Problems and perspectives in Irish history since 1800
Subtitle: essays in honour of Patrick Buckland
By: D. George Boyce & Roger Swift, editors.
Contributors: Boyce, David George, 1942-; Swift, Roger.; Buckland, Patrick.
Publisher: Four Courts
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Historiography -- Ireland.; Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.; Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Ireland and the United Kingdom -- Alan O'Day; value: 'A beseiged outpost' : the imagination of empire and the siege myth, 1860-1900 -- Mark McGovern; value: A right to march? The conflict at Dolly's Brae -- Christine Kinealy; value: Identities in transition : Irish migrant outlooks in mid-Victorian Manchester -- Mervyn Busteed; value: The English Poor Law, the Irish migrant and the laws of settlement and removal, 1819-1879 -- Frank Neal; value: Thomas Carlyle and Ireland -- Roger Swift; value: Isaac Butt, British Liberalism and an alternative nationalist tradition -- Philip Bull; value: 'Irish Protestants feel this betrayal keenly...' : home rule, Rome rule and nonconformity -- Alan Megahey; value: 'The country's true place of reformation' : the contemporary Irish history play -- Shaun Richards; value: Ireland's Celtic heroes -- D. George Boyce.