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Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006
Paul Bew
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Paperback. Paul Bew sheds new light on the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question. Examining the influence and legacies of many key figures, from Tone to Parnell to Haughey and from Peel to Churchill to Blair, he takes the reader all the way from the society of the United Irishman to the crisis of the Good Friday Agreement. Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 778.
The French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society. The 1790s saw the birth of modern Irish republicanism and Orangeism, whose antagonism remains a defining feature of Irish political life. The 1790s also saw the birth of a new approach to Ireland within important elements of the British political elite, men like Pitt and Castlereagh. Strongly influenced by Edmund Burke, they argued that Britain's strategic interests were best served by a policy of catholic emancipation and political integration in Ireland. Britain's failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which ... Read more
The French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society. The 1790s saw the birth of modern Irish republicanism and Orangeism, whose antagonism remains a defining feature of Irish political life. The 1790s also saw the birth of a new approach to Ireland within important elements of the British political elite, men like Pitt and Castlereagh. Strongly influenced by Edmund Burke, they argued that Britain's strategic interests were best served by a policy of catholic emancipation and political integration in Ireland. Britain's failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford History of Modern Europe
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199561261
SKU
V9780199561261
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Reviews for Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006
Itour de force of historical interpretation that Bew has achieved in this work. The virtues of historical scholarship and stylish exposition, which have marked the best of Bew's work from the very outset, are here in abundance...He has written an absorbing, engaged, immensely learned and passionately argued interpretation of the last two centuries of political conflict in Ireland....an important book... ... Read more