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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... reform VI. Repeal and failure 2. Society 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 ...
... reform VI. Repeal and failure 2. Society 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 ...
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... reform, quite another from those on the opposite side. Soon the past was being used chiefly as a mirror to reflect the changing (or frequently the changeless) preconceptions of a wide variety of contemporary gladiators: nationalist and ...
... reform, quite another from those on the opposite side. Soon the past was being used chiefly as a mirror to reflect the changing (or frequently the changeless) preconceptions of a wide variety of contemporary gladiators: nationalist and ...
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... reform and political amelioration. But revolutionary events in North America and France encouraged those of more radical tendencies to look to new shifts and expedients. The Society of United Irishmen established in 1791 as the chief ...
... reform and political amelioration. But revolutionary events in North America and France encouraged those of more radical tendencies to look to new shifts and expedients. The Society of United Irishmen established in 1791 as the chief ...
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... Reform Act of 1832 which reduced the influence of aristocratic patrons in the borough constituencies had the effect of releasing the forces of demotic urban Protestantism throughout the island. Working-class Protestants, not only in ...
... Reform Act of 1832 which reduced the influence of aristocratic patrons in the borough constituencies had the effect of releasing the forces of demotic urban Protestantism throughout the island. Working-class Protestants, not only in ...
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... reform Almost immediately after the granting of emancipation O'Connell turned to his main political goal, the repeal of the Act of Union. Here he faced much greater difficulties because repeal could not easily be presented as the ...
... reform Almost immediately after the granting of emancipation O'Connell turned to his main political goal, the repeal of the Act of Union. Here he faced much greater difficulties because repeal could not easily be presented as 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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