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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Page 70
... effects of all this were both uneven and uncoordinated . The greatest impact was made in the eastern parts of the ... effect of this was to produce a more cautious and local episcopate . Fewer men were appointed to dioceses other than ...
... effects of all this were both uneven and uncoordinated . The greatest impact was made in the eastern parts of the ... effect of this was to produce a more cautious and local episcopate . Fewer men were appointed to dioceses other than ...
Page 103
... effect and Parnell's new National League of 1882 proved a more narrowly political and centrally controlled organization than its predecessor . Of course the landlords were not at once driven from their broad acres . The comparative ...
... effect and Parnell's new National League of 1882 proved a more narrowly political and centrally controlled organization than its predecessor . Of course the landlords were not at once driven from their broad acres . The comparative ...
Page 214
... effect to prefer , for example , one Fianna Fail aspirant over another or ( more rarely ) to mix party choices amidst a jumble of individual likes and dislikes.96 The result has not been to make Ireland a country of weak party ties ...
... effect to prefer , for example , one Fianna Fail aspirant over another or ( more rarely ) to mix party choices amidst a jumble of individual likes and dislikes.96 The result has not been to make Ireland a country of weak party ties ...
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