Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays: v. 1

This landmark series of three volumes brings together selected essays from leading and specialist journals that have made a significant or original contribution to Irish historiography. The purpose of the volumes is to make these thoughtful contributions readily accessible to scholars and students. The three volumes cover key time periods, "The Union to the Land War" (volume 1), "Parnell and his legacy to the Treaty" (volume 2), and "From the Treaty to the Present" (volume 3). Each volume contains a range of articles reappraising the major political themes of the period, but also offering new interpretations on social, economic, cultural and religious history, as well as women's history and historical geography. Introductions in each volume explain the specific and wider significance of the articles.

Table of Contents:
Series preface; Introduction, Vol 1.; Part 1 The Beginning of the Union: Popular politics in Ireland and the Act of Union, James Kelly; National festivals, the state and 'Protestant ascendancy' in Ireland, 1790-1829, Jacqueline R. Hill; 'How did they pass the Union?' Secret Service expenditure in Ireland, 1799-1804, David Wilkinson.; Part II Catholic Question and Emancipation: Visualizing the liberator: self-fashioning, dramaturgy, and the construction of Daniel O'Connell, Gary Owens; Daniel O'Connell and European Catholic thought, Geraldine Grogan; The Catholic question and the monarchy, 1827-1829, G.I.T. Machin.; Part III Age of O'Connell in the 1830s and 1840s, and Repeal: Daniel O'Connell, democrat, liberal Catholic and husband, Maurice R. O'Connell; 'A nation once again': Thomas Osborne Davis and the construction of the Irish 'popular' tradition, Guilio Giorello.; Part IV Great Famine: 'Shovelling out your paupers': the British state and Irish famine migration, 1846-50, Peter Gray; On landlord-assisted emigration from some Irish estates in the 1840s, Desmond Norton.; Part V Politics in the 1850s and 60s: 'God save Ireland': Manchester-martyr demonstrations in Dublin, 1867-1916, Owen McGee; The Fenian infiltration of the British army, A.J. Semple.; Part VI Isaac Butt and the Rise of Home Rule: Isaac Butt and Irish nationality, Alan O'Day; Cardinal Cullen and Irish nationality, E.D. Steele; The Irish dimension of the British kulturkampf: Vaticanism and civil allegiance, 1870-1875, Hilary Jenkins.; Part VII Demography and Social Conditions: The impact of the blight upon pre-Famine rural economy in Ireland, Patrick McGregor; Harvest fluctuations in pre-Famine Ireland: evidence from Belfast and Waterford newspapers, Peter M. Solar; The decline and fall of Donnybrook Fair: moral reform and social control in 19th-century Dublin, Fergus A. D'Arcy; Perceptions of agricultural labourers after the Great Famine, 1850-1870, Padraig G. Lane.; Part VIII Religion and Society in 19th-Century Ireland: The role of Vincentian parish missions in the 'Irish counter-Reformation' of the mid-19th century, James H. Murphy; Ulster awakened: the '59 revival reconsidered, Myrtle Hill; The role of open-air preaching in the Belfast riots of 1857, Janice Holmes.; Part IX Diaspora, Emigration, Immigrants: The distribution of Irish emigration in the decade before the Great Famine, James H. Johnson; Irish immigrants and radical movements in the West of Scotland in the early 19th century, John F. McCaffrey; The Birkenhead Garibaldi riots of 1862, F. Neal.; Part X Women: War, gender and industrial innovation: recruiting women weavers in early 19th-century Ireland, Anne McKernan; Women in 19th-century Irish emigration, Pauline Jackson; Index.

About the Author :
Alan O'Day is a Doctor at Greyfriars, University of Oxford, UK and N.C. Fleming is a Doctor in the School of History & Archaeology at Cardiff University, UK.