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sector in Trim, the church was situated between the county gaol (1828) and a convent built for the Sisters of Mercy (1867) and reflects the political shaping of nineteenth-century Irish religious space and ... , Hardman of Birmingham (1902), wall mosaics, Oppenheimer of Manchester (1913). Political shaping of religious space is evident in the siting, scale and splendour of St Patrick’s, and in decorative
not centrally co-ordinated events and often the discourse of political coherence functioned as a deceptive fiction managed by exhibition planners and investors.7 The fairs were unpredictable and ... social and political hardship was nowhere to be found in the Chicago Fair. My analysis reveals the tensions between the internal display and its external surroundings instead of assuming a congruence
. Historians have followed this lead by making cholera an exciting cause of political and social change, including the first Reform Bill. This essay suggests that the sporadic incursions of cholera were less a ... cholera were less a spur to reform than a distraction from the perpetual, or endemic, causes of death, which are inevitably those with the closest connections with the social, economic and political
started to unpack this, but understanding how Catholics influenced colonial development and imperial policy requires much more work.6 Ties of trade, political union through the commonwealth, tourism, and ... become known as the ‘Revolutionary Atlantic’. This fascination with the French and American revolutions has ‘concentrated Atlantic questions upon the political and diplomatic history’ of both nations as
even no faith.4 Hervieu-Léger describes the legal and political settings in which religious expression must be negotiated as framing the ‘territorial modalities of the communalization of religions’, and ... and, even with political independence, the capital of Ireland never yet claimed a central site for a prominent Catholic edifice. Nevertheless a renegotiation of the Catholic presence was undertaken and
statements or messages than many established during the same period. This was a direct result of the religious and political tussle that resulted in its establishment. During the 1820s and 1830s the issue of ... over that space. In this context, space became the important medium or method of political conflict. The debate that arose at this time was not just a question of religious freedoms, but also of the
metonym for political violence. I show how Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the most enduring and popular novel in this archive, is so capacious in its allegorical accommodations that it has been read as ... political maladies. Extant scholarship accordingly identifies Stoker’s vampirism as a successful projection of a range of Victorian anxieties: the poverty of the rural masses arriving in London; migrants from
‘defend traditional rights’ ‘in the political strategies and disputes of the various religious groupings’ at the time.29 Digging up bodies was a tool utilized by some as a form of protest or to make a
also be expanded to include social, discursive, and political contexts.14 Contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century church spaces frequently describe the sensory environment created for worship, and
and moral philosophy. Ovenstone did not share the moral purpose of Hill and Adamson but this may now be seen as a strength. The notion of ‘heteroglossia’ or the positive need for the presence of the
. That said, when he became Bishop of London he was inconsistent in his political actions. He stepped back from prominent support of the dock workers’ strike, leaving the Roman Catholic Cardinal Manning in
variety of the often labouring-class subjectivities figured in the texts works to further disrupt the conventional historical view of a region united in moral and political sympathy with the Union cause, as ... moral and political sympathy with the Union cause.2 It also provides a greater understanding of a moment in history where poetry mediates the relationship between the Victorian global and local in
importance is the extent to which forms of power – institutional, political, social – underwrite and structure male identity. This introduction maps out the landscape of a New Agenda that views male experience ... semi-autobiographical fiction. An important facet of these explorations is the extent to which forms of power – institutional, political, social – underwrite and structure identity. Middle-class men
social capital (see below), the creation or re-creation of which, according to Putnam (2000:40114), would reverse the trend of declining civic engagement. Family, Social Cohesion, and Political ... (inclusion and equality), political (legitimacy and participation), and socio-cultural (recognition and belonging) dimensions (Jenson, 1998; Bernard, 1999). Social cohesion and families are intertwined. Over
petty political or financial considerations. As Dickens turns toward consideration of the connections within a larger community in the early 1850s, he seems simultaneously to turn away from a world ... to India, Canada or even Scotland. Likewise, in Manchester lies the political hope of the future, with the elder Rouncewell son. Dickens invokes a kind of Little-Englandism, with little regard for the
social capital (see below), the creation or re-creation of which, according to Putnam (2000:40114), would reverse the trend of declining civic engagement. Family, Social Cohesion, and Political ... (inclusion and equality), political (legitimacy and participation), and socio-cultural (recognition and belonging) dimensions (Jenson, 1998; Bernard, 1999). Social cohesion and families are intertwined. Over
emergence of the Enlightenment, only to linger in the margins of ‘folk humour’, despised by the discerning critics of the middle class.16 This fits into the political interpretation of subversive laughter
The Italian research institutions in the field of oncology are moving the first steps towards the philosophy of OA. The main effort should be the implementation of common procedures also in order to ... to publish research articles in OA journals. Among the most recent Italian initiatives aimed at promoting the OA philosophy, it is worth mentioning the launch in 2008 of the Italian wiki on open
institutions in the field of oncology are moving the first steps towards the philosophy of OA. The main effort should be the implementation of common procedures also in order to connect scientific publications ... Italian initiatives aimed at promoting the OA philosophy, it is worth mentioning the launch in 2008 of the Italian wiki on open access[8], conceived as a reference point on Italian projects and best
Burland proclaimed the memorial to the Queen in defence of the political prisoners awaiting trial for their part in the Birmingham ‘riots’. As Yorkshire police rounded up Chartist agitators, Burland fled to ... societies, invariably established as auxiliary organizations to support the political rights of men. Susanna Inge is one of even fewer women known to have spoken on the Chartist platform and to have attracted
