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Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: Lida Bulf
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781453897690
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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This book attempts to capture in words and images the Irish thatched cottage in decline before it finally disappears.These old homesteads are still cherished by those whose life began in such a place and by those whose attachment to this dwelling is merely romantic. The author has provided a sense of context by the use of biographical and architectural notes coupled with full-colour pastel and watercolour illustrations. The combined approach presented in this volume is fresh and new, designed for the utmost enjoyment of its readers.

Author: William Richard Cutter
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Category : Middlesex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Category : Handicraft industries
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: Shahmima Akhtar
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152615725X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative platform for imagining a host of Irish pasts, presents and futures. Fair organisers responded to the contexts of famine and poverty, migration and diasporic settlement, independence movements and partition, as well as post-colonial nation building. My research demonstrates how Irish businesses and labourers, the elite organisers of the fairs and successive Irish governments curated Irishness. The central malleability of Irish identity on display emerged in tandem with the unfolding of Ireland’s political transformation from a colony of the British Empire, a migrant community in the United States, to a divided Ireland in the form of the Republic and Northern Ireland.

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Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400842891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from the British Isles to British North America in the eighteenth century. Drawing on a vast store of archival materials, The People with No Name is the first book to tell this fascinating story in its full, transatlantic context. It explores how these people--whom one visitor to their Pennsylvania enclaves referred to as ''a spurious race of mortals known by the appellation Scotch-Irish''--drew upon both Old and New World experiences to adapt to staggering religious, economic, and cultural change. In remarkably crisp, lucid prose, Patrick Griffin uncovers the ways in which migrants from Ulster--and thousands like them--forged new identities and how they conceived the wider transatlantic community. The book moves from a vivid depiction of Ulster and its Presbyterian community in and after the Glorious Revolution to a brilliant account of religion and identity in early modern Ireland. Griffin then deftly weaves together religion and economics in the origins of the transatlantic migration, and examines how this traumatic and enlivening experience shaped patterns of settlement and adaptation in colonial America. In the American side of his story, he breaks new critical ground for our understanding of colonial identity formation and of the place of the frontier in a larger empire. The People with No Name will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in transatlantic history, American Colonial history, and the history of Irish and British migration.

Author: Gilbert Cope
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Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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Author: Jean-Paul Benowitz
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439651698
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Settled in 1708 and incorporated as a borough in 1827, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, is located five miles from the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, 20 miles from both the county seat Lancaster City, to the east, and Harrisburg, the state capital, to the west. With its Old Peter's Road, Elizabethtown played an important role in the westward expansion of the nation during the 18th and 19th centuries. Construction on the first railroad began in 1834, and Elizabethtown remains a strategic stop on the Amtrak Keystone line between Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Along with its proximity to Hershey, Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown has been home to a Mars, Inc., confectionery plant since 1970 (formerly Klein's Chocolate Company, incorporated in 1914). Elizabethtown College was founded in 1899, and the Masonic Village followed in 1910. The Pennsylvania State Hospital for Crippled Children opened in 1929, later becoming the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Training Academy in 1991.