Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Search for Stability (New Gill History of Ireland) - Softcover

Boyce, D. George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717132994 ISBN 13: 9780717132997

Publisher: Gill Books, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

D. George Boyce is Professor of Politics in the University of Wales, Swansea.

Review:

...warmly recommended both for its explanations and its narrative....>>>> (Albion)

The chapter on the Great Famine is a masterial description...his book (is) a serious contribution to our understanding of modern Ireland.>>>> (The Catholic Historical Review)

Boyce pursues his theme crisply and with admirable clarity from the risings of 1798 to the end of the civil war in Ireland in 1923.>>>> (History)

...examines in some detail the historical roots of the Irish Republic and Ulster in a dispassionate and evenhanded manner.>>>> (Choice)

...examines in some detail the historical roots of the Irish Republic and Ulster in a dispassionate and evenhanded manner. (Choice)

...warmly recommended both for its explanations and its narrative.... (Albion)

The chapter on the Great Famine is a masterial description...his book (is) a serious contribution to our understanding of modern Ireland. (The Catholic Historical Review)

Boyce pursues his theme crisply and with admirable clarity from the risings of 1798 to the end of the civil war in Ireland in 1923. (History)

About this edition

• Publisher: Gill Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0717132994
• ISBN 13: 9780717132997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440