History Studies: University of Limerick History Society Vol (14)

peer-reviewedWe are pleased to present volume fourteen of History Studies. This editions contains eight essay’s based on the work of both undergraduates and postgraduates students’ in both Irish and British universities. The essays include topical issues about the Home Rule crisis and the Labour Movement, the role of Irish nurses in the First World War and the protests by the poet Siegfried Sassoon against the brutality of the Great War. In addition, there is a variety of other subjects ranging from the Shepeardes Calanders in the reign of Elizabeth I to the anti-smoking campaigns of Nazi Germany in the twentieth century.These essays demonstrate that History Studies is continuing to provide a platform for cutting edge research by both undergraduate and postgraduate students’. The wide variety of essays presented also demonstrates that there is an appetite among history students’ for historical knowledge. It is that search for knowledge that will ensure that the journal will continue to thrive into the future.Contents -- Preface -- Foward -- Acknowledgements -- Editorial -- Puritan faith and forward protestant politics in Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calendar (1579), Declan Mills -- The home rule crisis and the arming of the labour movement, 1913-14, Jeffrey Leddin -- Poetry, protest and propaganda: The First World War told through the experiences of Siegfried Sassoon, Cliodhna Conboye -- The effect of public opinion on the case of Dr Langley in Nenagh, Co Tipperary 1849 – 1850, Mary Williams -- Up in smoke: The nazi anti-tobacco campaign, Conor Heffernan -- Heroes, villains and scapegoats: understanding Cathal Goulding, Kenneth Sheehy -- How did medieval beliefs about the spiritual world shape attitudes towards the church and its role in society?, Aishling McCabe -- ‘Framing the women’: Putting two Tipperary women in the Great War picture, Alice Mc Dermot