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Cathedrals of Learning

Cathedrals of Learning

Blaise Cronin

Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
2016
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Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe provides a conspectus of the great Western European universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their architectural heritage, and describes the art, literary, and natural history collections they have accumulated over the centuries. This book profiles the ancient universities and their distinctive organizational cultures, reveals their customs, ceremonies, and traditions, their quirks and quiddities, recounts their complicated histories, describes their architectural wonders (libraries, museums, anatomy theaters, botanical gardens) and treasures (rare manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, and objects d’art of all kinds), and introduces their famous alumni, distinguished scholars, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, and famously eccentric personalities. It is a book for scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in these ancient institutions that remain centers of learning in the contemporary world.
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The Fake's Progress

The Fake's Progress

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2018
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Sebastian Conyers emerged from the womb at a time when sex did not exist in Ireland. At age twenty-one he thought that a clitoris was a flower. When he eventually broke his duck, it was with the panache of an inebriated sumo wrestler. Women took an interest in the young professor as he cruised the conference circuit. If pressed, he would have described himself as an accidental philanderer. Others would have been less charitable: an inveterate womanizer, a priapic narcissist. His career took him to the Grubb Business School, where many a feather would be ruffled. Sebastian was cavalier, sardonic and libidinous. His new colleagues were of a different kidney: politically correct, sanctimonious and litigious. The scuzzy semen trail that had begun in Ireland would end in Iowa amid potentially ruinous accusations of sexual harassment, racial insensitivity and misogyny. Would Sebastian's luck hold, or had he finally flown too close to the sun?
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WESTPORTED

WESTPORTED

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2019
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'One of the noblest views in the world...' In rain-splattered, flower-powered Westport you'll hear William Makepeace Thackeray's fulsome words intoned more often than the Rosary. The much-feted town, nestling at the edge of majestic Clew Bay and overlooked by conical Croagh Patrick-that most holy of holy mountains-is as tiny as it is tidy, as cute as it is cosmopolitan. Westport is the Koh-i-Noor in Connaught's crown, a magnet not only for tourists but also writers, artists and musicians from all corners of the globe. Tarry a while and you'll soon be ensorcelled by the friendly banter, cheerily painted houses, music-filled pubs and traditional shop-fronts. It's Ireland, as it ought to be. And it is here, a mere sling shot from the wild Atlantic, that Botox-the needle-propelled elixir of youth, the Finn McCool of facial treatments-is manufactured. One way or another, Westport will get under your skin.
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The Fake's Regress

The Fake's Regress

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2019
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The Fake's Regress is the sequel to The Fake's Progress.Shortly before 9/11, Sebastian Conyers washes up in a remote corner of Ireland. Neither bowed nor chastened, he happy-go-luckily hitches his wagon to an unheard-of technical college with delusional aspirations to make a name for itself in Saudi Arabia. Though, like every Irishman, Sebastian knows the quote `To Hell or Connaught,' he is about to learn that the two are not mutually exclusive. One minute he's engaged to marry a colonel's daughter, the next he finds himself trussed and gagged in a wooden crate destined for clandestine shipment to Riyadh. And all because his alcohol-stained lips grazed those of a young Saudi student. Will this be the final installment in the picaresque life story of Castletownmorris's most libidinous, most narcissistic son?
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The Hand of Science

The Hand of Science

Blaise Cronin

Scarecrow Press
2005
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The collaborative character of science and scholarship, whether formal or informal in nature, is the focus of this discussion by a master of the subject. The world of scholarly communication is evolving with exponential speed. Propelled by the Web and the rapid transition from paper to electronic journals, the scale of the research effort is moving from the individual to research conducted by dozens of scientists scattered all over the globe. These changes evoke many questions: What does it mean to be an author in an age of collective effort? How are responsibility and credit allocated in collaborative endeavors? What is the relationship between reading, referencing and reputation - the political economy of citation? How are social relations inscribed in intellectual space? Will the move to online and open access publishing provide new measures of authorial salience and intellectual impact? Cronin answers these questions as he captures the complex relationship between authorship and the reward system of science.
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The Fake's Excess

The Fake's Excess

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2025
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Gunned down in the name of Allah, Sebastian survives against all odds. In time, he returns to Ireland from Salamanca, scarred and limping, his spirit indomitable. After selling his coastal properties, he establishes an antiques business in Galway, focusing on the material culture of wine. Before you can say kylix backwards, he is dealing not just in antiques, but Greek antiquities sourced from his Good Samaritan friend in Spain, ignorant-willfully or otherwise- of their provenance. As his interactions with the opposite sex devolve into farce, so too does his burgeoning career as an up-market dealer.
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Footie Doggerel

Footie Doggerel

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2021
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A clerihew is a whimsical four-line verse of the form AABB, the first line of which is the name of a famous person. By way of contrast, a Japanese haiku typically comprises three unrhymed lines with seventeen syllables (5,7,5) and evokes the natural world. This personal collection of clerihews and haikus-some daft, some bawdy-has as its exclusive focus the wondrous, whacky world of association football. It would make an ideal (and inexpensive) gift for aficionados of the 'Beautiful Game.'
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Your Newry Bucket List

Your Newry Bucket List

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2024
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Newry is neither a tourist hot spot nor a candidate for Northern Ireland's Best Kept Town, but even so there's something a little bit special about the place. Eventually it will get under your skin. The town has history in spades, some notable buildings, no shortage of pubs and eateries, plenty of cultural and sporting activities-you can find all the basic information in books or online, of course. But even if you've lived here most of your life, I'll wager there are things you don't know, haven't seen or tried to do. Sometimes you simply have to put on your walking shoes, talk to folk, listen, experiment, venture off the beaten track. 'Your Newry Bucket List' is here to set you on your way with seventy suggestions to help you appreciate the town better. So, get to work knocking them out before the Grim Reaper comes a-calling.
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Basil Awoke

Basil Awoke

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2023
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He scratched his scrotum in mindless, metronomic fashion, then drew the plaid curtains to be greeted by fuliginous gloom. When would tourists realize that postcard Ireland existed but one day a month; that in the westerly extremities of the verdant isle the average annual rainfall exceeded damp Dublin's by a factor of two? If you didn't like rain, why on earth would you be living in Slieveport? You'd often hear that from the locals, who gave not a fig whether you deemed it meteorological machismo or masochism. When the global water wars kicked off, wouldn't the perpetually drenched land of saints and scholars be sitting pretty, awash with liquid gold? It'll be for exporting water not Kerrygold that the country will be known in the future, quipped Basil, revealing a rare flash of geo-political nous.
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The Fake's Success

The Fake's Success

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2021
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What better time to launch a life-coaching business than during an economic depression? Such was Sebastian's thinking. Few would have subscribed to the view. Predictably, the wheeze went the way of the Titanic. The west of Ireland wasn't ready for the coaching malarky. But you can't keep a good man down. His follow-up venture was bankrolled by George, long-time friend and supporter. What Rathboffin needed more than anything was a boutique hotel. The Conyers would be a reflection of Sebastian's sprezzatura. He envisaged an oasis of elegant calm for discerning guests, free of hoi polloi. George knew he was taking a risk, but Sebastian really seemed to have learned from his previous mistakes. Although a rigorous business plan underpinned the project, reservations were still warranted. A hotel for Sebastian would be like a theater for Feydeau. The curtain was set to rise, the narcissistic womanizer poised to move center stage. The Fake's Success is the sequel to The Fake's Egress
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The Fake's Distress

The Fake's Distress

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2022
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The death of George Parnell Kingsley came as a shock to Sebastian. He was losing not only a longtime friend but also his financial backer. George held almost all the equity in the business: the popular hotel was Sebastian's in name only. It really did seem that he was dogged by bad luck: first, Rhopos; now The Conyers. He need not have worried. In that peculiarly west of Ireland way, one thing would lead to another. To the surprise of everyone in the world of publishing, an unknown hotelier from Connemara would soon be launching a major new book prize. What kind of award? Worth how much? Who would be on the selection committee? How would jurors' egos be managed? The literati on both sides of the Irish Sea were mightily curious. The next chapter in the picaresque life of Sebastian Conyers was set to begin.
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B-Town Blues

B-Town Blues

Blaise Cronin

Lulu.com
2017
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PRAISE FOR BLOOMINGTON DAYS 'Why did I purchase six copies of Bloomington Days for Chanukah and Christmas presents last year? Blaise Cronin's hilarious yet affectionate words capture the bucolic surrealism of B-town for its happy inhabitants and for those misguided souls only passing through.' Susan D. Gubar, Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Indiana University PRAISE FOR BLOOMINGTON DAYS (Revised edition) 'You could buzz through this volume at a sitting, gorging yourself on the language and the wit, but you'd be advised to ration yourself to one a night, with a glass of something special.' T. D. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Information Management, University of Sheffield, U.K.
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