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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890
Author: David HamptonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113489905X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Famine Plot
Author: Tim Pat CooganPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1137045175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.
Reading the Irish Woman
Author: Gerardine MeaneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1846318920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Examining an impressive length of Irish cultural history, from 1700–1960, Reading the Irishwoman explores the dynamisms of cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Analyzing the popular and consumer cultures of a variety of eras, it traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies, and aspirations shaped women's lives both in actuality and in imagination. The authors uncover a huge array of different representations that Irish women have been able to identify with, including heroine, patriot, philanthropist, actress, singer, model, and missionary. By studying this diversity of viable roles in the Irish woman's cultural world, the authors point to evidence of women's agency and aspiration that reached far beyond the domestic sphere.
Pioneer Irish of Onondaga
Author: Theresa BannanPublisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
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Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Parnellism and Crime: Mr. Davitt's speech
Author: Maamtrasna
Author: Jarlath WaldronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An Introduction to the Irish Language
Author: William NeilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish language
Languages : ga
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Orthodox Presbyterian
Author: The House in Clewe Street
Author: Mary LavinPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571256198
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This absorbing family saga, first published in 1945, reveals the poignancies of an Irish Catholic upbringing, and is a testimony to Mary Lavin's considerable power as a storyteller. Theodore Coniffe, austere property owner in Castlerampart, looks forward to the birth of an heir when his third and youngest daughter, Lily, marries. A son is born, but the father, Cornelius Galloway, is a spendthrift who dies young, leaving the child to the care of Lily and her sisters, Theresa and Sara. Their love for Gabriel is limited by religious propriety and his youth is both protected and restrained. At the age of twenty-one Gabriel runs away to Dublin with Onny, a kitchen maid. Here they tumble into bohemian life. But Gabriel is ill-suited to this makeshift freedom and finds the values of Clewe Street impossible to evade.