The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880

Provides new, authoritative and original interpretations of a crucial phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland.

James Kelly (Edited by), Thomas Bartlett (General editor)

9781107535596, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 March 2020

874 pages, 54 b/w illus. 2 maps
22.7 x 15.7 x 4 cm, 1.4 kg

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.

Introduction. Interpreting late early modern Ireland James Kelly
Part I. Politics c.1730–c.1845: 1. Irish Jacobitism, 1691–1790 Vincent Morley
2. The politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730–1790 James Kelly
3. Ireland during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1793–1815 Thomas Bartlett
4. The impact of O'Connell, 1815–1850 Patrick M. Geoghegan
5. Popular politics, 1815–1845 Maura Cronin
Part II. Economy and Demography: 6. Society and economy in the long eighteenth century David Dickson
7. The Irish economy, 1815–1880: agricultural transition, the communications revolution and the limits of industrialisation Andy Bielenberg
8. Population and emigration, 1730–1845 Brian Gurrin
9. Women, men and the family, 1730–1880 Sarah-Anne Buckley
Part III. Religion: 10. The Catholic Church and Catholics in an era of sanctions and restraints, 1690–1790 Thomas O'Connor
11. The re-energising of Catholicism, 1790–1880 Colin Barr
12. Protestant dissenters, c.1690–1800 Ian McBride
13. Protestantism in the nineteenth century: revival and crisis Andrew R. Holmes
Part IV. Shaping Society: 14. Language and literacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Aidan Doyle
15. Futures past: enlightenment and antiquarianism in the eighteenth century Michael Brown and Lesa Ni Mhunghaile
16. Art and architecture in the long eighteenth century Christine Casey
17. Civil society, 1700–1850 Martyn J. Powell
18. Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries James Kelly
19. Bourgeois Ireland, or, on the benefits of keeping one's hands clean Ciaran O Neill
20. The growth of the state in the nineteenth century Virginia Crossman
Part V. The Irish Abroad: 21. The Irish in Europe in the eighteenth century, 1691–1815 Liam Chambers
22. 'Irish' migration to America in the eighteenth century? Or the strange case for the 'Scots/Irish' Patrick Griffin
23. Ireland and the empire in the nineteenth century Barry Crosbie
Part VI. The Great Famine and its Aftermath: 24. The Great Famine, 1845–1850 Peter Gray
25. Irish emigration, c.1845–1900 Kevin Kenny
26. Post-famine politics, 1850–1879 Douglas Kanter
27. Afterword Toby Barnard.

Subject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], British & Irish history [HBJD1]