Wearing of the Green compound a war which transformed Poland

a war which transformed Poland into a nation

This completely updated and revised edition summarises recent practice

linguistic semantics

Kitcher shows that current accounts of the self-ascription of belief have great trouble in explaining the case where subjects know their reasons for the belief

Wearing of the Green compound a war which transformed PolandThe full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green. Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, through its turbulent and troubled times when it acted as fuel for fierce political argument, and tells the fascinating story of how the celebration of 17th March was transformed from a stuffy dinner for Ireland's elite to one of the world's most public