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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00923-3 - A Short History of Ireland: Third Edition John O’Beirne Ranelagh Index More information Index abortion, (debate on) legalisation 287–8, Andrews, John 307 294–5, 295–6 Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985) 330–1 Act of Union (1800) see Union opposition to 331 Adams, Gerry xviii, 320, 321, 329–30, 335–6, support amongst Southern parties 288–9 340, 346, 347, 358, 361, 377 US influence 339–40 acceptance of Good Friday Agreement Anglo-Irish Bank 390 352–3 Anglo-Irish Treaty (1922) 122 biography/personality 343–4 acceptability to Irish majority 232 dialogue with moderates/opponents benefits for UK 232 329–30, 333, 337, 338, 342–3, 352, 353–4 preliminary negotiations 228–31 support for peace process 356–7 signing 231 adoption, legalisation of 277 Anne, Queen 81, 85 Adrian IV, Pope 39–40 Apprentice Boys 76 Aer Lingus 291 aristocrats, in Gaelic society 13–17 agrarian unrest 89–90, 111, 147–8, 153–4 defining features 16 moves to terminate 154–5 Army Comrades Association see Blueshirts peasant/tenant societies 89–90, 100 Art MacMurrough, King 49 agriculture 100–1, 110–11 Ascendancy (Anglo-Irish elite) 77–8, 83–4 farm subdivision, end of 132 critiques 85–6 problems under Free State 263 differences with Westminster Parliament recessions (1870s/1880s) 152, 167 81, 90–2, 103 role in modern Irish economy 283 domination of landholdings 110–11 see also agrarian unrest internal distinctions 84 Ahern, Bertie 73, 294, 296–7, 343, 344, 348, objections to Union 101–2 354, 357, 384 self-interested motives 92 Aiken, Frank 242, 246 Ashbourne, Lord 169 aisling (poetic form) 87–9 Asquith, Herbert Henry (later 1st Earl of Aitken, Sir Max (later Lord Beaverbrook) Oxford) 181, 183, 186–7, 195, 208, 211, 209–10 214–15 Alcuin 31 Astor, Lady 216 Alexander III, Pope 45 Atkins, Humphrey 327, 333 Alfred the Great 35 Auchinleck, Lord 73 all-party talks 341–2 Augustine of Canterbury, Saint 38 Allen, William 138 Alliance Party 322 B Specials 302 Allied Irish Bank 383, 386 armed patrols 313 American Revolution 90–1, 92–3 attacks on Catholics 311 Amsterdam, Treaty of (1998) 298 bail, refusal of 297 405 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00923-3 - A Short History of Ireland: Third Edition John O’Beirne Ranelagh Index More information 406 Index Balfour, Arthur 168–70 Brehon Laws 18–21, 51, 56 Balfour, Gerald 170 abolition 65 Banbridge (co. Down), car bomb (1998) 351 basic principles 18 banks/banking system 100 blinding, as punishment 20 role in 2008 crisis 385–6, 390 compensation 19–20 Banotti, Mary 297 false judgments, liability for 18 Barrett, Michael 138 fasting, plaintiff’s recourse to 19 Barrington, Sir Jonah 84 fostering of children 19–20 Barry, John 83 seizure of property 19 Barry, Kevin 224 survival/revival in later ages 21, 251 Barry, Tom 222, 224 women’s position under 21 Barton, Robert xix Brett, Charles, Sgt 138 bata scóir, punitive use of 133 Brian Boru, King 11, 35–7, 51 Beaker people 6–7 dynastic successors 37 Beaumont, Gustave de 92, 108 Brighton bomb attack (1984) xiii, 329–36 Becket, Thomas à, Saint 45 British army Bede, the Venerable 30 deployment in Catholic areas 313–14 beef, export trade in 99–100 intervention in home rule debate 186–7 (see Belfast also Curragh Mutiny) foundation 62 mobilisation in Northern Ireland (1969) as industrial centre 165 312–14 shipyards 304, 308, 381 murder of officers 224–5, 240 Benedict XVI, Pope 363 proposed reduction of role 338 Berkeley, George, Bishop 86, 97 Bronze Age 5–7 Berry, Sir Anthony xiii, 329 burial sites 5–6 Bessborough, Lord 146 migrations 6 Birrell, Augustine 180, 200–1 writing 7 Black and Tans 223–5 Brooke, Sir Basil (later Viscount government sanctioning of activities 223–4 Brookeborough) 302, 307, 309 Black Oath (1639) 67 Browne, George, Archbishop 55 Blair, Tony 342–3, 344, 346, 348, 355–6, 357, Browne, Noel, Dr 273–6, 277 360, 361–3 Bruce, Edward 47 Blaney, Neil 316–17 Brugha, Cathal 217, 219, 221 Bloody Sunday (21 November 1920) see Croke Bruton, John 296–7, 338, 342, 348 Park Brythoni 9 Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972) 318–19 Burgess, Charles see Brugha, Cathal Bloom, David E. 378 Burke, Edmund 79, 86–7 Blueshirts 265–6 Burke, Thomas 155 Boland, Kevin 292, 316–17, 382 Burnside, David 355 Boleyn, Anne 55 Bush, George W., President 361 Bonar Law, Andrew 184–5, 186, 223 Butler family 51 Book of Armagh 26, 37 see also Ormond Book of Kells 32 Butt, Isaac 149–50 Book of Leinster 37, 40 Byrne, Vinnie 224 Boundary Commission (1924–5) 231, Byron, George Gordon, Lord 89 253–6, 303 impact on Free State politics 255–6 Callaghan, James 313 resignations from 254 Calpurnius (father of Saint Patrick) 26 revocation of powers 255 Canada, ‘invasion’ of (1866) 139 Boycott, Charles, Capt. 153 Canning, David 378 Boyne, Battle of the (1690) 54, 76, 304 Canute, King 37 Breakspear, Nicholas see Adrian IV Carey, James 155–6 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00923-3 - A Short History of Ireland: Third Edition John O’Beirne Ranelagh Index More information Index 407 Carlyle, Thomas 128 Catholics Carson, Sir Edward (later Lord Carson) 183–4, alienation by UK policies 314, 318 186, 195, 212, 226, 301 confiscation of lands 74, 77–8 role in home rule negotiations 214–16 educational establishments 140–1 Casement, Sir Roger 194, 197, 199–200, 202, housing 306–7 211–12 in Irish Parliament 64–5, 76 Casey, Eamonn, Bishop 297 in police force 302 Cashel, Rock of 38 in UK Parliament 112, 139–40 Castlereagh, Lord 102 unemployment 304–5 Catholic Association of Ireland 109 see also discrimination Catholic Church The Cattle Raid of Cooley see Tain Bó Cúailnge alliances against Protestant rulers 54–5 cattlemen, in Gaelic society 16 Anglican split from 54 Cavendish, Lord Frederick 155 anti-revolutionary stance 95–6, 122, 140, Ceannt, Eamonn 196, 238 269, 377 ‘Celtic tiger’, Irish economy seen as 369, 381 (apparent) condoning of violence 377 Celts 7–13 attacks on 67 archaeological evidence 7–9 attempts to suppress 79 (see also Penal arrival in Ireland 9 Laws) conflicts with Rome 13 banning of books 378 debate on meaning 7 centrality to Irish life/culture 375, 377 genetic characteristics 7 church attendances 375 gods 12, 22–3 conditions for rebellion 142 oral culture 9, 21 decline in public image 379–80 origins 7, 9 identified with Irish nationalism 64–5, references in Classical literature 9–12, 13 67–9, 79, 97–9, 210, 375–6, 380 religion 12 impact of social/economic change on see also Gaels 375–80 censorship 245 leaders, as statesmen 376–7 Chamberlain, Austen 231 opposition to health reforms 275 Chamberlain, Joseph 163–4 opposition to IRB/Fenians 141–4 Chamberlain, Neville 267 opposition to Land League 169 Charlemagne 31 political influence 245–6, Charlemont, James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of 91 275–6: opposition to 245–6; weakening Charles Edward Stewart, Prince (‘Bonnie of xi, 276, 285, 287–8, 297, 375, Prince Charlie’) 79–80, 82 377–8, 380 Charles I, King 65–6, 67, 71 role in emancipation movement 108–9 Charles II, King 75 scandals affecting 297, 379–80 Chartism 120 ‘special position’ in Irish Constitution Chesterfield, 4th Earl of 82 267–9 Chichester, Sir Arthur 61 support for UK government 106, 139–41 Chichester-Clark, James, Maj. 314, 317, 321 see also Catholic emancipation; Catholics; child abuse, by Church personnel 297, Irish Church; priests 379–80 Catholic Committee 107–8 Commissions of Inquiry 379–80 Catholic emancipation Childers, Erskine 193–4, 199, 240 impact on nationalist movement 110 The Riddle of the Sands 194 Irish movements for 107–9 cholera epidemics 125, 129 limited benefits of 109–10, 113 Christianity, arrival in Ireland 25 opposition to 101 see also Irish Church passage of legislation 109–10 Church of Ireland (Anglican) property qualification 109 Articles 67 UK government plans for 101–2, 106, 126 disestablishment 146 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00923-3 - A Short History of Ireland: Third Edition John O’Beirne Ranelagh Index More information 408 Index Church of Ireland (Anglican) (cont.) Colmcille, Saint 30 offering of nourishment in return for Colombia, IRA involvement in drug-running conversion (Souperism) 128 356 tithes 90, 115 Colum, Padraic 209 vulnerability of position 82 Columbanus, Saint 31 Churchill, Lord Randolph 164, 177, 178–9, 185 Commonwealth, Irish status within Churchill, Winston 54, 185–6, 200, 257–8, 308 258, 272–3 Condon, Edward O’Meagher 138 Ciaran, Saint 30 Connaught xix civil disobedience 309, 310–12 confiscation/redistribution of lands 66, 74 civil service 104 Connolly, James xviii, 106, 188–90, 193, 195, female employment 372 199, 202–3, 208–9, 238, 251 pay 386–7 consent, age of 296 reorganisation (1924) 249–50 Conservative Party Civil War (English, 1642–9) 67–73 dominant position (1885–1905) 162, 164 Civil War (Irish, 1922–3) 122, 235–43 Irish policy 166–7, 168–70 aftermath 242–3, 244–6, 249 policy on direct rule 326, 327 ages of leadership 238 pro-Union stance 164–5, 184–5 turn in favour of Free State 241–2 Constantine, Emperor see Donation of Clan na Gael 151, 197 Constantine Clann na Poblachta (‘Family of the Republic’) Constitution of Ireland 266–9 273–6, 277–8, 280 Church influence on drafting 376–7 Clare, Charles O’Brien, 6th Viscount 82–3 criticisms 269 Clare, John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of 103 position of Church 267–9, 307 Clarence, George, 1st Duke of 51 position of women 268 Clarke, Kathleen (wife of Tom) 218–19 (proposed) amendments 338, 376 Clarke,
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