Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

ISBN-13: 9780198201342 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 192 str.

Tom Garvin

Opis

Focusing on the nationalist revolutionaries of Ireland between 1858 and 1928, this study examines the origins of the present-day Irish Republic. Drawing on private letters, diaries, and popular journalism, Garvin concludes that the radical elite who became rulers after 1921 were heavily influenced not only by ancient agrarian grievances, but also by contemporary Catholic abhorrence of the Protestant and secular world. An original contribution to Irish historiography, this book reconstructs the private thoughts behind public political figures.

Recenzje

'Nationalist Revolutionaries will rank alongside David Fitzpatrick's Politics and rural life as a key commentary on Ireland's revolution. His familiarity with conventional primary sources will comfort traditional politial historians, but his breadth of reading in the historiography of European revolution, and in political theory, provides much more generous perspectives than are generally proffered in Irish political history ... a thoroughly rigorous group-biography, anecdotal evidence and sketchy inference in earlier studies being pinned down with both precision and skill.' Irish Historical Studies