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Author | : Harford Montgomery Hyde |
Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The Londonderry family was "... part Irish and part English, originally Scottish, holding titles in both the Irish and United Kingdom peer- ages, ... [and] made substantial contributions to the national life in the fields of politics, diplomacy, the army, travel, society and sport, besides being land and coal owners on a considerable scale.".
Author | : N.C. Fleming |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2005-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857714619 |
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the seventh Marquess of Londonderry has long been a divisive figure in British aristocratic history. Was he an anti-Semitic Nazi sympathizer, as some have argued, or a visionary who should be remembered in glory for his role in the creation of RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes during World War II? In the paperback edition of Lord Londonderry, N.C Fleming answers this question and more. This updated edition draws extensively from private Londonderry family papers and state papers, as well as existing secondary literature, to provide an illuminating biography of Londonderry. This book has been updated with additional primary source research to reveal details about Londonderry House, Londonderry's travels and his radical right-wing beliefs as well as his infamous anti-Semitism. Lord Londonderry examines his disastrous diplomatic visits during the war, which seriously damaged his credibility at home, alongside his achievements in the Royal Air force to provide a comprehensive biography of the Marquess. Fleming also studies the tumultuous period of aristocratic decline set against a backdrop of growing calls for social equality, to show how this Conservative MP held onto his power in the changing social climate of post-war Britain. Here, Fleming has revised and updated his biography of Lord Londonderry to remove the shadow that Londonderry's association with Nazi Germany has cast over his career. In doing so, he provides an analysis of private family papers while also providing an extensive case study into the historiography of aristocracy.
Author | : Kevin Morgan |
Publisher | : Haus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2006-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781904950615 |
In 1929 Labour was for the first time the largest party, but his new government had to grapple with the problems of the Great Depression.
Author | : Christopher Murray |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 639 |
Release | : 2004-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0773586156 |
Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars - he portrayed the traumatic birth of a nation and delved into the Irish national character. Christopher Murray's Se?O'Casey: Writer at Work takes a fresh look at the last of the great writers of the Irish literary revival.
Author | : Geoffrey Lewis |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826432328 |
The partition of Ireland in 1921, and the birth of Northern Ireland as a political entity, was the work of one man above all. Edward Carson, born in Dublin in 1854, was a brilliant lawyer whose cross-questioning of Oscar Wilde at his libel trial brought about Wilde's downfall. An inspiring orator and a political heavyweight at Westminster, his defence of Unionism in the years before the First World War, and of the rights of Ulster not to be swamped in an independent Ireland, made a united Ireland a political impossibility. While some of his actions were denounced in England as close to treason, Carson's idealism and religious tolerance were untypical of the sectarian bigotry that marred the later history of Northern Ireland. Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland is the first modern biography of a major figure in both British and Irish politics.
Author | : Dr Roger Sawyer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134931255 |
We Are But Women sets the history of Irish women in the context of the broad sweep of Irish history, dealing even-handedly with the diverse traditions of unionism and nationalism. Through an examination of exemplar individuals and organisations, the book traces the growth of Irish awareness of such `women's issues' as emancipation, divorce and abortion. Above all, it acknowledges the key role played by women in finding a solution to the Irish Question.
Author | : Anne de Courcy |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1780225768 |
From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at the heart of political society in the interwar years. At the age of twenty-one, Edith Chaplin married one of the most eligible bachelors of the day, the eldest son of the sixth Marquess of Londonderry. Her husband served in the Ulster cabinet and was Air Minister in the National Government of 1934-5. Edith founded the Women's Legion during the First World War and was also an early campaigner for women's suffrage. She created the renowned Mount Stewart Gardens in County Down that are now owned by the National Trust. All her life, Edith remained at the heart of politics both in Westminster and Ireland. She is perhaps best known for her role as 'society's queen' - a hostess to the rich and famous. Her close circle of friends included Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Neville Chamberlain and Harold Macmillan who congregated in her salon, known as 'The Ark'. Other members included artists and writers such as John Buchan, Sean O'Casey. Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsey MacDonald, became romantically obsessed by her.
Author | : Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Robert Stewart (Second Marquess of Londonderry.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Viscont) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1850 |
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