Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction R. F. Foster; 1. The emergence of a nation V. G. Kiernan; 2. The formation of the Irish mind: religion, politics and Gaelic Irish literature, 1580?1750 Nicholas Canny; 3. Presbyterianism and 'modernization' in Ulster David W. Miller; 4. The potato in Ireland K. H. Connell; 5. Irish history without the potato L. M. Cullen; 6. The Houghers: agrarian protest in early eighteenth-century Connacht S. J. Connolly; 7. Priests, parsons and politics: the Rightboy protest in County Cork, 1785?1788 Maurice J. Bric; 8. An end to moral economy: the Irish militia disturbances of 1793 Thomas Bartlett; 9. Defenders, Ribbonmen and others: underground political networks in pre-famine Ireland Tom Garvin; 10. The Ribbon societies: lower-class nationalism in pre-famine Ireland M. R. Beames; 11. Rural conflict in pre-famine Ireland: peasant assassinations in Tipperary, 1837?1847 M. R. Beames; 12. Landlords, society and electoral politics in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland K. Theodore Hoppen; 13. Merchants, 'strong farmers' and Fenians: the post-famine political elite and the Irish Land War Donald Jordan; 14. Stopping the hunt, 1881?1882: an aspect of the Irish Land War L. P. Curtis Jr; 15. The geography of Irish nationalism, 1910?1921 David Fitzpatrick; Index.