A Nation of Beggars?: Priests, People, and Politics in Famine Ireland, 1846-1852

ISBN-13: 9780198200505 / Twarda / 1994 / 384 str.

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Opis

This is the first full account of the role of the Irish Catholic Church in the Great Famine of 1846 and its aftermath. Kerr shows how the Famine and consequent evictions led to rural violence and assassination and how these years also saw an increase in religious tensions as Protestant Evangelicals made an all-out effort to Protestantize Ireland. His incisive analysis charts the souring of relations between church and state and the destruction of Lord John Russell's dream of bringing a golden age to Ireland.

Recenzje

Once more Professor Kerr marshals his formidable grasp of British and Irish archival material to write a detailed yet broad account of what was arguably the last attempt by a British government to make the Irish Union a reality ... his fine book on these momentous years in the history of the Union does seem to bear out, in some degree at least, Sir Robert Peel's earlier verdict that 'an honest despotic government would be by far the fittest government for Ireland.'

O autorze

Donal Kerr is author of Peel, Priests, and Politics: Sir Robert Peel's Administration and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 1841-1846 (OUP 1982; CPB 1984), hailed as `One of the outstanding contributions to Irish history in our generation' by the Irish Times. He is also an editor of and contributor to Religion, State and Ethnic Groups (New York University Press, 1992)