Nineteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 5): The Search for Stability in the 'Long Nineteenth Century' - The 1798 Rebellion, the Great Potato Famine, the Easter Rising and the Partition of Ireland

The elusive search for stability is the subject of Professor D. George Boyce's Nineteenth-Century Ireland, the fifth in the New Gill History of Ireland series. Nineteenth-century Ireland began and ended in armed revolt. The bloody insurrections of 1798 were the proximate reasons for the passing of the Act of Union two years later. The 'long nineteenth century' lasted until 1922, by which the institutions of modern Ireland were in place against a background of the Great War, the Ulster rebel...