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William Martin Murphy (Life and Times New Series)
Roger Hargreaves
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Paperback. 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. Series: Historical Association of Ireland Life and Times New Series. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134. William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer, he was an international financier and contractor of railways and tramways. He revolutionalised the Irish newspaper industry, was a patriot who opposed concessions in the Home Rule Bill, supported Sinn Féin as a political party, and vigorously opposed conscription and partition.
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. He revolutionised the Irish newspaper industry, was a patriot who opposed concessions in the Home Rule Bill, supported Sinn Fein as a political party, and vigorously opposed conscription and partition. Although he was a man with a strong social conscience and sense of social responsibility, he came to be viewed as something of an ogre and ... Read more
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. He revolutionised the Irish newspaper industry, was a patriot who opposed concessions in the Home Rule Bill, supported Sinn Fein as a political party, and vigorously opposed conscription and partition. Although he was a man with a strong social conscience and sense of social responsibility, he came to be viewed as something of an ogre and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Historical Association of Ireland Life and Times New Series
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781906359621
SKU
V9781906359621
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Ref
99-21
About Roger Hargreaves
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 ... Read more
Reviews for William Martin Murphy (Life and Times New Series)
'The reissue of Fr Morrissey's brief life of W. M. Murphy is very welcome, as we approach the centenary of the Great Dublin Lock-Out of 1913. A deeply engaged historian of labour movements in Ireland, he provides a succinct account based on such family papers as survive of the career of an extraordinary and influential man who should be known ... Read more