Biblio Ireland

Author: O TUATHAIGH, Gearoid.

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2003 (reprint). 244 pages. Paperback.

This outstanding survey of Irish history between 1798 and the Famine looks at the origins, course and consequences of the changes which swept through Irish life in the period. It traces the rise of modern Irish nationalism and the parallel decline and collapse of the old eighteenth-century social structure.

‘A well-written and masterly piece of compact description.’

Irish Independent

‘It explains carefully and clearly the main themes and problems of a complicated period in which so many of the attitudes and permanent social features of modern Ireland were crystallised’

Studies

Ireland Before the Famine 1798-1848 originally appeared as volume nine of the Gill History of Ireland.

Contents

Foreword
Preface

1. REFORM, REBELLION, AND UNION
The social context
The colonial parliament
The rebellion
The Union and aftermath

2. THE CATHOLIC QUESTION
The eighteenth-century background
Safeguards and stagnation, 1800-1823
Struggle and success, 1823-29
The significance of the victory

3. THE STATE AND THE PEOPLE
Central and Local Government
Law and order
Health
Public works
Education
The problem of poverty
Conclusions

4. THE ECONOMY AND THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE
The industrial sector
The agricultural sector
Complications and cures
Life in the countryside and in the towns
Travel
Language

5. REFORM AND REPEAL POLITICS 1830-48
Repeal — the first phase
Reform
Repeal — the second phase
Young Ireland and 1848

6. THE FAMINE
The course and extent of the famine
Relief — public and private
Conclusion

Epilogue
Revised Bibliographical Note (1990)
Glossary
Translations of verse extracts
Index

ISBN: 0717117839

Related titles: 1798, Act-of-Union, Famine, Young-Ireland
Categories: Modern History.

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