Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852. With a Map and Illustrations
Author : Sir John Forbes
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Page : 342 pages
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Release : 1853
Category : Ireland
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Author : Sir John Forbes
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Ireland
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Author : John Forbes
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Sir John Forbes
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Page : pages
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Release : 1853
Category : Ireland
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Author : Edward Lengel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 031301244X
The mainstream British attitude toward the Irish in the first half of the 1840s was based upon the belief in Irish improvability. Most educated British rejected any notion of Irish racial inferiority and insisted that under middle-class British tutelage the Irish would in time reach a standard of civilization approaching that of Britain. However, the potato famine of 1846-1852, which coincided with a number of external and domestic crises that appeared to threaten the stability of Great Britain, led a large portion of the British public to question the optimistic liberal attitude toward the Irish. Rhetoric concerning the relationship between the two peoples would change dramatically as a result. Prior to the famine, the perceived need to maintain the Anglo-Irish union, and the subservience of the Irish, was resolved by resort to a gendered rhetoric of marriage. Many British writers accordingly portrayed the union as a natural, necessary and complementary bond between male and female, maintaining the appearance if not the substance of a partnership of equals. With the coming of the famine, the unwillingness of the British government and public to make the sacrifices necessary, not only to feed the Irish but to regenerate their island, was justified by assertions of Irish irredeemability and racial inferiority. By the 1850s, Ireland increasingly appeared not as a member of the British family of nations in need of uplifting, but as a colony whose people were incompatible with the British and needed to be kept in place by force of arms.
Author : Sir John Forbes
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Christime Kinealy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0717155552
The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.
Author : New York Public Library
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Henry Allon
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 1853
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Page : 802 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
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Page : 1636 pages
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