Krefeld
Krefeld , city (1994 pop. 249,560), North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, a port on the Rhine River. It is the center of the German silk and velvet industry, and is a major rail hub and textile center. Other manufactures include quality steels, machinery, clothing, chemicals, and dyes. Krefeld was chartered in 1373 and was an important linen-weaving center until it passed (1702) to Prussia. The silk industry, encouraged by a monopoly given to the city by Frederick II of Prussia, soon replaced linen weaving; and in the 20th cent. the manufacture of artificial silk became important. In 1929 the neighboring town of Uerdingen was incorporated into Krefeld. The city was heavily damaged in World War II. A former spelling is Crefeld.
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The Princess Grace Irish library.
Magazine article from: World of Hibernia; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...United Irishmen and Fenians, and modern studies of Charles Stewart Parnell and many other figures, together...such as Arthur Young, Mr. & Mrs Hall, Sir John Gilbert, Charles Gavan Duffy, and so forth. A separate cabinet holds Princess...
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Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy 1816-1903, Irish-Australian statesman...a patriotic Irish literary journal. Duffy agitated for the repeal of the union of...72) as prime minister of Victoria. Duffy was knighted in 1873.
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Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan (1816–1903). Duffy had a strange career. The son of a shopkeeper from Monaghan, he moved to Dublin as a journalist in 1836 and in 1842 launched the Nation as the mouthpiece of Young Ireland . He broke with...
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Wilde, Lady Jane
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...After the 1848 rising she helped Charles Gavan Duffy escape conviction by admitting authorship...attributed to him. In 1851 she married Sir William Wilde and became a leading...journalism, and wrote up some of Sir William's unpublished folkloric...
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