The lure of Greece
Subtitle: Irish involvement in Greek culture, literature, history and politics
By: editors: John Victor Luce, Christine Morris, Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood
Contributors: Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens
Publisher: Hinds
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780952823667
Subjects: Greek literature; Appreciation; Congresses; Greek Art; English literature; Irish authors; Greek influences
Notes: "A selection of papers presented at a Conference organised by the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens, and held in the National University of Ireland, Galway, 19-21 September 2003." -- t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sir Richard Church and the Irish Philhellenes in the Greek War of Independence / Patrick Comerford; title: Rev. Basil Zula and the Thermopylae Garden at Kilwarlin Co. Down / Jo Day; title: K.T. Frost and the Archaeological Musuem at The Queen's University of Belfast / William M. Dunlop; title: Aeschylus, the Blaskets and Marxism : interconnecting influences on the writings of George Thomson / Peter Gathercole; title: A gentle luxury / Aideen M. Ireland; title: Robert Wood and Homer / John V. Luce; title: Drawings of Rome and Tivoli in 1750 by Giovanni Battista Borra / Michael McCarthy; title: How to become Higher Commander of the Order of the Phoenix : the academic career of W.B. Stanford, Philhellene / Brian McGing; title: An ardent lover of Cretan freedom : J.D. Bourchier, 1850-1920 / Christine Morris; title: Oscar Wilde and Greece / Patrick Sammon; title: Two Dublin classicists : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) and Henry Browne (1853-1941) / Andrew Smith; title: Henry Browne, Greek archaeology and "The Museum of Ancient History", University College Dublin / Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood; title: Abstracts of two papers presented at the Conference bur published elsewhere: Inscriptions do furnish a castle - Sir George Cockburn's collection / Raymond Astbury; title: Greek revival architecture in Dublin / J.A. Richmond.