02482nam 2200613 450 991046020750332120200520144314.00-8156-5289-5(CKB)3710000000324162(SSID)ssj0001481220(PQKBManifestationID)12582261(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481220(PQKBWorkID)11498316(PQKB)10233857(MiAaPQ)EBC4649075(OCoLC)902702226(MdBmJHUP)muse37760(Au-PeEL)EBL4649075(CaPaEBR)ebr11249959(CaONFJC)MIL945664(EXLCZ)99371000000032416220160905h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCompassionate stranger Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine /Maureen O'Rourke MurphyFirst edition.Syracuse, New York :Syracuse University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (400 pages) illustrations, photographsIrish StudiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8156-1076-9 0-8156-1044-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Irish studies.MissionariesUnited States19th centuryBiographyPhilanthropistsUnited States19th centuryBiographyIrelandHistoryFamine, 1845-1852Electronic books.MissionariesPhilanthropists941.5081092Murphy Maureen O'Rourke163603MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460207503321Compassionate stranger2475828UNINA