Recollections of an Irish Rebel
Author: John Devoy
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13:
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The Diocese of Meath
Author: Anthony Cogan
Publisher:
Published: 1862
Total Pages: 494
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExiles from Erin
Author: Bob Reece
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1991-09-18
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1349215570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn April 1791 the "Queen" sailed from Cobh in Cork with the first cargo of Irish convicts destined for New South Wales. During the next 76 years, Ireland supplied 40,000 of all the convicts transported to Australia. This book looks at what happened to these exiles.
The History and Topography of Ireland
Author: Gerald of Wales
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-06-29
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0141915560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary account of his travels. Here he describes landscapes, fish, birds and animals; recounts the history of Ireland's rulers; and tells fantastical stories of magic wells and deadly whirlpools, strange creatures and evil spirits. Written from the point of view of an invader and reformer, this work has been rightly criticized for its portrait of a primitive land, yet it is also one of the most important sources for what is known of Ireland during the Middle Ages.
God's Empire
Author: Hilary M. Carey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-06
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1139494090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn God's Empire, Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second British empire provides a clear account of the promotional strategies of the major churches and church parties which worked to plant settler Christianity in British domains. Based on extensive use of original archival and rare published sources, the author explores major debates such as the relationship between religion and colonization, church-state relations, Irish Catholics in the empire, the impact of the Scottish Disruption on colonial Presbyterianism, competition between Evangelicals and other Anglicans in the colonies, and between British and American strands of Methodism in British North America.
Thomas Francis Meagher
Author: John M. Hearne
Publisher: Irish Abroad
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRomantic Young Irelander, republican revolutionary, father of the Irish tricolour and political exile, Thomas Francis Meagher became a citizen of the United States and a leading ethnic spokesman in his adopted republic. Meagher's career remains as controversial today as it was during his own lifetime.
Irish in Ontario, 1st Edition
Author: Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1984-08-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 077356098X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as one of the most important books on social sciences of the last fifty years by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada. Akenson argues that, despite the popular conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers. Though it is often claimed that the experience of the Irish in their homeland precluded their successful settlement on the frontier in North America, Akenson's research proves that the Irish migrants to Ontario not only chose to live chiefly in the hinterlands, but that they did so with marked success. Akenson also suggests that by using Ontario as an "historical laboratory" it is possible to make valid assessments of the real differences between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics, characteristics which he contends are much more precisely measurable in the neutral environment of central Canada than in the turbulent Irish homeland. While Akenson is careful not to over-generalize his findings, he contends that the case of Ontario seriously calls into question conventional beliefs about the cultural limitations of the Irish Catholics not only in Canada but throughout North America.
Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement
Author: Cecil J. Houston
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1990-12-15
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 1487590288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn mid-nineteenth-century Canada, the Irish outnumbered the English and Scots two to one. Yet they have been much less studied than their US counterparts, even though their experience was very different. Irish settlers arrived earlier in Canada, formed a larger proportion of the founding communities, and were largely rural-based; more than half were Protestant. The Famine provided only a rather late part of the Irish emigration to Canada, which took place principally between 1816 and 1855. The authors evaluate both emigration and settlement and present as well revealing personal documents about intense, often painful experiences of the settlers. Part I explores the geographical links – particularly the phenomenon of chain migration – that shaped decisions to leave Ireland. Part II examines patterns of settlement in the new land. Part III, with biographies of immigrants and collections of letters written home, chronicles personal and social life in the new land and the abiding interest in family and friends in Canada and back in Ireland. The documents illustrate links and patterns revealed in the earlier analysis of emigration and settlement; they also offer an additional, intimate perspective on a key phase in the cultural history of Canada and Ireland.
Sisters or Strangers?
Author: Marlene Epp
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 1442629134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory. The second edition of this influential essay collection expands its chronological and conceptual scope with fifteen new essays that reflect the latest cutting-edge research in Canadian women's history. Introductions to each thematic section include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making the book an even more valuable classroom resource than before.
The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
Author: Elliott West
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1996-09-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780803297845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElliott West’s careful analysis of the role and development of the saloon as an institution on the mining frontier provides unique insights into the social and economic history of the American West. Drawing on contemporaneous newspapers and many unpublished firsthand accounts, West shows that the physical evolution of the saloon, from crude tents and shanties into elegant establishments for drinking and gaming, reflected the growth and maturity of the surrounding community.
