A recent report of the Italian NGO COSV (Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni per il Servizio Volontario) suggests that “it was not until the 1995 Euro-Mediterranean Conference that Italy began to take on a prominent role ...

This chapter explores the nature and function of obituaries and death notices in nineteenth-century Irish provincial newspapers. Employing a sample from a database of newspaper entries, it is argued that the use of obituaries ...

Antonio de la Cierva y Lewita, Conde de Ballobar, served as consul in Jerusalem from 1914 to 1918 leaving behind a diary which has proved to an invaluable source of information on war-time Jerusalem, its population, ...

This article examines how rulers of early modern small states attempted to survive and increase their status in the ever-shifting political world of early eighteenth-century Europe. To do so it takes the example of Duke ...

This chapter discusses the political context for research and interpretation of music in and around Irish country houses— the primary residences of former landowners on their estates— outlining its historical significance ...

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In a country where traditional or ethno-medical practices prevailed well into the twentieth century, the interface between the wider populace and ‘modern medicine’1 was complicated by undercurrents of class, cultural ...

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