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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... effect on nationalist as well as Unionist Ireland . The Home Rulers had always spoken of the possibility , even certainty , of a ' union of hearts ' , if only England would fulfil her tryst with destiny and grant Ireland the self ...
... effects of , 7 , 63 , 130–32 , 134 , 137 , 156 , 337 free market protected , 121–4 historiography of , 124–5 , 134 public works , 122–3 role of Trevelyan , 121–4 state response to , 120 , 123–6 , 134–5 , 178 and Young Ireland , 126–9 ...
... effects of , 11-12 , 29 , 33 histories of , 29–31 memorial , 262 Presbyterian role , 45 , 153 , 154 , 241 Rebellion , 1803 , 28 , 155 Rebellion , 1848 , 127–9 , 132 , 154–5 , 237 , 291 , 333 Rebellion , 1867 , 158 , 291 , 333 Rebellion ...
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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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