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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... question . The beleagured Captain Lowry Corry spoke of the need to settle the ' long - vexed question ' of the 1870 Land Act , the need to ' make it more perfect in its details , especially as there seems to be some doubt whether it ...
... question of Ireland - the land question . This question was by now coming to be seen for what it really was : not just a question of who owned the land , but of how the land could be best used to promote prosperity . The difficulty was ...
... question.39 The question now was whether or not that spirit of co - operation , in rural economic organisation , in the Irish Land Conference , could be extended in the wider sphere . There were - or it seemed there were- -all sorts of ...
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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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