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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

James H. Murphy. Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Victoria. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. 2001. Pp. xxxiv, 360. $54.95.

Over the past two decades, historians have transformed the way we look at the nineteenth-century evolution of Irish nationalism, painting a much more nuanced and complex portrait than had hitherto been acknowledged. In this, of course, scholars have been both inspired and influenced by recent studies of nationalism and, in particular, the nature of Britishness; Linda Colley's work has more than its fair share of citations within recent Irish historical writing. James H. Murphy's well-written and provocative study fits firmly into this welcome and productive trend in Irish historiography. 1

The argument that lies at the heart of Murphy's book is both simple and somewhat surprising. Examining the interaction between the British monarchy and Irish nationalists during the reign of Queen Victoria, Murphy finds that monarchy was broadly popular among the Irish Catholic population throughout much of the nineteenth century. It was the perceived threat of this popularity, he argues, that explains why nationalist leaders intent on firming up the allegiance of a rapidly politicizing population focused their rhetorical fury on the queen in the last decades of the nineteenth century. . . .

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