Irish Rebellion

Protestant Polemic 1798-1900
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-9598-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

The 1798 Rebellion unleashed a paper war involving contemporary historians and pro-Establishment literary reviews. This volume traces this paper-warfare against the background of the Union, Catholic Emancipation, Young Ireland, Gladstone and the Fenians, Victoria's jubilees, the 1898 centenary and the South African War.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andrews, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1798: Bicentennial Verdict Musgrave's Rebellions Musgrave as Reviewer Contrary Voices Debating the Union Opposing Emancipation, 1801-12 Opposing Emancipation, 1813-29 O'Connell, Emancipation and Repeal Violence Re-visited: Young Ireland and '98 Gladstone, Fenians and Disestablishment Jubilees, Centenaries and Historians Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

STUART ANDREWS is Librarian of the Wells and Mendip Museum, UK. He is the author of two earlier books on counter-revolutionary polemic in the decades following the American and French revolutions, most recently (2003).