Civilising rural Ireland : : the co-operative movement, development and the nation-state, 1889-1939 / / Patrick Doyle.

• VerfasserIn: Doyle, Patrick,
• TeilnehmendeR: Manchester University Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2019.; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Manchester Political Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Civilising Rural Ireland examines how modern Ireland emerged out of the social and economic transformation prompted by the rural co-operative movement. The movement emerged in response to systemic economic problems that arose throughout the nineteenth century and coincided with a wide-ranging projec...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. The origins of co-operation in Ireland
• 2. A civilisation among the fields
• 3. Ireland in the New Century
• 4. Co-operation and life during wartime
• 5. The co-operative movement and the War of Independence
• 6. A Co-operative Commonwealth in the Free State?
• Conclusion
• Index.