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Elizabeth Malcolm
Ireland Sober, Ireland Free
Drink and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Syracuse University Press 1986
Stron XIII+363, format: 16x24 cm
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The drunken Irishman has been a familiar figure in many forms of popular entertainment for two centuries and more. Yet, despite numerous testaments to the Irish fondness for drink, the fact remains that Ireland has witnessed some of the most successful anti-drink campaigns ever conducted. In the late 1830s and 1840s, for example, the Capuchin, Father Theobald Mathew, almost single-handedly convinced over half the Irish population to take a pledge of total abstinence. Even today Ireland boasts a higher percentage of total abstainers among its people than almost any comparable Western country.
This apparent contradiction between the popular image of the Irish as great drinkers and the widespread practice of total abstinence points to the fact that the relationship between the Irish and drink is a complex one.
'Ireland Sober, Ireland Free' examines these complexities beginning with the crucial formative period in the making of modern Ireland. Elizabeth Malcolm's seminal study examines the social, cultural, and psychological dimensions of the drink issue as well as its political significance.
The liquor industry in nineteenth-century Ireland was a powerful political interest group which early developed a vigorous and effective lobbying technique. In this it was matched, if not outdone, by the temperance movement. From the 1860s until the end of the century, an almost continuous struggle was waged at Westminster as well as in Ireland between the drink and temperance forces. This struggle had considerable implications for political alignments and election results.
The first part of the book addresses itself to the socio-economic aspects of the subject, while the second and larger part deals with the political and religious difficulties which it raised. 'Ireland Sober, Ireland Free' is one of the most important works of Irish social history to appear in the last decade.
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 Drink and Temperance in Ireland before 1830 1
Drink and its Critics: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 1
Drink and its Critics: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 21
2. Moderation versus Teetotalism, 1829-38 56
3. Mathew the Martyr' 101
4. Realignments: 1850s and 1860s 151
Temperance and Ulster Revivalism 153
The Temperance Movement within the Catholic Church 181
The Legislative Campaigns of the 1860s 192
5 Temperance in Parliament, 1870-[zasłonięte] 19006
The Licensing Laws 206
The Fight for Sunday Closing, 1870-78 217
Temperance and the Liberal Government, 1[zasłonięte]880-851
Temperance and the Home Rule Party 261
Temperance in Decline from 1885 266
6 Temperance and the Churches after 1870 276
Temperance and the Protestant Churches 276
Temperance and the Catholic Church 293
Father James Cullen and the Pioneers 306
Conclusion 322
Notes 335
Bibliography 343
Index 356
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