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 246
... late 1930s hostility to ranchers had become ' more rhetorical than anything else ' . And it was not long before a Fianna Fail minister could be heard telling the Dail that there were ' enough ' people on the land and explaining so ...
... late 1930s hostility to ranchers had become ' more rhetorical than anything else ' . And it was not long before a Fianna Fail minister could be heard telling the Dail that there were ' enough ' people on the land and explaining so ...
Page 247
... late as 1942 a senior official of the Land Commission was still telling the cabinet that every true Irishman ' wants to see settled in the land as many families as possible , on holdings large enough to secure them a fair measure of ...
... late as 1942 a senior official of the Land Commission was still telling the cabinet that every true Irishman ' wants to see settled in the land as many families as possible , on holdings large enough to secure them a fair measure of ...
Page 257
... late 1960s public expenditure on health had roughly doubled in real terms over the previous ten years , while in 1972 those receiv- ing free medical treatment were at long last able to enjoy a ' choice of doctors'.108 Yet much poverty ...
... late 1960s public expenditure on health had roughly doubled in real terms over the previous ten years , while in 1972 those receiv- ing free medical treatment were at long last able to enjoy a ' choice of doctors'.108 Yet much poverty ...
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