIEL, Brian

Ploughshares / Emerson College

Ten Modern Arab Poets, first published in 1992, is a selection of the best of Irish poet Desmond O'Grady's translations from the Arabic. The poets choen include Abu Nuwas of Iraq, Ibrahim Naji of Egypt, Badawi al-Jabal of Syria and Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir of Sudan. "Love is the dominant theme of all Arabic poetry from pre-Islamic times to the present," O'Grady writes in his introduction. "The Arab concept of poets and poetry is essentially romantic, and love in its various forms essentially its theme: love of woman, friend, country, Arab identity, God or his manifestations". O'Grady also provides a short biographical introduction to each poet.

Ten Modern Arab Poets

Dedalus Pr

Among the most admired of Desmond O'Grady's many poetry collections, The Wandering Celt was first published in 2001 and has been unavailable for some years. A work of enormous ambition and scholarship, the book sees O'Grady trace the history and movements of the Celts, from the creation of paper to their continuing influence on contemporary Europe, on the way touching on the Semites, Greeks, Romans and Arabs among others, and including an entire new translation of The Song of Songs.  DESMOND O'GRADY was born in Limerick in 1935 and has travelled extensively, living in Paris and Rome, and in America where he took his M.A. and PhD. in Celtic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Studies at Harvard University. He has also taught at the American University in Cairo and at the University of Alexandria. His most recent books from Dedalus are On My Way (2005) and the reissue of his Ten Modern Arab Poets (2007), first published in 1992. Desmond O'Grady is a member of Aosdána,

The Wandering Celt

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