Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945
Donal . Ed(S): O Drisceoil
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Paperback. Editor(s): O Drisceoil, Donal. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace the politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable social and political turmoil. The contributions include both surveys covering the entire period and case studies that provide new perspectives on crucial historical movements and moments. This volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography and an important contribution to ... Read more
This book is the first ever collection of scholarly essays on the history of the Irish working class. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the involvement of Irish workers in political life and movements between 1830 and 1945. Fourteen leading Irish and international historians and political scientists trace the politicization of Irish workers during a period of considerable social and political turmoil. The contributions include both surveys covering the entire period and case studies that provide new perspectives on crucial historical movements and moments. This volume is a milestone in Irish labour and political historiography and an important contribution to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
295
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349519620
SKU
V9781349519620
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99-15
About Donal . Ed(S): O Drisceoil
MAURA CRONIN Lecturer in History, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, IRELAND RICHARD DUNPHY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Dundee University, UK VINCENT GEOGHEGAN Professor of Political Theory, Queen's University, Belfast, UK CATHERINE HIRST Policy Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA CHRISTINE KINEALY Reader in History, University of Central Lancashire, UK CONOR KOSTICK Writer and Historian MARIA LUDDY Reader ... Read more
Reviews for Politics and the Irish Working Class, 1830-1945
'...this edited volume is a welcome addition to Irish working-class historiography. It goes some way to tighten the accepted reasons for the lack of left-right politics in Ireland, north and south, while offering glimpses of when this development may have broken through the barriers of religion, nationalism and ownership of the land...The reading of Politics and the Irish Working Class, ... Read more