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This is a history of Ulster, ranging from prehistoric times to the present day, spanning 9000 years of social, political and economic life. It takes readers through the earliest settlements and plantations to the turmoil of the Troubles.
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This is a history of Ulster, ranging from prehistoric times to the present day, spanning 9000 years of social, political and economic life. It takes readers through the earliest settlements and plantations to the turmoil of the Troubles. This is a special limited edition of 250 numbered copies, each signed by the author. Details available on request from Blackstaff Press.
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• Introduction: The Irish Question in Context
• 1. The Act of Union
• 2. The Catholic Question
• 3. The Land Question
• 4. The National Question
• 5. The New Nationalism
• 6. The Irish Revolution
• 7. The National Questions
• 8. New Acts of Union.
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This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history of modern Ireland.The Irish Question has of course changed: one of the main aims of this book is to explore the complicated and shifting nature of the Irish Question and to assess what it has meant to various political minds and agendas. No other issue brought down as many nineteenth-century governments and no comparable twentieth-century dilemma has matched its ability to frustrate the attempts of British cabinets to find a solution; this inability to find a lasting answer to the Irish Question is especially striking when seen in the context of the massive shifts in British foreign policy brought about by two world wars, decolonization, and the cold war. Senia Paseta charts the changing nature of the Irish Question over the last 200 years, within an international political and social historical context. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Joseph Cashman, 1885 to 1969, was a remarkable photographer. For over 20 years he chronicled the public life of Ireland in a graphic way. This collection provides a visual record of revolutionary and post-revolutionary Ireland. This selection of photographs is edited by Louis McRedmond who provides an explanatory text on each photograph.
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• From bronzesmith to beadsmith-- hillforts-- king and tribe-- the road to God knows where-- the invisible people-- technology and art-- cult, ritual and death-- beyond the empire-- Celts, culture and colonisation-- radiocarbon dates.
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Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland come from the great Irish sagas: epic tales of heroic struggles between kings and warriors, of outlandish gods and wise Druids. But how do these images compare with the evidence revealed by the excavator's trowel? Recent research has transformed our understanding of the period. Reflecting this new generation of scholarship, Professor Barry Raftery presents an up-to-date account yet published of Ireland in the millennium before the coming of Christianity. The transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in Ireland brought many changes, not least the proliferation of imposing hillforts. New findings indicate that the construction of the country's great royal centres, such as Tara and Emain Macha, coincides with the first appearance of the material culture of the European Celts - so-called La Tene artifacts. The author argues that these were the trappings of a rising elite, which expressed its power in highly visible monuments. Professor Raftery also discusses advances that took place in travel and transport - including the creation of the largest roadway in prehistoric Europe; the lives of the common people; the genius of the local metalsmiths; and the complex religious beliefs exemplified by standing stones and offerings in rivers and lakes. He presents material about Ireland's contacts with the Roman world, and in a final chapter he reviews whether La Tene culture spread to Ireland through invasion or peaceful diffusion.
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In the 1890s, most of the inhabitants of the west of Ireland experienced great poverty and hardship, living - as they did - on farms that were too small to provide them with a reasonable standard of living. By 1921, however, the living conditions of many of them had been transformed by a series of Land Acts that revolutionized the system of land holding in Ireland. This book examines agrarian conflict in Ireland during the neglected period between the death of Parnell (1891) and the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921), and demonstrates that land reform was often introduced in response to popular protest. Whereas earlier accounts have tended to examine Irish political history from the perspective of British governments or nationalist leaders, this book breaks new ground by providing an account of popular political activity in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland. For the first time, the social background, ideas, and activities of grass-roots political activists are systematically explored, as are the class conflicts that threatened to fragment the unity of the nationalist movement in rural communities. By reinserting the activism of ordinary people into the broader historical record, Dr Campbell suggests new interpretations of a number of critical developments including the failure of 'constructive unionism', the origins of Sinn Fein, and the nature and dynamics of the Irish revolution (1916-23). Using the recently released archives of the Bureau of Military History, the story of the war of independence in the western county of Galway is told in the words of both the Irish Republican Army and its enemies. Land and Revolution transforms our understanding of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish history, and also contributes to comparative studies of nationalism, revolution, and agrarian protest.
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Spectacular photographs of Ireland, taken between 1860 and 1960.
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• 1. The Irish republican military mind : the evolution of a strategic tradition
• 2. Transitions in Irish republican strategy : the development of the military instrument from the Easter rising to the civil war
• 3. Political control versus the autonomous military instrument : Irish republican strategy from the civil war to the 1970s
• 4. The military ascendancy : the provisional IRA on the offensive, 1970-1972
• 5. The erosion of provisional IRA strategy, 1972-1977
• 6. The evolution of PIRA's total strategy, 1977-1983
• 7. A continuing military enigma : the contradictory dynamics of the total strategy, 1983-1990
• 8. Ending the isolation? Ending the violence?

Fighting for Ireland? is the first in-depth account of the evolution of Irish Republican strategy. It is highly topical in the light of the faltering peace process and the growing speculation over the IRA's next move: further violence or a new non-violent strategy? This new, updated paperback edition is essential reading for those who wish to disentangle the complex issues and motives behind IRA violence. M.L.R. Smith challenges many assumptions about the IRA, pinpointing the organisation's successes as well as its missed opportunities. He demonstrates the tension the movement has experienced between ideology and strategic reality regarding the use of force, illustrating how doctrinal purity has sometimes hampered the IRA in the pursuit of its goals. Contrary to the Irish Republican movement's vigorous and assertive public face Smith uncovers an organisation characterised more by a sense of chronic insecurity than by certainty and continuity.
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• Biography and the meaning of an Irish country house : William Conolly and Castletown / Patrick Walsh
• An absentee family's suburban demesne : the making of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin / Finola O'Kane
• Gothic in post-Union Ireland : the uses of the past in Adare, Co. Limerick / Judith Hill
• Irish landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903 / Patrick Cosgrove
• The burning of country houses in Co. Offaly during the revolutionary period, 1920-3 / Ciarán J. Reilly
• "Ascendancy's ... last big jamboree" : big house society in Northern Ireland, 1921-69 / Olwen Purdue
• "It was like a scene from the ball in Gone with the wind" : social life at Castle Hyde, 1931-88 / Terence Dooley
• The Music in the Irish Country House project : origins and objective / Karol Mullaney-Dignam
• Education and the historic house : where the past has a value for the future / Danielle O'Donovan & Jennifer McCrea
• Making and meaning in the country house : new perspectives in England, Ireland and Scotland / Christopher Ridgway
• The twilight of the ascendancy and the big house : a view from the twenty-first century / Allen Warren.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; AFTERWORD; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

"A Warr So Desperate": John Milton and Some Contemporaries on the Irish Rebellion examines the political and colonial contexts of Milton's Observations Upon the Articles of Peace, as well as the relatively brief, but significant comments on the Irish Rebellion that occur elsewhere in his work. Commissioned by the Council of State in March, 1649, Milton's Observations puts forward the Commonwealth's justifications for the reconquest of Ireland which would soon follow with Oliver Cromwell's campaign. In doing so, Milton covers some familiar ground - for example, the trial and execution of Charles I, and the intolerance and political hypocrisy of the Presbyterians. However, the Irish Rebellion leads Milton to engage with these in a way which does not fit particularly well with how his views of personal, political, and religious liberties are generally perceived. Beginning with Milton's pragmatic reading of the documents he cogently critiques in the tract, this book then situates Observations within the polemical contexts of the 1640s and early 1650s, particularly the frequent representation of Irish atrocities (reliant on both anti-Catholic and ethnic prejudices) and Eikon Basilike's justification of Charles I's handling of the rebellion, arguing both Milton's agreement with and complicity in the reconquest.
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Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.