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Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770–1866 by : Mary McNeill
Download or read book The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770–1866 written by Mary McNeill and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite outliving him by 68 years, Mary Ann McCracken’s legacy is overshadowed by that of her more famous brother, executed United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken. She was, however, an abolitionist, a social reformer and an activist who fought for the rights of women and Belfast’s poor throughout a long life that encompassed the most turbulent years of Irish history. As treasurer, secretary and chair of the Ladies Committee, she helped girls from the Poor House learn crafts that would provide them with livelihoods. Dedicated to championing Belfast’s poor, she was President of the Ladies Industrial School and she campaigned to abolish the use of climbing boys in chimney sweeping. Mary Ann was involved in early women’s suffrage campaigns and prison reform schemes and was a passionate member of the Women’s Abolitionary Committee. In her late eighties, she could be found on the docks, handing out anti-slavery leaflets to emigrants embarking for the slave-owning United States. The motto of this remarkable woman, which accurately sums up her character, was, better ‘to wear out than to rust out’. But her radical, humanitarian zeal and generous strength of character were indefatigable, and her contribution to Belfast life is still felt and celebrated today.
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Mary Ann Mccracken, 1770-1866 by : MARY. MCNEILL
Download or read book The Life and Times of Mary Ann Mccracken, 1770-1866 written by MARY. MCNEILL and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised new paperback edition of the classic biography of Belfast abolitionist and social reformer, Mary Ann McCracken.Reissued to mark 250th anniversary of her birth.Long overshadowed by her United Irishman brother, Henry Joy, but her story is more relevant than ever.
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770-1866 by : Mary Mc Neill
Download or read book The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770-1866 written by Mary Mc Neill and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770-1866 by : Mary McNeill
Download or read book The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770-1866 written by Mary McNeill and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 1960 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating biography of an Irishwoman who was an early revolutionary, social reformer and advocate of women's rights.
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770-1866 by : Mary McNeill
Download or read book The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770-1866 written by Mary McNeill and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Ann McCracken was an abolitionist, a social reformer and an activist who fought for the rights of women and championed Belfast's poor throughout a long life that encompassed the most turbulent years of Irish history. Her legacy, however, is overshadowed by that of her brother, the executed United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken, despite outliving him by sixty-eight years. Through the Poor House Ladies Committee, she helped to educate children, allowing them to secure apprenticeships that would provide them with livelihoods. She was President of the Ladies Industrial School, and she campaigned to abolish the use of climbing boys in chimney sweeping. Mary Ann was deeply involved in early women's suffrage campaigns and prison reform schemes, and she was a life-long abolitionist. In her late eighties, McCracken could still be found on the docks, handing out anti-slavery leaflets to emigrants embarking for the United States. The motto of this remarkable woman, which accurately sums up her character, was it is 'better to wear out than to rust out'. But Mary Ann McCracken's radical, humanitarian zeal and generous strength of character were indefatigable, and her contribution to Belfast life is still felt and celebrated today. Both Mary Ann McCracken and her biographer, Mary McNeill, were tireless activists for children and the disadvantaged throughout their respective lives.
Book Synopsis Margaret Skinnider by : Mary McAuliffe
Download or read book Margaret Skinnider written by Mary McAuliffe and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Skinnider enters and exits the history books as the female rebel who was wounded commanding a military action in the 1916 Rising. In a re-evaluation of Skinnider's long and politically active life, this biography considers the life of a woman who deserves her place in Irish social, political and trade union histories.Coming of age among the Irish diaspora in a Glasgow where militancy in socialism, feminism and Irish nationalism were inspirational ideologies, Skinnider was a suffragette, trade union activist, socialist, and militant Irish nationalist. Arriving in Dublin in 1916 and brimming with commitment to the causes that had suffused her childhood and adolescence, Skinnider would go on to give much service to her adopted country, Ireland. During the next five decades of her life, she remained an active feminist, trade union activist and Irish republican. The study also looks at Skinnider's, until now, more hidden history, her committed relationship with her lifelong partner, fellow Cumann na mBan member and feminist activist, Nora O'Keeffe.Among the newest additions to the Life and Times New Series, this monograph considers the importance of researching and writing political women's biography, of fully considering the roots of their ideologies, and of understanding their lifelong commitments to activism.
Download or read book Ulster Since 1600 written by Liam Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of the province from the plantations of the early seventeenth century to partition and the formation of Northern Ireland in the early 1920s, and onwards to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. A major contribution to the history of Ireland and to Ulster's contested place in the British and the wider world.
Book Synopsis The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 by : Theobald Wolfe Tone
Download or read book The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 written by Theobald Wolfe Tone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone - barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army - this edition contains all his writings. It consists of Tone's diaries, correspondence, autobiography, pamphlets, public addresses, and miscellaneous memoranda.
Book Synopsis The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing by : Seamus Deane
Download or read book The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing written by Seamus Deane and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Middle-class Life in Victorian Belfast by : Alice Johnson
Download or read book Middle-class Life in Victorian Belfast written by Alice Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast from c.1830 to 1890. Using extensive primary material, the book draws a rich portrait of Belfast's middle-class society, covering themes of civic activism, working lives, philanthropy, associational culture, evangelicalism, recreation, marriage and family life.
Book Synopsis A New History of Ireland by : Theodore William Moody
Download or read book A New History of Ireland written by Theodore William Moody and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of Ireland, "in nine volumes, provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the middleages, down to the present day."-- Back cover.
Book Synopsis Between Poverty and the Pyre by : Jan Bremmer
Download or read book Between Poverty and the Pyre written by Jan Bremmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use on Women's History courses Good list of contributors
Book Synopsis Reading the Irish Woman by : Gerardine Meaney
Download or read book Reading the Irish Woman written by Gerardine Meaney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining an impressive length of Irish cultural history, from 1700–1960, Reading the Irishwoman explores the dynamisms of cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Analyzing the popular and consumer cultures of a variety of eras, it traces how the circulation of ideas, fantasies, and aspirations shaped women's lives both in actuality and in imagination. The authors uncover a huge array of different representations that Irish women have been able to identify with, including heroine, patriot, philanthropist, actress, singer, model, and missionary. By studying this diversity of viable roles in the Irish woman's cultural world, the authors point to evidence of women's agency and aspiration that reached far beyond the domestic sphere.
Book Synopsis Irish Women and the Vote by : Louise Ryan
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 355 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.
Download or read book Belfast written by Feargal Cochrane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and inviting history of Belfast—exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city’s many qualities are all too frequently overlooked, its image marred by association with the political violence of the Troubles. Feargal Cochrane tells the story of his home city, revealing a rich and complex history which is not solely defined by these conflicts. From its emergence as a maritime port to its heyday as a center for the linen industry and crucible of liberal radicalism in the late eighteenth century, through to the famous shipyards where the Titanic was built, Belfast has long been a hub of innovation. Cochrane’s book offers a new perspective on this fascinating story, demonstrating how religion, culture, and politics have shaped the way people think, act, and vote in the city—and how Belfast’s past continues to shape its present and future.
Book Synopsis annual bibliograghy of english language and literature by :
Download or read book annual bibliograghy of english language and literature written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Great Charity of This Town by : Olwen Purdue
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.
