The Irish Experience Since 1800: A Concise History

Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface to the Third Edition
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Acknowledgments
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Part I: From Colony to Nation-State......Page 18
1. Ireland Before the Union: England's Conquest of Ireland
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The Tudor/Stuart Plantation of Ireland......Page 24
Penal Laws......Page 30
Landlordism
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The Rise and Fall of the Protestant Nation
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The Life of Rural Catholic Ireland
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The Emergence of Daniel O'Connell
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The Catholic Association and the Beginnings of Modern Irish Nationalism
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The Catholic Victory
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The Consequences of Catholic Emancipation
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O'Connell in the House of Commons
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The Whig Alliance
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Lobbying for Repeal
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Young Ireland and Cultural Nationalism
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The Surge of Repeal
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Combating the Rising Tide
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The Defeat of Repeal
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Peel's Effort to Integrate Ireland into the United Kingdom
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4. Famine and Fenianism, 1845–1870......Page 78
The Irish Confederation
......Page 79
Repeal to Revolution
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Famine
......Page 82
The Consolidation of Irish Catholicism
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Land and Politics
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The American Dimension
......Page 90
Fenianism
......Page 93
Gladstone's Initial Response to the Irish Question
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Isaac Butt and Home Rule
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The Emergence of Charles Stewart Parnell
......Page 104
The New Departure
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The Decline of Butt's Version of Home Rule
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The Land War
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The Irish Party: Strong and Solid at Last
......Page 114
Gladstone's Pursuit of Home Rule
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Aspects of the Irish-Liberal Alliance
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The Fall of Parnell
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The Ebb and Flow of Home Rule Enthusiasm
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Trying to Kill Home Rule with Kindness
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A Reunified but Aging Irish Party
......Page 128
English and Irish “Racism”
......Page 129
Irish-Ireland
......Page 130
An Alternative to Home Rule
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Labor Restiveness
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Reform Under the Liberals
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The House of Lords Crisis and Home Rule
......Page 138
The Brink of Civil War
......Page 139
The Union Temporarily Preserved by a Foreign War
......Page 143
Blood Sacrifice
......Page 145
The Anglo-Irish War
......Page 151
End of a War, Start of a Nation
......Page 153
Part II: From Free State to Republic......Page 158
Establishing the New State
......Page 160
Irish Economic, Cultural, and Religious Life in the 1920s and Early 1930s
......Page 170
The Irish Constitution: Blueprint for Democracy at Home and Equality Abroad
......Page 176
Dismantling the Treaty and Supplanting the Free State
......Page 182
The Anglo-Irish Agreements of 1938
......Page 191
Social and Political Unrest in the 1930s
......Page 194
Irish Neutrality and World War II
......Page 198
Irish Life and Politics During the Emergency
......Page 202
The Irish Republic, 1948–1959
......Page 205
Abandoning Economic Self-Sufficiency
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New Challenges and Opportunities
......Page 213
Social and Political Responses to the New Realities
......Page 217
Ireland Confronts Modernity
......Page 220
The Old Boy Network of Irish Politics
......Page 223
Church-State Relations in the 1990s
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Irish Catholicism and Irish-Ireland: Cultural Identities in Transition
......Page 226
Early Background to the Modern “Troubles”
......Page 231
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement
......Page 235
Attempts at Power-Sharing and Devolution......Page 237
The New Ireland Forum and the Anglo-Irish Accord
......Page 242
Irish-American Familiarity with the Ulster Issue
......Page 245
IRA Propaganda in America and the Problem of Perception for Britain
......Page 247
NORAID and the American Connection with Ulster
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Concern and Constraint in Confronting the Ulster Crisis
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13. Ireland into the Twenty-First Century......Page 252
The Genesis of the Peace Process
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Decade of the Celtic Tiger
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Old-Age Politics in a New-Age Nation
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Popular Culture in the New Ireland
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Education: Liberating or Limiting?
......Page 268
The Celtic Tiger and Cultural Change
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Irish Neutrality in the Twenty-First Century
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Economic Collapse and the Prospect of an Uncertain Future
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Recommended Reading......Page 280
Index......Page 290
About the Authors
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