Author: John B. CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A History of Castle Caldwell and Its Families
Author: John B. CunninghamA History of Castle Caldwell and Its Families
Author: John B. CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh
Author: Mervyn Austen BusteedPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Caldwells were originally a Scottish episcopalian family who settled in the Enniskillen area during the early seventeenth-century Ulster Plantation. Later in the century they bought a somewhat isolated estate centred on the western and northern shores of Lower Lough Erne, renaming the dwelling house Castle Caldwell. Their remarkably comprehensive family archives demonstrate the sometimes contradictory political and economic forces bearing down on such Anglo-Irish families during the second half of the eighteenth century. Sir James, the fourth baronet, was the most energetic and active member of the family. He was simultaneously a loyal upholder of the British connection, the Protestant constitution and the rights of the Irish parliament. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with leading figures in the cultural and political life of the time, including Dr Samuel Johnson, David Garrick and Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder. As an enlightened 'improving' landlord he championed schemes for Irish economic development and, despite the difficult physical environment on his estate, he energetically experimented with tree planting, with flax cultivation, linen manufacture, crop rotations and selective livestock breeding. Issues underpinning the Protestant Ascendancy.
The History of the Corry Family of Castlecoole
Author: Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry Earl of BelmorePublisher:
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Category : Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Ballyshannon: its history and antiquities
Author: Hugh AllinghamA New History of Ireland: Ireland under the Union, II, 1870-1921
Author: Daibhi O. CroininPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019821751X
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1017
Book Description
A New Anatomy of Ireland
Author: Toby Christopher BarnardPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300101140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-17th and the late-18th centuries? Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this formative period.
A New History of Ireland, Volume VI
Author: W. E. VaughanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191574589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1017
Book Description
A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume VI opens with a character study of the period, followed by ten chapters of narrative history, and a study of Ireland in 1914. It includes further chapters on the economy, literature, the Irish language, music, arts, education, administration and the public service, and emigration.
Oscar Wilde's Enniskillen
Author: When Scotland Was Jewish
Author: Elizabeth Caldwell HirschmanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.