Book Description
Assessing the relative importance of British influence and of indigenous impulses in shaping an independent Ireland, this book identifies the relationship between personality and process in determining Irish history.
Author : Joseph Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521266482
Assessing the relative importance of British influence and of indigenous impulses in shaping an independent Ireland, this book identifies the relationship between personality and process in determining Irish history.
Author : David George Boyce
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 9780415098199
This volume brings together some of the most distinguished historians from Ireland to offer their own interpretations of key issues and events in Irish history.This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and:* examines its historiography* assesses the context of new interpretations* considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas* offers their own interpretation.Topics covered are not only of historical interest but, in the context of recent revisionist debates, of contemporary political significance.These original contributions take account of new evidence and perspectives, as well as up-to-date historical methodology. Their combination of synthesis and analysis represent a valuable guide to the present state of the writing of modern Irish history.
Author : Joseph John Lee
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0717160319
The Modernisation of Irish Society surveys the period from the end of the Famine to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 election and argues that during that time Ireland became one of the most modern and advanced political cultures in the world. Professor Lee contends that the Famine death-rate, however terrible, was not unprecedented. What was different was the post-Famine response to the catastrophy. The sharply increased rate of emigration left behind a population of tenent farmers engaged in market orientated agriculture and determined to protect and improve their position. It was this group that used the British political system so skillfully, a process elaborated and refined in the Land League and Home Rule movements under Parnell. The Parnell era left a lasting legacy of modern political engagement and organisation which was carried on in essentials by the later Home Rule party and by Sinn Fein, and – beyond the terminal date of the book – would make its mark on the politics of independent Ireland. The Modernisation of Irish Society was first published as volume 10 of the original Gill History of Ireland.
Author : P. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230583857
Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 offers a theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical drama in the under-researched period 1926-1949.
Author : J.J. Lee
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0814752187
Explores the history of the Irish in America, offering an overview of Irish history, immigration to the United States, and the transition of the Irish from the working class to all levels of society.
Author : Hilary Larkin
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1783080361
The years of Ireland’s union with Great Britain are most often regarded as a period of great turbulence and conflict. And so they were. But there are other stories too, and these need to be integrated in any account of the period. Ireland’s progressive primary education system is examined here alongside the Famine; the growth of a happily middle-class Victorian suburbia is taken into account as well as the appalling Dublin slum statistics. In each case, neither story stands without the other. This study synthesises some of the main scholarly developments in Irish and British historiography and seeks to provide an updated and fuller understanding of the debates surrounding nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.
Author : Joseph Lee
Publisher : Gill Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717144211
An accessible and short survey history with a strong interpretative perspective surveying the period from the end of the Famine to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 election
Author : Ian N. Gregory
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2013-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0253009790
“Tap[s] the power of new geospatial technologies . . . explore[s] the intersection of geography, religion, politics, and identity in Irish history.”—International Social Science Review Ireland’s landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history by detailing the patterns of change in Ireland from 16th century attempts to “plant” areas of Ireland with loyal English Protestants to defend against threats posed by indigenous Catholics, through the violence of the latter part of the 20th century and the rise of the “Celtic Tiger.” The book is concerned with how a geography laid down in the 16th and 17th centuries led to an amalgam based on religious belief, ethnic/national identity, and political conviction that continues to shape the geographies of modern Ireland. Troubled Geographies shows how changes in religious affiliation, identity, and territoriality have impacted Irish society during this period. It explores the response of society in general and religion in particular to major cultural shocks such as the Famine and to long term processes such as urbanization. “Makes a strong case for a greater consideration of spatial information in historical analysis―a message that is obviously appealing for geographers.”—Journal of Interdisciplinary History “A book like this is useful as a reminder of the struggles and the sacrifices of generations of unrest and conflict, albeit that, on a global scale, the Irish troubles are just one of a myriad of disputes, each with their own history and localized geography.”—Journal of Historical Geography
Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1856356566
This book follows the action that took place in the `Munster Republic' during the Irish War of Independence.
Author : David George Boyce
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415332575
This book explores the efforts made by British governments, Irish politicians, and Irish cultural organisations to master and shape Ireland in an age of increasingly rapid change, and explain the process and outcome of these endeavours.