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"Edna Longley (born 1940) is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry. Early life and education Born in Cork in 1940, the daughter of mathematics professor T.S. Broderick and a Scottish Presbyterian mother, she was baptised a Catholic but brought up in "the Anglican compromise" (Church of Ireland). She went up to Trinity College Dublin in 1958 where her contemporaries included the poets Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland. After her marriage to Michael Longley, she moved with him to Belfast and obtained her first teaching post at Queen's University Belfast. From 1989 to 1994 she was Academic Director of the John Hewitt Summer School. Trinity College Dublin gave her an honorary doctorate in 2003. Her daughter is the artist, Sarah Longley. In Jan 2012 Queen's recognised her importance to the academic life of the university with the unveiling of a portrait of Longley in the Great Hall. Professor Terence Brown, who unveiled the portrait, described her as "one of the foremost public intellectuals that Ireland has produced." Academic and Critic Now Professor Emerita at Queen's University Belfast, as a lecturer and later Professor of English at Queen's, Longley was influential in both literary and political culture of Northern Ireland both during and since the years of The Troubles. While she was at the Queen's University, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry was founded. She gained particular renown in Ireland for her public criticism of "depredatory ideologies" both in their political and the literary aspects. In her Lip pamphlet From Cathleen to Anorexia (1990) she was scathingly critical of the identification of feminism with Irish nationalism.The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish women's writing and traditions, edited by Angela Bourke (Cork University Press, 2002) At the Yeats Summer School in 1993 she attacked The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing for 'a propensity to censorship and an obsession with colonialism', developing those arguments in her 1994 collection of essays The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, an extended critique of nationalism in Irish writing. She has also been one of the foremost scholars in Edward Thomas studies, publishing two editions of his poetry (1973 and 2008) and one of his prose (1981), and is one of the editors of the planned Oxford University Press series, Edward Thomas: The Essential Prose. Writing in Dublin's Sunday Business Post, Seamus Heaney called her 2008 Annotated Collected Poems the "definite new edition of Edward Thomas...a crowning achievement by Thomas's best advocate".Seamus Heaney, 'Summer Reading', Sunday Business Post (Dublin), 13 July 2008. Honors and awards * British Academy Fellow (2006) * American Academy of Arts and Sciences - International Honorary Member (2019) Works =Literary criticism= *Poetry in the Wars (Bloodaxe Books, 1986) *Louis MacNeice: A Study (Faber & Faber, 1988) *From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Ireland, Lip pamphlet (Attic Press, Dublin, 1990) *The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Bloodaxe Books, 1994) *Gender and the Irish Identity (Bloodaxe Books, 1996) *Poetry and Posterity (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) *Multiculturalism: The View from the Two Irelands (with Declan Kiberd) (Cork University Press, 2001) *‘The Great War, History and the English Lyric', in Vincent Sherry (editor), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2005) =As editor= *Edward Thomas: Poems and Last Poems (Macmillan, 1973) *The Selected James Simmons (Blackstaff Press, 1978) *The Selected Paul Durcan (Blackstaff Press, 1982) *A Language Not to Be Betrayed: Selected Prose of Edward Thomas (Carcanet Press, 1981). *Across a Roaring Hill: The Protestant Imagination in Modern Ireland, with Gerald Dawe (Blackstaff Press, 1985) *Marin Sorescu: The Biggest Egg in the World (Bloodaxe Books, 1987) *Dorothy Hewett: Alice in Wormland: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) *Culture in Ireland: Division or Diversity?: proceedings of the Cultures of Ireland Group Conference, 27–28 September 1991 (Institute of Irish Studies, 1991) *Yeats Annual No.12: That Accusing Eye - Yeats and His Irish Readers (co-editor) (Palgrave, 1996) *The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry from Britain and Ireland (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) *Ireland (Ulster) Scotland: Concepts, Contexts, Comparisons (co-editor) (Cló Ollscoil na Banríona, Belfast, 2003) *Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008) References External links *The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University Belfast Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Category:Irish literary critics Category:Irish scholars and academics Category:People from County Cork "
"The Russian ship Vsevolod (1796) (also Vsewolod; ) was a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1796. She served in the North Sea and the Baltic until the British 74-gun third rates and destroyed her in 1808 during the Anglo- Russian War (1807–1812). Service On 3 July 1798 Vsevolod was at Arkhangel’sk, serving as flagship for Vice-Adm. Thate, who commanded the 2nd Division of the Imperial Russian Navy. She then arrived at the Nore on 8 August and operated in the North Sea and off the Texel for almost three years. She returned to Kronstadt on 21 July 1800. She then carried supplies to Revel'. She then served in the Baltic before undergoing repairs in 1804. In September 1805 she transported troops to Pomerania. =Anglo-Russian War and loss= In early 1808 Russia initiated the Finnish War in response to Sweden's refusal to bow to Russian pressure to join the anti-British alliance. Russia captured Finland and made it a Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire. The British decided to take counter-measures and in May sent a fleet under Vice- Admiral Sir James Saumarez to the Baltic. On 9 July, the Russian fleet, under Admiral Peter Khanykov, came out from Kronstadt. The Swedes massed a fleet under Swedish Admiral Rudolf Cederström, consisting of 11 line-of-battle ships and 5 frigates at Örö and Jungfrusund to oppose them. On 16 August, Saumarez then sent Centaur, Captain William Henry Webley, and Implacable, Captain Thomas Byam Martin, to join the Swedish fleet. They chased two Russian frigates on 19 July and joined the Swedes the following day. On 22 August, the Russian fleet, consisting of nine ships of the line, five large frigates and six smaller ones, moved from Hanko to threaten the Swedes. The Swedes, with the two British ships, grouped at Örö, and three days later sailed to meet the Russians. The Russians and the Anglo-Swedish force were fairly evenly matched, but the Russians retreated and the Allied ships followed them. Centaur and Implacable were better vessels than the Swedish ships and slowly pulled ahead, with Implacable catching up with Vsevolod, which was straggling. On Vsevolod, under Captain Rudno (or Rudnew or Roodneff) exchanged fire with Implacable, with the Russian suffering heavy casualties before running aground. During this exchange three nearby Russian ships failed to render assistance. Vsevolod hauled down her colors, but Hood recalled Implacable because the Russian fleet was approaching. During the fight Implacable lost six men killed and twenty- six wounded, including two who did not recover and three who had limbs amputated.; Vsevolod lost some 48 dead and 80 wounded. The Russian frigate Poluks then towed Vsevolod towards Rager Vik (Ragerswik or Rogerswick or Russian: Baltiyskiy) where the Russian fleet was sheltering. However, Vsevolod grounded some six miles from the port. On Centaur came up and was able to drive off the boats that were attempting to get the disabled ship into harbor. Seamen from Centaur were able to lash her mizzen to the Russian bowsprit before Centaur opened fire. Both vessels grounded, and both sides attempted to board the other vessel. However, Implacable came up and fired into Vsevolod for about 10 minutes, forcing the Russian to strike again. Implacable hauled Centaur off. The battle had cost Centaur three killed and 27 wounded. Vsevolod, which had received about 100 men as reinforcements after her initial battle with Implacable, lost another 124 men killed and wounded in the battle with Centaur; 56 Russians swam ashore and so escaped being taken prisoner. Their prize was so firmly aground that Sir Samuel Hood, in Centaur, ordered Vsevolod burnt. On the British removed their prisoners, including the wounded, and then set fire to Vsevolod, which blew up some hours later. The cutter Baltic would later land the prisoners. "Burning of the Sewolod" by James Ralfe =Aftermath= Vice-Admiral Saumerez with his entire squadron joined the Anglo-Swedish squadron the next day. They then blockaded Khanykov's squadron at (Baltiyskiy). for some months. After the British and the Swedes abandoned the blockade, the Russian fleet was able to return to Kronstadt. The Russian government court-martialed Admiral Khanykov for what the British Admiralty would have labeled as "failure to do his utmost". The court martial ordered Khanykov demoted to the rank of Ordinary Seaman for one day and dismissed from the service. What saved Khanykov from a more severe sentence was his earlier distinguished service. His Swedish Majesty Gustaf IV Adolf conferred upon Captain Martin of Implacable the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword. In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasps "Implacable 26 Augt. 1808" and "Centaur 26 Augt. 1808" to all surviving claimants from the action. Hood took Vsevolods flag as a trophy and it ended up hanging in the main hall of the Hood family home "St. Audries". Citations References * Category:Ships of the Imperial Russian Navy Category:1796 ships Category:Ships built in Russia Category:Maritime incidents in 1808 Category:Captured ships Category:Shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea Category:Shipwrecks of Russia "
"Edward J. Flynn (June 25, 1864 – August 28, 1929) was a professional baseball player for the 1887 Cleveland Blues. External links Category:1864 births Category:1929 deaths Category:Major League Baseball third basemen Category:Cleveland Blues (1887–88) players Category:19th-century baseball players Category:Pueblo Pastimes players Category:Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Category:Kalamazoo Kazoos players Category:Jackson Jaxons players Category:Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Category:Utica Braves players Category:Sportspeople from Chicago Category:Baseball players from Illinois "