Happiness In Nineteenth Century Ireland

Author : Mary Hatfield
Publisher : Society for the Study of Ninet
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Mary Hatfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192581464

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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 : Laurence M. Geary,Margaret Kelleher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1904558275

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Nineteenth-century Ireland by Laurence M. Geary,Margaret Kelleher Pdf

Interest in nineteenth-century studies has never been greater, and contrasts sharply with previous neglect of many aspects of that century's history and culture. These essays by leading scholars assess and interpret developments from 1990 onwards in the field of nineteenth-century Irish studies, and from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The book covers political, social, religious and women's history and historical geography as well as anthropological and sociological studies of nineteenth-century Ireland. Further chapters cover nineteenth-century music, art history, literature in English, Gaelic culture and language and the Irish diaspora. This will be an invaluable research tool and reference book for many years to come.

Author : Niall Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635574210

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This Is Happiness by Niall Williams Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLE A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make sense of what your ears have already told you, which at first is only: something has changed. The rain is stopping. Nobody in the small, forgotten village of Faha remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard was a condition of living. Now--just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of electricity--it is stopping. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is standing outside his grandparents' house shortly after the rain has stopped when he encounters Christy for the first time. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. This is the story of all that was to follow: Christy's long-lost love and why he had come to Faha, Noel's own experiences falling in and out of love, and the endlessly postponed arrival of electricity--a development that, once complete, would leave behind a world that had not changed for centuries. Niall Williams' latest novel is an intricately observed portrait of a community, its idiosyncrasies and its traditions, its paradoxes and its inanities, its failures and its triumphs. Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they write and rewrite us.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:494067593

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Nineteenth-century Ireland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Gerster,Felicity Jensz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030990411

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Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Daniel Gerster,Felicity Jensz Pdf

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of pupils attended boarding schools in various places across the globe. Their experiences were vastly different, yet they all had in common that they were separated from their families and childhood friends for a period of time in order to sleep, eat, learn and move within the limited spatial sites of the boarding school. This book frames these ‘boarding schools’ as a global and transcultural phenomenon that is part of larger political and social developments of European imperialism, the Cold War, and independence movements. Drawing together case studies from colonial South Africa, colonial India, Dutch Indonesia, early twentieth-century Nigeria, Fascist Spain, Ghana, Nazi Germany, nineteenth-century Ireland, North America and the Soviet Union, this edited collection examines the ways in which boarding schools extracted pupils from their original social background in order to train, mold and shape them so that they could fit into the perceived position in broader society. The book makes the broader argument that framing boarding schools as a global phenomenon is imperative for a deepened understanding of the global and transnational networks that linked people as well as ideas and practices of education and childhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0823412954

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Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna Pdf

In latter part of the nineteenth century, their varied circumstances in Ireland and in America convince Peggy and Michael O'Driscoll and Eily O'Driscoll Powers of the importance of family.

Author : Terry Tastard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350251618

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Nightingale’s Nuns and the Crimean War by Terry Tastard Pdf

Infectious disease, wounded and dying soldiers, and a shortage of supplies were the daily realities faced by the nuns who nursed with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. This study documents their involvement in the conflict and how the nuns bore witness to the effects of carnage and official indifference, in many cases traumatized as a result. This book reflects on the initiative and courage shown by the nuns and how their actions can be viewed as part of a wider movement among women in the mid-19th century to find fulfilment and assert control in their own lives. Nightingale's Nuns and the Crimean War also sheds light on how critics at the time accused many of the nuns of being secret agents of the Catholic Church who preyed on vulnerable soldier patients; there was a campaign in parliament to regulate and control convents. Terry Tastard shows how the nuns attempted to neutralize this anti-Catholicism, as well as charting the participation of Anglican nuns who had just begun an astonishing project to revive the religious life in the Church of England. Finally the book reveals new insights into Florence Nightingale's relationships with the nuns who nursed with her in Crimea and how these experiences impacted Nightingale's own perspective.

Author : Katie Barclay,Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000614121

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The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World by Katie Barclay,Peter N. Stearns Pdf

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of emotion from a range of angles. Named emotions – love, anger, fear – highlight how particular categories have been deployed to make sense of feeling and their evolution over time. Geographical perspectives provide access to the historiographies of regions that are less well-covered by English-language sources, opening up global perspectives and new literatures. Key thematic sections are designed to intersect with critical historiographies, demonstrating the value of an emotions perspective to a range of areas. Topical sections direct attention to the role of emotions in relations of power, to intimate lives and histories of place, as products of exchanges across groups, and as deployed by new technologies and medias. The concepts of globalisation and modernity run through the volume, acting as foils for comparison and analytical tools. The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of emotions across the world from 1700.

Author : Lynsey Black,Louise Brangan,Deirdre Healy
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800436060

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Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland by Lynsey Black,Louise Brangan,Deirdre Healy Pdf

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter Leading scholars on Irish penal history and theory explore trends and debates that have surrounded patterns of punishment in Ireland since the formation of the State and foreground often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment.

Author : Jyoti Atwal,Ciara Breathnach,Sarah-Anne Buckley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000683875

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Gender and History by Jyoti Atwal,Ciara Breathnach,Sarah-Anne Buckley Pdf

This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women’s history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting new and exciting sources, methodologies, and suggested areas for future research. They address a variety of critical themes such as the family, reproduction and sexuality, the medical and prison systems, masculinities and femininities, institutions, charity, the missions, migration, ‘elite women’, and the involvement of women in the Irish nationalist/revolutionary period. Envisioned to be both thematic and chronological, the book provides insight into the comparative, transnational, and connected histories of Ireland, India, and the British empire. An important contribution to the study of Irish gender history, the volume offers opportunities for students and researchers to learn from the methods and historiography of Irish studies. It will be useful for scholars and teachers of history, gender studies, colonialism, post-colonialism, European history, Irish history, Irish studies, and political history. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Caitriona Clear
Publisher : Gill
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038354085

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Nuns in Nineteenth-century Ireland by Caitriona Clear Pdf

Author : Robert Tudur Jones,David William Bebbington,Kenneth Dix,Alan Ruston
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0754638502

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Protestant Nonconformist Texts: The nineteenth century by Robert Tudur Jones,David William Bebbington,Kenneth Dix,Alan Ruston Pdf

This is a series of four substantial volumes designed to demonstrate the range of interests of the several Protestant Nonconformist traditions from the time of their Separatist harbingers in the 16th century to the end of the 20th century. It represents a major project of the Association of Denominational Historical Societies and Cognate Libraries. of such topics as theology, philosophy, worship, socio-political concerns, and so on. Prepared by a team of 12 editors, all of whom are expert in their areas, and drawn from a number of the relevant traditions, it should provide a much needed comprehensive view of Nonconformity, told largely in the words of those whose story it is. Nonconformity. Through contemporary writings it provides a lively insight into the life and thought of the Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians and other groups that formed pieces in the diverse mosaic of the 19th-century chapels. Each aspect of Nonconformity has an introductory discussion, which includes a guide to the secondary literature on the subject, and each passage from a primary source is put in context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008415973

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The Nineteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11874571

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The Nineteenth Century and After by Anonim Pdf