The Last Conquest of Ireland (perhaps)
Author: John Mitchel
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 348
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Author: John Mitchel
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James S Donnelly
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0752486934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, changing the country forever. During and after this terrible human crisis, the British government was bitterly accused of not averting the disaster or offering enough aid. Some even believed that the Whig government's policies were tantamount to genocide against the Irish population. James Donnelly's account looks closely at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potato famine and explores the way that natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations.
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 752
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Virginia Crossman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719073779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work will be essential reading for social and political historians of nineteenth-century Ireland. It is the first academic study to explore the meanings of poverty, destitution and respectability in post-famine Ireland through the institution of the poor law, and is an original in content and interpretation. Previous works have focussed either on the relief system or on political developments. This book analyses poor law administration from a social and a political perspective. There is currently renewed interest in the English poor law of 1834, on which the Irish poor law was modelled. This book will provide historians of poverty and welfare, with an important comparative dimension
Author: Michael Davitt
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 760
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Caroline Girle Powys ("Mrs. P. L. Powys, ")
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gillian Wilson
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2002-03-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 089236632X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJ. Paul Getty had a passion for the exquisitely made furniture and decorative objects of eighteenth-century France, which he began collecting in the 1930s. Gillian Wilson, curator of decorative arts since 1971, has broadened and strengthened the collection, adding Boulle furniture, mounted oriental porcelain, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and more. In the 1980s and 1990s the Museum continued to enlarge its decorative arts holdings, creating a European sculpture department in 1984 and adding glass, maiolica, goldsmiths’ work, pietre dure, and furniture from Italy and Northern Europe. This book is a revised and expanded edition of Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). In addition to more than forty recent acquisitions—among these four wall sconces from Versailles that once belonged to Marie Antoinette and an elaborate upholstered bed from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld—it includes the results of years of research. Designed for scholars, students, and devotees of the decorative arts, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the Getty's fine collection.
Author: Algernon Graves
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 483
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