Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and ConformityThe text, though lively and entertaining, is closely argued, bringing a refreshing intellectual rigour to a field too often bedevilled by sharp-edged polemic or soft-focus romanticism. Its firm structure and distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches throw a searching light on how the twin imperatives of conflict and conformity have shaped the lives of Irish men and women in the past two centuries. These insights are not only of interest in themselves, but are of compelling contemporary relevance: in few places does the past obtrude so inescapably on the present as it does in Ireland, and nowhere else, perhaps, has that past been subjected to such intense analysis in modern times. Ireland since 1800 does justice to both dimensions, and its reworking will be warmly welcomed by old admirers and new readers alike. |
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... Belfast and its immediate hinterland . 104 In the six counties that later became Northern Ireland , the share of the labour force in industry in 1911 ( about 35 per cent ) approached the British level ( though even in the North serious ...
... Belfast and its immediate hinterland . 104 In the six counties that later became Northern Ireland , the share of the labour force in industry in 1911 ( about 35 per cent ) approached the British level ( though even in the North serious ...
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... Belfast , but they also revealed how dependence on Britain could be used by pragmatic politicians to suspend the laws of classical eco- nomics . Thus , while finance ministers in Belfast argued firmly for retrenchment and tried ' to ...
... Belfast , but they also revealed how dependence on Britain could be used by pragmatic politicians to suspend the laws of classical eco- nomics . Thus , while finance ministers in Belfast argued firmly for retrenchment and tried ' to ...
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... Belfast : Approach to Crisis : A Study of Belfast Politics 1613-1970 . BULL , P. , 1972. ' The Reconstruction of the Irish Parliamentary Movement , 1895-1903 : An Analysis with Special Reference to William O'Brien ' ( University of ...
... Belfast : Approach to Crisis : A Study of Belfast Politics 1613-1970 . BULL , P. , 1972. ' The Reconstruction of the Irish Parliamentary Movement , 1895-1903 : An Analysis with Special Reference to William O'Brien ' ( University of ...
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