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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... prosperous Catholics of the towns there can be little doubt that it too was yet one more element which helped to bring about a situation in which organized Catholic politics for the first time proved able to reach out to and orchestrate ...
... prosperous Catholics of the towns there can be little doubt that it too was yet one more element which helped to bring about a situation in which organized Catholic politics for the first time proved able to reach out to and orchestrate ...
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... prosperous merchants in the larger provincial towns and lesser traders in the smaller places. Indeed, ecclesiastics consistently remained no more than one element within a 'total process of political change which affected the whole ...
... prosperous merchants in the larger provincial towns and lesser traders in the smaller places. Indeed, ecclesiastics consistently remained no more than one element within a 'total process of political change which affected the whole ...
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... 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.
... 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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... prosperous Catholics – had much to offer at a time when Liberal governments held office almost continuously between 1830 and 1841 and again after 1846.52 On the other side the Conservatives, who rapidly reorganized themselves after the ...
... prosperous Catholics – had much to offer at a time when Liberal governments held office almost continuously between 1830 and 1841 and again after 1846.52 On the other side the Conservatives, who rapidly reorganized themselves after the ...
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... prosperous Catholics who had always seen jobs as the real reason for emancipation. Not that O'Connell was himself backward in this respect: the archives of ministers and officials are full of his letters recommending friends and ...
... prosperous Catholics who had always seen jobs as the real reason for emancipation. Not that O'Connell was himself backward in this respect: the archives of ministers and officials are full of his letters recommending friends and ...
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