The Mashonaland Irish Association
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Author | : Woods, Joseph |
Publisher | : Weaver Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2019-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1779223544 |
With a raucous St Patrick’s Day dinner at Fort Salisbury (Harare) in 1891, a mere seven months after the Pioneer Column raised their flag on Cecil Square, the Mashonaland Irish Association was founded. Not only is it the oldest expatriate association in Zimbabwe, the MIA is the oldest Irish association on the African continent. The association developed into a vehicle for celebrating Irishness through a busy social calendar and welfare programmes. For over a century, the MIA has weathered the various challenges and upheavals of a shared colonial experience and Zimbabwe’s struggle for independence. Today, it continues to celebrate all things Irish while embracing its diaspora as it approaches its thirteenth decade of existence. This Miscellany charts the association from its inception to the present day with contributions from historians, scholars, writers and poets, priests, nuns, missionaries, ex-MIA Presidents and members; the diverse contributions range from the colonial Anglo-Irish to the Jewish-Irish experience and throughout, personalities have been resurrected, colourful ones recorded and even the Minute books examined; all attest to the richness of the association, its events but above all its members. Cumulatively, and beyond the stories of individuals, the narrative provides new insights into the layered complexity of the colonial experience, and the adaptation (or not) of people of a different culture and belief into a foreign setting.
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Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
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Author | : Gerard Reid |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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About 70 speeches, given by some of Ireland's greatest stateswomen and men, are compiled in this volume. The selections, spanning 400 years, are arranged in ten categories (i.e. "Speeches from the Dock," "The Birth of a Nation," "The Ulster Question") and then chronologically within each category. Each speech is introduced by the editor to set the context. A final section contains a brief biography of each speaker. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Tim Newark |
Publisher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1780335113 |
For hundreds of years, Irish soldiers have sought their destiny abroad. Stepping aboard ships bound for England, America, or Europe, young Irishmen have been hungry for adventure, a self-made fortune or the means to carry on a cause back home. Wherever he has travelled, whichever side of the battlefield he has stood, the tales of his exploits have never been forgotten. The Irish soldier has always been in the thick of the fight. Leaving his birthplace, he travelled with hope, sometimes wanting to bring a liberating revolution to his fellow countrymen. Often seeking adventure, the Fighting Irish have been found in all corners of the British Empire, winning new territories, gaining a reputation as fearless soldiers. Some sailed to America and joined in frontier fighting or demonstrated their loyalty to their new homeland in the bloody combats of the American Civil War. Others took the opportunity to carry on their home-borne disputes with campaigns against the British Empire in Canada and South Africa. The Irish soldier has been in the thick of war during the twentieth century-facing slaughter at the Somme, surviving prison camps in Korea, desperate last-stands in the Congo-and continuing sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Fighting Irish, acclaimed historian Tim Newark tells their tales in the dramatic words of the soldiers themselves, gathered from diaries, letters and journals from archives-and interviews with veterans-in Ireland and across the world. Praise for Highlander: "Tim Newark is a remarkably gifted storyteller." The Scotsman "At last, the Highland soldier has the history he richly deserves. Tim Newark tells the dramatic tale with some startling new stories and superbly researched detail." Andrew Roberts. "Highlanders have long been among the most feared soldiers in the world and Tim Newark's book admirably tells their stirring tale. A great read!" Bernard Cornwell.
Author | : Jean P. Smith |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2022-07-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1526145472 |
Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994. While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit white migrants, the majority of whom were British. At the same time, with the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the British government began to implement restrictions aimed at slowing the migration of British subjects of colour. In all three nations, these policies were aimed at the preservation of nations imagined as white, revealing the persistence of the racial ideologies of empire across the era of decolonisation.
Author | : Dominican sister |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Dominican sisters |
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Author | : Salisbury (Zimbabwe). City Council |
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Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Harare (Zimbabwe) |
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Author | : National Archives of Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
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Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Archives |
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Author | : Central African Archives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Archives |
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British South Africa Company - Zimbabwe -- History -- Sources -- Archives
Author | : Michael Gelfand |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : History |
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