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Zusammenfassung The essays in this collection focus on the nature of popular protest and agrarian unrest and the development of nationalism in modern Ireland. Themes include cultural identity as expressed in Gaelic Irish literature! the dynamics of the potato economy! electoral politics and landlord power! the impact of modernization on Ulster's development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction R. F. Foster; 1. The emergence of a nation V. G. Kiernan; 2. The formation of the Irish mind: religion, politics and Gaelic Irish literature, 1580-1750 Nicholas Canny; 3. Presbyterianism and 'modernization' in Ulster David W. Miller; 4. The potato in Ireland K. H. Connell; 5. Irish history without the potato L. M. Cullen; 6. The Houghers: agrarian protest in early eighteenth-century Connacht S. J. Connolly; 7. Priests, parsons and politics: the Rightboy protest in County Cork, 1785-1788 Maurice J. Bric; 8. An end to moral economy: the Irish militia disturbances of 1793 Thomas Bartlett; 9. Defenders, Ribbonmen and others: underground political networks in pre-famine Ireland Tom Garvin; 10. The Ribbon societies: lower-class nationalism in pre-famine Ireland M. R. Beames; 11. Rural conflict in pre-famine Ireland: peasant assassinations in Tipperary, 1837-1847 M. R. Beames; 12. Landlords, society and electoral politics in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland K. Theodore Hoppen; 13. Merchants, 'strong farmers' and Fenians: the post-famine political élite and the Irish Land War Donald Jordan; 14. Stopping the hunt, 1881-1882: an aspect of the Irish Land War L. P. Curtis Jr; 15. The geography of Irish nationalism, 1910-1921 David Fitzpatrick; Index.
