Domestic Servants in Dublin, 1880–1920

Dublin , Dublin , Ireland

Evaluation of Public Servants’ Acceptability of Public-Private Partnership in Housing Delivery for Low-Income Public Servants in Akure, Nigeria

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

Angels and Other Servants

In politics as in history, masters accomplish great things, but often, lowly beings such as servants perform those tasks. At times, they subvert them. In science, servant-beings are frequently described as demons and angels. Who are these effective agents? This essay traces parts of the large historical network of persons and places in which ‘little helpers’ service their master’s will. It look...

Of Sovereigns and Servants

Suicide in Dublin.

Since no work had previously been done on suicide in Ireland, we decided to study suicide in Dublin over a 10-year period. We were especially concerned to establish a reliable suicide rate for the area under consideration and by extension to draw some hypothetical conclusions about suicide in the country as a whole. We were also interested in investigating the social, economic, and medical patt...