Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 613 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780198205555
Series Statement:
Oxford History of Modern Europe
Content:
The Anglo-Irish relationship has historically been a fraught one. The modern Irish question is defined by many as a case of a great and supposedly liberal nation supposedly mistreating a smaller one. The Politics of Enmity embodies a new approach to this issue, analysing key issues from religious discrimination, and famine, to the passions of both nationalism and unionism. Re-evaluating British political leadership and its approach towards Ireland, Paul Bew sheds new light. on the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question. Examining the influence and legacies of many key figur
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; 1. Impact of the French Revolution: 'The Battle of Burke'-Tone or Castlereagh?; 2. The Union Between Britain and Ireland: One People?; 3. Daniel O'Connell and the Road to Emancipation 1810-1829; 4. The Repealer Repulsed: O'Connell 1830-1845; 5. The Politics of Hunger, 1845-1850; 6. The Fenian Impulse; 7. Parnellism: 'Fierce ebullience linked to constitutional machinery'; 8. Squelching, 'by way of a hors d'oeuvre': Conflict in Ireland, 1891-1918; 9. The Politics of the Gun or a 'Saving Formula', 1919-1923
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10. 'Melancholy Sanctity' in the South, 'Perfect Democracy in the North': Ireland 1923-196611. 'Unbearably Oldfashioned and Pointless': The Era of the Troubles, 1968-2005; 12. Conclusion; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198205555
Additional Edition:
Print version Ireland : The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006
Language:
English
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