Author: John O'SheaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Nenagh Minstrelsy: a volume of original poems, songs, and translations, compiled, revised, and published by J. O'Shea
Author: John O'SheaNenagh Minstrelsy: a volume of original poems, songs, and translations, compiled, revised, and published by J. O'Shea
Author: John O'SheaGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A Guide to Irish Fiction, 1650-1900
Author: Rolf LoeberPublisher: Four Courts Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
The Guide to Irish Fiction has led to the identification of hundreds of unknown or forgotten Irish authors and their works, and provides thousands of summaries of novels and anthologies. Carefully documented, the book presents details of the publication of Irish fiction in Ireland, England, North America, Australia, as well as several other European countries. Written for literary scholars and students and for anyone interested in Ireland and its literature, this book also constitutes and essential tool for historians, librarians, collectors of Irish books, and antiquarian booksellers.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870 (50 v.)
Author: 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.
Black '47 and Beyond
Author: Cormac Ó GrádaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla Na Naomh O'Huidhrin
Author: John O'DonovanPublisher:
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Category : Ossory (Kingdom)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Author: Alice MaugerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319652443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status and the emergence of a strong middle class informed interactions between gender, religion, identity and insanity. It questions whether medical and lay explanations of mental illness and its causes, and patient experiences, were influenced by these concepts. The strong emphasis on land and its interconnectedness with notions of class identity and respectability in Ireland lends a particularly interesting dimension. The book interrogates the popular notion that relatives were routinely locked away to be deprived of land or inheritance, querying how often “land grabbing” Irish families really abused the asylum system for their personal economic gain. The book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland and the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland.