The spirits of the dead return in many shapes and in many locations in Ireland. There are the wraith-like ghosts and the full-bodied type, the dangerous and damaging, the threatening and the merely frightening. There are notorious buildings where down through the centuries spectres have been seen or heard, some, such as Leap Castle, where psychics have been overwhelmed by the intensity of the atmosphere. There are families pursued by spirits who warn them of impending death or seem to be t...

From the origins of this hero of Irish lore to his habits, occupations and characteristics. This book offers enlightenment on little-known aspects of the wider fairy world, as well as turning the spotlight on the real leprechaun.Every country has its own myths about fairies and 'wee folk', but the Irish leprechaun is the undisputed king. To some, he is an impish figure full of harmless mischief, forever guarding his elusive crock of gold. To others, he is an evil gnome bent on disr...

Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley’s vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett’s Charge and subsequently captured.As it happens, the 1945 ed...

How a key period in American Catholic history connects with contemporary populismCatholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery.Catholics, t...

In this follow-up volume to For Church and Confederacy: The Lynches of South Carolina, Robert Emmett Curran extends his corpus of work on the history of Catholicism in the South through the eyes of the Lynch family of South Carolina. An Irish American family who sympathized with the Confederacy, the Lynches rose to prominence economically and in religious leadership during the late 1800s. Curran’s latest volume features a collection of personal correspondence from Lynch family mem...

Robert Emmett Curran’s masterful treatment of American Catholicism in the Civil War era is the first comprehensive history of Roman Catholics in the North and South before, during, and after the war. Curran provides an in-depth look at how the momentous developments of these decades affected the entire Catholic community, including Black and indigenous Americans. He also explores the ways that Catholics contributed to the reshaping of a nation that was testing the fundamental proposition o...

By Anna Katharine GreenNarrated by Robert CurranA plan for a daring robbery is hatched between a professional criminal and an unscrupulous office manager. One person in particular has to be drawn into this nefarious scheme -the business owner's personal assistant, the young and attractive Grace Lee. Will she have the pluck and resourcefulness to deal effectively with this perilous situation?

Observations on the new American republic by an early president of Georgetown UniversityFather Giovanni Antonio Grassi was the ninth president of Georgetown University and pioneered its transition into a modern institution, earning him the moniker Georgetown’s Second Founder. Originally published in Italian in 1818 and translated here into English for the first time, his News on the Present Condition of the Republic of the United States of North America re...

Sin and Sorrow are Common to AllA Drama in Four ActsBy Alexander OstrovskyTranslated by George Rapall NoyesA central theme of Ostrovsky's plays is the inevitablestruggle between the demands of personal moralityand and those dictated by social propriety.In this grim drama the dramatist sketches a tragic incidentarising from the conflict of two social classes, the pettytradesmen and the nobility. From the coarse environment...

Your teenager just told you to retake your driving test. Not about your actual driving—about how you navigate your relationship with them. They can now choose not to engage, not to share what's happening in their life, to simply withdraw. This is the ultimate test of parenting. We're in crisis. Teenage mental health is at epidemic levels. Technology hasn't created this crisis— it's exposed what was already broken. After 25 years living in families' homes, Jenny Roberts reveals the truth: n...

Professor Brian V. Johnstone, CSsR, has been quietly and unobtrusively contributing to the intellectual life of Catholicism, especially in the field of moral theology, for nearly four decades. Having published numerous theological articles on many topics, including biomedical ethics, peace and war, and fundamental moral theology, and directed many doctoral dissertations, it is no exaggeration to say that he has dedicated his entire life to teaching and writing theology. In honor of Johnsto...

A ten-year inquiry into America's education system-by a lifelong educator determined to find solutions.After more than 30 years as a high school teacher and librarian, Dr. Jean A. Curran turned her post-retirement years into a mission: to uncover why American education continues to struggle and how we can fix it. Curran spent nearly a decade examining education through the lenses of technology, pedagogy, and policy.The Sandbox Solution: Pathways to Education Reform blends r...