Was Ireland a Colony? Economy, Politics, Ideology and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

by McDonough, Terrence

• ISBN13: 9780716528067
• ISBN10: 0716528061
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
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Summary

The nineteenth-century history of Irish economics, politics and culture cannot be properly understood without examining Ireland's colonial condition. Recent political developments and economic success have revived interest in the study of the colonial relationship between Britain and Ireland that is more nuanced than the traditional nationalist or academic revisionist view of Irish history. This new approach has arisen in several fields of historical investigation, notably culture, economics and political history.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Terrence McDonough
PART I ECONOMICS
Ireland in the Atlantic Economy	3	(24)
Denis O'Hearn
Colonialism, Feudalism and the Mode of Production in Nineteenth-Century Ireland	27	(21)
Terrence McDonough
Eamonn Slater
Was Ireland a Colony? The Evidence of the Great Famine	48	(18)
Christine Kinealy
The Material Implications of Colonialism in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland	66	(21)
Charles E. Orser Jr
PART II POLITICS/HISTORY
`Ireland's Last Fetter Struck Off': The Lord Lieutenancy Debate, 1800-67	87	(15)
Peter Gray
Colonial Perspectives on Local Government in Nineteenth-Century Ireland	102	(15)
Virginia Crossman
Hunting & Shooting - leisure, social networking and social complications. Microhistorical Perspectives on Colonial Structures and Individual Practices - The Grehan Family, Clonmeen House, Ireland	117	(28)
Nicola Drucker
The Sinews of Empire: Ireland, India and the Construction of British Colonial Knowledge	145	(20)
Tony Ballantyne
PART III IDEOLOGY
Defining Colony and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalism	165	(21)
Sean Ryder
`Becoming a Race Apart': Representing Irish Racial Difference and the British Working Class in Victorian Critiques of Capitalism	186	(26)
Amy E. Martin
Irish Political Economy before and after the Famine	212	(23)
Terrence McDonough
Eamonn Slater
Thomas Boylan
Two Kinds of Colony: `Rebel Ireland' and the `Imperial Province'	235	(14)
Pamela Clayton
PART IV CULTURE
Post-Colonial Perspectives on Irish Culture in the Nineteenth Century	249	(11)
Terrence McDonough
Ireland in 1812: Colony or Part of the Imperial Main? The `Imagined Community' in Maria Edgeworth's `The Absentee'	260	(20)
Valerie Kennedy
The Subaltern Can Whisper': Secrecy and Solidarity in the Fiction of John and Michael Banim	280	(19)
Willa Murphy
Theatre and Colonialism in Ireland	299	(10)
Lionel Pilkington
The Bog as Colonial Topography in Nineteenth-Century Irish Writing	309	(17)
Catherine Wynne
Afterword: Ireland and Colonialism	326	(8)
Terry Eagleton
Notes on Contributors	334	(3)
Bibliography	337