Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland

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Notes on the Contributors Introduction F.Lane The Men of Property: Politics and the Languages of Class in Ireland in the 1790s J.Smyth William Thompson, Class and his Irish Context, 1775-1833 F.Lane The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class: O'Connellites in County Longford, 1820-50 F.O'Ferrall 'Carrying the War into the Walks of Commerce': Exclusive Dealing and the Southern Protestant Middle Class during the Catholic Emancipation Campaign J.Hill The Rise of Middle-Class Cultural Values and the Decline of Duelling in Ireland J.Kelly 'You'd be Disgraced!' Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland M.Cronin Middle-Class Attitudes to Poverty and Welfare in Post-Famine Ireland V.Crossman The Industrial Elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War A.Bielenberg 'Another Class'? Women's Higher Education in Ireland, 1870-1909 S.Paseta Class, Nation, Gender and Self: Katharine Tynan and the Construction of Political Identities, 1880-1930 A.L.S.Annat Leadership, the Middle Classes and Ulster Unionism since the Late-Nineteenth Century N.C.Fleming William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and Middle-Class Politics, 1905-19 P.Maume Planning and Philanthropy: Travellers and Class Boundaries in Urban Ireland, 1930-75 A.Bhreatnach 'The Stupid Propaganda of the Calamity Mongers?' The Middle Class and Irish Politics, 1945-97 D.Ferriter Index