LEADER 04450oam 2200805 a 450 001 9910963553803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9798400672736 010 $a9786610422913 010 $a9781280422911 010 $a1280422912 010 $a9780313012440 010 $a031301244X 024 7 $a10.5040/9798400672736 035 $a(CKB)111087026966184 035 $a(OCoLC)567919888 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10023338 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000516690 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11332147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000516690 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10477417 035 $a(PQKB)10705872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000331297 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11249255 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000331297 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10325513 035 $a(PQKB)11204337 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3000863 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10023338 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL42291 035 $a(OCoLC)55504751 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3000863 035 $a(OCoLC)48493800 035 $a(DLC)BP9798400672736BC 035 $a(Perlego)4202585 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026966184 100 $a20011114e20022024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Irish through British eyes $eperceptions of Ireland in the Famine era /$fEdward G. Lengel 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aWestport, Conn. :$cPraeger,$d2002. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (197 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780275976347 311 08$a0275976343 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-178) and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Race, Gender, Class and the Historiography of English -- Perceptions of the Irish 1 -- 2. Public Perceptions of the Irish Question, 1840-1845 19 -- 3. Official Britain and the Condition of the Ireland Question, -- 1841-1852 55 -- 4. The Famine and English Public Opinion, 1845-1850 97 -- 5. Aftermath of Disaster: Public Perceptions of the Irish -- Question, 1850-1860 129. 330 8 $aThe mainstream British attitude toward the Irish in the first half of the 1840s was based upon the belief in Irish improvability. Most educated British rejected any notion of Irish racial inferiority and insisted that under middle-class British tutelage the Irish would in time reach a standard of civilization approaching that of Britain. However, the potato famine of 1846-1852, which coincided with a number of external and domestic crises that appeared to threaten the stability of Great Britain, led a large portion of the British public to question the optimistic liberal attitude toward the Irish. Rhetoric concerning the relationship between the two peoples would change dramatically as a result. Prior to the famine, the perceived need to maintain the Anglo-Irish union, and the subservience of the Irish, was resolved by resort to a gendered rhetoric of marriage. Many British writers accordingly portrayed the union as a natural, necessary and complementary bond between male and female, maintaining the appearance if not the substance of a partnership of equals. With the coming of the famine, the unwillingness of the British government and public to make the sacrifices necessary, not only to feed the Irish but to regenerate their island, was justified by assertions of Irish irredeemability and racial inferiority. By the 1850s, Ireland increasingly appeared not as a member of the British family of nations in need of uplifting, but as a colony whose people were incompatible with the British and needed to be kept in place by force of arms. 606 $aPublic opinion$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFamines$xPublic opinion$zGreat Britain 607 $aIreland$xHistory$yFamine, 1845-1852 607 $aIreland$xForeign public opinion, British$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aIreland$xRelations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xRelations$zIreland 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory 615 0$aFamines$xPublic opinion 676 $a941.5081 700 $aLengel$b Edward G$01596565 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963553803321 996 $aThe Irish through British eyes$94340131 997 $aUNINA