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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... Agrarian Crisis and Population Collapse I. Demographic networks II. The contours of rural society III. Poverty and its extent IV. Violence and rural unrest V. Urban experiences VI. Famine 3. Religion The Birthpangs of Modernity I ...
... Agrarian Crisis and Population Collapse I. Demographic networks II. The contours of rural society III. Poverty and its extent IV. Violence and rural unrest V. Urban experiences VI. Famine 3. Religion The Birthpangs of Modernity I ...
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... Agrarian movements were often riven by bitter internal disputes. Neither Catholic nor Protestant ecclesiastics were ever united as to political action or ideology. At times, indeed, only liberal doses of rhetoric could paper over the ...
... Agrarian movements were often riven by bitter internal disputes. Neither Catholic nor Protestant ecclesiastics were ever united as to political action or ideology. At times, indeed, only liberal doses of rhetoric could paper over the ...
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... agrarian secret societies – first specifically and then generically known as Whiteboyism – which, though not aimed at landed proprietors alone, helped to destabilize the existing political culture in at first minor and then more serious ...
... agrarian secret societies – first specifically and then generically known as Whiteboyism – which, though not aimed at landed proprietors alone, helped to destabilize the existing political culture in at first minor and then more serious ...
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... agrarian, or millenarian. Indeed, it is notable that Tipperary – the epicentre of contemporary agrarian disorder – was quiescent in 1798, while Wexford – a county remarkable for its agrarian harmony – rebelled.” More remarkable (and ...
... agrarian, or millenarian. Indeed, it is notable that Tipperary – the epicentre of contemporary agrarian disorder – was quiescent in 1798, while Wexford – a county remarkable for its agrarian harmony – rebelled.” More remarkable (and ...
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... agrarian secret societies and concentrate attention solely upon emancipation itself. As an Irish-speaking draper and churchwarden in County Kilkenny remarked in his diary, 'It is on O'Connell's advice this renewal of friendship and this ...
... agrarian secret societies and concentrate attention solely upon emancipation itself. As an Irish-speaking draper and churchwarden in County Kilkenny remarked in his diary, 'It is on O'Connell's advice this renewal of friendship and this ...
Contents
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Winners and Losers From Famine to
Partition | 87 |
Promised Lands Ireland since 1921 | 185 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 333 |
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