Descendancy: Irish Protestant Histories Since 1795

ISBN-13: 9781107440296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 282 str.

David Fitzpatrick

Opis

A compelling account of Protestant loss of power and self-confidence in Ireland since 1795, illustrating how 'descendancy' was experienced and perceived.

Recenzje

'This important book examines the roots of sectarianism in the context of the declining Protestant population, who formed a 'non-ascendancy' quite separate from the landed Anglican elite … Fitzpatrick combines the sophisticated analysis of qualitative sources with an elegant handling of quantitative data. He dissects complex and ambiguous evidence with thoroughness, clarity and empathy.' Eugenio Biagini, Irish Times

Spis treści

1. Prologue: Protestant descendancy in Ireland; Part I. Orangeism: 2. Orangeism and Irish military history; 3. The Orange Order and the border; 4. The gardener and the stable boy: Yeats, MacNeice, and the problem of Orangeism; 5. Methodism and the Orange Order; Part II. Covenant: 6. Ulster's covenanters; 7. Ulster's non-covenanters; Part III. Exodus?: 8. Protestant depopulation and the Irish revolution; 9. The spectre of 'ethnic cleansing' in revolutionary Ireland; Statistical appendix; Index.