Outrage in the Age of Reform Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845
Book contents
- Outrage in the Age of Reform
- Modern British Histories
- Outrage in the Age of Reform
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Governing Ireland in the Age of Reform
- 2 ‘Outrage’ in Ireland
- 3 ‘Justice to Ireland’
- 4 Protestant Mobilisation and the Spectre of Irish Outrages
- 5 Ireland and the Tory Imagination
- 6 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Governing Ireland in the Age of Reform
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2022
Book contents
- Outrage in the Age of Reform
- Modern British Histories
- Outrage in the Age of Reform
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Governing Ireland in the Age of Reform
- 2 ‘Outrage’ in Ireland
- 3 ‘Justice to Ireland’
- 4 Protestant Mobilisation and the Spectre of Irish Outrages
- 5 Ireland and the Tory Imagination
- 6 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Writing in the aftermath of the Great Reform Act’s passage and assent, the Whig home secretary Lord Melbourne wrote to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Anglesey, offering his reflections on the current state of both countries: ‘I have seen, during my life, the Country twice mad – in a paroxysm of madness … once with Anti-Jacobinism, and now with something very like Jacobinism.’
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- Outrage in the Age of ReformIrish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845, pp. 31 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022