Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858, Paperback / softback Book

Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858 Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Item not Available

Description

Winner of the 2005 Donald Murphy Prize of the American Conference of Irish Studies for Distinguished First Book.

In the late eighteenth century, an influx of Protestant settlers to the mainly Catholic parish of Forkhill on the Ulster borderlands provoked clashes between natives and newcomers.

None was more horrific than the brutal attack on a Protestant schoolmaster and his family in the winter of 1791.

The conflict was immediately cast in sectarian terms, dispensing a prescription for more than two hundred years of ill-will.

But was it a misdiagnosis? Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics explores the social history of the parish between 1787 and 1858.

In a wide-ranging analysis, Kyla Madden demonstrates that there was a greater degree of cooperation and exchange between Catholics and Protestants than the historical record has acknowledged.

Madden contends that since some of our widely held assumptions about the patterns of Irish history dissolve under scrutiny at the local level, they should be more cautiously applied on a larger scale.

Information

Other Formats

Save 8%

£20.00

£18.35

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information