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Northern Nationalism: Nationalist Polictics Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940

1994réf. AH-GPWK-I4HH1994 Ulster Historical Foundation paperback edition. Some reading wear else good condition. From the cover: Northern Nationalism is the first major study of the political fortunes of the nationalist minority in the north of Ireland during the critical formative period 1890–1940. This witnessed the unfolding dramas of the Home Rule crisis the Irish Revolution Partition and the establishment of a separate political state in the six counties of Northern Ireland. It thus addresses what has long been a glaring gap in modern Irish historical research. This book draws on a vast range of hitherto unavailable original sources. It traces the process whereby the hopes of northern Catholics for all-Ireland self-government as championed by the Home Rule Party of Redmond and Devlin were dashed by the emergence of Partition in the decade after 1914. Dr Phoenix highlights the trauma of the Partition settlement of 1920-21 for the northern minority who as a result found themselves marooned in a Unionist-dominated state. The divisions within northern nationalism Sinn Fein's policy towards the northern Catholics the career of Joseph Devlin and the role of the Roman Catholic Church are all clearly described. The far-reaching impact of the bitter sectarian violence of the early 1920s on the northern Catholic mind is critically examined. The author continues to break new ground assessing the reactions of the diverse strands of northern nationalism – Home Rulers Sinn Feiners and the IRA – to the harsh realities of minority powerlessness in the new state.New light is shed on the attempts of the fledgling Irish governments of Collins and Cosgrave and later de Valera to alleviate the plight of their Ulster supporters. The Craig-Collins Pacts of 1922 are discussed as are the effects of the Irish Civil War on northern nationalism. The history of the ill-fated Irish Boundary Commission is documented for the first time while its legacy of nationalist bitterness and disenchantment is graphically described. A major focus of this pioneering study is the uneasy relationship between the Northern Irish state in the 1920s and 1930s and the Catholic minority which found itself increasingly marginalised by Unionist hostility apparent Dublin abandonment and Whitehall indifference. The author concludes that by 1940 the northern nationalists had become effectively 'a state within a state' and the dragon's teeth of the future 'Troubles' had been sown. Ulster Historical Foundation paperback

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[Phoenix Assurance Company of London]:ABAA

NEW-YORK.THIS POLICY OF ASSURANCE.WITNESSETH THAT blank HAblank PAID THE SUM OF blank TO THE UNDERSIGNED THEOPHYLACT BACHE AND ANDREW BACHE ESQRS. OF NEW-YORK AS AUTHORIZED AGENTS TO THE PHOENIX ASSURANCE-COMPANY OF LONDON FOR INSURANCE FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE.caption title. with: LONDON 1804. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. NEW-YORK. PROPOSALS FROM THE PHOENIX COMPANY OF LONDON FOR INSURING HOUSES BUILDINGS STORES SHIPS IN HARBOUR GOODS WARES AND MERCHANDIZE FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE caption title.

1804réf. 37730London. 1804. Illustrated Fire Insurance Policy Bifolium of two broadsides for the Phoenix fire insurance company of London at the time of the opening of its first agency in New York. The Phoenix Assurance Company still operating today as Phoenix Life Ltd. was founded in 1782 by a consortium of sugar refiners in London seeking more reasonable rates for the insurance of their risky holdings against fire. By the mid-1780s Phoenix had established itself as a successful fire insurer across the whole of Great Britain for a wide array of businesses and homes. In 1785 the Phoenix Company sold its first North American policy at Charleston and the first policy in New York was accepted two years later. It was not until 1804 however that Phoenix began establishing actual agencies in the New World breaking ground in New York with the appointment of Theophylact and Andrew Bache as agents there. The first leaf is a printed policy form for the Phoenix Company in New York never filled in. The second leaf is an advertising broadside for the company containing a table of rates for New York subscribers and a detailed list of conditions for new policies. The handsome copper engraving at the top of the form leaf depicts a helmeted goddess presumably Athena on a pedestal bearing a shield stamped with the word "PROTECTION" and the image of a phoenix rising from ashes. Behind the figure is a nighttime scene of the burning remains of a building and a family of victims spilling onto the street. A team of firefighters is extinguishing the flames with a pump-operated hose and behind them is a scaffolded building under repair. The engraved caption reads: "PHOENIX FIRE OFFICE LOMBARD STREET and CHARING CROSS." A similar illustration in woodcut is included at the head of the "Proposals" broadside. Here the goddess is the only figure depicted. On her left are both the burning building and the new construction; on her right is a ship at sea engulfed in flames. The hooks and axes of the firefighter adorn the sides of the cut. The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature at Harvard lists a copy of the Boston variant of the advertising broadside. The only located institutional holding of this New York issue however is at the Connecticut Historical Society. No records of the printed form in any issue have been located. A rare and interesting pair of documents from the early history of international insurance. Bifolium consisting of one unaccomplished broadside form and one broadside advertisement 19½ x 12 inches. Copper-engraved scene 5¾ x 7 inches at head of form. Woodcut emblem 3 x 4½ inches at head of advertisement. Two vertical and three horizontal folds. Contemporary manuscript inscription "June 1804" in left margin beside engraving in first leaf; contemporary manuscript inscriptions dated November 8 1804 on blank verso of first leaf referring to policy rates in Charleston. Half-inch tear at gutter of first leaf repaired with tape on verso. Portion of upper corner at fore-edge and portion of margin at gutter lacking from second leaf supplied in later paper. Second leaf somewhat faded. Else near fine. KRESS B4839 variant. Clive Trebilcock PHOENIX ASSURANCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH INSURANCE VOLUME I 1782-1870 Cambridge University Press 1985 pp.184-201. unknown books