Ireland : A Social and Cultural History, 1922 to the Present

by Brown, Terence

• ISBN13: 9780801493492
• ISBN10: 0801493498
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1985-10-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Terence Brown juxtaposes such key topics as nationalism, industrialization, religion, language revival, and censorship with his assessments of the major literary and artistic advances to give us a lively and perceptive view of the Irish past. In the first two parts, he analyzes the ideas, images, and symbols that provided the Irish people with part of their sense of national identity. He considers in Part Three how these conceptions and aspirations fared in the new social order that evolved following the economic revival of the early 1960s.

Table of Contents

Author's Note, 1984	8	(1)
Preface	9	(4)
Part I: 1922-32
After the Revolution: Conservatism and Continuity	13	(24)
An Irish Ireland: Language and Literature	37	(25)
Images and Realities	62	(18)
The Fate of the Irish Left and of the Protestant Minority	80	(29)
Part II: 1932-58
The 1930s: A Self-Sufficient Ireland?	109	(23)
``The Emergency'': A Watershed	132	(30)
Stagnation and Crisis	162	(23)
Part III: 1959-79
Economic Revival	185	(20)
Decades of Debate	205	(33)
Conclusion: Culture and a Changing Society	238	(11)
Postscript to the American Edition: The Uncertain 1980s	249	(22)
Acknowledgments	271	(2)
Notes and References	273	(22)
Index	295