Politics, society and the middle class in modern Ireland

Politics, society and the middle class in modern Ireland [electronic resource] / edited by Fintan Lane.

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This book examines Irish society and politics from a class perspective. It provides a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the changing middle class in Irish political life and the public sphere between the eighteenth and late twentieth centuries. Fourteen historians trace the rise and co...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Lane, Fintan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Middle class > Ireland > History.
Social classes > Ireland > History.
Middle class.
Social classes.
Social conditions.
Ireland > Social conditions.
Ireland.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The men of property : politics and the languages of class in the 1790s / Jim Smyth
  • William Thompson, class and his Irish context, 1775-1833 / Fintan Lane
  • The rise of the Catholic middle class : O'Connellites in County Longford, 1820-50 / Fergus O'Ferrall
  • 'Carrying the war into the walks of commerce' : exclusive dealing and the southern Protestant middle class during the Catholic emancipation campaign / Jacqueline Hill
  • The decline of duelling and the emergence of the middle class in Ireland / James Kelly
  • 'You'd be disgraced!' : middle-class women and respectibility in post-famine Ireland / Maura Cronin
  • Middle-class attitudes to poverty and welfare in post-famine Ireland / Virginia Crossman
  • The industrial elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War / Andy Bielenberg
  • 'Another class'? : women's higher education in Ireland, 1870-1909 / Senia Pašeta
  • Class, nation, gender and self : Katharine Tynan and the construction of political identities, 1880-1930 / Aurelia L.S. Annat
  • Leadership, the middle classes and Ulster Unionism since the late-nineteenth century / N.C. Fleming
  • William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and middle-class politics, 1905-19 / Patrick Maume
  • Planning and philanthropy : travellers and class boundaries in urban Ireland, 1930-75 / Aoife Bhreatnach
  • 'The stupid propaganda of the calamity mongers'? : the middle class and Irish politics, 1945-97 / Diarmaid Ferriter.

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