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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... follows a period of scarcity in Ireland , the Poor Law Commissioners have made the most ample provision.24 But in fact many areas did not possess hospital provision of any kind ; the system lacked co- ordination to enable it to cope ...
... follow him , but there was no attempt to create an alternative party which might have seriously weakened the Home Rule movement . The dissidents scattered , some becoming Liberals , some independents , but none were destined to enjoy a ...
... follows : if the total valuation of an electoral division when divided by the resident population gave a sum of less than £ 1.10s , the area was ' congested ' . A Congested District had to be in a ' congested county ' , one where 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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