Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Search for Stability

by David George Boyce

Book Overview

The search for stability proved elusive. Nationalist Ireland mobilized a mass democratic movement under O'Connell to secure Catholic Emancipation before seeing its world transformed by the social cataclysm of the Great Famine. At the same time, the Protestant north-east of Ulster was feeling the first benefits of the Industrial Revolution. Although post-Famine Ireland modernized rapidly, only the north-east had a modern economy. The mixture of Protestantism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0717132994
• ISBN13: 9780717132997
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Gill Books
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.