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.

Medieval Ireland
Medieval Ireland

Author: Clare Downham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-12-07

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 110854794X

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Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes in the region. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes.

Phases of Irish History
Phases of Irish History

Author: Eoin MacNeill

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-08-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 3752443707

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Reproduction of the original: Phases of Irish History by Eoin MacNeill

Reimagining The Nation-State
Reimagining The Nation-State

Author: Jim Mac Laughlin

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2001-02-20

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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This book assesses competing modes of nation-building and nationalism through a critical reappraisal of the works of key theorists such as Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm. Exploring the processes of nation building from a variety of ethnic and social class contexts, it focuses on the contested terrains within which nationalist ideologies are often rooted. Mac Laughlin offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of nation building, taking as a case study the historical connections between Ireland and Great Britain in the clash between 'big nation' historic British nationalism on the one hand, and minority Irish nationalism on the other. Locating the origins of the historic nation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Mac Laughlin emphasises the difficulties, and specifities, of minority nationalisms in the nineteenth century. In so doing he calls for a place-centred approach which recognises the symbolic and socio-economic significance of territory to the different scales of nation-building. Exploring the evolution of Irish Nationalism, Reimaging the Nation State also shows how minority nations can challenge the hegemony of dominant states and threaten the territorial integrity of historic nations.