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• Introduction
• 1 Atlantic Oligarchy
• 2 The Three Kingdoms
• 3 The Adventure for Irish land
• 4 Grocers Hall
• 5 Commonwealth
• 6 Republic
• 7 Restoration Conclusion Index
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This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement. -- .
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• Introduction and acknowledgements - Fergus Campbell SECTION ONE: SURVEYS
• 1. Irish land questions in the State of the Union - Gearoid O Tuathaigh
• 2. Gaining ground, losing ground: The politics of land reform in twentieth-century Ireland - Tony Varley SECTION TWO: REFLECTIONS
• 3. The Irish land question in a wider context - Barbara Solow
• 4. Writing about Irish land against the backdrop of Northern Ireland - Philip Bull
• 5. Strange bedfellows? The Land League Alliances - Samuel Clark
• 6. The issue of land redistribution: Revisiting Graziers, Land Reform and Political Conflict in Ireland - David Jones
• 7. Land and Revolution revisited - Fergus Campbell SECTION THREE: NEW RESEARCH
• 8. De-centering the Irish land war: Women, politics and the private sphere - Heather Laird
• 9. The transcendent role of Catholic discourse in the Irish Land War - Anne Kane
• 10. Matthew Harris, Fenianism and land agitation in the West of Ireland - Gerard Moran
• 11. The politics of "holding the balance": Irish farmers' parties and land distribution in the twentieth century -Tony Varley Index
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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. -- .
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From Hugh de Lacy's effective conquest of Meath in the 1170s and the establishment of Anglo-Norman power, through to the demise of what has been termed the 'landed aristocracy' at the beginning of the twentieth century, the county's history has been shaped by the struggle for land and the wealth and power that it confers. The system of landed estates that evolved through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was marked by both continuity and change. This collection of pieces from historians and academics explores this fascinating aspect of the long history of Meath.
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During the early 1880s a continual interaction of events, ideas, and people in Ireland and the United States created a ""Greater Ireland"" spanning the Atlantic that profoundly impacted both Irish and American society. In A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic Nationalism in Gilded Age America, Ely M. Janis closely examines the Irish National Land League, a transatlantic organization with strong support in Ireland and the United States. Founded in Ireland in 1879 against the backdrop of crop failure and agrarian unrest, the Land League pressured the British government to reform the Irish landholding system and allow Irish political self-rule. The League quickly spread to the United States, with hundreds of thousands of Irish Americans participating in branches in their local communities. As this ""Greater Ireland"" flourished, new opportunities arose for women and working-class men to contribute within Irish-American society. Exploring the complex interplay of ethnicity, class, and gender, Janis demonstrates the broad range of ideological, social, and political opinion held by Irish Americans in the 1880s. Participation in the Land League deeply influenced a generation that replaced their old county and class allegiances with a common cause, shaping the future of Irish-American nationalism.
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• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Transatlantic Origins of the Land League;
• 1. The "Uncrowned King of Ireland": Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 Mission to America;
• 2. "An Agitator of the Best Kind": Michael Davitt and the Rise of the Land League in the United States; Part II. The Effect of the Land League in the United States;
• 3. From Plymouth Rock to the Golden Gate: The Growth and Spread of the Land League in the United States.

• 4. "Ireland to Us Is Father and Mother and America Is the Wife": Conservative Irish-American Nationalism, the Land League, and the Quest for Respectability5. "Spreading the Light": Patrick Ford, Irish-American Radical Nationalism, and the Land League;
• 6. "Let Us Rise to Action": Gender, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Ladies' Land League in the United States; Part III. The End of the Land League;
• 7. "Ireland Is Fighting Humanity's Battle": The No-Rent Manifesto, Land Nationalization, and the Radical Challenge in the United States.

• 8. The Road from Kilmainham Jail: The Death of the Land League and the Triumph of Conservative Irish Nationalism in the United States and IrelandEpilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

During the early 1880s a continual interaction of events, ideas, and people in Ireland and the United States created a ""Greater Ireland"" spanning the Atlantic that profoundly impacted both Irish and American society. In A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic Nationalism in Gilded Age America, Ely M. Janis closely examines the Irish National Land League, a transatlantic organization with strong support in Ireland and the United States. Founded in Ireland in 1879 against the backdrop of crop failure and agrarian unrest, the Land League pressured the British government to reform the Irish landholding system and allow Irish political self-rule. The League quickly spread to the United States, with hundreds of thousands of Irish Americans participating in branches in their local communities. As this ""Greater Ireland"" flourished, new opportunities arose for women and working-class men to contribute within Irish-American society. Exploring the complex interplay of ethnicity, class, and gender, Janis demonstrates the broad range of ideological, social, and political opinion held by Irish Americans in the 1880s. Participation in the Land League deeply influenced a generation that replaced their old county and class allegiances with a common cause, shaping the future of Irish-American nationalism.
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• Contents: James H. Murphy/Heidi Hansson: The Irish Land War and its Fictions - Whitney Standlee: The 'Personal Element' and Emily Lawless's Hurrish (1886) - Derek Hand: George Moore's A Drama in Muslin: Art and the Middle-Classes - Faith Binckes/Kathryn Laing: 'Rival Attractions of the Season': Land-War Fiction, Christmas Annuals, and the Early Writing of Hannah Lynch - Julie Anne Stevens: The Irish Land War and Children's Literature: Padraic Colum's A Boy in Eirinn (1913) illustrated by Jack B. Yeats - Heidi Hansson: More than an Irish Problem: Authority and Universality in Land-War Writing - Anna Pilz: 'All Possessors of Property Tremble': Constructions of Landlord-Tenant Relations in Lady Gregory's Writings - Carla King: The Making of a Thoughtful Agitator: A Glimpse at Michael Davitt's Books - James H. Murphy: Mary Anne Sadlier on the Land War - Heidi Hansson/James H. Murphy: Introduction to Rosa Mulholland, Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy - Rosa Mulholland: Our Boycotting: A Miniature Comedy - Bibliography of Land-War Fiction 1879-1916.
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The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Divisions into 'us' and 'them' were convenient for political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of the land problem. This collection includes studies of canonical land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland's little-known play Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire further reading and research into the genre.
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• Introduction and acknowledgements - Fergus Campbell SECTION ONE: SURVEYS
• 1. Irish land questions in the State of the Union - Gearoid O Tuathaigh
• 2. Gaining ground, losing ground: The politics of land reform in twentieth-century Ireland - Tony Varley SECTION TWO: REFLECTIONS
• 3. The Irish land question in a wider context - Barbara Solow
• 4. Writing about Irish land against the backdrop of Northern Ireland - Philip Bull
• 5. Strange bedfellows? The Land League Alliances - Samuel Clark
• 6. The issue of land redistribution: Revisiting Graziers, Land Reform and Political Conflict in Ireland - David Jones
• 7. Land and Revolution revisited - Fergus Campbell SECTION THREE: NEW RESEARCH
• 8. De-centering the Irish land war: Women, politics and the private sphere - Heather Laird
• 9. The transcendent role of Catholic discourse in the Irish Land War - Anne Kane
• 10. Matthew Harris, Fenianism and land agitation in the West of Ireland - Gerard Moran
• 11. The politics of "holding the balance": Irish farmers' parties and land distribution in the twentieth century -Tony Varley Index.
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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.
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• Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership
• The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property
• English property, Irish ownership and the British state
• The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
• At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.

"Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel's preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested in the question of whether the Irish had rights to their land that could neither be bestowed nor taken away by England. In analyzing how these ideas were represented through a century of British and Irish fiction, journalism, and political theory, Maurer recovers the broad influence of Irish culture on the rest of the British isles. By focusing on the ownership of land, The Dispossessed State challenges current scholarly tendencies to talk about Victorian property solely as a commodity. Maurer brings together canonical British novelists - Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Trollope, George Moore, and George Meredith - with the writings of major British political theorists - John Stuart Mill, Henry Sumner Maine, and William Gladstone - to illustrate Ireland's central role in the literary imagination of Britain in the nineteenth century. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies - property, the state, and national identity - and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies."--Project Muse.

• Disowning to own: Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and the illegitimacy of national ownership
• The forebearance of the state: John Stuart Mill and the promise of Irish property
• English property, Irish ownership and the British state
• The wife of state: Ireland and England's vicarious enjoyment in Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels
• At home in the public domain: George Moore's drama in muslin, George Meredith's Diana of the crossways and the intellectual property of union.

Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara L. Maurer here looks at the question as it applied to British ideas about Irish nationalism in the nineteenth century. This book connects the Victorian novel's preoccupation with the landed estate to nineteenth-century debates about property, specifically as it played out in the English occupation of Ireland. Victorian writers were interested in the question of whether the Irish had rights to their land that could neither be bestowed nor taken away by England. In analyzing how these ideas were represented through a century of British and Irish fiction, journalism, and political theory, Maurer recovers the broad influence of Irish culture on the rest of the British Isles. By focusing on the ownership of land, "The Dispossessed State" challenges current scholarly tendencies to talk about Victorian property solely as a commodity. Maurer brings together canonical British novelists - Maria Edgeworth, Anthony Trollope, George Moore, and George Meredith-with the writings of major British political theorists-John Stuart Mill, Henry Sumner Maine, and William Gladstone - to illustrate Ireland's central role in the literary imagination of Britain in the nineteenth century. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies-property, the state, and national identity - and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies.
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• Redeeming Ireland-The Historical Problem and a Model for Cultural Analysis Historical Antecedents to the Irish Land War Emergence of the Irish Land Movement, 1879 Movement Expansion, 1880 Consolidation of Irish Nationalist Identity, 1881 Out of the Land War - Irish National Identity.
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Author Anne Kane analyzes the intertwined cultural, political and social transformations that occur during historical events by focusing specifically on the case of the Irish Land War, a pivotal event in the formation of the modern Irish nation.
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• Introduction: nature is a language--
• 1. Planting a landscape: cultivation and reform in Ireland--
• 2. Planning a landscape I: cultivation as reformation--
• 3. Planning a landscape II: cultivation through plantation--
• 4. Inscribing a landscape: maps, surveys and records--
• 5. Material signs: ordering the built--
• 6. A civil offer: the failure to adopt English customs--
• 7. Bad manners, nasty habits: the elimination of Irish customs-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montano traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played in Tudor strategies for settling, civilising and colonising Ireland. The book ranges from the role of cartography, surveying and material culture - houses, fences, fields, roads and bridges - in manifesting the new order to the place of diet, leisure, language and hairstyles in establishing cultural differences as a site of conflict between the Irish and the imperialising state and as a justification for the civilising process. It shows that the ideologies and strategies of colonisation which would later be applied in the New World were already apparent in the practices, material culture and hardening attitude towards barbarous customs of the Tudor regime.
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• Introduction: nature is a language--
• 1. Planting a landscape: cultivation and reform in Ireland--
• 2. Planning a landscape I: cultivation as reformation--
• 3. Planning a landscape II: cultivation through plantation--
• 4. Inscribing a landscape: maps, surveys and records--
• 5. Material signs: ordering the built--
• 6. A civil offer: the failure to adopt English customs--
• 7. Bad manners, nasty habits: the elimination of Irish customs-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montano traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played in Tudor strategies for settling, civilising and colonising Ireland. The book ranges from the role of cartography, surveying and material culture - houses, fences, fields, roads and bridges - in manifesting the new order to the place of diet, leisure, language and hairstyles in establishing cultural differences as a site of conflict between the Irish and the imperialising state and as a justification for the civilising process. It shows that the ideologies and strategies of colonisation which would later be applied in the New World were already apparent in the practices, material culture and hardening attitude towards barbarous customs of the Tudor regime.
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• 1. INTRODUCTION: The Land Question in Nineteenth Century Scotland and Ireland.--
• 2. "A FENIAN CONCLAVE IN THE COUNTRY"? The development of a Scottish Land Agitation, c. 1860-1877.--
• 3. "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO EXPECT LITTLE, FOR THEY SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED" Alleged and Actual Irish involvement in the development of the 'Crofters' War'.--
• 4. "AN OBSCURE HALL IN EAST NILE STREET" Urban Radicalism and the-- 'Crofters' War', 1881-1882.--
• 5. "A VORTEX OF ALL-SWALLOWING SOCIALISM" Strands of land and social reform in Ireland and the Highlands.--
• 6. "A SCOTCH PARNELLITE PARTY" Land, Home Rule and the Third Reform Act.--
• 7. "TWO TRIBES WHICH SPRANG FROM THE SAME STOCK" Celtic Solidarity and Political Realignment in the Highlands, 1885-1895.--
• 8. "THE HIGHLANDS HAVE REAPED WHAT MICHAEL DAVITT HAS SOWN" - Legislation and Agitation to the Great War.--
• 9. CONCLUSION.
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This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson's groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history.
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• 1. INTRODUCTION: The Land Question in Nineteenth Century Scotland and Ireland.--
• 2. "A FENIAN CONCLAVE IN THE COUNTRY"? The development of a Scottish Land Agitation, c. 1860-1877.--
• 3. "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO EXPECT LITTLE, FOR THEY SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED" Alleged and Actual Irish involvement in the development of the 'Crofters' War'.--
• 4. "AN OBSCURE HALL IN EAST NILE STREET" Urban Radicalism and the-- 'Crofters' War', 1881-1882.--
• 5. "A VORTEX OF ALL-SWALLOWING SOCIALISM" Strands of land and social reform in Ireland and the Highlands.--
• 6. "A SCOTCH PARNELLITE PARTY" Land, Home Rule and the Third Reform Act.--
• 7. "TWO TRIBES WHICH SPRANG FROM THE SAME STOCK" Celtic Solidarity and Political Realignment in the Highlands, 1885-1895.--
• 8. "THE HIGHLANDS HAVE REAPED WHAT MICHAEL DAVITT HAS SOWN" - Legislation and Agitation to the Great War.--
• 9. CONCLUSION.
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This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make radical reassessments of the contributions of individuals such as John Ferguson, Michael Davitt and Edward McHugh. Andrew Newby looks closely at the political activities and ambitions of the Crofter MPs showing them to be a widely influential but diverse group: he reveals, for example, the extensive links between Angus Sutherland, the most radical of the Highland MPs, and John Ferguson's groupings of Irish political activists of urban Scotland. This is a balanced and vivid account of a turbulent period of modern Scottish history.
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A narrative account of the nineteenth-century assassination of an Anglo-Irish landlord whose demise occurred at the height of the Great Irish Famine evaluates Mahon's possible role in the sufferings of his tenants and draws on the observations of powerful period leaders.

• Perceptions of kingship in early medieval Irish vernacular literature / Edel Bhreathnach
• Images of Gaelic lordship in Ireland, c.1200--c.1400 / Freya Verstraten
• The profits of lordship : Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and the lordship of Carlow, 1270--1306 / Margaret Murphy
• Lords of the river valleys : economic and military lordship in the Carlow Corridor, c.1200--1350 - European model in an Irish context / Linda Doran
• The Gaelic O'Driscoll lords of Baltimore, Co. Cork : settlement, economy and conflict in a maritime cultural landscape / Connie Kelleher
• The MacMurroughs and the marches of Leinster, 1170--1340 / Emmett O'Byrne
• Castles and landscapes in Uí Fhiachrach Muaidhe, c.1235--c.1400 / John Malcolm
• Gaelic lords of the sea : the coastal tower houses of south Connemara / Paul Naessens
• The MacCoghlans of Devlin Eathra : the transformation of a late medieval lordship in early modern Ireland / James Lyttleton.