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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Hibernian"”.
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The world of Kavanagh and Cottril: A portrait of Irish emigration, entrepreneurship, and ethnic diversity in mid-Maine, 1760-1820
… Irish migration into northern New England, the Hibernian networks of the Maine timber trade, and the nature of provincial merchant communities in early America - many of which attracted members from the margins of the Anglo-Celtic world.</p> <p>Kavanagh, Cottril and their Irish companions found …
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Reading Swift and Ireland, 1720-1729 : constituences, contexts and constructions of identity in Jonathan Swift's occasional writings of the 1720s
… authority, the chapter examines how Swift the 'Hibernian patriot' was largely an invention of the crisis surrounding the act. Chapter Two argues that The Drapier's Letters reconfigure the language that had been used in the past to depict the Catholic threat to Protestant Ireland, and use it to …
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The Ancient Order of Hibernians : an Irish political-religious pressure group 1884-1975
… a thesis on the history of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in Ireland has presented certain difficulties. None of the secondary works on the Order is entirely satisfactory. History of the Ancient Order of Hibernians by T. McGrath (Cleveland 1898) and History of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and …
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Cultural Stereotypes: From Dracula's Myth to Contemporary Diasporic Productions
… on exploring the main ideas promoted by the Hibernian school of criticism. The chapter ends with an analysis of the Gothic romance and the current vogue of vampire stories in popular culture, be it written, cinematic, or electronic. In the last chapter, I broaden the discussion by analyzing …
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The past in the present : a study of some aspects of the politics of music in Belfast
… parades of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) as a context for rebel song performance and as politico/cultural manifestations of a minority section of the Catholic population, are described on the basis of secondary sources, primarily historical sources not solely concerned …
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The 1866 Fenian Raid on Canada West
This thesis examines Canada West’s colonial perceptions and reactions towards the Fenian Brotherhood in the Confederation era. Its focus is on the impact of the Fenians on the contemporary public mind, beginning in the fall of 1864 and culminating with the Fenian Raid on the Niagara frontier in …