Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-6
The Men of Property: Politics and the Languages of Class in the 1790s....Pages 7-20
William Thompson, Class and His Irish Context, 1775–1833....Pages 21-47
The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class: O’Connellites in County Longford, 1820–50....Pages 48-64
‘Carrying the War into the Walks of Commerce’: Exclusive Dealing and the Southern Protestant Middle Class during the Catholic Emancipation Campaign....Pages 65-88
The Decline of Duelling and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Ireland....Pages 89-106
‘You’d be disgraced!’ Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland....Pages 107-129
Middle-Class Attitudes to Poverty and Welfare in Post-Famine Ireland....Pages 130-147
The Industrial Elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War....Pages 148-175
‘Another Class’? Women’s Higher Education in Ireland, 1870–1909....Pages 176-193
Class, Nation, Gender and Self: Katharine Tynan and the Construction of Political Identities, 1880–1930....Pages 194-211
Leadership, the Middle Classes and Ulster Unionism since the Late-Nineteenth Century....Pages 212-229
William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and Middle-Class Politics, 1905–19....Pages 230-248
Planning and Philanthropy: Travellers and Class Boundaries in Urban Ireland, 1930–75....Pages 249-270
‘The Stupid Propaganda of the Calamity Mongers’?: The Middle Class and Irish Politics, 1945–97....Pages 271-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-297