Publisher's Synopsis
A source-based coverage of the main issues and themes of Anglo-Irish relations between 1798 and 1914. Starting with the coverage of the rebellion of 1798 it looks in detail at the various movements towards Home Rule and the role of individuals within them, the course of the Irish potato famine and events leading up to the Great War. It includes both major historical controversies and how historians have covered them, and a chapter of visual sources looks at the way in which Ireland and the Irish have been stereotyped in the English press.
