Troubled geographies a spatial history of religion and society in Ireland - Gregory, Ian N. 1970- (Indiana University Press, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Geography, Religion, and Society in Ireland: A Spatial History; 2 The Plantations: Sowing the Seeds of Ireland's Religious Geographies; 3 Religion and Society in Pre-Famine Ireland; 4 The Famine and Its Impacts, 1840s to 1860s; 5 Toward Partition, 1860s to 1910s; 6 Partition and Civil War, 1911 to 1926; 7 Division and Continuity, 1920s to 1960s; 8 Toward the Celtic Tiger: The Republic, 1961 to 2002; 9 Stagnation and Segregation: Northern Ireland, 1971 to 2001
10 Communal Conflict and Death in Northern Ireland, 1969 to 200111 Belfast through the Troubles: Socioeconomic Change, Segregation, and Violence; 12 Conclusions: Ireland's Religious Geographies -- Stability or Change?; Notes on Methods and Literature: From Historical GIS Databases to Narrative Histories; Notes; Index
Ireland's landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history by detailing the patterns of change in Ireland from 16th century attempts to ""plant"" areas of Ireland with loyal English Protestants to defend against threats posed by indigenous Catholics, through the violence of the latter part of the 20th century and the rise of the ""Celtic Tiger."" The book is concerned with how a geography laid down in the 16th and 17th centuries led to an amalgam based on religious belief, ethnic/nat