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Nineteenth-Century Ireland : The Search for Stability (New Gill History of Ireland 5) Revised Edition

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The search for stability proved elusive. Nationalist Ireland mobilised a mass democratic movement under O’Connell to secure Catholic Emancipation before seeing its world transformed by the social cataclysm of the Great Famine. At the same time, the Protestant north-east of Ulster was feeling the first benefits of the Industrial Revolution. Although post-Famine Ireland modernised rapidly, only the north-east had a modern economy. The mixture of Protestantism and manufacturing industry integrated into the greater United Kingdom and gave a new twist to the traditional Irish Protestant hostility to Catholic political demands. In the home rule period from the 1880s to 1914, ... Read more

Nineteenth-century Ireland collapsed in the various wars and rebellions of 1912-22. Like many other parts of Europe than and since, it had proved that an imperial superstructure can contain domestic ethnic rivalries, but cannot always eliminate them.

“…a substantial and thoroughly crafted study of a very complex period…. His virtues as a historian predominate – clarity of thought and style, and a mastery of the telling quotation, which penetrates to the heart of the matter.” The Irish Times

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717132997
SKU
9780717132997
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About D. George Boyce
Professor D. George Boyce is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast. He was an archivist in the Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library Oxford between 1968 and 1971, and then lectured in the Department of Politics and International relations in Swansea University from 1971 until 2004. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has written books and articles on ... Read more

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