Everyday Life 19th Century Ireland
Everyday Life 19th Century Ireland

Author: Ian Maxwell

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0752480898

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To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – Luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland’s history from 1800-1914. It covers wide range of aspects of everyday lives: from work on the many wealthy country estates to grinding poverty in the towns. It covers the transformative effects of the railway development and Ireland’s first tourist boom. Workhouse life and the new Poor Law system which incarcerated entire families behind forbidding walls. Religious divisions, educational boycotts, customs and superstitions.

The Last Chapter
The Last Chapter

Author: Tony Whelan

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1848764952

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As a Catholic growing up in County Down in the 1930s and 40s, Tony Whelan encountered the problems arising in a community divided along sectarian lines. But his life was enriched by youthful friendships and a love of literature and the cinema. This is an autobiography of his life.

Waterbury Irish
Waterbury Irish

Author: Janet Maher

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015-09-07

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1625852665

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The hard work of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants in Waterbury helped place the city on the map as the Brass Capital of the World. In the early years of immigration, the Irish still had a hard road before them, filled with prejudice and social exclusion. Irish Catholics would hold Mass in secret, but eventually beautiful churches were built, attracting the most revered clergy in Connecticut. Soon Irish and Irish Americans established themselves as city leaders and professionals in the community. Dr. Charles A. Monagan was a founding member of St. Mary's Hospital, while his son John later became mayor. Some achieved fame through their excellence in sports, such as Roger Connor, whose long-standing record for career home runs was unbeatable until finally broken by the one and only Babe Ruth. Detailed research and oral histories from living descendants bring to light the remarkable Waterbury Irish legacy.

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors
Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors

Author: Ian Maxwell

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1473851807

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The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is a key feature of Ian Maxwells handbook. He also takes the reader through the records held in many libraries, museums and heritage centres across the province, and he provides detailed coverage of records that are available online. Unlike the rest of the British Isles, which has very extensive civil and census records, Irish ancestral research is hampered by the destruction of many of the major collections. Yet Ian Maxwell shows how family historians can make good use of church records, school registers and land and valuation records to trace their roots to the beginning of the nineteenth century and beyond.