Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History

Niall Whelehan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317963219
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

This book explores the benefits and challenges of transnational history for the study of modern Ireland. In recent years the word "transnational" has become more and more conspicuous in history writing across the globe, with scholars seeking to move beyond national and local frameworks when investigating the past. Yet transnational approaches remain rare in Irish historical scholarship. This book argues that the broader contexts and scales associated with transnational history are ideally suited to open up new questions on many themes of critical importance to Ireland's past and present. They also provide an important means of challenging ideas of Irish exceptionalism. The chapters included here open up new perspectives on central debates and events in Irish history. They illuminate numerous transnational lives, follow flows and ties across Irish borders, and trace networks and links with Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Australia and the British Empire. This book provides specialists and students with examples of different concepts and ways of doing transnational history. Non-specialists will be interested in the new perspectives offered here on a rich variety of topics, particularly the two major events in modern Irish history, the Great Irish Famine and the 1916 Rising.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• 1 Playing with Scales: Transnational History and Modern Ireland
• 2 Friend, Foe or Family? Catholic Creoles, French Huguenots, Scottish Dissenters: Aspects of the Irish Diaspora at St. Croix, Danish West Indies, c. 1760
• 3 Irish Politics and Labour: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives, 1798–1914
• 4 ‘And All My Great Hardships Endured’?: Irish Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land
• 5 Count Cavour’s 1844 Thoughts on Ireland: Liberal Politics and Agrarian Reform Through Anglo-Italian Eyes
• 6 Ireland’s Great Famine: A Transnational History
• 7 ‘The Perverted Graduates of Oxford’: Priestcraft, ‘Political Popery’ and the Transnational Anti-Catholicism of Sir James Emerson Tennent
• 8 Irish–Polish Solidarity: Irish Responses to the January Uprising of 1863–4 in Congress Poland
• 9 ‘A Land Beyond the Wave’: Transnational Perspectives on Easter 1916
• 10 Irish America Without Ireland: Irish-American Relations with Ireland in the Twentieth Century
• 11 Returnees, Forgotten Foreigners and New Immigrants: Tracing Migratory Movement into Ireland Since the Late Nineteenth Century
• Contributors
• Index