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Book Face to Face

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabrielle Warnock
  • Publisher : Trident Press Ltd
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 1900724464
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Face to Face written by Gabrielle Warnock and published by Trident Press Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of writers taken in Kennys Bookshop, Galway.

Book It s Part of What We Are   Volumes 1 and 2   Volume 1  Richard Boyle  1566 1643  to John Tyndall  1820 1893   Volume 2  Samuel Haughton  18210 1897  to John Stewart Bell  1928 1990

Download or read book It s Part of What We Are Volumes 1 and 2 Volume 1 Richard Boyle 1566 1643 to John Tyndall 1820 1893 Volume 2 Samuel Haughton 18210 1897 to John Stewart Bell 1928 1990 written by Charles Mollan and published by Charles Mollan. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 1892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Irish Historical Studies

Download or read book Irish Historical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1- include the sections: Writings on Irish history, 1936- ; Research on Irish history in Irish universities (varies slightly) 1937/38-

Book The Hidden Places of Ireland

Download or read book The Hidden Places of Ireland written by David Gerrard and published by Travel Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often called the Emerald Isle, Ireland is rich in greenery, but there is an abundance of every variety of landscape. This guide focuses on the well-known as well as the more secluded venues for food, accommodation and places of interest in the country.

Book Dublin Slums  1800 1925

Download or read book Dublin Slums 1800 1925 written by Jacinta Prunty and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on source materials ranging from public inquiries and property valuations to the records created by women charity workers, such as Margaret Aylward, the slum geography of the city is meticulously recreated in this thoroughly original book. The overlapping areas of contagious disease, slum housing and the support of the very poorest, the beggars and costermongers who daily thronged the city streets, form the three main areas of analysis. These issues are explored on scales ranging from city-wide to the local street or court, while the final case study examines the dynamic nature of slum creation and efforts at relief and reform in the particular context of the north city parishes of St. Mary's and St. Michan's.

Book A Nation of Beggars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donal A. Kerr
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780198207375
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book A Nation of Beggars written by Donal A. Kerr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Kerr's scholarly and incisive analysis charts the souring of relations between Church and State and the destruction of Lord John Russell's dream of bringing a golden age to Ireland.

Book Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast

Download or read book Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast written by Sean Farrell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast, Farrell analyzes the career of “political parson” Thomas Drew (1800-70), creator of one of the largest Church of Ireland congregations on the island and leading figure in the Loyal Orange Order. Farrell demonstrates how Drew’s success stemmed from an adaptive combination of his fierce anti-Catholicism and populist Protestant politics, the creation of social and spiritual outreach programs that placed Christ Church at the center of west Belfast life, and the rapid growth of the northern capital. At its core, the book highlights the synthetic nature of Drew’s appeal to a vital cross-class community of Belfast Protestant men and women, a fact that underlines both the success of his ministry and the long-term durability of sectarian lines of division in the city and province. The dynamics Farrell discusses were also not confined to Ireland, and one of the book’s central features is the close attention paid to the ways that developments in Belfast were linked to broader Atlantic and imperial contexts. Based on a wide array of new and underutilized archival sources, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast is the first detailed examination of not only Thomas Drew, but also the relationships between anti-Catholicism, evangelical Protestantism, and populist politics in early Victorian Belfast.

Book The Belligerent Prelate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Mannix
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2011-11-15
  • ISBN : 1443835366
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Belligerent Prelate written by Patrick Mannix and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination and evaluation from a historical perspective of the alliance that was established and forged between the former Taoiseach and President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, and the former President of Maynooth and Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, Dr Daniel Mannix. The book will examine how the alliance between the two men played a pivotal role in Ireland’s push for independence. The Archbishop’s role is used as a symbol of the vast Irish diaspora worldwide and how their support, both financially and physically through demonstrations for Ireland, helped keep the push for autonomy alive. Having examined the role the Archbishop played in his alliance with de Valera and the clergy, the book appraises how Dr Mannix, so revered at one stage in Irish society, became such an isolated figure after 1925. Irish history has largely neglected the role of the Archbishop. This historical analysis, grounded in research of both primary and secondary sources including previously undocumented oral evidence, archival papers, written public and private correspondence between the two characters and visual sources, will help to replenish his role.

Book Anti Catholicism in Victorian England

Download or read book Anti Catholicism in Victorian England written by E. R. Norman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1968, this book provides an introduction to the subject of anti-Catholicism in Victorian England and a selection of illustrative documents. It demonstrates that Victorian ‘No Popery’ agitations were in fact almost the last expressions of a long English tradition of anti-Catholic intolerance and, in reality, the legal and socia

Book Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics

Download or read book Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics written by Ian St John and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough analysis of the political career of William Gladstone, one of the most intriguing figures in modern British history. ‘Gladstone and the Logic of Victorian Politics’ captures the incredible richness of Gladstone’s political journey, tracing his evolution from Tory defender of a theocratic Anglican state to great reforming Liberal Prime Minister, always prepared to champion the ‘masses against the classes’. Each stage in Gladstone’s development is assessed in the light of recent historiographical debates and his own fascinating explanations of his conduct.

Book Portmarnock and the Plunketts  1850 1918

Download or read book Portmarnock and the Plunketts 1850 1918 written by Alan Costello and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book presents a picture of Portmarnock, County Dublin, as an important local center for the manufacture of brick and terracotta during the Victorian period. The outstanding material products produced by the Portmarnock Brick and Terracotta Works were such that many of the most significant architects of the day specified them by name, and many remarkable buildings of the period were constructed and decorated using Portmarnock's striking red brick and molded terracotta. The owners of the Portmarnock Brick and Terracotta Works - the Plunketts of Portmarnock - are presented as more than local landowners or entrepreneurs, but rather as selfless economic nationalists during a period of significant change in Ireland, both politically and economically. Combining impressive, varied, and inventive primary sources, the book responds to Maurice Craig's assertion that the relationship between buildings and geology is often ignored in Irish history. The result is the illumination of a little known and largely unrecorded part of the country's architectural and social history. (Series: Maynooth Studies in Local History - Vol. 106)

Book The Victorians

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. N. Wilson
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780393325430
  • Pages : 772 pages

Download or read book The Victorians written by A. N. Wilson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism.

Book Material Change

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan De Maeyer
  • Publisher : Leuven University Press
  • Release : 2021-12-17
  • ISBN : 9462702829
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Material Change written by Jan De Maeyer and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long nineteenth century (c.1780–c.1920) in Western Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the production and possession of material goods. The material culture diversified and led to a rich variety of expressions. Dovetailing with a process of confessionalisation that manifested itself quite simultaneously, material religion witnessed its heyday in this period; from church buildings to small devotional objects. The present volume analyses how various types of reform (state, societal, and ecclesiastical) that were part of the process of modernisation affected the material devotional culture within Protestantism, Anglicanism, and Roman Catholicism. Although the contributions in this book start from a comparative European perspective, the case studies mostly focus on individual countries in North-West Europe, namely Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The concept of ‘material religion’ is approached in a very inclusive way. The volume discusses, amongst others, parish infrastructures and religious buildings that are part of land and cityscapes, but also looks into interior design and decorations of chapels, churches, monasteries, cemeteries, and educational, charitable, and health institutions. It comprises the fine arts of religious painting and sculpture, the applied arts, and iconographic designs. As far as private material culture is concerned, this volume examines and presents objects related to private devotion at home, including a great variety of popular devotional and everyday life objects, such as booklets, cards, photographs, and posters.

Book Dublin   s Bourgeois Homes

Download or read book Dublin s Bourgeois Homes written by Susan Galavan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields. The Victorian house had arrived: wide red brick structures stood back behind manicured front lawns. Over the next forty years, an estimated 35,000 of these homes were constructed in the fields surrounding the city. The most elaborate were built for Dublin’s upper middle classes, distinguished by their granite staircases and decorative entrances. Today, they are some of the Irish capital’s most highly valued structures, and are protected under strict conservation laws. Dublin’s Bourgeois Homes is the first in-depth analysis of the city’s upper middle-class houses. Focusing on the work of three entrepreneurial developers, Susan Galavan follows in their footsteps as they speculated in house building: signing leases, acquiring plots and sourcing bricks and mortar. She analyses a select range of homes in three different districts: Ballsbridge, Rathgar and Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire), exploring their architectural characteristics: from external form to plan type, and detailing of materials. Using measured surveys, photographs, and contemporary drawings and maps, she shows how house design evolved over time, as bay windows pushed through façades and new lines of coloured brick were introduced. Taking the reader behind the façades into the interiors, she shows how domestic space reflected the lifestyle and aspirations of the Victorian middle classes. This analysis of the planning, design and execution of Dublin’s bourgeois homes is an original contribution to the history of an important city in the British Empire.

Book The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age

Download or read book The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age written by Michael Wheeler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In his much-anticipated new book, one of the leading authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental Europe, the threat of mass insurrection at home and radical developments in railway transport, communications, religion, literature and the arts. The effects of the new poor law now became visible in the workhouses; a potato blight started in Ireland, heralding the Great Famine; and the Church of England was rocked to its foundations by John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism. What Victorian England became was moulded, says Michael Wheeler, in the crucible of 1845. Exploring pivotal correspondence, together with pamphlets, articles and cartoons, the author tells the riveting story of a seismic epoch through the lives, loves and letters of leading contemporaneous figures.

Book The Cambridge History of Ireland  Volume 4  1880 to the Present

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Ireland Volume 4 1880 to the Present written by Thomas Bartlett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic, institutional and cultural history. By situating the Irish story, or stories - as for much of these decades two Irelands are in play - in a variety of contexts, Irish and Anglo-Irish, but also European, Atlantic and, latterly, global. The result is an insightful interpretation on the emergence and development of Ireland during these often turbulent decades. Copiously illustrated, with special features on images of the 'Troubles' and on Irish art and sculpture in the twentieth century, this volume will undoubtedly be hailed as a landmark publication by the most recent generation of historians of Ireland.

Book Gladstone and Ireland

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. G. Boyce
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2010-11-24
  • ISBN : 0230292453
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Gladstone and Ireland written by D. G. Boyce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how William Gladstone responded to the 'Irish Question', and in so doing changed the British and Irish political landscape. Religion, land, self-government and nationalism became subjects of intensive political debate, raising issues about the constitution and national identity of the whole United Kingdom.