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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... Kingdom . This would have the double advantage of restoring order to Ireland , while at the same time ensuring that she would not again offer a threat to British security in time of danger . It might also provide a remedy for that ...
... Kingdom , with 32 peers and 100 M.P.S. The churches of England and Ireland were to be united as an established church . Ireland was to contribute to the expenses of the United Kingdom in the proportion of two to fifteen , that is to say ...
... Kingdom — and purely local Irish concerns should be made . Irish representatives had an interest in the general imperial topics , such as the upkeep of naval and military defence of the United Kingdom . This entitled them to speak 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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