At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John WhiteMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 Αυγ 1990 - 264 σελίδες In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was actually John's sister. Further, he suggests that John White can be best understood by recognizing that he was in fact Eliza! |
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... Protestant name ( as was White ) and that the McCormacks , like the Whites ( with whom they intermarried ) , were poor farmers and artisans who had settled in small Prot- estant enclaves among the overwhelmingly Catholic and unde ...
... Protestant name ( as was White ) and that the McCormacks , like the Whites ( with whom they intermarried ) , were poor farmers and artisans who had settled in small Prot- estant enclaves among the overwhelmingly Catholic and unde ...
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... Protestant by habit . Her husband , John C. White , was one by fervent conviction . Like most Protestants , they scoffed at the superstitions of the Catholic peasantry . Holy water , charms and amulets were already suspect ; now the ...
... Protestant by habit . Her husband , John C. White , was one by fervent conviction . Like most Protestants , they scoffed at the superstitions of the Catholic peasantry . Holy water , charms and amulets were already suspect ; now the ...
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... Protestants , the Whites considered themselves to be a step above the superstitious papists . In truth , however , the Protestants were every bit as given to portents ( “ freets ” ) , faith healing , and the supernatural as the ...
... Protestants , the Whites considered themselves to be a step above the superstitious papists . In truth , however , the Protestants were every bit as given to portents ( “ freets ” ) , faith healing , and the supernatural as the ...
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... Protestants from England and Scotland . In 1610 Donegal Castle , the last mansion of the great O'Donnell chiefs of the ... Protestant pen- insula in a Catholic sea . The White's cottage - cum - foundry was only three - quarters of a mile ...
... Protestants from England and Scotland . In 1610 Donegal Castle , the last mansion of the great O'Donnell chiefs of the ... Protestant pen- insula in a Catholic sea . The White's cottage - cum - foundry was only three - quarters of a mile ...
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... Protestant . " Mother , why do we go with Mr Johnston , and not to that man Duggan ? " John Oge once asked . " Because he is one of ours , " was the reply . In Donegal town , even to a four- year - old , that was explanation enough ...
... Protestant . " Mother , why do we go with Mr Johnston , and not to that man Duggan ? " John Oge once asked . " Because he is one of ours , " was the reply . In Donegal town , even to a four- year - old , that was explanation enough ...
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At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack and John White Donald Harman Akenson,Don Akenson Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1992 |
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