James H Murphy Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria.

James H Murphy Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria. Washington, D C: The Catholic University of America Press; dist. according to Hopkins Fulfillment, Baltimore, Md 2001 Pp xxxiv, 361 n p ISBN 0-8132-1076-3

The relationship between Irish nationalists and the British monarchy has always been, according to James Murphy's fascinating fresh study, far more complicated than the story of stalwart resistance to centuries of English oppression told in traditional nationalist narratives. Focusing upon the long reign of Queen Victoria,

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