“abandoned women and bad characters”: prostitution in nineteenth-century ireland

Bonds without Bondsmen: Tenant-Right in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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The Status of Women in the Nineteenth Century Victorian England

The aim of this study is to examine Charlotte Bronte‘s contribution to the feminist question in her selected novel Jane Eyre. The study shows how Bronte‘s novel examines the suffering of women and how they could overcome difficulties and achieve success.It is clear that Charlotte ideology in her portrayal of her heroine based on her real world, established herself as a distinguished feminist wo...

Estate ownership and management in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland

Throughout the nineteenth century in Ireland, landownership was the preserve of a privileged minority. In 1804, there were an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 landed proprietors in a population of around 5.4 million people. This minority was almost exclusively protestant with only about 5 per cent of land in catholic hands. This was as a direct result of the confiscations of catholic owned property wh...

Colonialism and the truncation of science in Ireland and French Canada during the nineteenth century.

Population Trends in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ireland: A Loca l Study

The investigation of Irish demographic trends in the half century following the Famine has generally been conducted using figures relating to large areas. In this paper an attempt is made to examine the applicability of some of the hypotheses that have been developed in this context to the demographic changes that occurred in one particular community and which have been investigated in the cour...