{"product_id":"9780717160969","title":"Nineteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 5): The Search for Stability in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' - The 1798 Rebellion, the Great Potato Famine, the Easter Rising and the Partition of Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe elusive search for stability is the subject of Professor D. George Boyce’s \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e, the fifth in the \u003ci\u003eNew Gill History of Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNineteenth-century Ireland began and ended in armed revolt. The bloody insurrections of 1798 were the proximate reasons for the passing of the Act of Union two years later. The ‘long nineteenth century’ lasted until 1922, by which the institutions of modern Ireland were in place against a background of the Great War, the Ulster rebellion and the armed uprising of the nationalist Ireland. The hope was that, in an imperial structure, the ethnic, religious and national differences of the inhabitants of Ireland could be reconciled and eliminated. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNationalist Ireland mobilised a mass democratic movement under Daniel O’Connell to secure Catholic Emancipation before seeing its world transformed by the social cataclysm of the Great Irish Potato Famine. At the same time, the Protestant north-east of Ulster was feeling the first benefits of the Industrial Revolution. Although post-Famine Ireland modernised rapidly, only the north-east had a modern economy. The mixture of Protestantism and manufacturing industry integrated into the greater United Kingdom and gave a new twist to the traditional Irish Protestant hostility to Catholic political demands. In the home rule period from the 1880s to 1914, the prospect of partition moved from being almost unthinkable to being almost inevitable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNineteenth-century Ireland collapsed in the various wars and rebellions of 1912–22. Like many other parts of Europe than and since, it had proved that an imperial superstructure can contain domestic ethnic rivalries, but cannot always eliminate them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e: Table of Contents\u003col\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Union: Prelude and Aftermath, 1798–1808\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Catholic Question and Protestant Answers, 1808–29\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTesting the Union, 1830–45\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Land and its Nemesis, 1845–9\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitical Diversity, Religious Division, 1850–69\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shaping of Irish Politics (1): The Making of Irish Nationalism, 1870–91\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shaping of Irish Politics (2): The Making of Irish Unionism, 1870–93\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Conciliation to Confrontation, 1891–1914\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eModernising Ireland, 1834–1914\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Union Broken, 1914–23\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStability and Strife in Nineteenth-Century Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117374324976,"sku":"9780717160969","price":13.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780717160969_p0.jpg?v=1763624394","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780717160969","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}