A loss of innocence?

A loss of innocence?This book explores the evolution of Irelands national television service during its first tumultuous decade addressing how the medium helped undermine the conservative political, cultural and social consensus that dominated Ireland into the 1960s.

and the subsequent collapse of order in Victorian England

The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state

This text draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time

and estate taxation

this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge

Organised as a series of thematic chapters

Between the Spreadsheets

It is clearly a cumulative critical reassessment of the implications of research going back to the sixties

It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do – less as a set of literary objects

richness and diversity of the suffrage movement

I have had to discipline myself

It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the ideas at work in the evolution of Irish politics