The World Upturning

Name: The World Upturning
Brand: Irish Academic Press
SKU: 9781908928146-G
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Elsie Henry's diaries from 1913-1919 are a personal record of wartime life in Ireland and of her own work at the Red Cross depot at the College of Science in Dublin. She writes of her concerns for her brothers and for her friends fighting in World War I with the British and Canadian forces in France and Mesopotamia, as well as of her father's war work in London. These diaries, which began in the first year of her residence in Ireland and continued as a war record, display information received daily by an ordinary citizen and also include newspaper cuttings and letters. However, the diaries have a wider historical value. Through her Stopford relations, Elsie Henry had long-standing family connections to important Anglo-Irish families, and, through her aunt Alice Stopford Green, she met a more nationalist political group. In her Dublin home, Elsie entertained a fascinating array of people - such as W.B. Yeats, Eoin McNeill, Bulmer Hobson, and AE - and she faithfully recorded their discus

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Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 296
Publisher:: Irish Academic Press
Publication Date:: 2013-01-01
ISBN / EAN:: 9781908928146
Weight:: 612 g
Dimensions:: 16/24/3 cm

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