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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... reform Almost immediately after the granting of emancipation O'Connell turned to his main political goal , the repeal of the Act of Union . Here he faced much greater difficulties because repeal could not easily be presented as the ...
... reform Almost immediately after the granting of emancipation O'Connell turned to his main political goal , the repeal of the Act of Union . Here he faced much greater difficulties because repeal could not easily be presented as the ...
Page 127
... reform . Determined , however , to keep open channels of communication to the more extreme elements , Parnell may even , shortly after leav- ing prison , have taken the IRB oath in , it has been suggested , the unlikely surroundings of ...
... reform . Determined , however , to keep open channels of communication to the more extreme elements , Parnell may even , shortly after leav- ing prison , have taken the IRB oath in , it has been suggested , the unlikely surroundings of ...
Page 174
... reform to anti - British and indeed antisemitic attitudes , 82 an inability to present a united front dissipated their efforts into little more than a kaleidoscope of re- crimination and particularism . Especially remarkable is how ...
... reform to anti - British and indeed antisemitic attitudes , 82 an inability to present a united front dissipated their efforts into little more than a kaleidoscope of re- crimination and particularism . Especially remarkable is how ...
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