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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... poor tillers of the soil , and the inability of industry to expand sufficiently fast to absorb and maintain the surplus population . The condition of the poor in Ireland was a subject for native Irish discussion long before the Whigs ...
... poor . In any case fish must be salted to be stored , and the Galway fishermen were too poor to buy salt to preserve fish.23 The unprecedented scale of deaths in the famine , which truly earned its epithet ' great ' , was not only due ...
... Poor Law Commission was set up and put in charge of further assistance under the Poor Law Amendment Act , which empowered boards of guardians to grant outdoor relief to the aged , infirm and sick poor , and to poor widows with two or ...
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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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