Local Government in Cities and Towns Since 1800
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/11/2010
In this title, Potter gives us a rich contextual account of one of the most significant revolutions in Irish history which offers a challenging re-appraisal of the received picture of modern Ireland as an essentially rural society, and highlights the role that municipal government has played in Irish life over the past two centuries. Amongst the topics covered are how the modern system of urban government was established, and how central government began to take an active role in regulating the local state for the first time. Under this new system the rising Catholic bourgeoisie gained control of a significant aspect of the administrative machine for the first time, and these bodies played a pivotal role in advancing Home Rule and later Sinn Fein. However, after Independence, the progress of the Municipal Revolution was stifled by the establishment of an over-centralised administrative machine dominated by a rural-based ideology that belittled the role of cities and towns in Irish life.
- ISBN:
- 9780716530824
- 9780716530824
- Category:
- British & Irish history
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 30-11-2010
- Publisher:
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Country of origin:
- Ireland
- Pages:
- 320
- Weight:
- 0.96kg
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