Irish Rebellion - Protestant Polemic 1798-1900 (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

The 1798 Rebellion unleashed a paper war involving contemporary historians and pro-Establishment literary reviews.The debate re-ignited whenever Irish issues impacted on Westminster politics - as happened frequently throughout the nineteenth century. "Irish Rebellion: Protestant Polemic, 1798-1900" traces this paper-warfare against the background of the Union, Catholic Emancipation, Young Ireland, Gladstone and the Fenians, Victoria's jubilees, the 1898 centenary and the South African War. In doing so, the book's focus is less on the events themselves and more on the rhetoric that coloured perceptions of those events.
Apologists for the Protestant Ascendancy represented the 1798 Rebellion as a continuation of the long-running conflict between Catholic and Protestant, and as part of the alleged Europe-wide Jacobin conspiracy, at which London's antijacobin press directed so much fire-power. An introductory chapter surveys the work of modern scholars, providing a yardstick against which to measure the more extreme examples of Ascendancy myth-making.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	S. Andrews
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	238
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-9598-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-4039-9598-2
Barcode:	9781403995988

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