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The purpose of this book is to highlight the most important
documentary evidence available to the family historian wishing to
research their Irish ancestry. It is aimed primarily at researchers
whose time in Irish repositories is limited, and who want to know
what is available locally and online. It covers more than eighteen
individual sources of information, making it simpler to organise
your search and easier to carry it out both locally and on the
ground. Contents: 1. Where to Begin; 2. Administrative Divisions;
3. Civil Registration; 4. Census Returns and Old Age Pension
Claims; 5. Census Substitutes; 6. Wills and Testamentary Records;
7. Election Records; 8. Board of Guardian Records; 9. School
Records; 10. Migration; 11. Emigration; 12. Landed Estate Records;
13. Taxation and Valuation Records; 14. Church Records; 15.
Military Records; 16. Printed Records; 17. Law & Order; 18.
Local Government; 19. Researching Online.
There are many books which tackle the political developments in
Ireland during the nineteenth century. The aim of this book is to
show what life was like during the reign of Queen Victoria for
those who lived in the towns and countryside during a period of
momentous change. It covers a period of sixty-four years
(1837-1901) when the only thing that that connected its divergent
decades and generations was the fact that the same head of state
presided over them. It is a social history, in so far as politics
can be divorced from everyday life in Ireland, examining, changes
in law and order, government intervention in education and public
health, the revolution in transport and the shattering impact of
the Great Famine and subsequent eviction and emigration. The
influence of religion was a constant factor during the period with
the three major denominations, Roman Catholic, Anglican and
Presbyterian, between them accounting for all but a very small
proportion of the Irish population. Schools, hospitals, and other
charitable institutions, orphan societies, voluntary organisation,
hotels, and even public transport and sporting organisations were
organised along denominational lines. On a lighter note, popular
entertainment, superstitions, and marriage customs are explored
through the eyes of the Victorians themselves during the last full
century of British rule.
This long-awaited study of the life and music of Anglo-Irish
composer Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950) finally provides a full
biography of the last senior figure in early twentieth-century
British Music to have been without one. This long-awaited study of
the life and music of Anglo-Irish composer Ernest John Moeran
(1894-1950) finally provides a full biography of the last senior
figure in early twentieth-century British Music to have been
without one. Although Moeran's work was widely performed during his
lifetime, he suffered neglect in the years following his death. It
was not until a re-awakening of appreciation for the music of the
folksong-inspired English pastoralism in the latter part of the
twentieth century that Moeran's tuneful, well-crafted and
approachable music began to attract a new audience. However, widely
accepted misconceptions about his life and character have obscured
a clearunderstanding of both man and composer. Written with the
benefit of access to previously unknown or unresearched archives,
Ernest John Moeran: His Life and Music strips away a hitherto
unchallenged mythological framework, and replaces it by a
thorough-going examination and analysis of the life and work of a
musician that may reasonably be asserted as having been unique in
British music history.
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city
ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and
researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past
and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In
vivid detail it describes the rise of Glasgow through tobacco,
shipping, manufacturing and trade from a minor cathedral town to
the cosmopolitan centre of the present day. Ian Maxwell's book
focuses on the lives of the local people both rich and poor and on
their experience as Glasgow developed around them. It looks at
their living conditions, at health and the ravages of disease, at
the influence of religion and migration and education. It is the
story of the Irish and Highland migrants, Quakers, Jews, Irish,
Italians, and more recently people from the Caribbean, South-Asia
and China who have made Glasgow their home. A wealth of information
on the city and its people is available, and Glasgow Ancestors is
an essential guide for anyone researching its history or the life
of an individual ancestor. institutions, clubs, societies and
schools.
The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an
expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of
material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern
Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census
returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but
others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of
genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the
comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of
Northern Ireland is a key feature of Ian Maxwell's handbook. He
also takes the reader through the records held in many libraries,
museums and heritage centres across the province, and he provides
detailed coverage of records that are available online. Unlike the
rest of the British Isles, which has very extensive civil and
census records, Irish ancestral research is hampered by the
destruction of many of the major collections. Yet Ian Maxwell shows
how family historians can make good use of church records, school
registers and land and valuation records to trace their roots to
the beginning of the nineteenth century and beyond.
Alongside the usual wide-ranging lineup of research articles,
volume 41 features an interview with Berliner Ensemble actor
Annemone Haase and an extensive special section on teaching Brecht.
Now published for the International Brecht Society by Camden House,
the Brecht Yearbook is the central scholarly forum for discussion
of Bertolt Brecht's life and work and of topics of particular
interest to Brecht, especially the politics of literature and of
theater in a global context. It includes a wide variety of
perspectives and approaches, and, like Brecht himself, is committed
to the concept of the use value of literature, theater, and theory.
Volume 41 features an interview with longtime Berliner Ensemble
actor Annemone Haase by Margaret Setje-Eilers. A special section on
teaching Brecht, guest-edited by Per Urlaub and Kristopher
Imbrigotta, includes articles on creative appropriation in the
foreign-language classroom (Caroline Weist), satire in Arturo Ui
and The Great Dictator (Ari Linden), performative discussion (Cohen
Ambrose), Brecht for theater majors (Daniel Smith), teaching
performance studies with the Lehrstuck model (Ian Maxwell),
Verfremdung and ethics (Elena Pnevmonidou), Brecht on the college
stage (Julie Klassen and Ruth Weiner), and methods of teaching
Brechtian Stuckschreiben (Gerd Koch). Other research articles focus
on Harry Smith's Mahagonny (Marc Silberman), inhabiting empathy in
the contemporary piece Temping (James Ball), Brecht's appropriation
of Kurt Lewin's psychology (Ines Langemeyer), and Brecht's
collaborations with women, both across his career (Helen Fehervary)
and in exile in Skovsbostrand (Katherine Hollander). Editor
Theodore F. Rippey is Associate Professor of German at Bowling
Green State University.
To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes--luxurious
country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841, forty percent of
Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social
history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which
ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland's
history from 1800-1914. It covers wide range of aspects of everyday
lives: from work on the many wealthy country estates to grinding
poverty in the towns. It covers the transformative effects of the
railway development and Ireland's first tourist boom, workhouse
life and the new Poor Law system which incarcerated entire families
behind forbidding walls, as well as religious divisions,
educational boycotts, customs, and superstitions.
This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell's Tracing Your
Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to
Scotland's long, complex and fascinating story. It is aimed
primarily at family historians who are eager to explore and
understand the world in which their ancestors lived. He guides
readers through the wealth of material available to researchers in
Scotland and abroad. He looks at every aspect of Scottish history
and at all the relevant resources. As well as covering records held
at the National Archives of Scotland, he examines closely the
information held at local archives throughout the country. He also
describes the extensive Scottish records that are now available on
line. His expert and up-to-date survey is a valuable handbook for
anyone who is researching Scottish history because he explains how
the archive material can be used and where it can be found. For
family historians, it is essential reading as it puts their
research into a historical perspective, giving them a better
insight into the part their ancestors played in the past.
Writing in the immediate aftermath of World War II, wine merchant,
gentleman soldier and cricketer Ian Maxwell Campbell casts an
affectionate and occasionally wistful look back at the Golden Age
of wine, when Bordeaux was affordable, Burgundy's finest vintages
tended towards cannibalism and other wines could be... well,
surprisingly attractive. Among the tales of convivial drinking and
anecdotes involving Winston Churchill and WG Grace, the author
paints a vivid picture of a pre-war (and pre-phylloxera) wine world
whose horizons were about to expand beyond all imagining. Wayward
Tendrils of the Vine, though, is much more than a collection of
reminiscences. As Neal Martin points out in his Introduction: "The
title alone is a perfect allegory for how we learn about wine, how
knowledge grows organically over time, never knowing what the next
bottle will teach us, how it might alter preconceptions or where it
might lead." The Classic Editions breathe new life into some of the
finest wine-related titles written in the English language over the
last 150 years. Although these books are very much products of
their time - a time when the world of fine wine was confined mostly
to the frontiers of France and the Iberian Peninsula and a First
Growth Bordeaux or Grand Cru Burgundy wouldn't be beyond the
average purse - together they recapture a world of convivial,
enthusiastic amateurs and larger-than-life characters whose love of
fine vintages mirrored that of life itself.
Armagh, the smallest county in Northern Ireland, has a rich,
colourful and even tempestuous history. War, famine and emigration
over the last four centuries have all contributed to forming the
distinctive character of its people. The constant struggle between
Planter and Gael that has characterised the county since the
Plantation in the early 17th century may be seen in, form example
the almost equal division of the most popular surnames. The county
town, the city of Armagh, is the ecclesiastical capital of both the
Catholic and Protestant religions on the island. By the end of the
18th century the county became one of the most prosperous and the
most densely populated in Ireland. Its turbulent history has taken
its toll on the evidence that remains. Many records were lost,
including those in the destruction of the Public Record Office in
Dublin in 1922; much has, however, survived to aid the dedicated
family or local historian and is accessible in the detailed
catalogues and user-friendly searching aids in the Public Record
Office of Northern Ireland. Ian Maxwell writes both as an historian
and an archivist eager to encourage researchers to use the fullest
range of sources available. An exceptional feature of this book are
the reference appendices. These include a breakdown of
administrative divisions listing some 1400 townlands and also
unofficial placenames which disappeared from official use after the
standardisation of placenames in the 1830s. Also provided for each
townland are the civil parish, barony, and poor law union plus the
vital district electoral division details that greatly facilitates
the researcher using sources such as census returns and property
valuation records. Other appendices provide crucial archival
references to tithe and valuation records for all parishes in the
county and civil and Catholic parish maps are also included.
Manhunter is the ultimate guide to tracking skills in both wild and
urban environments. Written by an experienced tracker, the book
looks at the qualities and skills you need to track successfully,
the different methods involved, the psychology of tracking, and
strategies to deal with counter-tracking techniques. Covering
Combat Tracking, Hunter Force, Tactical Tracking, Counter IED,
Border Patrol, Police Search, Search and Rescue and Surveillance,
Manhunter will help hone the tracking skills needed to find anyone
on any terrain or in any weather conditions.
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