| Author | : James Kelly |
| File Size | : 53,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 26 April 2018 |
| ISBN | : 9781108340403 |
| Pages | : 1128 pages |
The Cambridge History of Ireland Volume 3 1730 1880 by James Kelly Book PDF Summary
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.