ISBN:
9780716531883
,
9780716531913
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 378 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain and Europe : Historical Perspectives
DDC:
393.0941
Keywords:
Death Social aspects
;
History
Abstract:
Death and Dying in Ireland, Britain, and Europe provides a unique new perspective on Irish history and is a truly multi-disciplinary and dynamic approach to an emerging style called the 'new social history.' It is a pioneering book that presents a history of death and dying in Ireland and Europe, from pre-history to the 20th century, focusing on virtually every era and from a diverse and broad range of perspectives. Martyrdom is examined through the phenomenon of the hunger strike and its impact on Irish life, and in particular, the Cork and Brixton hunger strikes of 1920. The history of suic
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Matter; Contents; Acknowledgements; Figures, Maps, Tables; Abbreviations; The Contributors; Introduction; Notes; CHAPTER 1; Engaging with Prehistoric Life and Death: The Changing Relationship of the Living and the Dead over the Course of Irish Prehistory; Notes; CHAPTER 2; Burial in Early Medieval Ireland: Politics and Religion; Notes; CHAPTER 3; Cromwell and Plunkett: Two Early Modern Heads Called Oliver; Notes; CHAPTER 4; The Last Gasp: Death and the Family in Early Modern London; Notes; Suicide in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; CHAPTER 5; Notes; CHAPTER 6
Description / Table of Contents:
Rethinking Death in the Year II: The Dechristianization of Death in Revolutionary FranceNotes; CHAPTER 7; Forgetting to Remember ORR: Death and Ambiguous Rememberance in Modern Ireland; Notes; Varieties of Irish Famine Death; CHAPTER 8; Notes; CHAPTER 9; Suicide Statistics as Moral Statistics: Suicide, Sociology and the State; Notes; CHAPTER 10; Death Notices and Obituaries in Provincial Irish Newspapers, 1820-1900; Notes; CHAPTER 11; Wandering Graveyards, Jumping Churches and Rogue-Corpses: Tolerance and Intolerance in Irish Folklore; Notes; CHAPTER 12
Description / Table of Contents:
Dying, Death and Hunger Strike: Cork and Brixton, 1920Notes; CHAPTER 13; Problematic Killing During The War of Independence and its Aftermath: Civilian Spies and Informers; Notes; The Mutations of Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland, c. 1850-2005; CHAPTER 14; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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