The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland
Author: John P. Prendergast
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1909906204

The legacy of Oliver Cromwell is still haunts the Irish imagination. His alleged directive to the Catholic Irish to get ""to Hell or Connaught,"" and the policy that drove it, permanently altered the ownership of Irish soil.The Parliamentary forces' civil war against Charles I were enmeshed in a ruthless campaign against popery and the Catholic perpetrators of the assault on the Protestant colonists of 1641. The legacy of sectarianism has marred Irish politics to this day. Prendergast's research reveals his keen eye for evidence. His dismissal of the colonists' claims about the nature of the uprising of 1641 and his attitudes to race are contested, but he was a man of his times. More significantly his prejudices did not blind him and he lets his sources speak for themselves, while his analytical mind identifies the underlying economic motivation and forces behind the apparently civilising religious mission driving the settlement.

Maggie and Pierre & the Duchess

Maggie and Pierre & the Duchess
Author: Linda Griffiths
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9781770911802

Winner of the first Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Maggie and Pierre chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980. In this mock epic tale three characters, Pierre, Margaret, and Henry, a newspaper reporter navigate the landscape of a changing nation and opposing ideals. The Duchess tells the story of Wallis Simpson, the infamous woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated his throne in 1936. Wallis was brazen and sexual, and unintentionally steered the course of British history as she captivated the king. An inspired epic, The Duchess traverses between a straightforward narrative and magic realism.

Respectable Burial

Respectable Burial
Author: Brian Young
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773570985

Respectable Burial also highlights how important a role Montreal played in Canada's history. The cemetery is the final resting place of politician Alexander Galt, poet F.R. Scott, hockey star Howie Morenz, explorer David Thompson, bank presidents, renegades, hangmen, and victims of the Titanic. This history of a model rural cemetery, an innovator in perpetual care and proprietor of the first crematorium in Canada, illustrates changing attitudes to burial and commemoration - including the relationships between Protestantism, Romanticism, and death. Young also shows how the cemetery, a site of great natural beauty that helped inspire Frederick Law Olmsted's adjacent Mount Royal Park, became a much-loved public urban space and examines how the evolution of its landscaping, architecture, and use reflect changing attitudes to the place of women, recreation, heritage, and the environment. Incorporating a rich collection of archival illustrations, walking maps, and a colour photo essay by photographer Geoffrey James, Respectable Burial will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian history, parks, and cities.

Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914

Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914
Author: Hugh McLeod
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 267
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312158057

This book begins with a social portrait of each of the characteristic forms of religion and irreligion that flourished in Victorian England, including Anglicans, Dissenters, Catholics, Jews, Secularists, and the indifferents.

Secularizing the Faith

Secularizing the Faith
Author: David Brian Marshall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 325
Release: 1992
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802068798

The intellectual ferment of the Victorian era posed a substantial challenge to religious institutions. In Canada as elsewhere the focus of religious belief, especially in the Protestant sects, shifted perceptibly away from spiritual concerns. Marshall (history, U. of Calgary) explores the ways in which the clergy responded to these changes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Canadian Protestant and Catholic Missions, 1820s-1960s

Canadian Protestant and Catholic Missions, 1820s-1960s
Author: John Webster Grant
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

Essays presented at a joint meeting of the American Society of Church History and the Canadian Society of Church History at McMaster University in April 1987.