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The Irish Establishment 1879-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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The Irish Establishment 1879-1914 (Hardcover, New)
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The Irish Establishment examines who the most powerful men and
women were in Ireland between the Land War and the beginning of the
Great War, and considers how the composition of elite society
changed during this period.
Although enormous shifts in economic and political power were
taking place at the middle levels of Irish society, Fergus Campbell
demonstrates that the Irish establishment remained remarkably
static and unchanged. The Irish landlord class and the Irish
Protestant middle class (especially businessmen and professionals)
retained critical positions of power, and the rising Catholic
middle class was largely--although not entirely--excluded from this
establishment elite. In particular, Campbell focuses on landlords,
businessmen, religious leaders, politicians, police officers, and
senior civil servants, and examines their collective biographies to
explore the changing nature of each of these elite groups.
The book provides an alternative analysis to that advanced in the
existing literature on elite groups in Ireland. Many historians
argue that the members of the rising Catholic middle class were
becoming successfully integrated into the Irish establishment by
the beginning of the twentieth century, and that the Irish
revolution (1916-23) represented a perverse turn of events that
undermined an otherwise happy and democratic polity. Campbell
suggests, on the other hand, that the revolution was a direct
result of structural inequality and ethnic discrimination that
converted well-educated young Catholics from ambitious students
into frustrated revolutionaries.
Finally, Campbell suggests that it was the strange intermediate
nature of Ireland's relationship with Britain under the Act of
Union (1801-1922)--neither straightforward colony nor fully
integrated part of the United Kingdom--that created the tensions
that caused the Union to unravel long before Patrick Pearse pulled
on his boots and marched down Sackville Street on Easter Monday in
1916.
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