Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays

by Fleming, N. C.; O'Day, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780754627845
• ISBN10: 0754627845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-17
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This landmark series of three volumes brings together selected essays from leading and specialist journals that have made a significant or original contribution to Irish historiography. The purpose of the volumes is to make these thoughtful contributions

Table of Contents

Introduction, Chronology of Events

The Beginnings of the Union

Popular politics in Ireland and the Act of Union

National festivals, the state and 'Protestant ascendancy' in Ireland, 1790-1829

'How did they pass the Union?' Secret Service expenditure in Ireland, 1799-1804

The Catholic Question and Emancipation

Visualizing the liberator: self-fashioning, dramaturgy, and the construction of Daniel O'Connell

Daniel O'Connell and European Catholic thought

The Catholic question and the monarchy, 1827-1829

The Age of O'Connell in the 1830s and 1840s, Repeal

Daniel O'Connell, democrat, liberal Catholic and husband

'A nation once again'

Thomas Osborne Davis and the construction of the Irish 'popular' tradition

The Great Famine: 'Shovelling out your paupers': the British state and Irish famine migration, 1846-50

On landlord-assisted emigration from some Irish estates in the 1840s

Politics in the 1850s and 60s: 'God save Ireland'

Manchester-martyr demonstrations in Dublin, 1867-1916

The Fenian infiltration of the British army

Isaac Butt and the Rise of Home Rule

Isaac Butt and Irish nationality

Cardinal Cullen and Irish nationality

The Irish dimension of the British kulturkampf

Vaticanism and civil allegiance, 1870-1875

Demography and Social Conditions

The impact of the blight upon the pre-Famine rural economy in Ireland

Harvest fluctuations in pre-Famine Ireland: evidence from Belfast and Waterford newspapers

The decline and fall of Donnybrook Fair: moral reform and social control in 19th-century Dublin

Perceptions of agricultural labourers after the Great Famine, 1850-1870

Religion and Society in 19th-Century Ireland

The role of Vincentian parish missions in the 'Irish Counter-Reformation' of the mid-19th century

Ulster awakened: the '59 revival reconsidered

The role of open-air preaching in the Belfast riots of 1857

Diaspora, Emigration, Immigrants

The distribution of Irish emigration in the decade before the Great Famine

Irish immigrants and radical movements in the West of Scotland in the early 19th century

The Birkenhead Garibaldi riots of 1862

Women

War, gender and industrial innovation: recruiting women weavers in early 19th-century Ireland

Women in 19th-century Irish emigration, Pauline Jackson

Name Index

Introduction

The Land Question

The limits to land reform: the Land Acts in Ireland, 1870-1909

The priest and the agent: social drama and class consciousness in the West of Ireland

Parnell, the Liberals and Home Rule

The 1898 efforts to celebrate the United Irishmen: the '98 centennial

Historical imagery in Irish political illustrations, 1880-1910

Irish and British Unionism

Southern Irish Unionism: a study of Cork Unionists, 1884-1914

Irish popular politics and the making of the Wyndham Land Act, 1901-1903

Ulster Unionist territorial and national identities, 1886-1893: province, island, kingdom and empire

Constructive Unionism and the shaping of rural Ireland, c.1880-1921

The 3rd Home Rule Bill and the Ulster Crisis: 'Making Ireland's opportunity England's '

Winston Churchill and the 3rd Home Rule Bill

Dicey, Kilbrandon and devolution

Gaelic Revival

Muscular Catholicism: nationalism, masculinity and Gaelic team sports, 1884-1916

Ancient mythology and revolutionary ideology in Ireland, 1878-1916

The Easter Rising and Anglo-Irish War

Moderate nationalism and the Irish revolution, 1916-1923

Patrick Pearse and the European revolt against reason

'I bring not peace but a sword': the religious motif in the Irish War of Independence

Demography and Social Conditions

Age, region and marriage in post-Famine Ireland: an empirical examination

The quality of life in Victorian Ireland, 1831-1901

Traders in the Irish rural economy, 1880-1914

Religion and Society

The Roman Catholic Church and the 19th-century Irish diaspora

The politics of Cardinal McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin, 1879-1885

Diaspora, Emigration, Immigrants

Imagined Irish communities: networks of social communication of the Irish diaspora in the United States and Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

The process of migration and the reinvention of self: the experiences of returning Irish emigrants

Urbanisation and Trade Unions: 'Every creed and party': town tenant protest in late19th- and early 20th- century Ireland

The Land and Labour Association, 1894-1914

The Women's Movement and Female Suffrage

Irish households in the early 20th century: culture, class and historical contingency

Traditions and double moral standards: the Irish suffragists' critique of nationalism

Name index

Introduction

Partition, the Treaty and Civil War

The Irish Free State passport and the question of citizenship, 1921-4

The Irish civil war, 1922-1923: an anti-Treaty perspective

The Catholic Church and partition, 1918-22

Establishing Irish Free State, 1922-1932

The politics of reaction: the dynamics of Treatyite government and policy,1922-33

The Irish Free State and the League of Nations, 1922-32: the wider implications

The construction and destruction of a colonial landscape: monuments to British monarchs in Dublin before and after independence

The Age of Eamon De Valera, 1932-1948

Final exit? Britain, Éire, the Commonwealth and the repeal of the External Relations Act, 1945-1949

'Putting new wine into old bottles': the Irish Right and the embrace of European social thinking in the early 1930s

'Burn everything British but their coal': the Anglo-Irish economic war of the 1930s

Dublin slums in the 1930s

The Blueshirts and the 'economic war': a study of Ireland in the context of dependency theory

Pariah dogs: deserters from the Irish defence forces who joined the British armed forces during 'the emergency'

Catholic action and the development of the Irish welfare state in the 1930s and1940s

Northern Ireland, 1920-1968: 'Protestantism before Party!': the Ulster Protestant League in the 1930s

Creating jobs, manufacturing unity

Ulster Unionism and mass unemployment, 1922-34

Lord Londonderry and education reform in 1920s Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland and British Fascism in the inter-war years

'Cultivating their own garden': broadcasting and culture in Northern Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s

Belfast republicanism in the 30s: the oral evidence

Ireland Since 1949

Ireland and the Marshall plan

Gender and voter appeal in Irish elections, 1948-1997

Changes in population and in the extent of the built up area of the Dublin City-region, 1936-1988

Northern Ireland Since 1968

Acts of union: youth, sub-culture and ethnic identity amongst Protestants in Northern Ireland

Northern Irish nationalist political culture

'This is not a rebel song': the Irish conflict and popular music

From Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement: creating devolved government in Northern Ireland

Women

Surveying politics of peace, gender, conflict and identity in Northern Ireland: the case of the Derry Peace Women in 1972

The hidden history of the PFIs: the repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s

Women and the Irish Free State, 1922-1939: the interaction between economics and ideology

Name index

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