Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays

The Act of Union coming into effect on 1 January 1801 portended the integration of Ireland into a unified if not necessarily uniform community. This volume treats the complexities perspectives methodologies and debates on the themes of the years between 1801 and 1879. Its focus is the making of the Union the Catholic question the age of Daniel O'Connell the famine and its consequences emigration and settlement in new lands post-famine politics religious awakenings Fenianism the rise of home rule politics and emergent feminism.