Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Men of Property: Politics and the Languages of Class in the 1790s

Chapter 3 William Thompson, Class and His Irish Context, 1775–1833

Chapter 4 The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class: O’Connellites in County Longford, 1820–50

Chapter 5 ‘Carrying the War into the Walks of Commerce’: Exclusive Dealing and the Southern Protestant Middle Class during the Catholic Emancipation Campaign

Chapter 6 The Decline of Duelling and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Ireland

Chapter 7 ‘You’d be disgraced!’ Middle-Class Women and Respectability in Post-Famine Ireland

Chapter 8 Middle-Class Attitudes to Poverty and Welfare in Post-Famine Ireland

Chapter 9 The Industrial Elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War

Chapter 10 ‘Another Class’? Women’s Higher Education in Ireland, 1870–1909

Chapter 11 Class, Nation, Gender and Self: Katharine Tynan and the Construction of Political Identities, 1880–1930

Chapter 12 Leadership, the Middle Classes and Ulster Unionism since the Late-Nineteenth Century

Chapter 13 William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and Middle-Class Politics, 1905–19

Chapter 14 Planning and Philanthropy: Travellers and Class Boundaries in Urban Ireland, 1930–75

Chapter 15 ‘The Stupid Propaganda of the Calamity Mongers’?: The Middle Class and Irish Politics, 1945–97