From Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation by John O'Hart
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As a tribute of gratitude, and of our respect to the memory of the late Dr. Sullivan for his disinterested goodness and kindness to us when, in the Autumn of 1845, poor and friendless we entered the Training Department of the Board of National Education in Ireland; we here give the following brief narrative from Webb's Compendium of Irish Biography, to commemorate the name of our dear and cherished friend:—
Robert Sullivan, LL.D., Barrister-at-Law, etc., the author of a number of well-known educational works, was born at Holywood, county of Down, in January, 1800. He was educated at the Belfast Academical Institution; graduated in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1829; and, on the introduction of the system of National Education into Ireland in 1831, was appointed an Inspector. He was afterwards transferred to the Training Department, Marlboro' Street, as Professor of English Literature. His Geography, Spelling Book Superseded, Literary Class Book, Grammar, and Dictionary, have gone through numerous editions, and are constantly being reprinted. The touching expressions he received from time to time of the gratitude of those whom his sympathy had encouraged, or his generosity had aided, showed the kindliness of his nature, and his success in communicating-knowledge. He died, s. p., in Dublin, 11th July, 1868, aged 68: and was buried at Holywood.
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From a sad, comfortless childhood Giles Truelove developed into a reclusive and uncommunicative man whose sole passion was books. For so long they were the only meaning to his existence. But when fate eventually intervened to have the outside world intrude upon his life, he began to discover emotions that he never knew he had.
A touching story for the genuine booklover, written by an Irish bookseller under the pseudonym of Ralph St John Featherstonehaugh.
Annals of the Famine in Ireland
Annals of the Famine in Ireland, by Asenath Nicholson, still has the power to shock and sadden even though the events described are ever-receding further into the past. When you read, for example, of the poor widowed mother who was caught trying to salvage a few potatoes from her landlord's field, and what the magistrate discovered in the pot in her cabin, you cannot help but be appalled and distressed.
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Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger
This book, the prequel to Annals of the Famine in Ireland cannot be recommended highly enough to those interested in Irish social history. The author, Mrs Asenath Nicholson, travelled from her native America to assess the condition of the poor in Ireland during the mid 1840s. Refusing the luxury of hotels and first class travel, she stayed at a variety of lodging-houses, and even in the crude cabins of the very poorest. Not to be missed!
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Henry Ford Jones' book, first published in 1915 by Princeton University, is a classic in its field. It covers the history of the Scotch-Irish from the first settlement in Ulster to the American Revolutionary period and the foundation of the country.
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