Fighting like the devil for the sake of God
Subtitle: Protestants, Catholics and the origins of violence in Victorian Belfast
By: Mark Doyle
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780719079528; 9780719079535
Subjects: Politics and government; History; Social conflict; Social conditions; Violence; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defending the faith : evangelicalism and anti-Catholicism; title: Belfast Catholics : "a mere incohesive heap"; title: An unenviable notoriety : the 1857 riots; title: Local government and Catholic alienation; title: The idea of order : Dublin Castle and Belfast Protestants; title: The city erupts : August 1864; title: Glasgow : sectarian détent; title: Memories of violence, 1864-86.