Modernisation of Irish Society 1848 - 1918 (eBook)

Joseph John Lee (Autor)

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2008
Gill Books (Verlag)
978-0-7171-6031-0 (ISBN)

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The Modernisation of Irish Society surveys the period from the end of the Famine to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 election and argues that during that time Ireland became one of the most modern and advanced political cultures in the world. Professor Lee contends that the Famine death-rate, however terrible, was not unprecedented. What was different was the post-Famine response to the catastrophy. The sharply increased rate of emigration left behind a population of tenent farmers engaged in market orientated agriculture and determined to protect and improve their position. It was this group that used the British political system so skillfully, a process elaborated and refined in the Land League and Home Rule movements under Parnell. The Parnell era left a lasting legacy of modern political engagement and organisation which was carried on in essentials by the later Home Rule party and by Sinn Fein, and beyond the terminal date of the book would make its mark on the politics of independent Ireland. The Modernisation of Irish Society was first published as volume 10 of the original Gill History of Ireland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2008
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1912-1985: Politics and Society • 1916 Rising • Charles Stewart Parnell • Easter Rising • Economy and society • fenianism • Gill Books • Home Rule • Ireland • Irish History • Irish Nationalism • irish revolution • James Connolly • Joseph Lee • Land • Making the Irish American: The History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States • Modernisation of Irish Society • orangeism • Padraig Pearse • Religion • Sinn Féin • The Land War 1879-1882 • The Shifting Balance of Power: Exploring the 20th Century • the tenant league • unionism
• ISBN-10: 0-7171-6031-9 / 0717160319
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-6031-0 / 9780717160310