“... 18th-century Ireland, which has been studied and traced geographically in recent works by Louis Cullen and Kevin Whelan. Had Mac Donagh looked to their work, he would have seen that O’Connell’s political support was always strongest in those parts of the south and east of the country where a renewed Catholicism, under firm secular control, had been in ...”

“... whether that referred to the buffalo or the Indian. Mitchell deals with William Cullen Bryant, Frederick Lee Olmsted (concerned with the creation of Central Park), John Muir (Yosemite), Thomas Cole (it is a ‘question of vast importance how far it is practicable to restore the garden we have wasted’), Lyman Draper (‘delving and ...”

“... countries, still making up their own poems. In his ‘Lecture on the Uses of Poetry’, William Cullen Bryant, the great American editor and poet, argued, a hundred years before Day Lewis, that poetry might exist as a pattern of thought and invention which works best when resisting the lure of a person’s immediate concerns. ‘One of the great ...”

“... had no children to complicate the relationship.’ In The Mild Murderer (1977), Tom Cullen writes: ‘Belle had not been long married before it became necessary to remove her ovaries … Even if they had adopted a child it might have made a difference, but they appeared set against this course.’ Not ‘they’, surely. Crippen was the one who ...”

“... and the matter is a mere substance design takes its shape in ... According to William Rathje and Cullen Murphy, garbage archaeologists with the University of Arizona’s Garbage Project, garbage ‘refers technically to “wet” discards – food remains, yard waste, and offal’, while trash refers to the ‘dry’ stuff – ‘newspapers, boxes, cans, and ...”

“... and, rather incongruously, on the role of the potato in Irish demography (by K.H. Connell and L.M. Cullen). All four are seminal pieces, which have stimulated lively debates and further research. What gives most coherence to this collection, however, is a series of eight articles on popular violence, from the shadowy ‘Houghers’ of the early 18th century to ...”

“... fitment, were refused a place on the ATP steering group. Suspicion, lack of communication and co-operation seem to be the order of the day. This is surely the most significant consequence of the loss of an integrated rail system. Davies’s report will feed into yet another inquiry, to be jointly chaired by Uff and the chairman of the Ladbroke Grove ...”

“... It’s a good time to be a Muslim writing about ‘the trouble with Islam’, to borrow the title of a recent jeremiad by Irshad Manji, a Pakistani-Canadian lesbian feminist. Readers in the West, especially Americans, are eager to know ‘what went wrong with Islam’, as Bernard Lewis delicately puts it, particularly if it can be traced to cultural pathology and envy of ‘our freedom ...”

“... Dublin was at 8 p.m. In the Ithaca episode, Joyce mentions ‘the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main Street, Ennis’, but there is no Main Street in Ennis; the main commercial street, we are told, ‘was called Gaol Street and is now called O’Connell Street’. Ithaca also has a Michael Gallagher living in ‘Enniscorthy, ...”

“... add-ons, including a chapel worthy of Mussolini, designed by the Dublin architect Thomas Joseph Cullen. These buildings are monuments to what has been called Ireland’s ‘architecture of containment’. Some of them are still in use housing asylum seekers and their children, who are confined and segregated from the communities around them, and from ...”