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__NOTOC__ Alice Stopford Green (30 May 1847 – 28 May 1929) was an Irish historian and nationalist. She was born Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford in Kells, County Meath. Her father Edward Adderley Stopford was Rector of Kells and Archdeacon of Meath. Her paternal grandfather was Edward Stopford, the Church of Ireland Bishop of Meath, and she was a cousin of Stopford Brooke. From 1874 to 1877 she lived in London where she met the historian John Richard Green. They were married in Chester on 14 June 1877.〔"England, Cheshire Parish Registers, 1538-2000", index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7M6-SFR : accessed 11 Mar 2014), John Richard Green and Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford, 1877.〕 He died in 1883. John Morley published her first historical work ''Henry II'' in 1888. In the 1890s she became interested in Irish history and the nationalist movement as a result of her friendship with John Francis Taylor.〔 She was vocal in her opposition to English colonial policy in South Africa during the Boer Wars and supported Roger Casement's Congo Reform movement.〔 Her 1908 book ''The Making of Ireland and its Undoing'' argued for the sophistication and richness of the native Irish civilisation.〔 Stopford Green was active in efforts to make the prospect of Home Rule more palatable to Ulster Unionists.〔 She was closely involved in the Howth gun-running. She moved to Dublin in 1918 where her house at 90 St Stephen's Green became an intellectual centre.〔 She supported the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War and was among the first nominees to the newly formed Seanad Éireann in 1922, where she served as an independent member until her death in 1929.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mrs. Alice Stopford Green )〕 ==Works== *''Henry the Second'' (1903) first pub. 1888. *''Town Life in the Fifteenth Century Vol. I'' (1894) *''Town Life in the Fifteenth Century Vol. II'' (1894) *''The making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200-1600'' (1909) first pub. 1908. *''Irish nationality'' (c1911). *''The old Irish world'' (1912) *''Loyalty and disloyalty: what it means in Ireland'' (()) *''A History of the Irish State to 1014'' published in 1925, was her last major work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Stopford Green」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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