IRELAND, RADICALISM AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, C.1870-1912

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"Making an important contribution to the historiography of the Highland land agitation of the 1870s onwards, this book considers the nature of Irish involvement in the Highland 'Crofters' War'. It examines the competing claims of various land-reform movements for the consideration of the crofters, and highlights the heterogeneous nature of Irish nationalism in the 1880s. Although a malign Irish presence in the Highlands and Islands was noted by contemporaries - and has been stressed by later historians and commentators - this work situates any direct Irish role within a general social reform movement, a movement which attempted to encompass the whole of Britain and Ireland."--Jacket.