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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... proved a tower of strength. David Cannadine was a splendidly reassuring general editor. A blissful year as Benjamin Duke Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, though spent largely on another project, gave me time ...
... proved a tower of strength. David Cannadine was a splendidly reassuring general editor. A blissful year as Benjamin Duke Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, though spent largely on another project, gave me time ...
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... proved quite unable to establish daughter societies elsewhere in the South. By contrast, the Belfast society, made up largely of Presbyterian merchants and linen drapers, stood at the centre of a network of similar bodies spread ...
... proved quite unable to establish daughter societies elsewhere in the South. By contrast, the Belfast society, made up largely of Presbyterian merchants and linen drapers, stood at the centre of a network of similar bodies spread ...
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... proved virtually non-existent. Indeed, the rebellion(s) of 1798, though initially planned to demonstrate an essential unity among Irishmen of every belief and station in life, ended up by revealing the exact opposite. Neither the savage ...
... proved virtually non-existent. Indeed, the rebellion(s) of 1798, though initially planned to demonstrate an essential unity among Irishmen of every belief and station in life, ended up by revealing the exact opposite. Neither the savage ...
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... proved more favourable than many contemporaries expected or many later commentators have allowed." The London parliament accepted it all with devastating casualness. Indeed, crucial decisions. 14. Elliott 1989:411–19. 15. Boyce 1995; 131 ...
... proved more favourable than many contemporaries expected or many later commentators have allowed." The London parliament accepted it all with devastating casualness. Indeed, crucial decisions. 14. Elliott 1989:411–19. 15. Boyce 1995; 131 ...
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... proved able to reach out to and orchestrate a genuine mass following. Once emancipation failed to materialize directly after the Union, the Catholic issue inevitably became something of a running sore.” In England support for the ...
... proved able to reach out to and orchestrate a genuine mass following. Once emancipation failed to materialize directly after the Union, the Catholic issue inevitably became something of a running sore.” In England support for the ...
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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