In March 1757 - early in the Seven Years' War - a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community, which were to lay undisturbed in the British archives for the next 250 years. This edited collection is not so much "about" the 1757 Bordeaux-Dublin letters as reflections on themes, perspectives, and questions embedded in the mail of ordinary men, women, and children cut off from home by war in the…mehr
In March 1757 - early in the Seven Years' War - a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community, which were to lay undisturbed in the British archives for the next 250 years. This edited collection is not so much "about" the 1757 Bordeaux-Dublin letters as reflections on themes, perspectives, and questions embedded in the mail of ordinary men, women, and children cut off from home by war in the mid-eighteenth century. The introduction situates the essays within a broad Atlantic context.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Thomas M. Truxes is Clinical Associate Professor of Irish Studies and History at New York University.
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Introduction: A Connected Irish World [Thomas M. Truxes] 1. The Irish Colony in Bordeaux, 1757: A Representative Sample of Irish Communities Abroad? [Nicholas Canny] 2. The Boyds in Bordeaux and Dublin [L.M. Cullen] 3. "Precarious and Dangerous Times": Ireland and France and the Spectre of Invasion, 1690-1760 [James Kelly] 4. Seven Sisters?: The Seaport Cities of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Ireland [David Dickson] 5. Prize-Taking: Its Role in Maritime Strategy and Ultimate Success in the Seven Years' War [Daniel A. Baugh] 6. The Outset and Course of the Seven Years' War in Bordeaux, 1755-1763 [Jean-Pierre Poussou] 7. Fate, Providence, and Trust in the Atlantic [Karen Ordahl Kupperman] 8. Between Lines: Language, Intimacy, and Voyeurism During Global War [Christian Ayne Crouch] 9. "It is with pleasure I lay hold of evry occasion of wrightin": Female Domestic Servants, The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, and the Epistolary Novel [Marie-Louise Coolahan] 10. Spanish Subornment of English and Irish Textile Workers, 1749-1756 [Thomas O'Connor]
Introduction: A Connected Irish World [Thomas M. Truxes] 1. The Irish Colony in Bordeaux, 1757: A Representative Sample of Irish Communities Abroad? [Nicholas Canny] 2. The Boyds in Bordeaux and Dublin [L.M. Cullen] 3. "Precarious and Dangerous Times": Ireland and France and the Spectre of Invasion, 1690-1760 [James Kelly] 4. Seven Sisters?: The Seaport Cities of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Ireland [David Dickson] 5. Prize-Taking: Its Role in Maritime Strategy and Ultimate Success in the Seven Years' War [Daniel A. Baugh] 6. The Outset and Course of the Seven Years' War in Bordeaux, 1755-1763 [Jean-Pierre Poussou] 7. Fate, Providence, and Trust in the Atlantic [Karen Ordahl Kupperman] 8. Between Lines: Language, Intimacy, and Voyeurism During Global War [Christian Ayne Crouch] 9. "It is with pleasure I lay hold of evry occasion of wrightin": Female Domestic Servants, The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, and the Epistolary Novel [Marie-Louise Coolahan] 10. Spanish Subornment of English and Irish Textile Workers, 1749-1756 [Thomas O'Connor]
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