Politics, society and the middle class in modern Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The men of property : politics and the languages of class in the 1790s / Jim Smyth -- William Thompson, class and his Irish context, 1775-1833 / Fintan Lane -- The rise of the Catholic middle class : O'Connellites in County Longford, 1820-50 / Fergus O'Ferrall -- 'Carrying the war into the walks of commerce' : exclusive dealing and the southern Protestant middle class during the Catholic emancipation campaign / Jacqueline Hill -- The decline of duelling and the emergence of the middle class in Ireland / James Kelly -- 'You'd be disgraced!' : middle-class women and respectibility in post-famine Ireland / Maura Cronin -- Middle-class attitudes to poverty and welfare in post-famine Ireland / Virginia Crossman -- The industrial elite in Ireland from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War / Andy Bielenberg -- 'Another class'? : women's higher education in Ireland, 1870-1909 / Senia Pašeta -- Class, nation, gender and self : Katharine Tynan and the construction of political identities, 1880-1930 / Aurelia L.S. Annat -- Leadership, the middle classes and Ulster Unionism since the late-nineteenth century / N.C. Fleming -- William Martin Murphy, the Irish Independent and middle-class politics, 1905-19 / Patrick Maume -- Planning and philanthropy : travellers and class boundaries in urban Ireland, 1930-75 / Aoife Bhreatnach -- 'The stupid propaganda of the calamity mongers'? : the middle class and Irish politics, 1945-97 / Diarmaid Ferriter