Description
An unread book. The post Famine era laid the foundations of the modern Irish State. The leadership class, which would create and configure the new state, emerged during this period. These developments were resisted by those who had most to lose in this New Ireland. “A Town in Transition: Post Famine Mullingar” explores the tensions and conflicts which manifested themselves as this midland town experienced the forces of modernisation and change in the late nineteenth century. “A Town in Transition” is the second volume in a series on the history of Mullingar. The first volume explored how the town came to terms with the effects of the Great Famine. This volume looks at the post Famine period of the town’s history through the prism of the power struggle between the ancien regime as represented by Lord Greville, Charles Brinsley Marlay, and Dr. Charles Reichel and the newly emergent Catholic merchant and professional classes as represented by Bishop Nulty, Br. John Hurley, and John P. Hayden.
