Happiness in nineteenth-century Ireland
2021
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Main title:
Happiness in nineteenth-century Ireland / edited by Mary Hatfield.
Author:
Hatfield, Mary, editor
Imprint:
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Collation:
vi, 240 pages : facsims, photographs (black and white) ; 24 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Contents: Introduction Mary Hatfield. Happiness and the Irish Nation. 1. Expressions of Joy Among Catholic, Ribbon and Hibernian Processionists During the Long Nineteenth Century Kerron O Luain -- 2. The Crimean War, 1854-6: Ireland's Happiest Nineteenth-Century War Paul Huddie -- Social Conditions and Prescriptions for Happiness. 3. 'Money Can('t) Buy Me...?' Health and Wealth in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction and Memoir Kristina Varade -- 4. A Consecrated Word: Happiness in the Thought of Alexander Knox (1757-1831) David McCready -- 5. 'Was the carver happy while he was about it?' Trinity's Museum Building (1853-7) and the Ruskinian Principle of Happiness -- Andrew Tierney 6. Children's Happiness and Unhappiness in the Irish Workhouse Institution, 1850-1914 Simon Gallaher -- Cultures of Expression: Representations of Happiness. 7. 'Hope for happier days': Happiness in the Letters between Siblings in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Ulster Families Shannon Devlin -- 8. Finding Happiness in Irish Lullabies, 1860-1910 Ciara Thompson -- 9. 'Happiness is a warm gun': What Were the Determinants of Happy Lives for the Irish Gentry? Ian D'alton -- 10. 'To us, books were the great joy in life': Emotional Expression in Female Reading Records in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Mai Yatani -- 11. 'Hardly worth your while': The Pursuit of Happiness in Twentieth-Century Ireland? Anne Dolan.
ISBN:
9781800348257 (hbk)1800348258 (hbk)
Dewey class:
941.5081
Language:
English
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BRN:
617015
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