Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921

by Boyce; D. George

• ISBN13: 9780415332583
• ISBN10: 0415332583
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-05-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This wide-ranging collection brings together multiple perspectives on a key period in Irish history, from the Fenian Rising on 1867 to the creation of the Irish Free State, with a focus on the formation of Irish identity. The chapters, written by a wide range of experts, focus on key individuals or ideological groups and consider how they perceived Ireland's future, what their sense of Irish identity was, and who they saw as the enemy. Providing a new angle on Irish history during the period of 1867 to 1921, this book will appeal to those with an interest in Irish history.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
A time of transitions	1	(14)
D. George Boyce
Alan O'Day
PART I Home rule, Ireland and a 'union of hearts'	15	(96)
Max Weber and leadership, Butt, Parnell and Dillon: nationalism in transition	17	(18)
Alan O'Day
Nationality and loyalty: Parnellism, monarchy and the construction of Irish identity, 1880--5	35	(22)
James Loughlin
'These quiet days of peace': Nationalist opinion before the home rule crisis, 1909--13	57	(19)
Michael Wheatley
T.P. O'Connor and The Star, 1886--90	76	(16)
Ian Sheehy
A First World War transition: state and citizen in Ireland, 1914--19	92	(19)
D. George Boyce
PART II Irish Ireland and a separatist identity	111	(66)
Broken glass and batoned crowds: Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the tensions of transition	113	(15)
James H. Murphy
National reconstruction: George Russell (AE) and the Irish Convention	128	(14)
Nicholas Allen
The end of Parnellism and the ideological dilemmas of Sinn Fein	142	(17)
Matthew Kelly
'With the eyes of another race, of a people once hunted themselves': Casement, colonialism and a remembered past	159	(18)
Margaret O'Callaghan
PART III Reformed Ireland or 'risen people'?	177	(64)
Unintended consequences: the national schools and Irish women's mobility in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	179	(14)
Janet Nolan
'The charm of allowing people to manage their own affairs': political perspectives on emergency relief in late nineteenth-century Ireland'	193	(16)
Virginia Crossman
True Bolsheviks? The rise and fall of the Socialist Party of Ireland, 1917--21	209	(14)
Emmet O'Connor
Old and new unionism: the seventh Marquess of Londonderry, 1906--21	223	(18)
N.C. Fleming
Notes	241	(40)
Index	281