Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction R. F. Foster
1. The emergence of a nation V. G. Kiernan
2. The formation of the Irish mind: religion, politics and Gaelic Irish literature, 1580–1750 Nicholas Canny
3. Presbyterianism and 'modernization' in Ulster David W. Miller
4. The potato in Ireland K. H. Connell
5. Irish history without the potato L. M. Cullen
6. The Houghers: agrarian protest in early eighteenth-century Connacht S. J. Connolly
7. Priests, parsons and politics: the Rightboy protest in County Cork, 1785–1788 Maurice J. Bric
8. An end to moral economy: the Irish militia disturbances of 1793 Thomas Bartlett
9. Defenders, Ribbonmen and others: underground political networks in pre-famine Ireland Tom Garvin
10. The Ribbon societies: lower-class nationalism in pre-famine Ireland M. R. Beames
11. Rural conflict in pre-famine Ireland: peasant assassinations in Tipperary, 1837–1847 M. R. Beames
12. Landlords, society and electoral politics in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland K. Theodore Hoppen
13. Merchants, 'strong farmers' and Fenians: the post-famine political élite and the Irish Land War Donald Jordan
14. Stopping the hunt, 1881–1882: an aspect of the Irish Land War L. P. Curtis Jr
15. The geography of Irish nationalism, 1910–1921 David Fitzpatrick
Index.

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