Growing Up In Nineteenth Century Ireland

Author : Mary Hatfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198843429

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Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Mary Hatfield Pdf

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary Hatfield explores these questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition of a 'good' childhood, with childhood seen as a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and responsibilities dependent on class, gender, and religious identity. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books, medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

Author : Mary Hatfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192581457

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Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Mary Hatfield Pdf

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary Hatfield explores these questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition of a 'good' childhood. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books, medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

Author : April Kamp-Whittaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031375781

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Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting by April Kamp-Whittaker Pdf

Author : Mary Hatfield
Publisher : Society for the Study of Ninet
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800348257

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Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Mary Hatfield Pdf

One of the most enduring tropes of modern Irish history is the MOPE thesis, the idea that the Irish were the Most Oppressed People Ever. Political oppression, forced emigration and endemic poverty have been central to the historiography of nineteenth-century Ireland. This volume problematises the assumption of generalised misery and suggests the many different, and often surprising, ways in which Irish people sought out, expressed and wrote about happiness. Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion and what a history of happiness in Ireland might look like. During the nineteenth century the concept of happiness denoted a degree of luck or good fortune, but equally was associated with the positive feelings produced from living a good and moral life. Happiness could be found in achieving wealth, fame or political success, but also in the relief of lulling a crying baby to sleep. Reading happiness in historical context indicates more than a simple expression of contentment. In personal correspondence, diaries and novels, the expression of happiness was laden with the expectations of audience and author and informed by cultural ideas about what one could or should be happy about. This volume explores how the idea of happiness shaped social, literary, architectural and aesthetic aspirations across the century. CONTRIBUTORS: Ian d'Alton, Shannon Devlin, Anne Dolan, Simon Gallaher, Paul Huddie, Kerron Ó Luain, David McCready, Ciara Thompson, Andrew Tierney, Kristina Varade, Mai Yatani

Author : Rebecca Anne Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Muireann O'Cinneide
Publisher : Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781786942081

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Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Rebecca Anne Barr,Sarah-Anne Buckley,Muireann O'Cinneide Pdf

This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and full significance of these transitions remains critically under explored. This book traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience. Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation, transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies. Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and communicated their worlds.

Author : Alice Johnson
Publisher : Reappraisals in Irish History
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : Belfast (Northern Ireland)
ISBN : 9781789620313

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Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast by Alice Johnson Pdf

This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the city's greatest growth, between the 1830s and the 1880s. Using extensive primary material including personal correspondence, memoirs, diaries and newspapers, the author draws a rich portrait of Belfast society and explores both the public and inner lives of Victorian bourgeois families. Leading business families like the Corrys and the Workmans, alongside their professional counterparts, dominated Victorian Belfast's civic affairs, taking pride in their locale and investing their time and money in improving it. This social group displayed a strong work ethic, a business-oriented attitude and religious commitment, and its female members led active lives in the domains of family, church and philanthropy. While the Belfast bourgeoisie had parallels with other British urban elites, they inhabited a unique place and time: 'Linenopolis' was the only industrial city in Ireland, a city that was neither fully Irish nor fully British, and at the very time that its industry boomed, an unusually violent form of sectarianism emerged. Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast provides a fresh examination of familiar themes such as civic activism, working lives, philanthropy, associational culture, evangelicalism, recreation, marriage and family life, and represents a substantial and important contribution to Irish social history.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015012401413

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On Ireland by Karl Marx Pdf

Author : John Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805095630

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The Graves Are Walking by John Kelly Pdf

A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality Deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly's retelling of the awful story of Ireland's great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks to our own times. It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century--it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and TheGraves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain's nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences.

Author : Simon Sleight,Shirleene Robinson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1137489405

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Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World by Simon Sleight,Shirleene Robinson Pdf

Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world.

Author : Tom O'Donoghue,Teresa O'Doherty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030260217

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Irish Speakers and Schooling in the Gaeltacht, 1900 to the Present by Tom O'Donoghue,Teresa O'Doherty Pdf

This book offers the first full-length study of the education of children living within the Gaeltacht, the Irish-speaking communities in Ireland, from 1900 to the present day. While Irish was once the most common language spoken in Ireland, by 1900 the areas in which native speakers of Irish were located contracted to such an extent that they became clearly identifiable from the majority English-speaking parts. In the mid-1920s, the new Irish Free State outlined the broad parameters of the boundaries of these areas under the title of ‘the Gaeltacht’. This book is concerned with the schooling of children there. The Irish Free State, from its establishment in 1922, eulogized the people of the Gaeltacht, maintaining they were pious, heroic and holders of the characteristics of an invented ancient Irish race. Simultaneously, successive governments did very little to try to regenerate the Gaeltacht or to ensure Gaeltacht children would enjoy equality of education opportunity. Furthermore, children in the Gaeltacht had to follow the same primary school curriculum as was prescribed for the majority English speaking population. The central theme elaborated on throughout the book is that this schooling was one of a number of forces that served to maintain the people of the Gaeltacht in a marginalized position in Irish society.

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571317394

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That Neutral Island by Clair Wills Pdf

Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media. Whereas previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island brings to life the atmosphere of a country forced to live under rationing, heavy censorship and the threat of invasion. It unearths the motivations of those thousands who left Ireland to fight in the British forces and shows how ordinary people tried to make sense of the Nazi threat through the lens of antagonism towards Britain.

Author : Donald H. Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773539570

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Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914 by Donald H. Akenson Pdf

A comparative history of European emigration.

Author : Ciarán McCabe
Publisher : Reappraisals in Irish History
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941572

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Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland by Ciarán McCabe Pdf

Beggars and begging were ubiquitous features of pre-Famine Irish society, yet have gone largely unexamined by historians. This book explores at length for the first time the complex cultures of mendicancy, as well as how wider societal perceptions of and responses to begging were framed by social class, gender and religion. The study breaks new ground in exploring the challenges inherent in defining and measuring begging and alms-giving in pre-Famine Ireland, as well as the disparate ways in which mendicants were perceived by contemporaries. A discussion of the evolving role of parish vestries in the life of pre-Famine communities facilitates an examination of corporate responses to beggary, while a comprehensive analysis of the mendicity society movement, which flourished throughout Ireland in the three decades following 1815, highlights the significance of charitable societies and associational culture in responding to the perceived threat of mendicancy. The instance of the mendicity societies illustrates the extent to which Irish commentators and social reformers were influenced by prevailing theories and practices in the transatlantic world regarding the management of the poor and deviant. Drawing on a wide range of sources previously unused for the study of poverty and welfare, this book makes an important contribution to modern Irish social and ecclesiastical history. An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : UIUC:30112059709508

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The Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria Luddy,James M. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Child development
ISBN : 1846825253

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Children, Childhood and Irish Society, 1500 to the Present by Maria Luddy,James M. Smith Pdf

"This collection examines how attitudes to children have changed in Ireland over the centuries, and addresses how concepts of childhood in Ireland changed over time."--Goodreads.com.