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19世纪末和20世纪初向各种慈善组织和个人提出的书面和口头请愿书。它不仅试图了解社会的哪些群体感到需要采取这种行动，以及是什么条件和挑战导致他们采取这种行动。它也更深入地研究了请愿书本身，试图引出穷人的声音，突出他们个人的生活经历，正如他们所描述的那样。这项研究将通过分析请愿书的策略、语言和修辞手段，以及出现的任何反复出现的主题，来探索是什么使请愿书成功。

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.