Ireland, radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, c. 1870-1912 / Andrew G. Newby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newby, Andrew G.

Series:

Scottish historical review monographs series ; no. 15.

Scottish historical review monographs series ; no. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish--Scotland--Political activity--History--19th century.

Irish.

Land tenure--Ireland--History--19th century.

Land tenure.

Land tenure--Scotland--Highlands--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make

Contents:

COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; chapter 1 Scotland, Ireland and the Land Question; chapter 2 'A Sort of Fenian Conclave in the Country': The Development of a Highland Land Question; chapter 3 'Blessed are Those who Expect Little, for They Shall not be Disappointed': Alleged and Actual Irish Involvement in the Development of the 'Crofters' War', 1877-1880; chapter 4 'An Obscure Hall in East Nile Street': Urban Radicalism and the 'Crofters' War', 1881-1882

chapter 5 'The Active Propaganda of Socialist Agitation': Strands of Land and Social Reform in Ireland and the Highlandschapter 6 'A Scotch Parnellite Party': Land, Home Rule and the Third Reform Act; chapter 7 'Two Tribes which Sprang from the Same Stock': Celtic Solidarity and Political Realignment in the Highlands, 1886-1895; chapter 8 'The Highlands have Reaped what Michael Davitt has Sown': Legislation and Agitation to the Great War; chapter 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-216) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7128-5

0-7486-3014-7

0-7486-5364-3

0-7486-7934-0

1-281-25207-7

9786611252076

1-4356-4353-4

OCLC:

437204664