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![Front cover image of Words and Music in Irish Literature edited by Antonio Raúl de Toro Santos]()
Available 8 March 2019
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Music and literature have always been closely connected in Ireland – to an extent perhaps unknown in other western European literatures.
![Forever in Galicia]()
Forever in Galicia is the most extensive account of Galician identity ever written, an idiosyncratic text that spans and erodes the traditional genres of memoir, political treatise, historical essay and revisionist analysis.
![The Power of the Smile – Book Cover]()
This book explores the complex relationship between the smile and the laugh and traces its historical development in Spanish life and culture. The first chapter examines smiles and laughs as they occur in everyday life, taking Galician irony or retranca, and the sarcasm or guasa of Madrid and Seville, as characteristic forms of the smile and the laugh respectively.
