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Land and Revolution - Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921 (Hardcover, New)
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Land and Revolution - Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921 (Hardcover, New)
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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
latenineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish history, and also
contributes to comparative studies of nationalism, revolution, and
agrarian protest.
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