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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... effective revolution was impossible without mass support. It was, therefore, in part at least a sense of Realpolitik ... effectively combined elements of Whiteboyism and distinctly sectarian attitudes. In addition, while the Defenders ...
... effective revolution was impossible without mass support. It was, therefore, in part at least a sense of Realpolitik ... effectively combined elements of Whiteboyism and distinctly sectarian attitudes. In addition, while the Defenders ...
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... effective presence throughout the whole of Catholic Ireland. The crucial breakthrough came with the setting up of a system for collecting a 'Catholic Rent' consisting of penny-a-month subscriptions from the poor paid outside Catholic ...
... effective presence throughout the whole of Catholic Ireland. The crucial breakthrough came with the setting up of a system for collecting a 'Catholic Rent' consisting of penny-a-month subscriptions from the poor paid outside Catholic ...
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... effectively shut out. In 1829 the county franchise was raised to ten pounds, which reduced the county electorate from about 216,000 to about 37,000. In 1832 certain limited groups of leaseholders 'for years' were given the county vote ...
... effectively shut out. In 1829 the county franchise was raised to ten pounds, which reduced the county electorate from about 216,000 to about 37,000. In 1832 certain limited groups of leaseholders 'for years' were given the county vote ...
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... effectively cutting the number of county voters from about 216,000 to no more than 37,000.32 O'Connell's own attitude towards his departing electoral footsoldiers was, however, privately more ambiguous than his public statements tended ...
... effectively cutting the number of county voters from about 216,000 to no more than 37,000.32 O'Connell's own attitude towards his departing electoral footsoldiers was, however, privately more ambiguous than his public statements tended ...
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... effective militant politics of their own.41 While, therefore, prosperous Protestants retained a grasp upon positions of status, power, and responsibility, the rest began increasingly to depend upon a vested interest 42 made up simply of ...
... effective militant politics of their own.41 While, therefore, prosperous Protestants retained a grasp upon positions of status, power, and responsibility, the rest began increasingly to depend upon a vested interest 42 made up simply of ...
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