There is no lack of sensationalism in the period of Irish history 1800-1922. Large dramas played themselves out in small places. The last subsistence crisis of Europe would be enough to justify this judgement, but there is more: endemic levels of violence, the formation of the first state police force in the history of Britain, republican militancy, tithe and land wars, socialist protest, armed insurrection, war and civil war pockmark the era. The history of Ireland, particularly in its relationship to the imperial power of Britain, has been fraught to say the least. The so-called 'Pax...
There is no lack of sensationalism in the period of Irish history 1800-1922. Large dramas played themselves out in small places. The last subsisten...
