Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Search for StabilityThe search for stability proved elusive. Nationalist Ireland mobilised a mass democratic movement under O'Connell to secure Catholic Emancipation before seeing its world transformed by the social cataclysm of the Great Famine. At the same time, the Protestant north-east of Ulster was feeling the first benefits of the Industrial Revolution. Although post-Famine Ireland modernised rapidly, only the north-east had a modern economy. The mixture of Protestantism and manufacturing industry integrated into the greater United Kingdom and gave a new twist to the traditional Irish Protestant hostility to Catholic political demands. In the home rule period from the 1880s to 1914, the prospect of partition moved from being almost unthinkable to being almost inevitable. Nineteenth-century Ireland collapsed in the various wars and rebellions of 1912-22. Like many other parts of Europe than and since, it had proved that an imperial superstructure can contain domestic ethnic rivalries, but cannot always eliminate them. "...a substantial and thoroughly crafted study of a very complex period.... His virtues as a historian predominate - clarity of thought and style, and a mastery of the telling quotation, which penetrates to the heart of the matter." The Irish Times |
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... England , notwithstanding that English Protestantism and constitutionalism rested upon a surer foundation . For , despite the anxiety of many members of the Irish parliament at the Catholic relief acts drawn up by the British government ...
... England . In Scotland trade and manufacture were on the fringe of a predominantly rural economy . The Scots were no more welcome in England after the 1707 act than were the Irish after 1801. And certainly the Irish had been more popular ...
... England and Scotland ( London 1920 ) , 149–51 ; P. W. J. Riley , The Union of England and Scotland ( Manchester 1978 ) , ch . 6 . 48. Dicey and Rait , op . cit . , 314. But for another view of the Irish see Paul Langford , A Polite and ...
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The Catholic Question and Protestant Answers 180829 | 37 |
Testing the Union 183045 | 63 |
The Land and its Nemesis 18459 | 105 |
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