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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ireland--History"”.
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Parnell and Kitty O'Shea: A Study of Scandal in Victorian Politics
The decision to investigate the life of Charles Stewart Parnell was begun with some hesitation as abundant biographical material already existed. However, a study of these accounts soon made it evident that much of Parnell's life had never been told in anything approaching an objective manner. …
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The peace of the Gael : myth and metaphor in the rhetoric of Patrick Pearse.
… to violently oppose British authority in Ireland, eventually gaining independence for the southern twenty-six counties from Britain. The rhetoric of Patrick Pearse characterized the revolutionary fanaticism of the leaders of the Rising and provides an excellent example for the study of …
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Connecting Ireland and America: Early English Colonial Theory 1560-1620
This work demonstrates the connections that exist in rhetoric and planning between the Irish plantation projects in the Ards, Munster , Ulster and the Jamestown colony in Virginia . The planners of these projects focused on the creation of internal stability rather than the mission to 'civilize' …
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The path from paramilitary to politics: Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin, and the Good Friday Agreement: 1986-1998
1 PDF file (iv, 110 pages)
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Unexpected Unexpected Utilities: A Comparative Case-Study Analysis of Women and Revolutions
… revolutions. An analysis of the three cases (Ireland, Russia, and Nicaragua) suggests a series of hypotheses about women's participation in revolution and its importance to revolutions' success.
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A history of the Irish Red Cross Society, 1939-1971
… Although primarily a national organisational history of the Society, it is not a history in isolation. A broader perspective demonstrates that the work undertaken by the IRCS has relevance to the medical, social, religious, cultural, political and diplomatic history of twentieth century …
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The Built Environment and Material Culture of Ireland in the 1641 Depositions, 1600-1654
… attempted to reassess the image of sectarian Ireland by offering an ethnically and religiously complex narrative of social intersection. Due to the changing intellectual and political climate in Ireland, archaeologists and historians can now begin revaluating the myths of the conquered and …
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Volunteer Women: Militarized Femininity in the 1916 Easter Rising
… rather than to receive recognition. To this day, Ireland and Irish history scholars have ignored the participation of gender-conforming women in favor of the more heroic narrative of women whose experiences more closely resemble those of the Easter Rising’s male martyrs.</p>
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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
… An important milestone in Irish library history is the passing of the Public Libraries Act in 1855, although it was to be almost four decades before the Cork Public Library opened. This delay, which was not unique to Cork, is fully investigated in this thesis as are the reasons why …