Böcker av Gabriel Murray

The story of how Aut Even Hospital was founded and the creation of health.care in Kilkenny, Ireland; in the period from 1915 to 1933. It was a transitional period during the civil war, in Ireland, (1922-23); where members of the Anglo Irish, aristocracy, Catholic and Protestant clergy were involved in healthcare, social welfare and child protection.The Countess of Desart attached and funded various organisations and the building of Auteven Hospital. The Marchioness of Ormonde founded the District Nurses Association, along with their daughters Beatrice and Constance. Along with Lady Aberdeen they were involved in the eradication of TB in Kilkenny. Constance founded the Red Cross in Kilkenny, and went on to take up a major position as leader of the entire medical war supplies in London during the great war of 1914-1918. These extraordinary and forgotten achievements are record for the first time in this book, that links in with other academics working in this area, that do not have access to certain materiel that the book explores. This is the first major book on this subject in Kilkenny.

The story of Irish rock the music that changed the world.Dublin the city of 1000 rock bands.A novel based on the early days of Irish rock when Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) Bono (U2) and Bob Geldof (The Boom Town Rats) blazed a trail across Dublin. The days when U2 played for fifty pence, at the Dandelion Flea Market, Bob Geldof worked in an abattoir and Phil Lynott busked on Grafton street. All became world famous rock stars. This is the story of their humble beginnings in the clubs of Dublin.

The Countess of Desart. Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart (née Bischoffsheim, 1857-1933), was London born Jewish woman; who was best known as an Irish politician, president of the Gaelic League, reviver of the Arts and Craft movement. and member of the Industrial Society in Ireland. She donated millions to various charities in England and Ireland. She was the daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim, a wealthy Jewish banker of German origin. He was partly responsible for founding three of the largest banks in the world; Deutsche Bank, Paribas Bank, and Société Generale. The Countess was president ofthe Women's Committee of the Jewish Temporary Shelter in London and directly involved in the rescue of over 150,000 Russian Jews from Tzarist Russia, before the borders of England closed, with the enforcement of Aliens Act in 1906. She invested in various projects, library's, hospitals, housing etc in Kilkenny, southern Ireland. She championed workers' rights privately and in government. She was appointed to the Irish Free State in Seanad Éireannas an independent member in 1922 and served there, until her death in 1933.Her mother's family the Bidermanns', were victims of the Nazis in Austria, where they were court jewelers to the Emperor. They lost all their property'sand possessions in 1938, when Austria was annexed by Germany. Many of her cousins in Paris died in Auschwitz. The author has researched this book over twenty years, accessing archives in Ireland, England, Poland, Austria, and Russia, to complete his research. The Countess is regarded as the most important Jewish woman in Irish history. This is the first book to be published on her life, philanthropy and great works.

Due to the Internet Revolution, human conversational data -- in written forms -- are accumulating at a phenomenal rate. At the same time, improvements in speech technology enable many spoken conversations to be transcribed. Individuals and organizations engage in email exchanges, face-to-face meetings, blogging, texting and other social media activities. The advances in natural language processing provide ample opportunities for these "informal documents" to be analyzed and mined, thus creating numerous new and valuable applications. This book presents a set of computational methods to extract information from conversational data, and to provide natural language summaries of the data. The book begins with an overview of basic concepts, such as the differences between extractive and abstractive summaries, and metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of summarization and various extraction tasks. It also describes some of the benchmark corpora used in the literature. The book introducesextraction and mining methods for performing subjectivity and sentiment detection, topic segmentation and modeling, and the extraction of conversational structure. It also describes frameworks for conducting dialogue act recognition, decision and action item detection, and extraction of thread structure. There is a specific focus on performing all these tasks on conversational data, such as meeting transcripts (which exemplify synchronous conversations) and emails (which exemplify asynchronous conversations). Very recent approaches to deal with blogs, discussion forums and microblogs (e.g., Twitter) are also discussed. The second half of this book focuses on natural language summarization of conversational data. It gives an overview of several extractive and abstractive summarizers developed for emails, meetings, blogs and forums. It also describes attempts for building multi-modal summarizers. Last but not least, the book concludes with thoughts on topics for further development. Table of Contents: Introduction / Background: Corpora and Evaluation Methods / Mining Text Conversations / Summarizing Text Conversations / Conclusions / Final Thoughts