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Ireland - The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 (Hardcover)
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Ireland - The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe
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The French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society.
The 1970s saw the birth of modern Irish republicanism and
Orangeism, whose antagonism remains a defining feature of Irish
political life. The 1970s also saw the birth of a new approach to
Ireland within important elements of the British political elite,
men like Pitt and Castlereagh. Strongly influenced by Edmund Burke,
they argued that Britain's strategic interests were best served by
a policy of catholic emancipation and political integration in
Ireland. Britain's failure to achieve this objective, dramatised by
the horrifying tragedy of the Irish famine of 1846-50, in which a
million Irish died, set the context for the emergence of a popular
mass nationalism, expressed in the Fenian, Parnell, and Sinn Fein
movements, which eventually expelled Britain from the greater part
of the island.
This book reassesses all the key leaders of Irish nationalism -
Tone, O'Connell, Butt, Parnell, Collins, and de Valera - alongside
key British political leaders such as Peel and Gladstone in the
nineteenth century, or Winston Churchill and Tony Blair in the
twentieth century. A study of the changing ideological passions of
the modern Irish question, this analysis is, however, firmly placed
in the context of changing social and economic realities.
Using a vast range of original sources, Paul Bew holds together
the worlds of political class in London, Dublin, and Belfast in one
coherent analysis which takes the reader all the way from the
society of the United Irishman to the crisis of the Good Friday
Agreement.
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