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Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change
In the last hundred years, Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. Professor Eavan Boland discusses how these changes have come to be reflected or resisted in Irish poetry and whether the identity of the Irish poet has shifted with society.
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Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System
Karinna Fernández and edited by Cristian Peña and Sebastián Smart
This book reflects on the relationship between Chile and the Inter-American Human Rights System, focusing on an interdisciplinary and detailed examination of the consequences of recent cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Chilean state. These cases illustrate central challenges in the areas of LGBTI+ rights, as well as shedding light on torture and indigenous rights in Chile and the Americas as a whole