Hole cutter

An adjustable hole cutter is described for use in forming circular openings in workpieces. The hole cutter is characterized by a mount of a substantially planar configuration, positionable into a plane paralleling the working plane of a selected workpiece. It also contains a shaft for imparting rotary motion to the mount about an axis of rotation normally related to the working plane, a plurality of stabilizing struts for resiliently supporting the mount in parallelism with the working plane as rotary motion is imparted thereto, a drill bit for drilling a pilot hole concentric with the axis of rotation, and an elongated cutting tool adjustably seated within a radially extended slot

A Swedish View of Galway in 1893 : Hugo Vallentin's "Letters from Home-Rule Land"

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Problems of Pragmatism in Public Policy: Critique of William Wilson\u27s The Truly Disadvantaged

I want to begin by commending Professor Wilson for focussing his scholarly attention upon one of the more critical social problems confronting our society at this time. You will recall that in his earlier work, Professor Wilson found that the civil rights movement had made a major impact on the character of race relations in our society, particularly relative to the status of blacks. In that award-winning but controversial study, The Declining Significance of Race, Professor Wilson found two diverging trends within the black community: on the one hand, the growth of the black middle class which had benefitted from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s; on the other, a growing sector of impoverished blacks for whom that movement had seemed to leave behind. In this regard Professor Wilson is to be commended for allowing his findings from The Declining Significance of Race to focus upon those forces which demand change. If the U.S. is to make claims that it is a civilized, just or compassionate society, the condition of this sector must be addressed. It is this sector which Jesse Jackson refers to as the least of these as he calls for a new direction in the political arena so that their condition, and ours, will be dramatically improved. On the other hand

Challenges and Prospects of William J. Wilson\u27s The Truly Disadvantaged

I feel that it is a real coup that I had the opportunity to assemble the right scholars and, in turn, edit this special issue of the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. These were the right scholars in that they offered varying progressive perspectives of high quality on William J. Wilson\u27s award-winning book, The Truly Disadvantaged. Since so much of the debate on the so-called underclass is carried out in the parlance of conservative scholars, the articles which appear here are not encumbered in any way by such a retrogression. By contrast, I had the pleasure of engaging a very dynamic set of sociologists who are not apologists for the status quo. Consequently, the readers of these articles will be offered a very different set of parameters on the underclass debate

“A Project So Flashy And Bizarre”: Irish Volunteers and the Second Schleswig War

 In February 1864, Danish newspapers reported the formation in Cork of an Irish volunteer brigade – the Alexandra Cent Gardes– which was being prepared for action in the Schleswig War. It was the proposal of Goodwin Richard Purcell O'Leary, a professor at Queen's College, Cork, and self-appointed "chief" of the O'Learys. Intervening on behalf of the Danes appealed to O'Leary for three key reasons: he was the grandson of Art O'Leary, the renowned soldier who served Empress Maria Theresa; he had a strong sense of Scandinavian identity, tracing the "O'Leary" line back to the Vikings; and he was somewhat enamored of the Princess Alexandra, daughter of the Danish King Christian IX, who had married the Prince of Wales in 1863. Unlike other Irish brigades in the 1840s-1860s, in Mexico, Italy, or the USA, the Alexandra Cent Gardes was intended as a cavalry unit, composed of members of Cork's fox-hunting fraternity, travelling at their own expense on a romantic errand to "save" little Denmark from Prussian aggression. This article examines the motivations and reactions to the plan, discusses why it never actually took place, and why O'Leary's name was not destined to go down in history as a Scandinavian hero.   &nbsp

“The Evils Which Have Arisen in My Country” : Mary Power Lalor and Active Female Landlordism during the Land Agitation

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Memory of the Great Hunger Years Revisited – Finland’s 1860s Famine Memorials, Mass Graves and a Commemorative Craft Initiative

This article revisits the memory of the Finland’s 1860s famine (“Great Hunger Years”) at its sesquicentennial by connecting the history and development of famine memorials in Finland with the May 2018 initiative of laying memorial wreaths at a selection of those memorials. A starting point for the article is the notion that the remembrance of the Great Hunger Years has been rather quiet; the article discusses the reasons and the relativity of this quietness. First, the history of establishing famine memorials in Finland is reviewed with attention to their different dates of origin and roles. Perceived as a part of remembering the famine at large, the memorials are reflected against the repeated, national narratives about the hunger years. The article suggests that when taken as a whole, the abundance of local memorials can offer a different reading to the quietness of the memory of the famine tragedy. The latter part of the article focuses on the possibilities of interpreting this quiet remembrance with attention to the (im)materialities of famine heritage. Connecting the seeming quietness with a notion of multigenerational, traumatic experience, the article discusses the meaning of the quintessential material heritage, that is, the mass graves, at which memorials often stand, in processing the partially absent experiences of loss from the past. The article illustrates the research-led craft initiative of laying memorial wreaths and explicates the intentions of the initiative as a performative art practice. Providing new knowledge about the famine memorials’ history the article argues that approaches of aesthetic and historical experience invite onlookers to revisit the history of the Great Hunger Years in ways that embrace the quietness of famine heritage