Compassionate stranger : Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine / / Maureen O'Rourke Murphy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460207503321
• Autore: Murphy Maureen O'Rourke
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-8156-5289-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations, photographs
• Collana: Irish Studies
• Disciplina: 941.5081092
• Soggetti: Missionaries - United States - 19th century; Philanthropists - United States - 19th century; Electronic books.; Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chronology -- Prologue -- Puritan beginnings on the Vermont frontier -- Social gospels, garrets, and cellars : the New York years, 1831-44 -- An errand in the wilderness : Nicholson in Ireland in 1844 -- "A city on a hill," 1845 -- "If this cup may not pass away from me" : Nicholson begins her famine mission -- "Misery without mask" : Mayo in the winter of 1847-48 -- Back to Cork : "Ireland, I love thee still," 1848 -- Peace and progress, 1848-52 : Nicholson in the UK and on the Continent -- Peace and progress, 1850-51 : lights and shades of Ireland -- Last years -- Afterword.