| Story of a Toiler's Life Revised Edition Contributor(s): Mullin, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1900621401 ISBN-13: 9781900621403 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2019 Annotation: This powerful 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 modernizing state which a lucky and enterprising boy could attain at great emotional cost. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Political - History | Europe - Ireland |
| Dewey: 941.508 |
| LCCN: 00559992 |
| Series: Classics of Irish History |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.79" W x 7.35" (0.54 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Ireland |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the story of James Mullin, born in poverty in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, left school at 11 and became a labourer. He later studied medicine and emigrated to Wales where he set up a medical practice in Cardiff. A Fenian and lifelong Republican and activist who revered Michael Davitt, Mullin includes pen portraits of Davitt, Parnell and Patrick Pearse. |