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  • The Mapping of an Ideological Demesne (Under Review at Harvard UP): The massive proliferation, from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, of technologies for measuring, projecting, and organizing geographical and social space produced in the European cultural imaginary an intense and widespread interest in visualizing this world and alternative worlds.

    a positive and generative potential in the experience of getting lost. intertribal 2010

  • The Mapping of an Ideological Demesne (Under Review at Harvard UP): The massive proliferation, from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, of technologies for measuring, projecting, and organizing geographical and social space produced in the European cultural imaginary an intense and widespread interest in visualizing this world and alternative worlds.

    intertribal: a positive and generative potential in the experience of getting lost. intertribal 2010

  • Only the leaders o 'each Demesne be here, and all be on honor to provoke naught.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • If I was back at the Demesne, I'd run the Red Ensign up the Castle flagpole!

    I remember this flag, and those who served under it 2007

  • Demesne situate in the townland of Rosenallis, barony of Tinnahinch.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Only the leaders o 'each Demesne be here, and all be on honor to provoke naught.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • "Make of this, the Red Demesne, a holocaust, a wreck obscene."

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Demesne lands and other lands, purchase of which would interfere with the value of adjoining property, are omitted from the scope of the statute, and its operation is limited to the case of 2,000 tenants, whose claims must be disposed of within four years.

    Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

  • Demesne situate in the townland of Rosenallis, barony of Tinnahinch.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • I'll ask it -- 'Why am dis room like de Enniscar Demesne?'

    All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

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