History And the Public Sphere

by Dunne, Tom; Geary, Laurence M.; Murphy, John A.

• ISBN13: 9781859183922
• ISBN10: 1859183921
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Cork Univ Pr

Summary

This festschrift honors the important contribution both to historical scholarship and to Irish public life by John A. Murphy, Professor of Irish History at University College Cork from 1971 to 1990, independent member of the Irish Senate during a turbulent period, and an influential contributor to public debate over many decades, especially in relation to the crisis in Northern Ireland Features academic essays by former students, Maurice Bric, Liam Irwin, Maura Cronin, and Laurence M. Geary, together with essays and tributes from former colleagues Joe Lee, Desmond Clarke, and Tom Dunne. These reflect Professor Murphy's own diverse research interests, ranging from seventeenth-century politics and ideology, to nineteenth-century religion and society, to twentieth-century nationalism .The essay by his daughter, Cliona Murphy marks, not only the passing of the flame to another generation, but a recent collaboration in research and writing. Contributions by Emmet Larkin, Lawrence J. McCaffrey, James S. Donnelly Jr., and Owen Dudley Edwards celebrate key friendships and honor his role in promoting Irish Studies in the United States and Great Britain, and in establishing the Irish Studies International Summer School at U.C.C. His political contribution is honored by Conor Cruise O'Brien and Eoghan Harris, while a poem by Paul Durcan, reflections on Irish traditional music by Tomas O. Canainn and an engaging memoir by Ruth Dudley Edwards and Una O'Donoghue mark other aspects of the public man. The listing of John A Murphy's publications include his more important newspaper and periodical contributions, his Senate and other significant public speeches, as well as his scholarly writings.

Table of Contents

Section 1: John A. Murphy
Introduction	3	(4)
Honoris Causa	7	(2)
Sean O Coileain
A Personal Appreciation	9	(4)
J.J. Lee
Message from Conor Cruise O'Brien	13	(2)
Canon James O. Hannay Pays a Return Visit to the Old Rectory, Westport, County Mayo, October 8, 2000	15	(2)
Paul Durcan
John A. Murphy: The Singer and the Song	17	(13)
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Una O'Donoghue
John A. Murphy: Scholarly Publications, Newspaper and Periodical Contributions, Senate Speeches and Other Addresses	30	(13)
Section 2: Essays
One Commonwealth, Three Nations: The Concept of a Nation in English Republican Thought 1640--80	43	(13)
Desmond M. Clarke
Personalities and Politics: The Presidency of Munster and the Lords Lieutenant 1660--72	56	(13)
Liam Irwin
Daniel O'Connell and the Debate on Anti-Slavery, 1820--50	69	(14)
Maurice J. Bric
The Beginning of the Irish Effort to Provide for the Roman Catholic Foreign Missions before the Famine	83	(17)
Emmet Larkin
Nova Scotia, Ireland and the British Empire in the Writings of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, 1829--46	100	(14)
Cliona Murphy
Young Ireland in Cork, 1840--49	114	(13)
Maura Cronin
Anticipating Memory: Landlordism, Agrarianism and Deference in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ireland	127	(13)
Laurence M. Geary
Whence Parnell?	140	(21)
Owen Dudley Edwards
Daniel Corkery's The Hidden Ireland and the Politics of the Gaelic World	161	(15)
Tom Dunne
To the New World and back with Pipes, Fiddle and Flute: The Transmission of Irish Traditional Music	176	(10)
Tomas O Canainn
The Revival of Knock Shrine	186	(15)
James S. Donnelly
Church or Nation: An Irish-American Dilemma	201	(12)
Lawrence J. McCaffrey
Unionism and the Mass Media	213	(10)
Eoghan Harris
Notes on Contributors	223	(2)
Notes	225	(40)
Index	265	(14)
Tabula Gratulatoria	279