When Alexander Bowman was elected in Belfast Corporation as Labour member in Duncairn in 1897, the very idea that he would still be remembered a century later for his relentless championing of the working class cause appeared unthinkable. Yet Bowman, a near penniless flaxdresser from a humble farming background, richly deserves his place in Irish political and labour history. Twelve years earlier in 1885, following his key role in the birth of organised trade unionism in Belfast, he had been the first working-class Irishman to seek a seat at Westminister. His subsequent support for Gladstone's Home Rule bill and the Dublin parliament which he believed offered the best hope of bringing together Irish people of all persuasions, attracted much criticism. Forced to leave Belfast in 1888, he found himself immersed in the embryonic socialist movements first in Glasgow and then in London. Returning with new ideas to the Belfast trade union fold in 1895, he won the Corporation seat two years later and in 1901 was elected President of the Irish Trade Union Congress. This biography, by his journalist great-grandson Terence Bowman, pays long-overdue tribute to a labour pioneer who, at great personal cost, dedicated his life sufficiently to the welfare of the working classes to earn their, and now our, respect as a People's Champion.

Genius of American Education

Cremin, L.

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd)

Ethnographic Atlas

Murdock, George Peter

Competitive Interference and Twentieth Century Diplomacy

Cottam, Richard W.

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Man Against Darkness, and Other Essays

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Stace, Walter Terence

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Mott, Basil J.F., Anatomy Of A Coordinating Council: Implications For Planning

Anatomy of a Coordinating Council: Implications for Planning,

Mott, Basil J. F.

Shouting at No One

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Lawrence, Joseph

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Gathers poems about fear, loss, memory, redemption, birth, death, childhood, love, sleep, nature, and secrets

Elegy on Independence Day

SMITH, ARTHUR

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The Runner

Gildner, Gary

Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide

<p>Historically, bridges were covered to protect their wooden surfaces from the weather. Today, covered bridges are viewed as charming but rare artifacts of our past. Pennsylvania, the site of the first covered bridge in the United States (over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia), is the state with the most surviving structures.</p>
<p>Benjamin and June Evans visited every bridge for this updated edition, taking new photographs and noting changes since the writing of their 1991 first edition. The builder's name, truss type and number of spans, the condition, length, and width, current owner, and waterway it crosses, specific location, and precise travel directions to each structure are all outlined for each of the 220 bridges documented in this new edition.</p>

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