An examination of Irish society and politics, providing a wide-ranging introduction to the involvement of the middle classes in Irish political life and the public sphere accrosss the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Combines analytical surveys and case/area studies to offer new perspectives on crucial movements and figures in Irish history. INDICE: Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; F.Lane - The Men of Property: Politics and the Languages of Class in Ireland in the 1790s; J.Smyth - William Thompson, Class and his Irish Context, 1775-1833; F.Lane - The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class: O'Connellites in County Longford, 1820-50; F.O'Ferrall - 'Carrying the War into the Walks of Commerce': Exclusive Dealing and theSouthern Protestant Middle Class during the Catholic Emancipation Campaign; J.Hill - The Rise of Middle-Class Cultural Values and the Decline of Duelling in Ireland; J.Kelly - 'You'd be Disgraced!' Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland; M.Cronin - Middle-Class Attitudes to Poverty and Welfare in Post-Famine Ireland; V.Crossman - The Industrial Elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War; A.Bielenberg - 'Another Class'? Women's Higher Education in Ireland, 1870b 1909; S.Paseta - Class, Nation, Gender and Self: Katharine Tynan and the Construction of Political Identities, 1880-1930; A.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, 1905b 19; P.Maume - Planning and Philanthropy: Travellers and Class Boundaries in Urban Ireland, 1930b 75; A.Bhreatnach - 'The Stupid Propaganda of the Calamity Mongers?' The Middle Class and Irish Politics, 1945-97; D.Ferriter - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-00826-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés