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Zusatztext Bew's impressive command of the subject, his eye for the telling detail and striking quotation make this a compelling and thought-provoking analysis of the conflicted history of modern Ireland. Klappentext Paul Bew sheds new light on the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question. Examining the influence and legacies of many key figures! from Tone to Parnell to Haughey and from Peel to Churchill to Blair! he takes the reader all the way from the society of the United Irishman to the crisis of the Good Friday Agreement. Zusammenfassung Paul Bew sheds new light on the changing ideological passions of the modern Irish question. Examining the influence and legacies of many key figures, from Tone to Parnell to Haughey and from Peel to Churchill to Blair, he takes the reader all the way from the society of the United Irishman to the crisis of the Good Friday Agreement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Impact of the French Revolution: 'The Battle of Burke' - Tone or Castlereagh? The Union between Britain and Ireland: One People? Daniel O'Connell and the Road to Emancipation 1810-29 The Repealer Repulsed: O'Connell 1830-45 The Politics of Hunger 1845-50 The Fenian Impulse Parnellism: 'Fierce Ebullience linked to Constitutional Machinery' 'Squelching': By Way of a Hors D'euvres Conflict In Ireland 1891-1918 The Politics of the Gun or a 'Saving Formula 1919-1923 'Melancholy Sanctitiy' in the South: 'Perfect Democracy in the North', Ireland 1923-66 'Unbearably Oldfashioned and Pointless': The Era of the Troubles 1968-2005 Conclusion
