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1 online resource |
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The grand theme of modern Irish history is the political outworking - in a liberal democratic era - of the Catholic majority resentment of historic forcible dispossession. This resentment existed alongside an acute present sense of alienation derived from being a Catholic minority marooned in a majority Protestant state. This book is an attempt to examine the unfolding of this grand theme through the lives of two great Irish political leaders: Charles Stewart Parnell, a Protestant of Ascendancy stock, who built the Irish party in the 1880s into a major force in British politics, and John Dillon, an upper-middle-class Catholic, who was to be the last leader of the Irish party in Westminster. This text deliberately sweeps from broad social issues - in particular the Irish land question - to fine detail of personal behaviour and insider gossip. Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell is an attempt to re-create the intense drama of these two political careers in a way which illuminates the personal idiosyncrasy of high-wire leadership as it attempts to cope with wider tides of popular emotion. This book also details the emergence of the doctrine of consent as it affected north-east Ulster |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2023) |
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Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1846-1891 -- Influence
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Dillon, John, 1851-1927 -- Influence
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Dillon, John, 1851-1927 fast |
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Parnell, Charles Stewart, 1846-1891 fast |
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Nationalists -- Ireland -- Biography
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Nationalists
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Politics and government
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SUBJECT |
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068041
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Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1901-1910. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068043
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Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1910-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068044
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Ireland
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191976209 |
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0191976202 |
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