The Irish Question

1840-1921

Nicholas Mansergh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032352558
• eBook ISBN: 9781000737219
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

Originally published in 1940 but here reissuing the revised third edition of 1975, this book analyses the Irish Question. The study is not a narrative history. While the problems with which it deals have been suggested by the period it covers, it is with the problems and not the period that it is focussed on. Those problems are: the interrelation of economic and social with political forces; the impact of Irish discontent on the Liberal conversion to Home Rule; the character of the political, cultural and social forces behind revolutionary Irish nationalism; and the changing nature of the concept itself. Much attention is given to the implications of Anglo-Irish relations in the wider context of nationalist-imperial conflicts and critical studies are made of the writings of de Tocqueville, Cavour, Marx, Engels and Lenin among others on the Irish Question.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Note to the Third Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the third edition: Revisionist Themes
• Part I. Ireland Under the Union: the Opinions of Some Contemporary Observers
• Part II. Reform: English Statesmen and the Repeal of the Union
• Part III. Revolution: Domestic and External Forces.
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index