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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781926703321

Autore

Newby Andrew

Titolo

Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, 1870-1912 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Scottish Historical Review Monographs

Disciplina

128.46

333.30941150899162

941.081

Soggetti

Irish

Love

Crofters - History - 19th century - Highlands - Scotland

Irish - History - Politics and government - 19th century - Scotland

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

Land tenure - History - 19th century - Ireland

Great Britain

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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