The Irish Through British Eyes: Perceptions of Ireland in the Famine Era

by Edward G. Lengel

The mainstream British attitude toward the Irish in the first half of the 1840s was based upon the belief in Irish improvability. Most educated British rejected any notion of Irish racial inferiority and insisted that under middle-class British tutelage the Irish would in time reach a standard of civilization approaching that of Britain. However, the potato famine of 1846-1852, which coincided with a number of external and domestic crises that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275976343
• ISBN13: 9780275976347
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"