Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847

Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847
Author: Thomas Gallagher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780156707008

Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.

Ireland since 1800

Ireland since 1800
Author: K.Theodore Hoppen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317881923

The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches.

Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century

Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century
Author: D. George Boyce
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2008-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134981376

These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The book breaks away from the traditional emphasis in Irish historiography on the nationalism/unionism debate to focus instead on previously neglected areas such as the role of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Irish socialism and conservatism. A wide range of original primary sources are used from pamphlets to journalism, devotional tracts to poetry.

Guinness's Brewery in the Irish Economy 1759-1876

Guinness's Brewery in the Irish Economy 1759-1876
Author: Patrick Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521283310

This 1960 text examines the role that Guinness's brewery played in the Irish economy in the years between 1759-1876.

Late Georgian and Regency England, 1760-1837

Late Georgian and Regency England, 1760-1837
Author: Robert A. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521528641

A guide to historical literature on England between 1760 and 1837, emphasising more recent work.

Rural Disorder and Police Reform in Ireland, 1812-36

Rural Disorder and Police Reform in Ireland, 1812-36
Author: Galen Broeker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 131738153X

In this book which was first published in 1970, author Galen Broeker traces the events of a crucial period in the struggle of the British government to bring law and order to rural Ireland. He demonstrates that throughout the forty years following the union a major challenge to government in Ireland was the sporadic violence that seemed endemic to the rural south and west. Organizations of Irish peasants terrorized the countryside in protest against a political and economic system that seemed to threaten their very existence. The formation in 1814 of the Peace Preservation Force is examined. This was the first in a long series of experiments aimed at an efficient and impartial system of law enforcement. This title will be of interest to student of history and criminology.

Journeys to England and Ireland

Journeys to England and Ireland
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351510517

This extraordinary series of observations on England and Ireland complements de Tocqueville's masterpieces on the United States and France in the mid-nineteenth century. These pages are perhaps the most penetrating writings on the spirit of British politics. In effect, as indicated by John Stuart Mill, de Tocqueville was the Montesquieu of the nineteenth century. This is especially the case if one thinks of the present Irish situation. His political acumen reached into the future -which is now our present.

The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923

The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923
Author: J.C. Beckett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2011-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0571280897

'Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the collection, sorting, selecting and balancing of material has meant an immense amount of hard and highly skilful work. The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always alive and compassionate as well . . . As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable . . . As an example of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Professor Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass.' D. B. Quinn, Belfast Telegraph '[He] has brilliantly succeeded. The book is admirably constructed and written with clarity and economy which carry the narrative unflaggingly through to the end . . . This excellent book supersedes all previous histories of modern Ireland.' F. S. L. Lyons, New Statesman

The Shamrock and the Lily

The Shamrock and the Lily
Author: Mary C. Kelly
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780820474533

Ireland's tumultuous heritage combined with the promise of cosmopolitan New York to forge a new Irish-American immigrant identity. Between the Great Irish Famine and the creation of the Irish Free State, the New York Irish world preserved as much from the old country as it adopts from the new. The Shamrock and the Lily illuminates a set of remarkable transatlantic connections dominated by the road to Ireland's independence, in an absorbing study of a people driven from a troubled past toward freedom for themselves and for those they left behind.