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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... reform Protestantism out of existence . The new style in Irish politics ( which could not have been dreamed of in 1800 or even 1828 ) was shown in the passing of the British and Irish parliamentary reform bills in 1832. O'Connell ...
... reform , in that it provoked strident Protestant opposition ; and it was ever the way that one side's deliverance in Ireland was , automatically , the other side's damnation . If Catholics were advanced , it must be at the expense of ...
The Search for Stability David George Boyce. Yet this reform , so obviously needed that a strong group in the Conservative opposition in parliament felt able to support moderate reform , turned out to be a protracted and even bitter ...
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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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