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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... increasingly challenged by a growing urban and trading middle class (which included many successful Catholic merchants). Simultaneously a widening rural unrest manifested itself through the activities of agrarian secret societies ...
... increasingly challenged by a growing urban and trading middle class (which included many successful Catholic merchants). Simultaneously a widening rural unrest manifested itself through the activities of agrarian secret societies ...
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... 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 'the superiority of Protestantism itself.
... 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 'the superiority of Protestantism itself.
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... increasingly unrealistic assertions, culminating in his announcement that 1843 would finally be the 'repeal year'.70 When, however, the government proscribed the 'monster' meeting called for Clontarf (the place just north of Dublin ...
... increasingly unrealistic assertions, culminating in his announcement that 1843 would finally be the 'repeal year'.70 When, however, the government proscribed the 'monster' meeting called for Clontarf (the place just north of Dublin ...
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... increasingly as members of a separate movement with an ideology of its own. The Nation's first issue proclaimed its purpose as being to 'create and foster a public opinion in Ireland, and make it racy of the soil'. But, just as O ...
... increasingly as members of a separate movement with an ideology of its own. The Nation's first issue proclaimed its purpose as being to 'create and foster a public opinion in Ireland, and make it racy of the soil'. But, just as O ...
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... 1965: 211–13. Though practically ineffective, Young Ireland had, nonetheless, grafted itself as ideal and model irremovably upon the increasingly complicated and manybranched tree of Irish nationalism. In no real sense had the.
... 1965: 211–13. Though practically ineffective, Young Ireland had, nonetheless, grafted itself as ideal and model irremovably upon the increasingly complicated and manybranched tree of Irish nationalism. In no real sense had the.
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