Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland

Front Matter

Introduction

• Fintan Lane

The Men of Property: Politics and the Languages of Class in the 1790s

• Jim Smyth

William Thompson, Class and His Irish Context, 1775–1833

• Fintan Lane

The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class: O’Connellites in County Longford, 1820–50

• Fergus O’Ferrall

‘Carrying the War into the Walks of Commerce’: Exclusive Dealing and the Southern Protestant Middle Class during the Catholic Emancipation Campaign

• Jacqueline R. Hill

The Decline of Duelling and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Ireland

• James Kelly

‘You’d be disgraced!’ Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland

• Maura Cronin

Middle-Class Attitudes to Poverty and Welfare in Post-Famine Ireland

• Virginia Crossman

The Industrial Elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War

• Andy Bielenberg

‘Another Class’? Women’s Higher Education in Ireland, 1870–1909

• Senia Pašeta

Class, Nation, Gender and Self: Katharine Tynan and the Construction of Political Identities, 1880–1930

• Aurelia L. S. Annat

Leadership, the Middle Classes and Ulster Unionism since the Late-Nineteenth Century

• Neil C. Fleming

William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and Middle-Class Politics, 1905–19

• Patrick Maume

Planning and Philanthropy: Travellers and Class Boundaries in Urban Ireland, 1930–75

• Aoife Bhreatnach

‘The Stupid Propaganda of the Calamity Mongers’?: The Middle Class and Irish Politics, 1945–97

• Diarmaid Ferriter

Back Matter