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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... excess of funds spent in Great Britain . The political culture of the time encouraged philanthropy , and charitable organisations in England were founded to help the Irish poor , whose plight was highlighted by writers such as Walter ...
... excess than those originally envisaged ; living conditions in the Ballinrobe workhouse by the end of 1847 were described by one observer as ' a picture of demi - savage life.54 The government intended that Irish property should pay for ...
... excess of heroism and obsession with the past . His modern , democratic style was a breath of fresh air in the Ireland of his day — in a country of old men , and , what was worse , political and religious old men . Joyce knew his people ...
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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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