Civilising rural Ireland
Civilising rural Ireland

Author: Patrick Doyle

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-01-21

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1526124580

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The introduction of co-operative societies into the Irish countryside during the late-nineteenth century transformed rural society and created an enduring economic legacy. Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the book takes as its focus the numerous leaders, organisers, and members of the Irish co-operative movement. Together these people captured the spirit of change as they created a modern Ireland through their reorganisation of the countryside, the spread of new economic ideas, and the promotion of mutually-owned businesses. Besides giving a comprehensive account of the co-operative movement’s introduction to Irish society the book offers an analysis of the importance of these radical economic ideas upon political Irish nationalism.

Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century
Crime, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Kyle Hughes (Lecturer in British history)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1786940655

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A collection of essays, based on original research delivered at one of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland's recent annual conferences.--Back book cover.

Ireland Before and After the Famine
Ireland Before and After the Famine

Author: Cormac Ó Gráda

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780719040351

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This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.

Homicide in Pre-famine and Famine Ireland
Homicide in Pre-famine and Famine Ireland

Author: Richard McMahon (Research fellow)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1846319471

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The book provides a quantitative and contextual analysis of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland, placing the Irish experience within a comparative framework and drawing wider inferences about the history of interpersonal violence in Europe and beyond.

Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland
Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland

Author: John McDonagh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1351756176

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This title was first published in 2002: As rural Ireland undergoes deep-reaching changes, this book critically assesses what the author terms the "renegotiation of rural development" in Ireland through the repackaging, reproduction and representation of suggestions, ideas and alternatives for rural renewal. Deconstructing the process and practice of rural development in Ireland, the author explores the new approaches to development and the so-called desire for creating integrative policy and planning approaches. The main conduits for this investigation are those of partnership and community groups and their involvement in rural development issues. Further, through investigation of the relevant concepts and theories of rural change, the volume delves into the discourses of rurality and development and utilizes the diversity of approaches and understanding of, this increasingly complex issue.