One of the major undertakings of the seventeenth-century Church of Ireland is the translation into Irish, and the publication, of the whole Bible. This chapter examines the entangling of translation, poetry, autobiography and other literary genres in Dublin in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It discusses two translated works: Lodowick Bryskett's A discourse of civil life taken largely from the Italian of Giraldi Cinzio and the Bible in Irish, a good part of which was translated under the aegis of William Bedell. The New Testament had been in print since 1602, and Bedell's commissioning of a translation of the Psalms for the Chapel of Trinity occurred soon after his arrival as Provost in 1627. The chapter shows how closely translation is connected to the centres of government and power, whether in Dublin, London or Venice.

Experiences of tragic loss and overwhelming trauma divide our lives into what went before and what came thereafter. The paradigm of loss and trauma, of altered views of oneself, others and the world, of the crisis of adjustment, can be found in the struggles of Northern Ireland in the wake of the Troubles. To tragic loss and the distress of traumatic events is coupled the crisis of how to cope with or survive this deeply unfamiliar landscape, where friendship, faith and other consolations fail us. Entering into the existential crisis and its intolerable consequences is the erosion of well-being and mental health presented in psychological problems, mental health disorders, substance misuse, addictions and wider family and social problems. The capacity of individuals, families and communities to adjust and recover, to regain well-being and build resilience to face future stressors, can be significantly impaired.

By the end of the 2010s, Sinn Féin was by far the strongest republican voice was rapidly building a stronger base in the Republic of Ireland where it had become the third largest party in the Dáil. But, the structures of the Peace Process and the Stormont Assembly meant that it was no further to significantly challenging of the political status quo in Northern Ireland. The vote for Brexit, based as it was on a binary notion of British sovereignty that had been fudged by the Good Friday Agreement, changed that. The nature of Britain’s exiting of the European Union had massive ramifications of the Irish border. With a majority of people in Northern Ireland voting to remain (with 85% of the nationalist population doing so), the unionist veto over the wishes of the wider population came under deeper scrutiny. For Sinn Féin, which had been a long-term critic of the EU, this provided an opportunity putting the border back on the agenda. For dissidents, they found themselves in the unlikely position of sharing the same political standpoint as Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, and, allegedly, the Queen.

Playboy has claimed the honour of having been the first American magazine to publish a Bond story. This chapter considers how Ian Fleming and the Bond novels endorsed Playboy, and how Playboy endorsed Fleming and Bond novels, against the backdrop of James Bond's introduction into American popular culture. Significantly, these acts of endorsement predated the first cycle of Bond films in the 1960s, but soon developed to include Sean Connery's screen incarnation when the film series became popular with cinema audiences worldwide. In the early 1960s though, it is significant that Playboy favoured Fleming as much as Bond, and the author of the Bond thrillers was presented as a literary celebrity and pen friend of Playboy until after his death in 1964. From the first Playboy issue, Hugh Hefner regarded literary fiction as important to the upscale concept of his new magazine for men.

While Fourthwrite and the Blanket articulated new emerging strands of republican ideology in opposition to the reforms of Sinn Féin, they made no attempt at entering the political arena in any meaningful way. However, two new groups, largely made-up of disgruntled former Sinn Féin activists, emerged to attempt to counter the narrative of the party. éirígí emerged in 2006 with a dynamic online presence allied to hugely active repertoire of eye catching political stunts and events which mirrored the work of contemporary anti-corporate activists. Its inventive activist media activities, from website to social media, public events to YouTube videos and guerrilla activism saw it cut a swathe that belied its relatively low membership and resource base. Despite this dynamism it failed to attract a membership base big enough to run for office and has since declined in prominence. Republican Network for Unity which also emerged in the late 2000s, sought not primarily centre its activism on media materials specifically but to resurrect a republican tradition of street protest and occupations that pushed the anti-Good Friday Agreement agenda. It also, initially, achieved a public profile that belied its resource base, but which was not sustained.

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores a tension between the hurt body, as an immediate object of vision, and the hurtful body, understood as a much more intriguing, invisible and elusive experience. It argues that the unresolved tension between the visualisation of violence and the experience of pain affects our understanding of human suffering. The study of the hurtful body of the past does not refer to an elusive entity, but to the historical forms of its constituency. When it comes to the study of pain, the real difficulty does not lie in how we can reach the most intriguing and hidden howls of the self. On the contrary, what is really intriguing is how an experience, a primal experience, became a story.

In Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, Roselee Goldberg outlines the development of performance in Western Europe and North America, pointing to its origins in Futurism and Dada in the early years of the twentieth century. This chapter discusses the origins and beginnings of performance art in the former communist countries of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe demonstrating both continuity with, as well as divergence from, the Western model. In the former USSR and its republics, the experimental practices that began to develop after the Thaw in the mid-to-late 1960s were initially confined to painting and sculpture. This is because Stalinism and its control over the arts had a much farther reach here than in other parts of Eastern Europe, both geographically and temporally. Performance art in Poland was perhaps most thoroughly codified by the artistic pair and couple Zofia Kulik and Przemyslaw Kwiek.

This chapter describes the establishment of a trauma-focused approach to the needs of those seeking help with emotional, psychological and mental health problems linked to traumatic experiences of the civil conflict in Northern Ireland. It outlines the development of a therapy service based upon trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). The chapter describes and discusses key issues relating to the origins, principles, aims and challenges of this development. The new Centre's programmes were to deliver trauma therapies, undertake research, train practitioners in trauma-related skills, and support other communities affected by war and conflict. The Centre continually documented its therapy protocols, which had been developed initially in the original Omagh Community Trauma and Recovery Team. In the early years, the therapy programme was managed by the Centre's therapy team leader who coordinated the allocation of the referrals.

On a macroscopic level, the broader geography of book production can give an important sense of the intensity and character of cultural activity in different regions and countries. An interesting fact about some peripheral print cultures is that they imported very large volumes of vernacular material. Printing in Renaissance Ireland was a statedriven activity, sponsored for the sole purpose of furthering Tudor government and the Protestant faith. It is possible to identify various intensities of European publishing activity. There was a tier of publishing nations, which lay on the very fringes of the European book world. These regions, including Portugal, Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, exhibited markedly low levels of production either in Latin or in vernacular languages even when adjusted for the size of their populations. As a result, scholars have been somewhat negative, even dismissive, in their characterisation of the intellectual vitality of these regions.

The encounter between Muslims and the West has never been easy. The present encounter is proving even more difficult than previous confrontations between Europe and its Muslim migrants and refugees. Many of the issues that have detrimental effects on the European-Muslim encounter do not present themselves in relations between Europe and its Jewish minorities. The irony of Islamophobia is that it makes it easy for Muslim minorities to remain culturally and religiously Muslim, just as state- and church-driven anti-Semitism has done for the Jews of Europe. The forms of anti-Semitism witnessed among European Muslims elicit complex cultural, religious and political explanations. Despite Muslim-inspired terrorism and extremist violence across Europe, Bin-Nun bases his findings and conclusions regarding the influx of migrants on his French experience, and identifies it as a touchstone for Western Europe.

This chapter aims to make a small contribution to media studies from a sociological perspective by reflecting on some of the wider contexts and issues relating to the rationale for studies in this field. It describes the changing nature of the media and wider social contexts in which the relationship between the Olympics and media has developed. The chapter looks at the symbiotic relationship which developed and continues to endure between the Olympics and the old media, particularly television. It also describes that the changing social context involved in the growth of new media, together with the potential for the growth of positive relations between the Olympics and the new media. The chapter presents the discussion of the new media's positive possibilities, together also with its negative possibilities, for the Olympics and major sport events.

This chapter explores the enduring myths about the phenomenon of serial murder generally and serial killers in particular, in Britain between 1960 to the present. The Chapter argues that many of these myths have been created and continue to be perpetuated by the print and broadcast media. It is suggested that this process was ignited by American popular culture about serial murder, to the extent that many British students engaged on university courses do so because they want to emulate the heroine of the popular novel The Silence of the Lambs and become the fictional character, Clarice Starling. This observation is used to explore other myths about offender profiling, the role of the profiler in police investigations and the idea that this involves entering the mind of the serial killer by the profiler. Based on his own applied work with serial murderers and on police investigations and after their conviction, the chapter reveals the realities of the phenomenon of serial murder, serial killers and the limits of offender profiling. The chapter uses a number of situations encountered during police investigations and with serial killers to illustrate its arguments. It concludes that we need to harness, rather than dismiss, student interests in this territory in more productive ways. It adopts a structural/victim perspective about serial murder, as opposed to a relentless focus on what might motivate the serial killer to kill. The chapter suggests how this might be done both within the academy and, more broadly in public policy.