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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... election of 187229 and the Down election in 1874.30 There was another nagging difficulty confronting the non- sectarian style of politics in Ulster . Liberals had a Catholic following ( whose loyalty they strained in the Belfast ...
... election of 1880 Conservative candidates were careful to include in their election addresses frequent and pointed references to the need to do something for the farmer : to ' more clearly define ' tenant right.34 In Fermanagh the ...
... election candidate wearing Volunteer uniform . This was Eamon de Valera , who successfully contested the East Clare by - election in July 1917 ; and his style as well as his uniform indicated the link that was being forged between Sinn ...
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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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