Was Ireland a Colony? : Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-century Ireland

The nineteenth-century history of Irish economics, politics and culture cannot be properly understood without examining Ireland's colonial condition.

Recent political developments and economic success have revived interest in the study of the colonial relationship between Britain and Ireland that is more nuanced than the traditional nationalist or academic revisionist view of Irish history.

This new approach has arisen in several fields of historical investigation, notably culture, economics and political history.