Nationalism and Popular Protest in IrelandCharles H. E. Philpin The essays in this collection focus on the nature of popular protest and agrarian unrest and the development of nationalism in modern Ireland. Some are concerned with particular manifestations of protest - Houghers, Rightboys, Defenders, Ribbonmen, the Land War, Sinn Féin. Others treat more general themes - cultural identity as expressed in Gaelic Irish literature, the dynamics of the potato economy, electoral politics and landlord power, the impact of modernization on Ulster's development. Religion is discussed, and the relationship between agrarian violence and politicization, between protest and nationalism. Taken as a whole, the volume illustrates the range and depth, and the excellence, of recent writing on modern Irish history. It will be welcomed both for the importance and relevance of its theme and for the substantial contribution it makes to Irish studies generally. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Emergence of a Nation | 16 |
The Formation of the Irish Mind Religion Politics and Gaelic Irish Literature 15801750 | 50 |
Presbyterianism and Modernization in Ulster | 80 |
The Potato in Ireland | 110 |
Irish History without the Potato | 126 |
The Houghers Agrarian Protest in Early EighteenthCentury Connacht | 139 |
Priests Parsons and Politics The Rightboy Protest in County Cork 17851788 | 163 |
Defenders Ribbonmen and Others Underground Political Networks in PreFamine Ireland | 219 |
The Ribbon Societies LowerClass Nationalism in PreFamine Ireland | 245 |
Rural Conflict in PreFamine Ireland Peasant Assassinations in Tipperary 18371847 | 264 |
Landlords Society and Electoral Politics in MidNineteenthCentury Ireland | 284 |
Merchants Strong Farmers and Fenians The PostFamine Political Élite and the Irish Land War | 320 |
Stopping the Hunt 18811882 An Aspect of the Irish Land War | 349 |
The Geography of Irish Nationalism 19101921 | 403 |
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