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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... seem to be badly harnessed . It seems to me to commence with the landlords.'14 It seemed to various other observers , both private and official , that the bad handling commenced with the landlords : their relationship with their tenants ...
... seems to have broken down from around 1875. They lived apart from then , but O'Shea called at Katharine's home in Eltham , seven miles from London where he lodged , to take the children to mass on Sundays . Katharine enjoyed politics ...
... seems to be some doubt whether it applies to leaseholders whose time has expired ' . He declared himself willing to support ' any reasonable amendments of that Act which will secure Tenant Right to occupiers on the fall of leases ' and ...
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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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