Voices of Ulster's Poor: Charitable Requests, 1850s-1920s

该项目的目的是审查阿尔斯特穷人在十九世纪末和二十世纪初向各种慈善组织和个人提出的书面和口头请愿书。它不仅试图理解哪些社会群体认为有必要采取这一行动方针，以及是什么条件和挑战促使他们采取这一方针。它还更深入地审视请愿书本身，试图发出穷人的声音，突出他们所描述的个人生活贫困的经历。这项研究将通过对请愿策略、语言和修辞手段的分析，以及任何反复出现的主题来探索是什么使请愿成功。

The aim of the project is to examine both written and oral petitions made by the poor of Ulster to various charitable organisations and individuals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It seeks not just to comprehend which groups of society felt the need to resort to this course of action, and what conditions and challenges led them to it. It also looks more deeply at the petitions themselves, in an attempt to draw out the voices of the poor and foreground their individual, lived experiences of poverty as they described it. The research will explore what made petitions successful through an analysis of the strategies, language and rhetorical devices used, and any recurring themes which arise.