Defying the Law of the Land

Defying the Law of the Land
Author: Brian Casey
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752499521

This history of Ireland is inextricably linked with our relationship with the land. In this book, based on extensive research and investigation, the authors examine some of the key figures in Irish agrarian agitation and change.Looking at the Land League, the Knights of the Plough, the perception and reality of the Irish Landlords, this is an important book which makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the nature of the ‘land question’ in Irish history.

Funding the Nation

Funding the Nation
Author: Michael Keyes
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0717151972

Daniel O'Connell created the Catholic nation in 1820s Ireland and in the process he gave birth to popular politics. Ahead of America where Andrew Jackson was creating his own brand of popular politics, O'Connell brought together rich and poor in support of a new phenomenon that became the popular political party. O'Connell began the shift in power from landed wealth to democratic nationalism. His success was built upon by Charles Stewart Parnell who created the first truly effective political party in the 1880s. The success of both O'Connell and Parnell was based on the flow of money into their organisations to sustain their political machines. Until now there has been no serious examination of how early nationalists raised money, how they accounted for it and – occasionally – how they misappropriated it. In telling this story Michael Keyes fills a key gap in our knowledge by showing us that popular funding was the life blood of Irish nationalism and was the key ingredient in a movement that went from political exclusion to political dominance in nineteenth-century Ireland.

Changing Land

Changing Land
Author: Niall Whelehan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1479809551

"Changing Land explores how the Irish Land War inspired multifaceted activism among Irish emigrants in the United States, Argentina, Scotland and England, and how diaspora activism intersected with transnational radical and reform causes"--

Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times

Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times
Author: N. C. Fleming
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2011-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN:

Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both during his lifetime and ever since. His controversial and provocative role in Irish and British affairs had him vilified as a murderer in The Times, and afterwards dramatically vindicated by the Westminster Parliament. It cast him as a romantic hero to the young James Joyce, and a self-serving opportunist to the journalists of the Nation. Parnell has been the subject of court cases, parliamentary enquiries and debates, journalism, plays, poems, literary analysis and historical studies. For the first time all these have been collected, catalogued and cross-referenced in one volume, an invaluable resource for scholars of late nineteenth century Ireland and Britain. Divided into fifteen chapters, including a biographical sketch, the volume contains information on manuscript and archival collections, printed primary sources, Parnell's writing, Parnell's speeches in the House of Commons and outside Parliament, contemporary journalism, contemporary writing, and contemporary illustrations on Irish affairs, and a substantial list of scholarly work, including biographies, books, articles, chapters, and theses. This volume offers readers a clear record of the substantial material already available on Parnell, and in doing so offers resources to future research in this area.

Irish Home Rule, 1867-1921

Irish Home Rule, 1867-1921
Author: Alan O'Day
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1998-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719037764

IRISH HOME RULE considers the preeminent issue in British politics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book separates moral and material home rulers and appraises the home rule movement from a fresh angle, distinguishing between physical force and constitutional nationalists.

A Greater Ireland

A Greater Ireland
Author: Ely M. Janis
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299301249

A Greater Ireland examines the Irish National Land League in the United States and its impact on Irish-American history. It also demonstrates the vital role that Irish-American women played in shaping Irish-American nationalism.

The Big Houses and Landed Estates of Ireland

The Big Houses and Landed Estates of Ireland
Author: Terence A. M. Dooley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This book is designed to provide those interested in the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their strengths and weaknesses. It examines the vast array of sources available for the study of big houses, other than estate papers, such as published and unpublished auction catalogues, photographs, oral archives and architectural drawings, and provides an overview of the history of landed estates and big houses in Ireland from 1800 to the present day.

The Making of Modern Irish History

The Making of Modern Irish History
Author: D. George Boyce
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2006-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134807627

This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and: * examines its historiography * assesses the context of new interpretations * considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas * offers their own interpretation. Topics covered are not only of historical interest but, in the context of recent revisionist debates, of contemporary political significance. These original contributions take account of new evidence and perspectives, as well as up-to-date historical methodology. Their combination of synthesis and analysis represent a valuable guide to the present state of the writing of modern Irish history.