Social Conflict in Pre-Famine Ireland: The Case of County Roscommon

by Michael Huggins

The author investigates social conflict in Roscommon during the fifty years before the Famine. He demonstrates that both nationalist and modernization explanations of social conflict in pre-Famine Ireland are unsatisfactory. Where nationalist historiography viewed such conflicts as proto-national, and modernization theories saw them as primitive rebellions, Huggins considers that pre-Famine unrest is best understood in terms of an Irish 'moral economy'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185182653X
• ISBN13: 9781851826537
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"