Father Mathew's Crusade: Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America by John Quinn

Father Mathew's Crusade: Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America

John Quinn

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For centuries, the Irish have been famed, and often derided, for their attachment to alcohol. Yet in the 1830s and 1840s, Ireland became a temperance stronghold. The man almost singlehandedly responsible for this surprising transformation was Fath...

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