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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Finnegan, Richard B. Ireland. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000 (OCoLC)607414707 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard B Finnegan; Edward T McCarron |
| ISBN: | 0813314003 9780813314006 0813332478 9780813332475 |
| OCLC Number: | 42862098 |
| Description: | xviii, 452 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Three Irelands; Many Interpretations -- Ireland: The Place -- The Chapters to Come -- The Question of Irish History: From the Celts to O'connell -- The Early Peoples -- The Norman Conquest -- The Shipwreck of the Old Order -- The Penal Laws -- The Protestant Nation -- 1798 -- Union -- Daniel O'Connell -- From the Famine to the Rising -- The Famine -- The Famine's Legacy -- The Struggle for Home Rule -- The Rise of Irish Nationalism -- The Easter Rising of 1916 -- From Guerrilla War to Independence -- The Rise of Sinn Fein -- The Anglo-Irish War and the Anglo-Irish Treaty -- The Free State -- De Valera's Dream -- The Emergency and After -- Doors Opening and Closing: Economy, Education, and the Irish Language -- The Insulated Economy -- The Whitaker Plan and the Planning Period, 1959-1972 -- Entry into the European Union, 1973-1987 -- The Emergence of the "Celtic Tiger," 1987-1997 -- Explaining Ireland's Economic Development -- Education: The Traditional System -- Education: Reform and Renewal -- The Irish Language -- Mixed Messages: the Catholic Church and the Media -- The Catholic Church -- The Media -- Censorship -- Veneration Versus Rights: the Role of Irish Women -- The Suffrage Movement -- Venerated But Excluded -- The Search for Equality -- Controversial Issues in the 1980s -- Women's Status in the 1990s -- Catholic State or Catholic Nation: Political Culture, Constitution, and Political Structure -- Political Culture -- Constitutional Foundations -- The Structure of Government -- Neo-Corporatist Policymaking. |
| Series Title: | Nations of the modern world., Europe. |
| Responsibility: | Richard B. Finnegan, Edward T. McCarron. |
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Abstract:
In one generation, modern Ireland has experienced rapid political and social transformation. Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics examines these changes in the economy, education, language, Church-State relations, the media, the role of women, constitutional and political development, Ireland's role in Europe and the world, and the bitter ethnic conflict that plagues the region.
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