Samples, Sewing & Simplicity in Quaker Ireland

Samples, Sewing & Simplicity in Quaker IrelandThe book grew out of the author's love for textiles and design, her interest in history and the discovery of the rich and varied collection of needlework and textiles in the Friends Historical Library in Dublin. Chapters include a brief introduction to Quakerism from a spiritual and historical angle. Emphasis on equality attached to the education of girls and many chapters devoted to clothing, furnishing and practical applications for sewing.

Moving beyond Irish verse's preoccupation with history

Its heroine

A humorous book filled with colourful phrases we love

'A beautiful

through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment

Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of that future: far more immediate was the unfolding disaster of the First World War that had put 'home rule' issues on ice for the duration

yet have also found old titles – even much loved ones – unable to keep my attention in the way they usually would

Yanka has always wondered about where she is from

James shows how people have been fooled into thinking the way they do

from dolphins in Kerry to castles in Cork there's something for everyone on the wild west coast

unrelenting currents of obsession

Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms