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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... acres or more , held two - thirds of the land of Ireland.8 Landed property was to decline as a valued resource ... acre or less in extent.9 Labourers became marginal figures after the famine , and although their smaller numbers often ...
... acres . The average size of a farm increased ; by 1851 51 per cent of farms were more than fifteen acres , while the proportion of holdings under five acres fell from 24 per cent in 1845 to 15 per cent in 1851.68 This left the tenant ...
... acres in Kildare and Meath , and the Marquis of Downshire , with 115,000 acres in five counties . In 1851 47.8 per cent of farms were over fifteen acres ; by 1861 some 40 per cent of the land was held in farms of a hundred acres or more ...
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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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