Author: William Gifford
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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The Quarterly Review
Author: William Gifford
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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A Manual of Translation
Author: Hui-chʻing Yen
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Viceregal Microbe
Author: Dr. Frances Carruthers with Martin Duffy
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178901400X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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By the start of the 20th century many Irish people were living in squalor: the country's infant mortality rate was the highest in Europe and tuberculosis was rampant. The daunting and tireless Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the British Viceroy to Ireland, devoted herself to social changes that could save lives. But she often faced ridicule because of the contrast between her own high status and her concern for the common man. Arthur Griffith, future president of Ireland, publicly nicknamed her The Viceregal Microbe. This book tells the story of the friction between the struggle for Irish independence and the 'good works' of the Anglo-Irish elite. The mainly Protestant and upper-class women who gathered around Lady Aberdeen through the Women's National Health Association she founded were all fine people with good hearts. But Irish Nationalists treated them with suspicion, and progress in the war against tuberculosis was the casualty. Lady Abderdeen became ever more radical in her campaign for better living conditions for Ireland's poor. The Chief Medical Officer of the Guinness Brewery, John Lumsden, was one of her close allies. By the end of her decades of work (most intensely 1906-1915) in Ireland, Ishbel Aberdeen became as out-spoken as the trade union rebel 'Big Jim' Larkin. She was a strong woman and often alienated people by her relentlessness. She drove herself to exhaustion and her family almost to bankruptcy in her campaign for a better life for Ireland's poor. But in the end she was doomed to be viewed as part of the system of British rule over Ireland. And history belongs to the victor. The contribution of Lady Aberdeen and her volunteers to the welfare of Ireland's poor and sick was largely forgotten in the wake of the country's independence and its nationalist fervour.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178901400X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
By the start of the 20th century many Irish people were living in squalor: the country's infant mortality rate was the highest in Europe and tuberculosis was rampant. The daunting and tireless Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the British Viceroy to Ireland, devoted herself to social changes that could save lives. But she often faced ridicule because of the contrast between her own high status and her concern for the common man. Arthur Griffith, future president of Ireland, publicly nicknamed her The Viceregal Microbe. This book tells the story of the friction between the struggle for Irish independence and the 'good works' of the Anglo-Irish elite. The mainly Protestant and upper-class women who gathered around Lady Aberdeen through the Women's National Health Association she founded were all fine people with good hearts. But Irish Nationalists treated them with suspicion, and progress in the war against tuberculosis was the casualty. Lady Abderdeen became ever more radical in her campaign for better living conditions for Ireland's poor. The Chief Medical Officer of the Guinness Brewery, John Lumsden, was one of her close allies. By the end of her decades of work (most intensely 1906-1915) in Ireland, Ishbel Aberdeen became as out-spoken as the trade union rebel 'Big Jim' Larkin. She was a strong woman and often alienated people by her relentlessness. She drove herself to exhaustion and her family almost to bankruptcy in her campaign for a better life for Ireland's poor. But in the end she was doomed to be viewed as part of the system of British rule over Ireland. And history belongs to the victor. The contribution of Lady Aberdeen and her volunteers to the welfare of Ireland's poor and sick was largely forgotten in the wake of the country's independence and its nationalist fervour.
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Buildings of Empire
Author: Ashley Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199589380
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
An exciting journey to thirteen buildings that capture the essence of the British imperial experience, painting an intimate portrait of the biggest empire the world has ever seen: the people who made it and the people who resisted it, as well as the legacy of the imperial project throughout the world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199589380
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
An exciting journey to thirteen buildings that capture the essence of the British imperial experience, painting an intimate portrait of the biggest empire the world has ever seen: the people who made it and the people who resisted it, as well as the legacy of the imperial project throughout the world.
Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sir Edward Cust
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Category : Military history, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : Military history, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821
Author: Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826334598
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826334598
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.
Political Science Quarterly
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
A review devoted to the historical statistical and comparative study of politics, economics and public law.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
A review devoted to the historical statistical and comparative study of politics, economics and public law.
Varieties of Vice-regal Life
Author: Sir William Thomas Denison
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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