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Book Ulster Farming Families

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Bell
  • Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781903688540
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Ulster Farming Families written by Jonathan Bell and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming in the generation between 1930 and 1960 saw changes on a previously unknown scale. On most holdings, work continued to be carried out by all the family members. Men, women and children all had roles in the production of crops and livestock. At busier times neighbours were called on for help, and workers were also hired on some farms, either full-time or seasonally. All of these relationships could lead to tensions and conflict, but they also led to great intimacy and kindness, with individuals showing commitment to the well-being of their family, their neighbours, and even their employers and employees. This book uses oral history to explore life on Ulster farms between 1930 and 1960. This valuable record of the faming community describes in fascinating detail the many changes in practically every aspect of working life and their associated patterns of social life, all in the face of increasing government intervention, globalisation of markets, and the cataclysm of the Second World War. These massive changes have often been seen as damaging social networks in rural areas, but the collective memories of those involved bear witness to their marvellous capacity to adapt. The oral testimonies on which the book is based show that, for farming people, change could and did create new relationships and wider opportunities on both a professional and personal level.

Book The Davis Family  Ploughing a Course Through History  Volume 2

Download or read book The Davis Family Ploughing a Course Through History Volume 2 written by Denise Grant and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a two-part story about three Irish brothers and three Irish sisters, their lives, their farms and their legacy in Ireland and Australia.The two volumes should be read as one story. The story begins in 1805 at Ballyneill More, Ireland and investigates the impact of changes in farming methods and technology on farming families and their communities. Places that the Davis, Hunter and Kennedy families and their descendants farmed include The Loup in Ulster, Northern Ireland, Picton in New South Wales, Scotts Creek, Camperdown and Jancourt in Western Victoria and Ringwood, Corowa in New South Wales.The story examines the changes in Australia from when the pastoralists owned the land to the impact of the Closer Settlement Acts when the land was opened up to small settlers and in particular the history of the Ringwood, Corowa area in New South Wales.The underlying theme is a family history set to the background of the adaptation of farmers to changes in farming methods, technology and the changes to small farming communities.Farming is the common thread which binds all of the Davis generations throughout both volumes of thishistory

Book Researching Farming Ancestors in Ireland

Download or read book Researching Farming Ancestors in Ireland written by William J. Roulston and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Farmers and Farm Families in Northern Ireland

Download or read book Farmers and Farm Families in Northern Ireland written by S. A. E. Magee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Overlooking the River Mourne

Download or read book Overlooking the River Mourne written by Michael Cox and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The close ties between the people and the land in Ulster has only, within the last two generations, been replaced by a more urban 'modern'lifestyle. This study of the farms and farming families,on two thousand acres of hilly terrain in two adjacent townlands, Edymore and Cavanlee, south-east of Strabane overlooking the river Mourne, is a model in local studies. The story is based on research in one of the greatest collections of estate records in Britain or Ireland, the Abercorn Papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Before 1600 the land belonged to the great O'Neill clan. After the Plantation, it was granted to the Abercorn family and the land devided into small farms, and over the ensueing centuries the farmers created well-run and profitable mixed farms.At the beginning of the twentieth century families at last had the chance to own the land their forebears had, as tenants,tilled for generations.Some farms expanded,some stayed the same size: what links them all is that the family unit remained as the cement that held them together and bound them to the land. The development of the farms and the lives of four of the longest-surviving families are retraced in absorbing detail, so to is the social fabric which linked town and country. Strabane, less than an hour's walk away, was a focal point for markets, education and social activities. The writer's own family connections with the townlands over the last fifty years provide the homely touch that gives this book such a distinctive charm.

Book Women and Farming

Download or read book Women and Farming written by S. Shortall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that property and power are central to understanding the position of women in farming and using comparative examples, this book considers the transfer of land between men, the changed role of women in the dairy industry in the nineteenth century, women in farming organisations, women in agricultural education programmes, and the role of the state in shaping the lives of farm women. The common themes of power and property underpin all the chapters.

Book Family and Farm in Pre famine Ireland

Download or read book Family and Farm in Pre famine Ireland written by Kevin O'Neill and published by Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Kevin O'Neill's highly praised study of rural Ireland in the years leading up to the "Great Hunger" of the 1840s explicates the social, economic, and demographic conditions of the era. He argues that overpopulation and deprivation were inextricably linked to a third variable--the rapid economic development of rural Ireland that was shaped by British interests.

Book The Anthropology of Ireland

Download or read book The Anthropology of Ireland written by Hastings Donnan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where and what is Ireland?--What are the identities of the people of Ireland?--How has European Union membership shaped Irish people's lives and interests?--How global is local Ireland?This book argues that such questions can be answered only by understanding everyday aspects of Irish culture and identity. Such understanding is achieved by paying close attention to what people in Ireland themselves say about the radical changes in their lives in the context of wider global transformation. As notions of sex, religion, and politics are radically reworked in an Ireland being re-imagined in ways inconceivable just a generation ago, anthropologists have been at the forefront of recording the results. The first comprehensive book-length introduction to anthropological research on the island as a whole, The Anthropology of Ireland considers the changing place in a changing Ireland of religion, sex, sport, race, dance, young people, the Travellers, St Patrick's Day and much more.

Book Everyday Culture in Europe

Download or read book Everyday Culture in Europe written by Máiréad Nic Craith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the history and contemporary practice of studying cultures 'at home', by examining Europe's regional or 'small' ethnologies of the past, present and future. With the rise of nationalism and independence in Europe, ethnologies have often played a major role in the nation-building process. The contributors to this book offer case studies of ethnologies as methodologies, showing how they can address key questions concerning everyday life in Europe. They also explore issues of European integration and the transnational dimension of culture in Europe today, and examine how regional ethnologies can play a crucial part in forming a wider 'European ethnology' as local participants have experience of combining identities within larger regions or nations.

Book Forgetful Remembrance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guy Beiner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-11-09
  • ISBN : 0191066338
  • Pages : 728 pages

Download or read book Forgetful Remembrance written by Guy Beiner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgetful Remembrance examines the paradoxes of what actually happens when communities persistently endeavour to forget inconvenient events. The question of how a society attempts to obscure problematic historical episodes is addressed through a detailed case study grounded in the north-eastern counties of the Irish province of Ulster, where loyalist and unionist Protestants—and in particular Presbyterians—repeatedly tried to repress over two centuries discomfiting recollections of participation, alongside Catholics, in a republican rebellion in 1798. By exploring a rich variety of sources, Beiner makes it possible to closely follow the dynamics of social forgetting. His particular focus on vernacular historiography, rarely noted in official histories, reveals the tensions between professed oblivion in public and more subtle rituals of remembrance that facilitated muted traditions of forgetful remembrance, which were masked by a local culture of reticence and silencing. Throughout Forgetful Remembrance, comparative references demonstrate the wider relevance of the study of social forgetting in Northern Ireland to numerous other cases where troublesome memories have been concealed behind a veil of supposed oblivion.

Book Rip Van Winkle s Neighbors

Download or read book Rip Van Winkle s Neighbors written by Thomas S. Wermuth and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-10-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.

Book Report on the Agricultural Statistics of Northern Ireland

Download or read book Report on the Agricultural Statistics of Northern Ireland written by Great Britain. Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland. Economics and Statistics Division and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report Upon the Agricultural Statistics of Northern Ireland

Download or read book Annual Report Upon the Agricultural Statistics of Northern Ireland written by Northern Ireland. Ministry of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gainful Occupations of Farm Families

Download or read book Gainful Occupations of Farm Families written by Ruth Gasson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Keeping it in the Family

Download or read book Keeping it in the Family written by John R. Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the largest group of natural resource managers on the planet, farmers are at the interface of the changing relationship between humans and the environment. Typically organised around what might be considered the most basic of social units, for generations the family farm has survived wide-ranging exogenous challenges, frequently preserving the line of succession to the next of kin. Now as we face major questions about how we use land and the impact of our land use on the global environment, farming once again faces a challenging and uncertain future. This book draws on the experiences of farmers in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Japan and the EU to examine the special features of family farms and, in particular, the tradition of succession which has enabled them to continue to have such a strong presence in the world today.

Book The Real Ireland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harvey O'Brien
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780719069079
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Real Ireland written by Harvey O'Brien and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Ireland is the first study of Irish documentary film, but more than that, it is a study of Ireland itself--of how the idea of Ireland evolved throughout the twentieth century and how documentary cinema both recorded and participated in the process of change. More than just a film studies work, it is a discussion of history, politics and culture, which also explores the philosophical roots of the documentary idea, and how this idea informs concepts of society, self and nation. It features rare and previously unseen illustrations and a detailed documentary filmography, the first of its kind in print anywhere.

Book The Roots of Ireland s Troubles

Download or read book The Roots of Ireland s Troubles written by Robert Stedall and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Elizabeth I’s Secret Lover“places Ireland into a much wider context and takes it beyond the simplistic Catholic v Protestant dichotomy” (The British Empire Blog). Over the course of three decades in the late twentieth century, Northern Ireland was embroiled in the Troubles, a conflict characterized by the violent and bitter struggle between nationalists and unionists. Many books in recent years have attempted to make sense of the Troubles. Primarily political and nationalistic, it also had a sectarian dimension. Undeniably it was fueled by historical events, and yet most only look so far back as the 1916 uprising. In The Roots of Ireland’s Troubles, Robert Stedall argues that we need to take a longer historical view to truly understand the complex factors at play in Ireland’s history that ultimately led to the Troubles. Comprehensive in its approach, it ranges from Plantagenet intervention among the warring Gaelic chieftains, to Cromwell’s restoration of British rule following the English Civil War and William Pitt’s resignation over the Irish Catholic’s Emancipation question. Inextricably linked with the history of Britain, Stedall guides the reader through Ireland’s turbulent but rich history. To understand the causes behind the twentieth-century conflict, which continues to resonate today, we must look to the long arc of history in order to truly understand the historical roots of a nation’s conflict. “A very readable and direct account of the complex issues at the heart of Anglo-Irish relationships since the Reformation . . . a totally absorbing book.” —Michael McCarthy, Battlefield Guide