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 76
... labourers and notable for its rarity . Priests proved anxious to divert labourer and cottier unrest into the paths of more formal O'Connellite politics . They criticized those demanding better wages and urged labourers ' to obey the law ...
... labourers and notable for its rarity . Priests proved anxious to divert labourer and cottier unrest into the paths of more formal O'Connellite politics . They criticized those demanding better wages and urged labourers ' to obey the law ...
Page 90
... labourer ' disguise as much as they reveal . Many labourers continued to rent land under conacre or as cottier tenants . And , although it has been argued that this sub - group experienced rel- ative attrition during the 1850s and 1860s ...
... labourer ' disguise as much as they reveal . Many labourers continued to rent land under conacre or as cottier tenants . And , although it has been argued that this sub - group experienced rel- ative attrition during the 1850s and 1860s ...
Page 91
... labourers , however defined , represented a diminishing group in the years between 1850 and the Great War , with the most rapid reduction taking place during the first three decades of that period . Thus , while in 1841 labourers and ...
... labourers , however defined , represented a diminishing group in the years between 1850 and the Great War , with the most rapid reduction taking place during the first three decades of that period . Thus , while in 1841 labourers and ...
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