Angeline Kearns Blain: 2 books

Funny, sad and harsh, with the bitter ring of truth, this extraordinary memoir of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s recreates a forgotten community.Girls steal sunlight from the day . . . so she was told by the men of her neighbourhood. Growing up in a south Dublin slum, she observed with the...

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a result of the discipline’s tendency to idealize society in an attempt to legitimize the idea of progressive social change....