Women of the Country House in Ireland, 1860-1914

Women of the Country House in Ireland, 1860-1914
Author: Maeve O'Riordan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781786941244

Drawing the reader in to the private world of the Country House in Ireland in the decades before the First World War, this book unveils the life experience of three generations of women among some of Ireland's wealthiest families, allowing the reader to understand their roles in the Country House. Based on personal records from twelve different families.

Women and Music in Ireland

Women and Music in Ireland
Author: Laura Watson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2022-12-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1783277556

Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland.

Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925

Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925
Author: Maria Luddy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1108486177

Explores how marriage in Ireland was perceived, negotiated and controlled by church and state as well as by individuals across three centuries.

Growing Up in Nineteenth-century Ireland

Growing Up in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Author: Mary Hatfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198843429

A comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland, which explores how the notion of childhood fluctuated depending on class, gender, and religious identity, and presents invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

Gender and History

Gender and History
Author: Jyoti Atwal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2022-08-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000683877

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.

Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Leeann Lane
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781381828

"It has often been argued that 'modern' leisure was born in the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War One. Then, it has been suggested, that if leisure was not 'invented' its forms and meanings changed. Despite the recent expansion of the literature on Irish popular cultures - perhaps most strikingly sport - the conceptions, purposes, and practical manifestations of leisure among the Irish during this critical period have yet to receive the attention they deserve. This collection represents an attempt to address this. In twelve essays that explore vibrant expressions of associational culture, the emergence of new leisure spaces, literary manifestations and representations of leisure, the pleasures and purposes of travel, and the leisure pursuits of elite women the collection offers a variety of perspectives on the volume's theme. As becomes apparent in these studies, all manner of activity, from music to football, reading to dining, travel to photography, dancing to dining, visiting to cycling, child's play to fighting and attitudes to these were shaped not just by the drive to pleasure but by ideas of class, respectability, improvement and social control as well as political, social, educational, medical and religious ideologies." --

Irish Women and the Great War

Irish Women and the Great War
Author: Fionnuala Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108871674

This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various different forms, such as nursing wounded soldiers, preparing hospital supplies and parcels of comforts, undertaking auxiliary military roles in port areas or behind the lines, and producing weapons of war. However, the war's impact was also felt beyond direct mobilisation, affecting women's household management, family relations, standard of living, and work conditions and opportunities. Drawing on extensive research in archives in Ireland and Britain, Walsh brings women's wartime experience out of the historical shadow and examines welfare and domestic life, bereavement, social morality, employment, war service, politicisation, and demobilisation to challenge ideas of emancipation and reflect upon the significant impact of the Great War on Irish society.

Sound Heritage

Sound Heritage
Author: Jeanice Brooks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-12-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000473562

Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants and their surroundings - including aspects of social and cultural life beyond the activity of music making itself - and explores how music as sound, material, and practice can be more consistently and engagingly integrated into the curation and interpretation of historic houses. The volume is structured around a selection of thematic chapters and a series of shorter case studies, each focusing on a specific house, object or project. Key themes include: Different types of historic house, including the case of the composer or musician house; what can be learned from museums and galleries about the use of sound and music and what may not transfer to the historic house setting Musical instruments as part of a wider collection; questions of restoration and public use; and the demands of particular collection types such as sheet music Musical objects and pieces of music as storytelling components, and the use of music to affectively colour narratives or experiences. This is a pioneering study that will appeal to all those interested in the intersection between Music and Museum and Heritage Studies. It will also be of interest to scholars and researchers of Music History, Popular Music, Performance Studies and Material Culture.

Ourselves Alone

Ourselves Alone
Author: Janet A. Nolan
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813147603

In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources—many of which appear here for the first time—including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from Irish and American census and emigration repots, Janet Nolan makes a sustained analysis of this migration of a generation of young women that puts a new light on Irish social and economic history. By the late nineteenth century changes in Irish life combined to make many young women unneeded in their households and communities; rather than accept a marginal existence, they elected to seek a better life in a new world, often with the encouragement and help of a female relative who had already emigrated. Mary Ann Donovan's journey was representative of thousands of journeys made by Irish women who could truly claim that they had seized control over their lives, by themselves, alone. This book tells their story.

American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective

American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective
Author: Cathal Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2021-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000358054

This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords. The book focuses primarily on the comparative and transnational investigation of an antebellum Mississippi planter named John A. Quitman (1799–1858) and a nineteenth-century Irish landlord named Robert Dillon, Lord Clonbrock (1807–93), examining their economic behaviors, ideologies, labor relations, and political histories. Locating Quitman and Clonbrock firmly within their wider local, national, and international contexts, American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective argues that the two men were representative of specific but comparable manifestations of agrarian modernity, paternalism, and conservatism that became common among the landed elites who dominated economy, society, and politics in the antebellum American South and in nineteenth-century Ireland. It also demonstrates that American planters and Irish landlords were connected by myriad direct and indirect transnational links between their societies, including transatlantic intellectual cultures, mutual participation in global capitalism, and the mass migration of people from Ireland to the United States that occurred during the nineteenth century.