Ireland : the politics of enmity, 1789-2006 / Paul Bew
- Bib ID:
- 4227351
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- Book
- Author:
- Bew, Paul
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- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
- xii, 613 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780198205555
- Series:
- Oxford history of modern Europe
- Summary:
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"The French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society. The 1790s saw the birth of modern Irish republicanism and Orangeism, whose antagonism remains a defining feature of Irish political life. The 1790s also saw the birth of a new approach to Ireland within important elements of the British political elite, men like Pitt and Castlereagh. Strongly influenced by Edmund Burke, they argued that Britain's strategic interests were best served by a policy of Catholic emancipation and political integration in Ireland. Britain's failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which a million Irish died, set the context for the emergence of a popular mass nationalism, expressed in the Fenian, Parnell, and Sinn Fein movements, which eventually expelled Britain from the part of the island." "This book reassesses all the key leaders of Irish nationalism - Tone, O'Connell, Butt, Parnell, Collins, and de Valera - alongside key British political leaders such as Peel and Gladstone in the nineteenth century, and Winston Churchill and Tony Blair in the twentieth century. A study of the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question, this analysis is, however, firmly placed in the context of changing social and economic realities."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Preface vii
- Acknowledgments xi
- 1. Impact of the French Revolution: `The Battle of Burke'-Tone
- or Castlereagh? 1
- 2. The Union Between Britain and Ireland: One People? 49
- 3. Daniel O'Connell and the Road to Emancipation 1810-1829 87
- 4. The Repealer Repulsed: O'Connell 1830-1845 125
- 5. The Politics of Hunger, 1845-1850 175
- 6. The Fenian Impulse 231
- 7. Parnellism: `Fierce ebullience linked to constitutional
- machinery' 302
- 8. `Squelching', `by way of a hors d'oeuvre': Conflict in Ireland,
- 1891-1918 361
- 9. The Politics of the Gun or a `Saving Formula 1919-1923 393
- 10. `Melancholy Sanctity' in the South, `Perfect Democracy in the
- North': Ireland 1923-1966 444
- 11. `Unbearably Oldfashioned and Pointless': The Era of the
- Troubles, 1968-2005 486
- 12. Conclusion 556
- Index 583.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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