The Chamberlains, the Churchills and Ireland, 1874-1922
The Chamberlains, the Churchills and Ireland, 1874-1922

Author: Ian Chambers

Publisher: Cambria Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1934043311

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Winston Churchill and Austen Chamberlain both entered Parliament with inherited Unionist views. However, changing political circumstances in Britain and Ireland led them to change their stance and adopt policies that would have been anathema to their fathers.

Ireland's Independence: 1880-1923
Ireland's Independence: 1880-1923

Author: Oonagh Walsh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1134553668

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This timely introduction presents a clear, balanced account of the rapid and complex events from 1880 leading up to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Irish Identities in Victorian Britain
Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

Author: Roger Swift

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1317965574

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Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes competed. In contributing to this burgeoning historiography, this book explores and analyses the complexities surrounding the self-identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain, which differed not only from place to place and from one generation to another but which were also variously shaped by issues of class and gender, and politics and religion. Moreover, and given the tendency for Irish ethnicity to mutate, through a comparative study of the Irish in Britain and the United States, the book suggests that in order to preserve their Irishness, the Irish often had to change it. Written by some of the foremost scholars in the field, these original essays not only shed new light on the history of the Irish in Britain but are also integral to the broader study of the Irish Diaspora and of immigrants and minorities in multicultural societies. This book was previously published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities.

A History of Ireland, 1800–1922
A History of Ireland, 1800–1922

Author: Hilary Larkin

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1783080361

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The years of Ireland’s union with Great Britain are most often regarded as a period of great turbulence and conflict. And so they were. But there are other stories too, and these need to be integrated in any account of the period. Ireland’s progressive primary education system is examined here alongside the Famine; the growth of a happily middle-class Victorian suburbia is taken into account as well as the appalling Dublin slum statistics. In each case, neither story stands without the other. This study synthesises some of the main scholarly developments in Irish and British historiography and seeks to provide an updated and fuller understanding of the debates surrounding nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.

Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912
Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c.1870-1912

Author: Andrew Newby

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1474471285

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This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson's groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history.

Class and Community in Provincial Ireland, 1851–1914
Class and Community in Provincial Ireland, 1851–1914

Author: Brian Casey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 3319711202

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This book explores the experience of small farmers, labourers and graziers in provincial Ireland from the immediacy of the Famine until the eve of World War One. During this period of immense social and political change, they came to grips with the processes of modernisation. By focusing upon east Galway, it argues that they were not an inarticulate mass, but rather, they were sophisticated and politically aware in their own right. This study relies upon a wide array of sources which have been utilised to give as authentic a voice to the lower classes as possible. Their experiences have been largely unrecorded and this book redresses this imbalance in historiography while adding a new nuanced understanding of the complexities of class relations in provincial Ireland. This book argues that the actions of the rural working class and nationalists has not been fully understood, supporting E.P. Thompson’s argument that ‘their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experiences’.