ABSTRACT
The Act of Union, coming into effect on 1 January 1801, portended the integration of Ireland into a unified, if not necessarily uniform, community. This volume treats the complexities, perspectives, methodologies and debates on the themes of the years between 1801 and 1879. Its focus is the making of the Union, the Catholic question, the age of Daniel O'Connell, the famine and its consequences, emigration and settlement in new lands, post-famine politics, religious awakenings, Fenianism, the rise of home rule politics and emergent feminism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|83 pages
The Beginnings of the Union
part II|46 pages
The Catholic Question and Emancipation
part III|23 pages
The Age of O’Connell in the 1830s and 40s, Repeal
part IV|39 pages
The Great Famine
part V|58 pages
Politics in the 1850s and 60s
part VI|53 pages
Isaac Butt and the Rise of Home Rule
part VII|56 pages
Demography and Social Conditions
part VIII|62 pages
Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
part IX|53 pages
Diaspora, Emigration, Immigrants
part X|35 pages
Women