The modern Irish question is defined by many as a case of a great and supposedly liberal nation supposedly mistreating a smaller one. This text embodies a new approach to this issue, analysing key issues from religious discrimination and famine, to...
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The modern Irish question is defined by many as a case of a great and supposedly liberal nation supposedly mistreating a smaller one. This text embodies a new approach to this issue, analysing key issues from religious discrimination and famine, to the passions of both nationalism and unionism
Impact of the French Revolution : "The Battle of Burke" : Tone or Castlereagh? -- The union between Britain and Ireland : one people? -- Daniel O'Connell and the road to emancipation 1810-1829 -- The repealer repulsed : O'Connell 1830-1845 -- The politics of hunger, 1845-1850 -- The Fenian impulse -- Parnellism : "fierce ebullience linked to constitutional machinery" -- Squelching, "by way of a hors d'oeuvre" : conflict in Ireland, 1891-1918 -- The politics of the gun or a "saving formula," 1919-1923 -- "Melancholy sanctity" in the South, "perfect democracy in the North" : Ireland 1923-1966 -- "Unbearably oldfashioned and pointless" : the era of the troubles, 1968-2005 -- Conclusion.
