Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland Essays in Honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr.

by Nie, Michael De; Farrell, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780716530657
• ISBN10: 0716530651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press

Summary

Featuring some of the leading scholars of Irish history, Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland brings together some of the best new work in Irish history to honor James Donnelly's career and impact on Irish Studies. The volume has at its heart the issues that have permeated Donnelly's work, namely how ordinary Irish men and women experienced and responded to expressions of state and elite power and economic change. Reviewing the scholarly production of James Donnelly, the greatest American historian of Ireland of his generation, is no easy task. In his 37 year career, Donnelly has published widely and his work is of exceptional quality and widespread influence. Throughout his career, Donnelly has made critical interventions in a variety of fields in Irish historical scholarship. In each case, Donnelly's contributions have played a central role in establishing the new historiographical consensus, as well as serving as exemplars of meticulous and objective scholarship.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland	p. 1
'Better Off Thrown Behind a Ditch': Enniskillen Workhouse During the Great Famine	p. 8
The Great Famine in County Cork: A Socio-Medical Analysis	p. 31
Accounting for Catastrophe: William Wilde, the 1851 Irish Census and the Great Famine	p. 50
Minorities, Majorities and Demographic Power: The Protestant and Catholic Communities of Tipperary since 1660	p. 67
Educating the Poor in North Armagh: The Lurgan Free School, 1786-1795	p. 93
John MacHale, Henry Cooke and the Curious Demise of the Confessional State in Ireland	p. 109
Orthaí and Orthodoxy: Healing Charms in Irish Popular Religion	p. 125
From Vernacular to 'Traditional': Music in Post-Famine Ireland	p. 145
'The Land for the People': The Irish Revolution as a Revolution of Rising Expectations	p. 172
The Slump and New Frontiers: Irish-Catholic Migration to Interwar Britain	p. 193
Reflections	p. 214
Index	p. 230
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