The story of a toiler's life
By: James Mullin ; edited by Patrick Maume.
Contributors: Maume, Patrick.
Series: Classics of Irish history,
Publisher: University College Dublin Press; U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dublin; Chester Springs, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Mullin, James, 1846-1920; Physicians -- Great Britain -- Biography; Nationalism -- Ireland -- History; Ireland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This memoir gives new insights into the experiences and forgotten hopes of the white-collar professionals who provided late nineteenth-century Irish nationalism with its activists. First published in 1921, after the author's death, the book's unfashionable political and religious attitudes ensured its neglect, although it includes memorable vignettes of meetings with Parnell, Davitt and Pearse. It gives an invaluable description of the poverty and sectarian divisions of post-Famine rural Ulster and the anti-Irish prejudices of Britain in the 1880s, but also of the new opportunities provided by a slowly modernising state which a lucky and enterprising boy could attain at great emotional cost."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xvi).
Distribution statement on p. [4] of cover.
Originally published: Dublin : Maunsel & Roberts, 1921.