Ireland since 1800: Conflict and ConformityThe second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches. |
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... economic, and religious group has thought it imperative to control the past in order to provide support for contemporary arguments and ideologies. Indeed, historical allusions still do such sterling duty in sharpening antagonisms that ...
... economic, and religious group has thought it imperative to control the past in order to provide support for contemporary arguments and ideologies. Indeed, historical allusions still do such sterling duty in sharpening antagonisms that ...
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... economic), and the religious – while retaining a sense of the importance of chronology and time. If the order in which the chapters appear is different in the second section from that in the others, this is not the result of any ...
... economic), and the religious – while retaining a sense of the importance of chronology and time. If the order in which the chapters appear is different in the second section from that in the others, this is not the result of any ...
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... economic discontent among local weavers and sectarian disputes over land to produce an explosion of widespread unrest.4 Protestant organizations such as the Peep-of-Day Boys and Catholic groups like the Defenders effectively combined ...
... economic discontent among local weavers and sectarian disputes over land to produce an explosion of widespread unrest.4 Protestant organizations such as the Peep-of-Day Boys and Catholic groups like the Defenders effectively combined ...
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... economic provisions generally proved more favourable than many contemporaries expected or many later commentators have allowed.17 The London parliament accepted it all with devastating casualness. Indeed, crucial decisions concerning ...
... economic provisions generally proved more favourable than many contemporaries expected or many later commentators have allowed.17 The London parliament accepted it all with devastating casualness. Indeed, crucial decisions concerning ...
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... economy than in 1800. Although some towns – notably Belfast – undoubtedly grew, the collapse of the domestic textile ... economic, social, political, and cultural change. The element which most struck contemporaries and has most often ...
... economy than in 1800. Although some towns – notably Belfast – undoubtedly grew, the collapse of the domestic textile ... economic, social, political, and cultural change. The element which most struck contemporaries and has most often ...
Contents
Religion The Birthpangs of Modernity | |
Society Agricola Victor | |
Politics Nationalism and Localism | |
Religion Triumphs and Stockades | |
Politics An Island Now Formally Divided | |
Society Stagnation Boom Slump Boom | |
Religion Piety and Its Spoils | |
Mother and child | |
Index | |
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administration agrarian Anglo-Irish became Belfast bishops Britain British Catholic Catholicism cent century Church of Ireland clergy clerical Connacht Connolly constituted contemporary Corish Cork Cullen cultural Cumann na nGaedheal Dail Daly Daniel O’Connell decades developments Donnelly Dublin ecclesiastical Economic and Social Economic History effective election electoral emigration Famine farming favour Fenian Fianna Fail Fine Gael Fitzpatrick Gaelic Garvin Home Rule Hoppen important increasingly industry Irish Agriculture Irish Historical Studies Irish Political Kennedy labourers land landlords Larkin leaders League less Liberal ministers movement nationalist nineteenth Nineteenth-Century Ireland Northern Ireland notably Ó Gráda O’Brien O’Connell O’Connell’s O’Neill Orange Order Oxford Parliamentary Party Parnell Parnell’s popular population post-Famine pre-Famine priests prosperous Protestant proved reform religious remained rents Republic republican rural sectarian Sinn Fein substantial success Taoiseach tenants Ulster Union unionists United Irishmen United Kingdom Valera Vaughan violence W.B. Yeats Whyte Young Irelanders