Author: James GlassfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Notes of Three Tours in Ireland in 1824 and 1826 ...
Author: James GlassfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A Tour in Connaught
Author: Caesar OtwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connacht (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: Tour in Ireland in 1752
Author: Richard PocockePublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Bible War in Ireland
Author: Irene WhelanPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299215507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
At the end of the eighteenth century, an evangelical movement gained enormous popularity at all levels of Irish society. Initially driven by the enthusiasm and commitment of Methodists and Dissenters, it quickly gained ascendancy in the Church of Ireland, where its unique blend of moral improvement and conservative piety appealed to those threatened by the democratic revolution and the demands of the Catholic population for political equality. The Bible War in Ireland identifies this evangelical movement as the origin of Ireland's Protestant "Second Reformation" in the 1820s. This effort, in turn, helped provoke a revolution in political consciousness among the Catholic population, setting the stage for the emergence of the Catholic Church as a leading player in the Irish political arena. Extensively researched, Irene Whelan's book puts forward a uniquely challenging interpretation of the origins of religious and political polarization in Ireland. Copublished with Lilliput Press, Dublin. The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America. "Essential reading for anyone interested in the emergence of an Irish Catholic identity in the nineteenth century and in Protestant-Catholic relations in that period not only in Ireland but in the Anglophone world."--Thomas Bartlett, The Catholic Historical Review
The Irish through British Eyes
Author: Edward LengelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031301244X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The mainstream British attitude toward the Irish in the first half of the 1840s was based upon the belief in Irish improvability. Most educated British rejected any notion of Irish racial inferiority and insisted that under middle-class British tutelage the Irish would in time reach a standard of civilization approaching that of Britain. However, the potato famine of 1846-1852, which coincided with a number of external and domestic crises that appeared to threaten the stability of Great Britain, led a large portion of the British public to question the optimistic liberal attitude toward the Irish. Rhetoric concerning the relationship between the two peoples would change dramatically as a result. Prior to the famine, the perceived need to maintain the Anglo-Irish union, and the subservience of the Irish, was resolved by resort to a gendered rhetoric of marriage. Many British writers accordingly portrayed the union as a natural, necessary and complementary bond between male and female, maintaining the appearance if not the substance of a partnership of equals. With the coming of the famine, the unwillingness of the British government and public to make the sacrifices necessary, not only to feed the Irish but to regenerate their island, was justified by assertions of Irish irredeemability and racial inferiority. By the 1850s, Ireland increasingly appeared not as a member of the British family of nations in need of uplifting, but as a colony whose people were incompatible with the British and needed to be kept in place by force of arms.
The Quarterly review
Author: Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony FroudePublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author: Largest Amount of Good
Author: Helen E. HattonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773563695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Largest Amount of Good is the first full account of Quaker relief operations in Ireland and of the evolution of the Quakers' thinking on the purposes and limitations of philanthropy and the responsibility of the state in disaster. Helen Hatton describes how the Quakers rejected orthodox economic and philanthropic theory and, without seeking profit for themselves, provided grants and unguaranteed loans to develop and revitalize Irish agriculture, fisheries, and industry. They also used publicity and political pressure to push for reform of the land-holding system. Although the power of the landowners was too entrenched to be overcome entirely, the Quakers' contribution to Ireland, Hatton demonstrates, is unquestionable. The growth of the Quaker relief service, from mutual help in the seventeenth century to an institution of international standing, has been accompanied by the gradual embodiment of their principles in the direction of the Society. Their work in the Great Irish Famine marked a turning point at which the procedures they had evolved inchoately over two centuries were formulated into a methodology that is accepted today as the basis for relief and Third World development.