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An important account of the development of the campaign for social justice around the Magdalene laundries in the Republic of Ireland.

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The first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War -- .

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A detailed social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, revealing the hidden story of the Irish Emergency. -- .

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The history of Ireland's most unusual century, updated for the new millennium.

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Charles Townsend's account integrates north and south as far as possible (though it is not anti-partitionist in any simple political sense), provides a full context for the crisis-ridden years of the 1920s, and treats the important issues of the century in sufficient analytical depth.

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This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how cultural as well as economic and political influences shaped British reaction to the Famine.

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This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how cultural as well as economic and political influences shaped British reaction to the Famine.

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Explores the historical developments that shaped Irish identity and linked it so closely to Catholicism -- .

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Explores the historical developments that shaped Irish identity and linked it so closely to Catholicism -- .

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Considers the pre-eminent issue in British politics during the late-19th and early 20th centuries. It provides an account the various self-government plans, places them in context and examines the motives for puttin gthe schemes forward.

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They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom. The remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists fill the pages of this original and engaging volume in which sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism from 1800 to 1922. -- .

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They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom. The remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists fill the pages of this original and engaging volume in which sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism from 1800 to 1922. -- .

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This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "

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This book analyses the roles that lay women and girls played in the evolution of Irish Catholicism and thus the creation of modern Irish identities. -- .

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The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women's admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences and subsequent careers. -- .

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This is the first account in English of a much-overlooked, but important, First World War battlefront located in the mountains astride the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Historians have frequently portrayed Italian anarchism as a marginal social movement that was doomed to succumb to its own ideological contradictions once Italian society modernized. Challenging such conventional interpretations, Nunzio Pernicone provides a sympathetic but critical treatment of Italian anarchism that traces the movement's rise, tra