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Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast

Author : Alice Johnson
Publisher : Reappraisals in Irish History
ISBN 13 : 1789620317
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast written by Alice Johnson and published by Reappraisals in Irish History. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the city's greatest growth, between the 1830s and the 1880s. Using extensive primary material including personal correspondence, memoirs, diaries and newspapers, the author draws a rich portrait of Belfast society and explores both the public and inner lives of Victorian bourgeois families. Leading business families like the Corrys and the Workmans, alongside their professional counterparts, dominated Victorian Belfast's civic affairs, taking pride in their locale and investing their time and money in improving it. This social group displayed a strong work ethic, a business-oriented attitude and religious commitment, and its female members led active lives in the domains of family, church and philanthropy. While the Belfast bourgeoisie had parallels with other British urban elites, they inhabited a unique place and time: 'Linenopolis' was the only industrial city in Ireland, a city that was neither fully Irish nor fully British, and at the very time that its industry boomed, an unusually violent form of sectarianism emerged. Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast provides a fresh examination of familiar themes such as civic activism, working lives, philanthropy, associational culture, evangelicalism, recreation, marriage and family life, and represents a substantial and important contribution to Irish social history.

Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast

Author : Sean Farrell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815656963
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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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.

The First Great Charity of This Town

Author : Olwen Purdue
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788550056
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The First Great Charity of This Town written by Olwen Purdue and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belfast Charitable Society was established in 1752 with the purpose of raising funds to build a poorhouse and hospital for the poor of Belfast; twenty years later, the foundation stone of the Poorhouse was laid. From here the Society would go on to assume increasing responsibility for a range of matters relating to health, welfare and public order, and its members would play a key part in the civic life of Belfast. It continues to provide vital social services to this day and its Poorhouse, now Clifton House, is still one of the finest buildings in the city. During the century following the establishment of the Society, Belfast was transformed from a relatively small mercantile town into a major industrial city, a transformation that was accompanied by political upheaval and the major societal challenges associated with rapid industrialisation and urban growth. Taking as its focus the work of the Society, the global connections that influenced its thinking and the societal issues it sought to address, this fascinating volume provides valuable insights into the wider social, economic and political life of the nineteenth-century Irish town of which the Society became such an iconic part.

Gender and History

Author : Jyoti Atwal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000683877
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Gender and History written by Jyoti Atwal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women’s history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting new and exciting sources, methodologies, and suggested areas for future research. They address a variety of critical themes such as the family, reproduction and sexuality, the medical and prison systems, masculinities and femininities, institutions, charity, the missions, migration, ‘elite women’, and the involvement of women in the Irish nationalist/revolutionary period. Envisioned to be both thematic and chronological, the book provides insight into the comparative, transnational, and connected histories of Ireland, India, and the British empire. An important contribution to the study of Irish gender history, the volume offers opportunities for students and researchers to learn from the methods and historiography of Irish studies. It will be useful for scholars and teachers of history, gender studies, colonialism, post-colonialism, European history, Irish history, Irish studies, and political history. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Violent Loyalties

Author : Jane G. V. McGaughey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1789621860
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Violent Loyalties written by Jane G. V. McGaughey and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an Irish man was a consistent, contentious issue in the Canadas. The aim of this book is to provide the firstgendered examination of male Irish migration to Upper and Lower Canada withinthe broader contexts of negative stereotypes about Irish violence and Irishmen'squestionable loyalty to the British Empire. Through examinations of key violent episodes and (in)famous individuals,Violent Loyalties argues that beingan Irishman in the Canadas meant daily negotiations with discrimination, ethnicrivalries, the pressure to become more 'British', and having to base one'ssense of manliness on being the most visible 'other' in the colonies. Irish Catholics faced the burden of beingdual minorities - the 'other' religion within the Anglophone world andEnglish-speaking in the Catholic sphere already established byFrench-Canadians. Irish Protestants alsohad difficulties adapting to their new communities, as the problematicassociation with violent Orangeism and rivalries with Scottish and Englishimmigrants, many of whom were United Empire Loyalists, created obstacles in thequest for upward social mobility. BothCanadian and Irish historiographies are sorely lacking in examinations ofmasculinity compared with those investigating American, French, Australian, orBritish manliness. This gap in theliterature becomes even more apparent outside of a twentieth-centuryfocus. Violent Loyalties aims to fill these lacunae in thehistories of colonial Canada and the Irish diaspora.

New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition

Author : Diego Ramiro Fariñas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319430025
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book New Approaches to Death in Cities during the Health Transition written by Diego Ramiro Fariñas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth. In a world characterized by large and rapidly evolving urban environments, the past and present challenges cities face is one of the key topics in our society. Cities are a world of differences and, consequently, of inequalities. At the same time cities remain, above all, the spaces of interactions among a variety of social groups, the places where poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, as well as elites, have coexisted in harmony or tension. Urban areas also form specific epidemiological environments since they are characterized by population concentration and density, and a high variety of social spaces from wealthy neighborhoods to slums. Inversely and coherently, cities develop answers in terms of sanitary policies and health infrastructures. This balance between risk and protective factors is, however, not at all constant across time and space and is especially endangered in periods of massive demographic growth, particularly periods of urbanization mainly led by immigration flows that transform both the socioeconomic and demographic composition of urban populations and the morphological nature of urban environments. Therefore this book is an unique contribution in which present day and past socio-demographic and health challenges confronted by big urban environments are combined.

Engendering Ireland

Author : Rebecca Barr
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883077
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Engendering Ireland written by Rebecca Barr and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering Ireland is a collection of ten essays showcasing the importance of gender in a variety of disciplines. These essays interrogate gender as a concept which encompasses both masculinity and femininity, and which permeates history and literature, culture and society in the modern period. The collection includes historical research which situates Irish women workers within an international economic context; textual analysis which sheds light on the effects of modernity on the home and rising female expectations in the post-war era; the rediscovery of significant Irish women modernists such as Mary Devenport O’Neill; and changing representations of masculinity, race, ethnicity and interculturalism in modern Irish theatre. Each of these ten essays provides a thought-provoking picture of the complex and hitherto unrecognised roles gender has played in Ireland over the last century. While each of these chapters offers a fresh perspective on familiar themes in Irish gender studies, they also illustrate the importance and relevance of gender studies to contemporary debates in Irish society.

People's Champion

Author : Terence Bowman
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780901905826
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book People's Champion written by Terence Bowman and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alexander Bowman was elected in Belfast Corporation as Labour member in Duncairn in 1897, the very idea that he would still be remembered a century later for his relentless championing of the working class cause appeared unthinkable. Yet Bowman, a near penniless flaxdresser from a humble farming background, richly deserves his place in Irish political and labour history. Twelve years earlier in 1885, following his key role in the birth of organised trade unionism in Belfast, he had been the first working-class Irishman to seek a seat at Westminister. His subsequent support for Gladstone's Home Rule bill and the Dublin parliament which he believed offered the best hope of bringing together Irish people of all persuasions, attracted much criticism. Forced to leave Belfast in 1888, he found himself immersed in the embryonic socialist movements first in Glasgow and then in London. Returning with new ideas to the Belfast trade union fold in 1895, he won the Corporation seat two years later and in 1901 was elected President of the Irish Trade Union Congress. This biography, by his journalist great-grandson Terence Bowman, pays long-overdue tribute to a labour pioneer who, at great personal cost, dedicated his life sufficiently to the welfare of the working classes to earn their, and now our, respect as a People's Champion.

Victorian Belfast

Author : Jamie Johnston
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780901905574
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Belfast written by Jamie Johnston and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is designed for pupils at Key Stage 3. Teachers will be particularly interested in the use of original source materials which are included as an integral part of the text, and which compliment and illustrate the narrative of the growth of Belfast in the 19th century. They are accompanied by questions and activities suitable for pupils of all abilities in years 1-3 of the secondary school. The learning activities are designed to ensure that pupils encounter a number of historical skills, in addition to the basic comprehension of the topic. These include an appropriate understanding of concepts such as industrialisation, urbanization, continuity and change, and skills such as empathy and analysis. The broad topic of Victorian Belfast has been arranged so that the story of Belfast in the 19th century can be taught as a study in development.

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irish Women and the Vote

Author : Louise Ryan
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1788550153
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Irish Women and the Vote written by Louise Ryan and published by Irish Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book, reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Irish women being granted the right to vote, is the first comprehensive analysis of the Irish suffrage movement from its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings to when feminist militancy exploded on the streets of Dublin and Belfast in the early twentieth century. Younger, more militant suffragists took their cue from their British counterparts, two of whom travelled to Ireland to throw a hatchet into the carriage of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith on O’Connell Bridge in 1912 (missing him but grazing Home Rule leader John Redmond, who was in the same carriage; both politicians opposed giving women the Vote). Despite such dramatic publicity, and other non-violent campaigning, women’s suffrage was a minority interest in an Ireland more concerned with the issue of gaining independence from Britain. The particular complexity of the Irish struggle is explored with new perspectives on unionist and nationalist suffragists and the conflict between Home Rule and suffragism, campaigning for the vote in country towns, life in industrial Belfast, conflicting feminist views on the First World War, and the suffragist uncovering of sexual abuse and domestic violence, as well as the pioneering use of hunger strike as a political tool. The ultimate granting of the franchise in 1918 represented the end of a long-fought battle by Irish women for the right to equal citizenship, and the beginning of a new Ireland that continues to debate the rights and equality of its female citizens.

Association Football and Society in Pre-partition Ireland

Author : Neal Garnham
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781903688342
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Association Football and Society in Pre-partition Ireland written by Neal Garnham and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Association football has consistently been the most popular sport in Ireland at whatever level it is played, amateur or professional. But the game itself has uncertain roots. This book analyzes in detail the evidence of the development of football in Ireland, from its origins to the partition of both the country and the game.

Working-class Life in Victorian Leicester

Author : Barry Haynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Working-class Life in Victorian Leicester written by Barry Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Northern Ireland

Author : United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Northern Ireland written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Northern Ireland

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Northern Ireland written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Faith, Fraternity and Fighting

Author : Donald M. MacRaild
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853239390
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Fraternity and Fighting written by Donald M. MacRaild and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills one of the most significant gaps in modern British historiography. Despite its public profile, the Orange Order has not attracted commensurate scholarly attention. Uncritical apologists apart, historians have displayed condescending censure, stigmatising and dismissing the Order as sectarian - a term unduly restricted in their studies to violence and demonstrations. Having gained unique access to lodge membership records, MacRaild provides a timely corrective. MacRaild makes excellent use of archive material to provide a fascinating study of 'diasporic' Orangeism, showing how it was imported into mainland Britain and implanted within working-class communities as a 'way of life', able to attract adherents with no obvious Irish provenance or connection (the Toxteth lodge in North West England has a not insignificant black presence.) Impeccably researched and expertly written, Faith, Fraternity and Fighting is a major achievement and an important step in rescuing Orangeism from the stigma of sectarianism.

A Tale of Three Cities

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349145998
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Three Cities written by John Lynch and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Belfast tends to be discussed in terms of its distinctiveness from the rest of Ireland, an industrial city in an agricultural country. However, when compared with another 'British' industrial port such as Bristol it is the similarities rather than the differences that are surprising. When these cities are compared with Dublin, the contrasts become even more painfully evident. This book seeks to explore these contrasting urban centres at the start of the twentieth century.