Perspectives On Irish Nationalism

Thomas E. Hachey,Lawrence J. McCaffrey

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780813181400
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia irlandesa

Perspectives on Irish Nationalism examines the cultural, political, religious, economic, linguistic, folklore, and historical dimensions of the phenomenon of Irish nationalism. Its essayists are among the most distinguished Irish studies scholars. Their essays include a comprehensive analysis of the tapestry of Irish nationalism and focused studies that often challenge myths, pieties, and the scholarly consensus. Thomas E. Hachey is Professor of Irish, Irish-American, and British history and Chair of the department at Marquette University. He wrote Britain and Irish Separatism: From the Fenians to the Free State 1807-1922 (1977), coauthored and edited The Problem of Partition: Peril to World Peace (1972); coedited Voices of Revolution: Rebels and Rhetoric (1972), and edited Anglo-Vatican Relations, 1919-1937: Confidential Annual Reports of the British Ministers to the Holy See and Confidential Dispatches: Analyses of American by the British Ambassador, 1939-45 (1974). Lawrence J. McCaffrey is Professor of Irish and Irish-American History at Loyola University of Chicago. He has published a number of articles and books, including Daniel O'Connell and the Repeal Year (1966), The Irish Question, 1800-1922 (1968), The Irish Diaspora in America (1976) and coauthored The Irish in Chicago (1987). "

NOTES

Components of Irish Nationalism

1.D. George Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland (Baltimore, 1982), and Robert Kee, The Green Flag (New York, 1972) are excellent discussions of the manys strands of Irish nationalism. Shorter but perceptive examinations are Maurice Goldring, Faith of Our Fathers (Dublin, 1982) and Owen Dudley Edwards, “Ireland,” Celtic Nationalism (New York, 1968). Boyce’s first three chapters discuss the growth of local self-consciousness in Ireland’s first English colony and its implications for nationalism.

2.Maureen Wall, The Penal Laws, 1691-1760, Irish History Series, no. 1 (Dundalk, 1961) is the best study of its subject.

3.Mary Edith Johnson, Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century (Dublin, 1974) is a good survey. Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland chaps. 3 and 4, and Kee, The Green Flag, pt. 1, chaps. 5 and 6, provide valuable insights into Protestant patriotism.

4.Tom Dunne, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Colonial Outsider (Cork, 1982) is a brief, perceptive, revisionist portrait of the first hero of Irish revolutionary republicanism.

5.Marianne Elliott, Partners in Revolution: United Irishmen and France (New Haven, 1982) is an excellent and exhaustive analysis of the United Irishmen. Other valuable examinations are Thomas Pakenham, The Year of Liberty: The Great Rebellion of 1798 (London, 1967); Edwards, “Ireland”; Kee, The Green Flag, pt. 2; and Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland, chap. 4. One of the best ways to understand 1798 is by reading Thomas Flanagan’s National Book Critics Circle Award novel, The Year of the French (New York, 1979). He sets his story in Mayo, but it reveals the essence of the entire 1798 situation. The Ulster Protestant mind that birthed the Orange Order is best described in David Miller, The Queen’s Rebels (New York, 1978), and A.T.Q. Stewart, The Narrow Ground (London, 1977).

6.G.C. Bolton, The Passing of the Act of Union (London, 1966). Oliver MacDonagh, The Hereditary Bondsmen: Daniel O’Connell, 1775-1829 (New York, 1988) is an excellent scholarly study of O’Connell’s life through the Catholic emancipation crisis. Volume II will follow. Of the many O’Connell biographies, Sean O’Faolain, The King of the Beggars (Dublin, 1980), originally published in 1938, remains the most readable and insightful total profile of the creator of modern Irish nationalism. Maurice O’Connell, The Correspondence of Daniel O’Connell, (Dublin and New York, 1972-80) has made possible significant scholarly investigation into the life of Catholic Ireland’s Liberator.

8.For interesting examinations of the priest’s role in Irish life and politics, see Emmet Larkin, The Historical Dimensions of Irish Catholicism (Washington, 1984); Patrick Corish, The Irish Catholic Experience (Wilmington, 1985); Theodore Hoppen, Elections, Politics, and Society in Ireland, 1832-1885 (Oxford, 1984); S. J. Connolly, Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1780-1845 (New York, 1982); James O’Shea, Priest, Politics and Society in Post-Famine Ireland: A Study of County Tipperary, 1850-1891 (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1983); Donal A. Kerr, Peel, Priest and Politics (Oxford, 1982).

9.Fergus O’Ferrall, Catholic Emancipation: Daniel O’Connell and the Birth of Irish Democracy, 1820-30 (Dublin, 1985) has superseded James A. Reynold’s valuable, The Catholic Emancipation Crisis in Ireland (New Haven, 1954) as the best study of the Irish Catholic struggle for civil rights.

10.Kevin Nowlan, The Politics of Repeal (Toronto, 1965).

11.John Whyte, The Independent Irish-Party, 1850-1859 (London, 1958).

12.“We aim at founding a republic based on universal suffrage, which shall secure to all the intrinsic value of their labor. The soil of Ireland at present in the possession of an oligarchy belongs to us, the Irish people, and to us it must be restored. We declare also in favour of absolute liberty of conscience, and the separation of church and state” (“Fenian Proclamation of an Irish Republic,” London Times, 8 March 1867).

13.Lawrence J. McCaffrey, Irish Federalism in the 1870s: A Study in Conservative Nationalism (Philadelphia, 1962), and David Thornley, Isaac Butt and Home Rule (London, 1964).

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