Your Fondest Annie

Author : Annie O'Donnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067697550

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Your Fondest Annie by Annie O'Donnell Pdf

Annie O'Donnell left her native Galway for America in 1898, one of 15,175 Irish women who left that year; they far outnumbered the men, and most of them went into domestic service. She became friends with Jim Phelan on the ship to Philadelphia. He was a 22-year-old farmer from Co. Kilkenny who had run away from home during Sunday mass to join his uncle, a tilesetter in Indianapolis. Annie went to work as a children's nurse for the W. L. Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Her letters to Jim Phelan, published here for the first time, are a unique contribution to the growing literature on women's emigration: they provide a sustained three-year narrative of her life as a children's nurse. Annie O'Donnell had been well educated in Ireland and her letters are lively and enjoyable to read. Maureen Murphy has provided an introduction and notes to the letters.

Author : Anna Maria D. Walsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591026375

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Dear Annie, a brief memorial of A.M.D. Walsh by Anna Maria D. Walsh Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : OSU:32435073785263

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Little Annie's Ramble by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319417332

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Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016 by Jesús Romero-Trillo Pdf

The present volume of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics series, presents cutting-edge corpus pragmatics research on language use in new social and educational environments. The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics offers a platform to scholars who carry out rigorous and interdisciplinary research on language in real use. Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific research, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a precise methodology based on mathematics and statistics while Pragmatics strives to interpret intended meaning in real language. This series will give readers insight into how pragmatics can be used to explain real corpus data, and how corpora can illustrate pragmatic intuitions.

Author : Kerby A. Miller
Publisher : Field Day Publications
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780946755394

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Ireland and Irish America by Kerby A. Miller Pdf

Between 1600 and 1929, perhaps seven million men and women left Ireland and crossed the Atlantic. Ireland and Irish America is concerned with Catholics and Protestants, rural and urban dwellers, men and women on both sides of that vast ocean. Drawing on over thirty years of research, in sources as disparate as emigrants' letters and demographic data, it recovers the experiences and opinions of emigrants as varied as the Rev. James McGregor, who in 1718 led the first major settlement of Presbyterians from Ulster to the New World, Mary Rush, a desperate refugee from the Great Famine in County Sligo, and Tom Brick, an Irish-speaking Kerryman on the American prairie in the early 1900s. Above all, Ireland and Irish America offers a trenchant analysis of mass migration's causes, its consequences, and its popular and political interpretations. In the process, it challenges the conventional 'two traditions' (Protestant versus Catholic) paradigm of Irish and Irish diasporan history, and it illuminates the hegemonic forces and relationships that governed the Irish and Irish-American worlds created and linked by transatlantic capitalism.

Author : Gerard Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315513485

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The History of the Irish Famine by Gerard Moran Pdf

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government’s culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852. This volume examines how the failure of the potato crop in the late 1840s led to the mass exodus of 2.1 million people between 1845 and 1855. They left for destinations as close as Britain and as far as the United States, Canada and Australia, and heralded an era of mass migration which saw another 4.5 million leave for foreign destinations over the next half-century. How they left, how they settled in the host countries and their experiences with the local populations are as wide and varied as the numbers who left and, using extensive primary sources, this volume analyses and assesses this in the context of the emigrants themselves and in the new countries they moved.

Author : Christine Kinealy,Jason King,Gerard Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315513881

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The History of the Irish Famine by Christine Kinealy,Jason King,Gerard Moran Pdf

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government’s culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852. The narratives of those who perished, those who survived and those who emigrated form an integral part of this history and these volumes will make available, for the first time, some of the original documentation relating to an event that changed not only Irish history, but the history of the countries to which the emigrants fled – Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. By bringing together letters, government reports, diaries, official documents, pamphlets, newspaper articles, sermons, eye-witness testimonies, poems and novels, these volumes will provide a fresh way of understanding Irish history in general, and famine and migration in particular. Comprehensive editorial apparatus and annotation of the original texts are included along with bibliographies, appendices, chronologies and indexes that point the way for further study.

Author : Shirl Kasper
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806156064

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Annie Oakley by Shirl Kasper Pdf

“Nothing more simple, I assure you. . . . But I’ll tell you what. You must have your mind, your nerve, and everything in harmony. Don’t look at your gun, simply follow the object with the end of it, as if the tip of the barrel was the point of your finger.”—Annie Oakley Annie Oakley is a legend: America’s greatest female sharpshooter, a woman who triumphed in the masculine world of road shows and firearms. Despite her great fame, the popular image of Annie Oakley is far from true. She was neither a swaggering western gal nor a sweet little girl. Annie Oakley was a competitive woman resolved to be the best, and she succeeded. In this comprehensive biography Shirl Kasper sets the record straight, giving us an accurate, honest, and compelling portrait of the woman known as “Little Sure Shot.” Now updated with a new afterword, this account illuminates the life and legend of Annie Oakley, including her start as a comedienne, her later life with Frank Butler, and her final years and struggles.

Author : Alvin Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199549344

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History by Alvin Jackson Pdf

Draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history

Author : John Devoy
Publisher : University College Dublin Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910820995

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Michael Davitt by John Devoy Pdf

Tells the story of a collaboration between two giants of late c19th Irish nationalism: John Devoy and Michael Davitt

Author : Frank A. Biletz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810870918

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Historical Dictionary of Ireland by Frank A. Biletz Pdf

All places undergo change, but in few has this change been quite as sweeping as Ireland – both the independent Republic of Ireland and dependent Northern Ireland – so it is good to see where it is heading at present. Obviously, that has to be judged on the background of where it is coming from, not only over the past decade or so but over centuries and, indeed, millennia. This new edition of Historical Dictionary of Ireland is an excellent resource for discovering the history of Ireland. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The cross-referenced dictionary section has over 600 entries on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions (including the Catholic church) with period forays into literature, music and the arts. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Ireland.

Author : Donald MacRaild
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137268037

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The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750-1939 by Donald MacRaild Pdf

This established study focuses on the most important phase of Irish migration, providing analysis of why and how the Irish settled in Britain in such numbers. Updated and expanded, the new edition now extends the coverage to 1939 and features new chapters on gender and the Irish diaspora in a global perspective.

Author : Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317623762

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Orality in Written Texts by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics Orality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900. Focusing in on a time during which Ireland became overwhelmingly English-speaking, the book traces the use of various linguistic features of Irish English in different historical contexts and over time. This book: draws on data from the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR), which is composed of personal letters to and from Irish emigrants from the start of the eighteenth century up until the end of the twentieth century; analyses linguistic features that have hitherto remained neglected in the literature on Irish English, including discourse-pragmatic markers, and deictic and pronominal forms; discusses how the survival of the pragmatic mode has resulted in the preservation of certain facets of the Irish English variety as known today; explores sociolinguistic issues from a historical perspective. With direct relevance to corpus-based literary studies as well as the exploration of hybrid, modern-day text forms, Orality in Written Texts is key reading for advanced students and researchers of corpus linguistics, varieties of English, language change and historical linguistics, as well as anyone interested in learning more about Irish history and migration.

Author : Maureen O'Rourke Murphy
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815652892

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Compassionate Stranger by Maureen O'Rourke Murphy Pdf

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman. Trained as a school teacher, Nicholson was involved in the abolitionist, temperance, and diet reforms of the day before she left New York in 1844 "to personally investigate the condition of the Irish poor." She walked alone throughout nearly every county in Ireland and reported on conditions in rural Ireland on the eve of the Great Irish Famine. She published Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger, an account of her travels in 1847. She returned to Ireland in December 1846 to do what she could to relieve famine suffering—first in Dublin and then in the winter of 1847–48 in the west of Ireland where the suffering was greatest. Nicholson’s precise, detailed diaries and correspondence reveal haunting insights into the desperation of victims of the Famine and the negligence and greed of those who added to the suffering. Her account of the Great Irish Famine, Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848 and 1849, is both a record of her work and an indictment of official policies toward the poor: land, employment, famine relief. In addition to telling Nicholson’s story, from her early life in Vermont and upstate New York to her better-known work in Ireland, Murphy puts Nicholson’s own writings and other historical documents in conversation. This not only contextualizes Nicholson’s life and work, but it also supplements the impersonal official records with Nicholson’s more compassionate and impassioned accounts of the Irish poor.

Author : Raymond Hickey,Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501507687

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Irish Identities by Raymond Hickey,Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Pdf

This volume examines in-depth the many facets of language and identity in the complex linguistic landscape of Ireland. The role of the heritage language Irish is scrutinized as are the manifold varieties of English spoken in regions of the island determined by both geography and social contexts. Language as a vehicle of national and cultural identity is center-stage as is the representation of identity in various media types and text genres. In addition, the volume examines the self-image of the Irish as reflected in various self-portrayals and references, e.g. in humorous texts. Identity as an aspect of both public and private life in contemporary Ireland, and its role in the gender interface, is examined closely in several chapters. This collection is aimed at both scholars and students interested in langage and identity in the milti-layered situation of Ireland, both historically and at present. By addressing general issues surrounding the dynamic and vibrant research area of identity it reaches out to readers beyond Ireland who are concerned with the pivotal role this factor plays in present-day societies.