William Martin Murphy

Informationen zum Autor Thomas J. Morrissey! SJ! is a graduate of the National University of Ireland! and a former headmaster of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick and president of the National College of Industrial Relations Dublin. He has written some thirteen books on Irish Labour! Ecclesiastical! Jesuit! and Educational History. These include Towards a National University: William Delany! SJ! 1835-1924 (Dublin 1983)! As One Sent: Peter Kenney! SJ! 1779-1841 (Dublin 1996)! William J. Walsh! Archbishop of Dublin! 1841-1921 (Dublin 2000)! William O'Brien! 1881-1968. Socialist! Republican! and Trades Union Leader (Dublin 2007)! Jesuits in Hong Kong! South China and Beyond! 1926-2006 (Hong Kong! 2008)! Edward J. Byrne! 1872-1941: The Forgotten Archbishop of Dublin (Dublin 2010)! and editor of Social Teaching of James Connolly (Dublin 1991). Klappentext A man with a strong social conscience and sense of social responsibility! William Martin Murphy has long been viewed as something of an ogre - as the man who starved the workers of Dublin into submission in 1913-14 and called for the execution of James Connolly in 1916. This revised biography re-examines Murphy's remarkable career. Thomas J. Morrissey! SJ! is a former headmaster of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick and president of the National College of Industrial Relations Dublin. He has written some thirteen books on Irish Labour! Ecclesiastical! Jesuit! and Educational History. Zusammenfassung William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer! Murphy was an international financier! and a contractor of railways and tramways on three continents as well as in Britain and Ireland. This book re-examines Murphy's career. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction; Early Years! 1845-63; Expanding a Business! Tramways and Light Rail! Political Interests! 1863-90; Murphy! Dr Walsh and the Parnell Split! 1890-1900; Electric Tramways! Independent Newspapers! and Charges of Philistinism! 1895-1913; Labour and the Employers! 1907-14; Home Rule! the Easter Rising! and Partition! 1912-17; Convention and Conscription! 1917-18; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index. ...

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Morrissey, Thomas J. Morrissey
• Publisher: University College of Dublin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.2011
• EAN: 9781906359621
• ISBN: 978-1-906359-62-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Historical Association of Ireland Life and Times New Series; Life and Times New; Life and Times New Series; Historical Association of Ireland Life and Times New Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries