Compassionate stranger :
Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine /
Maureen O'Rourke Murphy.
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published / Created: |
Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2015.
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344) and index. Physical description: xxv, [3], 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm more |
ISBN: | 9780815610441 (cloth) 0815610440 (cloth) |
Table of Contents:
Chronology
Prologue
Puritan beginnings on the Vermont frontier
Social gospels, garrets, and cellars : the New York years, 1831-44
An errand in the wilderness : Nicholson in Ireland in 1844
"A city on a hill," 1845
"If this cup may not pass away from me" : Nicholson begins her famine mission
"Misery without mask" : Mayo in the winter of 1847-48
Back to Cork : "Ireland, I love thee still," 1848
Peace and progress, 1848-52 : Nicholson in the UK and on the Continent
Peace and progress, 1850-51 : lights and shades of Ireland
Last years
Afterword.
Chronology
Prologue
Puritan beginnings on the Vermont frontier
Social gospels, garrets, and cellars : the New York years, 1831-44
An errand in the wilderness : Nicholson in Ireland in 1844
"A city on a hill," 1845
"If this cup may not pass away from me" : Nicholson begins her famine mission
"Misery without mask" : Mayo in the winter of 1847-48
Back to Cork : "Ireland, I love thee still," 1848
Peace and progress, 1848-52 : Nicholson in the UK and on the Continent
Peace and progress, 1850-51 : lights and shades of Ireland
Last years
Afterword.