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

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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. Contents Illustrations Figures Tables Maps Contributors General Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Abbreviations General Introduction Map 1 Map of Ireland Introduction: Interpreting Late Early Modern Ireland Part I. Politics 1. Irish Jacobitism, 1691– 1790 2. The Politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730– 1790 3. Ireland during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1791– 1815 4. The Impact of O’Connell, 1815– 1850 5. Popular Politics, 1815– 1845 Part II. Economy and Demography 6. Society and Economy in the Long Eighteenth Century 7. The Irish Economy, 1815– 1880: Agricultural Transition, the Communications Revolution and the Limits of Industrialisation 8. Population and Emigration, 1730– 1845 9. Women, Men and the Family, c. 1730– c . 1880 Part III. Religion 10. The Catholic Church and Catholics in an Era of Sanctions and Restraints, 1690– 1790 11. The Re-energising of Catholicism, 1790– 1880 12. Protestant Dissenters, c .1690– 1800 13. Protestantism in the Nineteenth Century: Revival and Crisis Part IV. Shaping Society 14. Language and Literacy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 15. Futures Past: Enlightenment and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth Century 16. Art and Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century 17. Civil Society, c .1700– c .1850 18. Sport and Recreation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 19. Bourgeois Ireland, or, on the Benefi ts of Keeping 20. The Growth of the State in the Nineteenth Century Part V. The Irish Abroad 21. The Irish in Europe in the Eighteenth Century,1691– 1815 22. ‘Irish’ Migration to America in the Eighteenth Century? Or the Strange Case for the ‘Scots/ Irish’ 23. Ireland and the Empire in the Nineteenth Century Part VI. The Great Famine and Its Aftermath 24. The Great Famine, 1845– 1850 25. Irish Emigration, c .1845– 1900 26. Post- Famine Politics, 1850– 1879 27. Afterword Bibliography Index