Eire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies: Volume 42: 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2007 - Softcover

Earrach/Samhradh; The Irish American Cultural Institute

Softcover

ISBN 10: 079609859X ISBN 13: 9780796098597

Publisher: The Irish American Cultural Institute, 2007

Synopsis

Eire-Ireland is an interdisciplinary journal of Irish Studies published by the Irish American Cultural Institute. The essays in this volume are presented in chronological order, but readers will find that many of the questions and concerns about Ireland and imperialism, as well as the uses of empire in Irish politics, remained consistent in the one hundred and fifty years spanned by these articles. The contents can be grouped into three categories. The first group explores how major Irish and Victorian figures such as Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, John Mitchel, Justin McCarthy, and James Fitzjames Stephen engaged intellectually and politically with imperialism and the British Empire specifically. The second group of essays examines the ways in which particular groups such as the Home Rule Party, Irish-American Fenians, early-nineteenth-century journalists, interwar Republicans, and the Free State Government understand and used imperialism and empire for their own political and polemical ends. The final three essays in the volume shift the focus to late-twentieth-century Irish academia, exploring Nicholas Mansergh's partition paradigm, Irish Reaction to the work of Edward Said, and postcolonial and feminist criticism in contemporary Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Irish American Cultural Institute
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 079609859X
• ISBN 13: 9780796098597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: James S. Donnelly, Vera Kreilkamp, Philip O'Leary, James P. Leonard, Joe Cleary, Michael De Nie