Bibliography of Irish History 1912-1921
Bibliography of Irish History 1912-1921

Author: James Carty

Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1781514836

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An invaluable reference work of which only 750 copies were originally printed, providing a remarkably complete list of titles published during this most troubled period in Irish history, the period stretching from the passing of the Home Rule Bill in Britain's Parliament, through the raising of rival Unionist and Nationalist volunteer militias in northern and southern Ireland, the Great War, the Easter Rising, and the guerilla war against British forces which led to Irish independence. An incredibly useful book, providing a jumping-off board for anyone wanting to research the political and military history of the era. Publications are listed alphabetically by brief chronological period.

The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism
The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism

Author: Emmet J. Larkin

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0813205948

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In three short essays (first published as articles in The American Historical Review), Larkin analyzes the economic, social, and political context of nineteenth-century Ireland.

History and Memory in Modern Ireland
History and Memory in Modern Ireland

Author: Ian McBride

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-11-08

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521793667

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A 2001 volume of essays about the relationship between past and present in Irish society.

A History of Ireland
A History of Ireland

Author: Edmund Curtis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-28

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1134466668

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Edmund Curtis's remarkable survey of Ireland, from its earliest origins to the twentieth century, is a classic introduction to Ireland's fascinating history. Reaching from St Patrick's Mission in 432 to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, this authoritative text explores the formative events of Ireland's past and encompasses the Norman invasion, Gaelic recovery, Cromwell's Settlement, the Act of Union, and the Great Famine. Lucid and scholarly, this all-embracing account unfolds the events of Ireland's history and the story of its people, through an examination of their political, religious, social, economic and cultural past. Ireland's unique history is revealed here through the 'moving forces, the deciding facts, and the men who mattered'. Featuring a chronology of key dates in Irish history and a guideline to the pronunciation of Irish names, this celebrated narrative now includes a new introduction by Sean Duffy.

From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula
From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula

Author: Paul E. H. Davis

Publisher: Legend Press Ltd

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0956071678

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Paul E H Davis and the Irish Land Question In his challenging new book, Paul E H Davis offers an entirely new critique of how novelists in nineteenth-century Ireland had to act -both as writers and historians - in their attempts to find a solution to what became the Irish Land Question. Callenging the widely-held nationalist view that Irish novelists of this period had little or nothing to offer, Davis slots these castaway novelists into a new, identifiable category: the agrarian novelists. The book is divided into three parts. Part One considers novelists writing between the Union and the Famine: Maria Edgeworth, Gerald Griffin, John and Michael Banim and William Carleton. Part Two looks at how the agrarian novel 'emigrates' with reference to the novels of Charles Kickham and to the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. Part Three considers how some agrarian novelists - specifically Thomas Moore and Bram Stoker - felt the solution lay not in the real world but in the world of fantasy. An exceptional book on why the agrarian novelists deserve to be valued for their unique perception of Ireland in the nineteenth century.

The Black and Tans
The Black and Tans

Author: Richard Bennett

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2010-11-10

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1473812429

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A history of the infamous British temporary policemen sent to Ireland during the Irish War of Independence in the early 1920s. They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunics, khaki trousers, black belts, and odd headgear, including civilian felt hats. The Irish named them after a famous pack of wild dogs on County Limerick—The Black and Tans. Although they were only a small proportion of British forces in Ireland, they were the toughest, the wildest and the most feared. They knew nothing and they cared nothing about Ireland. They were sent there in March 1920 by Lloyd George’s coalition cabinet to make Ireland “a hell for rebels to live in.” Richard Bennett’s book is an accurate and authoritative account of an ugly and harrowing period in Anglo-Irish history—a period that the English have struggled to forget, and that the Irish cannot help but remember.

An Irish-Speaking Island
An Irish-Speaking Island

Author: Nicholas M. Wolf

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2014-11-25

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0299302741

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This groundbreaking book shatters historical stereotypes, demonstrating that, in the century before 1870, Ireland was not an anglicized kingdom and was capable of articulating modernity in the Irish language. It gives a dynamic account of the complexity of Ireland in the nineteenth century, developments in church and state, and the adaptive bilingualism found across all regions, social levels, and religious persuasions.

The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1

Author: Theodore W. Allen

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1844678431

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When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America’s ruling classes created the category of the “white race” as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, and that fact has been central to maintaining ruling-class domination over ordinary working people of all colors throughout American history. Volume I draws lessons from Irish history, comparing British rule in Ireland with the “white” oppression of Native Americans and African Americans. Allen details how Irish immigrants fleeing persecution learned to spread racial oppression in their adoptive country as part of white America. Since publication in the mid-nineties, The Invention of the White Race has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. In this updated edition, scholar Jeffrey B. Perry provides a new introduction, a short biography of the author and a study guide.

Economic Thought and the Irish Question 1817–1870
Economic Thought and the Irish Question 1817–1870

Author: R. D. Collison Black

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1107475287

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Originally published in 1960, this book presents a discussion of the relationship between economic theory and economic policy in relation to nineteenth-century Irish history. The text focuses on the period 1816-70 and covers a variety of areas, including the land system, absentee landlords, the poor law, private enterprise, free trade, public works, and emigration. A bibliography is included and detailed notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Irish history, British foreign policy and economic theory.