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Author: A. P. W. Malcomson Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation ISBN: 9781903688335 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 116
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"Richard Robinson, archbishop of Armagh, 1765-94, remains an inscrutable figure. His primacy has been associated with a new era in Church of Ireland history, characterised by a greater concentration on ecclesiastical as opposed to political affairs, and by an emphasis on building, improvement and regeneration. In the absence of a surviving Robinson archive, and in the face of a personality which seems to have geared itself to giving as little as possible away, it is difficult to confirm or deny this popular assessment. But Dr. Malcomson, who draws in this monograph on new evidence not of Robinson provenance, suggests that a reassessment is necessary. He argues that Robinson was not so much a man who stood above politics as a poor politician, and that he failed to give the Church the political leadership which was required of the primate. Malcomson also questions the actual extent of Robinson's vaunted munificence, the importance of his personal contribution to the building of modern Armagh, and the architectural quality of some of his buildings. The picture which emerges is of a cold, proud and distant figure, conscious of his primatial dignity, jealous of rivalry, and possessive of the material benefits of his situation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: A. P. W. Malcomson Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation ISBN: 9781903688335 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
"Richard Robinson, archbishop of Armagh, 1765-94, remains an inscrutable figure. His primacy has been associated with a new era in Church of Ireland history, characterised by a greater concentration on ecclesiastical as opposed to political affairs, and by an emphasis on building, improvement and regeneration. In the absence of a surviving Robinson archive, and in the face of a personality which seems to have geared itself to giving as little as possible away, it is difficult to confirm or deny this popular assessment. But Dr. Malcomson, who draws in this monograph on new evidence not of Robinson provenance, suggests that a reassessment is necessary. He argues that Robinson was not so much a man who stood above politics as a poor politician, and that he failed to give the Church the political leadership which was required of the primate. Malcomson also questions the actual extent of Robinson's vaunted munificence, the importance of his personal contribution to the building of modern Armagh, and the architectural quality of some of his buildings. The picture which emerges is of a cold, proud and distant figure, conscious of his primatial dignity, jealous of rivalry, and possessive of the material benefits of his situation."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: R. Usher Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230362168 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 423
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This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources.
Author: D. Hayton Publisher: Springer ISBN: 023027496X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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A pioneering exploration of the phenomenon of the composite state in Eighteenth-century Europe. Employing a comparative approach, it combines the findings of new research on Ireland with broader syntheses of major composite states in Europe – those of France, Austria and Poland-Lithuania.
Author: Charles Mollan Publisher: Charles Mollan ISBN: 0860270556 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1892
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Biographies of more than 100 Irish scientists (or those with strong Irish connections), in the disciplines of Chemistry and Physics, including Astronomy, Mathematics etc., describing them in their Irish and international scientific, social, educational and political context. Written in an attractive informal style for the hypothetical 'educated layman' who does not need to have studied science. Well received in Irish and international reviews.
Author: W. H. Crawford Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation ISBN: 9781903688564 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 316
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Bill Crawford had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in this book are testimony to his many spheres of influence - as teacher, archivist, curator, researcher and writer - and focus on the themes in which Bill himself has been most interested: the relations between town and countryside, the linen industry and trade, land and population. His innovative use of historical sources, extensive scholarship, many publications and the enthusiasm for research which he imparts to so many people are acknowledged in this wide-ranging volume.
Author: E. M. Johnston-Liik Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation ISBN: 9781903688601 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 300
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The Irish Parliament met for the first time on June 18, 1264 at Castledermott and for the last time in the Parliament House, Dublin, on August 2, 1800. It had lasted for over 500 years, and from 1707 it was the only parliament in the British Empire with the medieval structure of King (represented by the Lord Lieutenant), Lords and Commons. Like the English/British parliament it only met regularly from the end of the 17th century. In 1692 Ireland had a minimal infrastructure; by 1800 it had become recognisable as the country in whose history and culture there is a continuing and irresistible tide of interest worldwide. Since its publication, "History of the Irish Parliament "has acquired an already legendary status. This companion volume looks at Irish society and the personal concerns which influenced the MPs. This volume will form a valuable reference work in addition and complementary to the "History of the Irish Parliament." The six-volume "History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800" was published in 2002. The online resource is available at www.historyoftheirishparliament.com.
Author: Thomas P. Power Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666758930 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 110
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Higher education was one of the more vital battlegrounds that emerged from the religious conflict of the sixteenth century. On the one hand, education was seen as central in spreading the ideas of the Reformers. On the other hand, the success of the Catholic Reformation emanated from the foundation of seminaries on the Continent. This work explores the denominational division in education with Trinity College Dublin as a case study and with the French Revolution as a backdrop. Because the French Revolution inhibited Catholic educational facilities in Europe, the book explores the extent to which a Protestant institution accommodated Catholic needs domestically. The pattern that emerged in a revolutionary context was to have long-term consequences for higher education in Ireland.
Author: A. P. W. Malcomson Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation ISBN: 9781903688656 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 332
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"The Pursuit of the Heiress" is a new, greatly enlarged and more widely focused version of what the late Lawrence Stone described as "a brilliant long essay or short book on the subject of the role of heiresses among the Irish aristocracy," which was published by the Ulster Historical Foundation under the same title in 1982 and has long been out of print. The new book comes to the same broad conclusions about heiresses--namely that their importance as a means of enlarging the estates or retrieving the fortunes of their husbands has been much exaggerated. This was because known heiresses were well protected by a variety of legal devices and, in common with many aristocratic women of the day, also had minds and strong preferences of their own--which meant that they were not generally an object of deliberate or profitable pursuit. The new book also ranges more widely than its central theme of heiresses and addresses other aspects of aristocratic marriage such as abductions, elopements, mesalliances, the supposed "rise of the affective family," and the disadvantaged situation of even the richest and most privileged women in an age when both adultery and divorce were largely the prerogative of men.
Author: Nicole Pohl Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 104024937X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 411
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Sarah Robinson Scott was a writer, translator and social reformer. While Scott’s legacy presents her as a committed Anglican philanthropist, the letters she wrote reveal her to have been a witty, even savage, commentator on eighteenth-century life.This is the first edition of Scott’s letters to be published and presents all extant copies.
Author: Nigel Aston Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199246831 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 844
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Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely describable (though not without much qualification) as England's ancien regime. Nigel Aston asks where Oxford fitted in to the broader social and cultural picture of the time, locating the University's importance in Church and state, and pondering its place as an institution that upheld religious entitlement in an ever-shifting intellectual world where national and confessional boundaries were under scrutiny. Enlightened Oxford is less an inside history than a consideration of an institutional presence and its place in the life of the country and further afield. While admitting the degree of corporate inertia to be found in the University, there was internal scope for members so inclined to be creative in their teaching, open new research lines, and be unapologetic Whigs rather than unrepentant Tories. For if Oxford was a seat of learning rooted in its past - and with an increasing antiquarian awareness of its inheritance - yet it had a surprising capacity for adaptation, a scope for intellectual and political pluralism that was not incompatible with enlightened values.
Author: A. P. W. Malcomson
Author: A. P. W. Malcomson
Author: R. Usher
Author: D. Hayton
Author: Charles Mollan
Author: W. H. Crawford
Author: E. M. Johnston-Liik
Author: Thomas P. Power
Author: A. P. W. Malcomson
Author: Nicole Pohl
Author: Nigel Aston