Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850–1922

Caitriona Clear (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2007
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-7437-0 (ISBN)

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This is the first comprehensive social history of Ireland in the years between the Famine and independence/partition (1850-1922) to appear in a quarter-century, Lively and colourful, it offers new perspectives on work, education, emigration, marriage, health, institutions, extreme poverty, housing and diet. -- .

Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the first comprehensive social history of Ireland for the period 1850-1922 to appear since 1981, tries to understand that knowledge and to discuss those resources on the island, for men and women at all social levels, as a whole.

Using original research, particularly on extreme poverty and public health, and neglected published sources - local history journals, popular autobiography, newspapers - as well as folklore and Irish language sources, this is a remarkable study on a crucial period in Irish history. However, it is also a lively read, reproducing the voices of the people and the stories of individuals whenever it can, questioning much of the accepted wisdom of Irish historiography over the past five decades.

A fascinating book on Irish social history that will be enjoyed by both the student and general reader, written in a non-clichéd, jargon-free style. -- .

Caitriona Clear lectures in modern Irish and European History at NUI, Galway -- .

Acknowledgments
Key dates in Irish political history
Religion: explanatory note

Introduction
Chapter 1: Farm work
Chapter 2: Non-agricultural work
Chapter 3: Education
Chapter 4:Emigration and migration
Chapter 5: Marriage
Chapter 6: Public health
Chapter 7: Institutions
Chapter 8: On the margins: vagrants and prostitutes
Chapter 9: Housing, food, clothes
Conclusion

APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2007
Zusatzinfo	Maps
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7190-7437-1 / 0719074371
ISBN-13	978-0-7190-7437-0 / 9780719074370
Zustand	Neuware