Remembering the Revolution

Dissent, Culture, and Nationalism in the Irish Free State
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-873915-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Remembering the Irish Revolution chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of Irish independence. While tales of heroism and martyrdom dominated popular accounts of the revolution, a handful of nationalists reflected on the period in more ambivalent terms. For them, the freedoms won in revolution came with great costs: the grievous loss of civilian lives, the brutalisation of Irish society, and the loss of hope for a united and prosperous independent nation. To many nationalists, their views on the revolution were traitorous. For others, they were the courageous expression of some uncomfortable truths.

This volume explores these struggles over revolutionary memory through the lives of four significant, but under-researched nationalist intellectuals: Eimar O'Duffy, P. S. O'Hegarty, George Russell, and Desmond Ryan. It provides a lively account of their controversial critiques of the Irish revolution, and an intimate portrait of the friends, enemies, institutions and influences that shaped them.

Based on wide-ranging archival research, Remembering the Irish Revolution puts the history of Irish revolutionary memory in a transnational context. It shows the ways in which international debates about war, human progress, and the fragility of Western civilisation were crucial in shaping the understandings of the revolution in Ireland. It provides a fresh context for analysis the major writers of the period, such as Sean O'Casey, W. B. Yeats, and Sean O'Faolain, as well as a new outlook on the genesis of the revisionist/nationalist schism that continues to resonate in Irish society today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flanagan, Frances

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Writing the revolution in the Free State

- 2: Eimar O'Duffy and the Waste of 1916

- 3: Clean Minded Separatists and the Mob: P.S. O'Hegarty and the ambiguous victory of Sinn Fein

- 4: Shivering Elders and the Exploits of Youth: George Russell's interpretations of the Irish revolution

- 5: Remembering Sion: Desmond Ryan's therapeutic revolution

- Conclusion: Dissent, disillusionment, and the nationalist ideal

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Frances Flanagan was born in Perth, Western Australia. She obtained bachelor degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Western Australia. After several years as a lawyer, she won a Commonwealth scholarship to read for a DPhil in history at the University of Oxford. She has been a senior scholar at Hertford College Oxford, a Marshall Fellow at the London Institute of Historical Research, and a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. She currently works at the University of Sydney, and lives in Sydney with her husband and two daughters.