Social Origins of the Irish Land War

Social Origins of the Irish Land War
Author: Samuel Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400853524

Arguing that social movements can be explained and understood only in a comparative historical perspective and not in terms of immediate social or political conditions, the author identifies the causes of the Land War in the evolution of social structure and collective action in the Irish countryside over the course of the nineteenth century. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Changing Land

Changing Land
Author: Niall Whelehan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1479809624

How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League’s demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish “landlordism” in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants’ activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. By including Argentina, which was home to the largest Irish community outside the English-speaking world, this book addresses the neglect of developments in non-Anglophone places in studies of the “Irish world.” Changing Land presents a powerful addition to our understanding of the history of modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora, migration, and the history of transnational radicalism.

Unhappy the Land

Unhappy the Land
Author: Liam Kennedy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781785370298

Challenging, contentious and highly original perspectives of the major controversies in Irish history. Kennedy confronts historical focal points such as the Ulster Plantation, the Great Famine, and the War of Independence with previously untold scrutiny.

Feast and Famine

Feast and Famine
Author: Leslie Clarkson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2001-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191543675

This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.

Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland

Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland
Author: Charles H. E. Philpin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2002-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521525015

Essays on Irish nationalism, some on particular protest movement, others on more general themes.

Land and Popular Politics in Ireland

Land and Popular Politics in Ireland
Author: Donald E. Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521466837

A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century.

Land questions in modern Ireland

Land questions in modern Ireland
Author: Fergus Campbell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 152611142X

This collection of essays explores the nature and dynamics of Ireland's land questions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and also the ways in which the Irish land question has been written about by historians. The book makes a vital contribution to the study of historiography by including for the first time the reflections of a group of prominent historians on their earlier work. These historians consider their influences and how their views have changed since the publication of their books, so that these essays provide an ethnographic study of historians' thoughts on the shelf-life of books exploring the way history is made. The book will be of interest to historians of modern Ireland, and those interested in the revisionist debate in Ireland, as well as to sociologists and anthropologists studying Ireland or rural societies.

Michael Davitt

Michael Davitt
Author: Carla King
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910820962

This short biography outlines the scope of Davitt's great interests and achievements