“Heirs of Freedom” or “Slaves to England”? Protestant Society and Unionist Hegemony in Nineteenth-Century Ulster

Autori

  • Kerby A Miller University of Missouri

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v10i0.3674

Parole chiave:

Migration, Ulster Protestant, Irish Nationalism.

Abstract

Drawing partly on Ulster Protestant emigrant correspondence and partly on new research in Irish religious demography, this article challenges
conventional (‘revisionist’) interpretations of the evolution of Ulster Protestant, especially Presbyterian, society and political culture, from Irish nationalism to British loyalism, in the half-century after the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It posits, for example, that Presbyterian nationalism and republicanism were not so much ‘naturally’ diluted in Ulster by industrialism, Orangeism, and evangelicalism as they were exported overseas, by mass migration to the USA, 1800-1850, and suppressed in Ulster by hegemonic and reactionary (and largely Anglican) systems and pressures, which many Presbyterians consciously rejected and, they believed, ‘escaped’ through emigration to an idealized American republic.

Biografia autore

  • Kerby A Miller, University of Missouri

    MILLER, KERBY A. is Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri. He is author of several landmark studies of Irish and Irish-American history, including
    Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1985), Ireland and Irish America. Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration (2008), and (with David
    N. Doyle, Bruce D. Boling, and Arnold Schrier) Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 (2003).

Pubblicato

2008-06-17

Fascicolo

Sezione

Diasporic Studies

Come citare

Miller, K. A. (2008). “Heirs of Freedom” or “Slaves to England”? Protestant Society and Unionist Hegemony in Nineteenth-Century Ulster. ABEI Journal, 10, 77-95. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v10i0.3674