Lights and Shades of Ireland
Author : Asenath Nicholson
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Famines
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Author : Asenath Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Famines
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Author : Asenath Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : Asenath Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Famines
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Author : Asenath Nicholson
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781318631629
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Author : Asenath Nicholson
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Ireland
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Author : Asenath Nicholson
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1850
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Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2000-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691070155
Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, O Grada concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and demographic features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration.
Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300109948
In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture, and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, David Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland’s two leading writers, W. B.Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of "the harp and the crown.” The book draws a contrast between the West of Ireland in the 1930s, when the new Irish State enjoyed its first full independent decade, and the North of Ireland in the 1980s, when the spectre of British imperialism threatened the stability of Ireland. Pierce then surveys contemporary Irish writing and reflects on the legacy of the colonial encounter and on the passage to a postmodern or postnationalist Ireland in the work of such crucial living writers as John Banville, Derek Mahon, and John McGahern.
Author : Thomas Nicholas Burke
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Ireland
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Author : Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815652895
The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 “to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor.” She walked alone throughout nearly every county in Ireland and reported on conditions in rural Ireland on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. She published Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, an account of her travels in 1847. She returned to Ireland in December 1846 to do what she could to relieve famine suffering—first in Dublin and then in the winter of 1847–48 in the west of Ireland where the suffering was greatest. Nicholson’s precise, detailed diaries and correspondence reveal haunting insights into the desperation of victims of the Famine and the negligence and greed of those who added to the suffering. Her account of the Great Irish Famine, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849, is both a record of her work and an indictment of official policies toward the poor: land, employment, famine relief. In addition to telling Nicholson’s story, from her early life in Vermont and upstate New York to her better-known work in Ireland, Murphy puts Nicholson’s own writings and other historical documents in conversation. This not only contextualizes Nicholson’s life and work, but it also supplements the impersonal official records with Nicholson’s more compassionate and impassioned accounts of the Irish poor.