Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Search for Stability
(Book #5 in the New Gill History of Ireland Series)
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The search for stability proved elusive. Nationalist Ireland mobilized 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 modernized 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, the prospect of partition moved from being almost unthinkable to being almost inevitable. 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0717132994
ISBN13:9780717132997
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Gill Books
Length:440 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
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Criticism & Theory England Europe History History & Criticism Ireland Modern (16th-21st Centuries)Customer Reviews
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