Readings

For general background see:

 

R.F.Foster, Modern Ireland, chapter 18.

Alvin Jackson, Ireland, 1798-1998, pp.142.214

Patrick Maume, The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life, 1891-1918 (Dublin, 1999), chapter 2.

Lucy McDiarmid, ‘Revivalist belligerence: three controversies’ in B.Taylor Fitzsimon and J.H. Murophy (eds.), The Irish Revival Reappraised (Dublin, 2004), pp.132-44.

Senia Paseta, Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland’s Catholic Elite, 1879-1922 (Cork, 1999), chapter 6.