Alleyne Ireland

Walter Alleyne Ireland(19 January 1871,Manchester– 23 December 1951)was a British traveller and author on the tropical colonies of the British empire.

Life

His mother was the biographerAnnie Elizabeth Nicholson Irelandand his father was the journalistAlexander Ireland;his brother was the composerJohn Ireland.Educated atManchester Grammar Schooland theUniversity of Berlin,Alleyne Ireland visitedAustralia,Canada,India,Burma,the Malay Peninsula,Java,Borneo,French Indo-China, thePhilippines,the West Indies and British Guiana. In 1902–1904 for theTimes of Londonhe wrote twelve articles on British colonial administration in the tropics. He lectured atCornell University,theUniversity of Chicagoand theLowell Instituteand was on the staff of theNew York World.

Alleyne Ireland served as one ofJoseph Pulitzer's private secretaries, an experience he recorded inAn Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer.

Selected works

• Demerariana.Baldwin. 1897; 104 pages{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Tropical Colonization.The Macmillan company; Macmillan & co. 1899.
• "The Cohesive Elements of British Imperialism".The Outlook.63:1011–1015. 1899.
• The Anglo-Boer Conflict.Small, Maynard & company. 1900.
• "Some Conditions of Success in Colonization".The Independent.52:1593–1597. 1900.
• "A Few Facts about the Colonies of the Great Powers".McClure's Magazine.Vol. 14. 1900. pp. 334–338.
• China and the Powers.Priv. print. for L. Maynard by G. H. Ellis co. 1901.
• The Far Eastern Tropics.Houghton, Mifflin. 1905.
• The Province of Burma.His Colonial administration in the Far East. Houghton, Mifflin and company. 1907.
• Joseph Pulitzer: Reminiscences of a Secretary.M. Kennerly. 1914.
• Beating 'em to it; or, The sultan and the sausages, by Chester Cornish [pseud.] Illustrations byAlfred J. Frueh.A. A. Knopf. 1917; 120 pages{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Hammond, John Hays; Ireland, Alleyne (1918).The Truth about the Jameson raid, by John Hays Hammond as related to Alleyne Ireland.
• Democracy and the Human Equation.E. P. Dutton & company. 1921.
• Can we save constitutional government? A memorandum.1922; 16 page pamphlet{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• New Korea.E. P. Dutton. 1926; 354 pages{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: postscript (link)

External links

• Works by or about Alleyne Irelandat theInternet Archive
• Works by or aboutAlleyne IrelandatWikisource