Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland
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Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland

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Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Notes on the Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 The Men of Property: Politics and the Languages of Class in the 1790s
  10. 2 William Thompson, Class and His Irish Context, 1775–1833
  11. 3 The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class: O’Connellites in County Longford, 1820–50
  12. 4 ‘Carrying the War into the Walks of Commerce’: Exclusive Dealing and the Southern Protestant Middle Class during the Catholic Emancipation Campaign
  13. 5 The Decline of Duelling and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Ireland
  14. 6 ‘You’d be disgraced!’ Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland
  15. 7 Middle-Class Attitudes to Poverty and Welfare in Post-Famine Ireland
  16. 8 The Industrial Elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War
  17. 9 ‘Another Class’? Women’s Higher Education in Ireland, 1870–1909
  18. 10 Class, Nation, Gender and Self: Katharine Tynan and the Construction of Political Identities, 1880–1930
  19. 11 Leadership, the Middle Classes and Ulster Unionism since the Late-Nineteenth Century
  20. 12 William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and Middle-Class Politics, 1905–19
  21. 13 Planning and Philanthropy: Travellers and Class Boundaries in Urban Ireland, 1930–75
  22. 14 ‘The Stupid Propaganda of the Calamity Mongers’?: The Middle Class and Irish Politics, 1945–97
  23. Index