Paris - Capital of Irish Culture

France, Ireland and the Republic, 1798-1916

Pierre Joannon, Kevin Whelan

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781846826917
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: French History
• Index: History

This collection explores the influence of France on the evolution of Irish political and cultural thought from the eighteenth century, showing how the convergence between the two countries fed into the cultural energies that underpinned the 1916 Rising. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris loomed large in the wider European imagination. Paris functioned as a political capital for fugitive Irish republicans from 1798 until 1916. This Parisian link was there from the Jacobites, through the United Irishmen to the Young Irelanders and the Fenians. Parisian links remained strong in the build-up to the 1916 Rising and the French exerted a strong intellectual influence on pre-1916 Irish political activists. Contributors include: Thomas Bartlett (U Aberdeen), Laurent Colantonio (U Quebec), Seamus Deane (U Notre Dame), Phyllis Gaffney (UCD), Pierre Joannon, Janick Julienne, Sylvie Kleinman, Anne Magny, Barry McCrea (U Notre Dame), Thomas O'Connor (Maynooth U), Justin Dolan Stover (Idaho State U), Pierre Ranger, Kevin Whelan (U Notre Dame). [Subject: Irish Studies, History, Politics, French Studies, Ireland & France]

Table of contents

• COVER
• FRONTISPIECE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. Paris: the Promised Land?
• 2. Paris: capital of Irish culture
• 3. Paris, 1796: birthplace of the first Irish Republic? Tone’s mission to France and Irish sovereignty
• 4. Was Bonaparte in the GPO? The legend of Napoleon in Irish history, 1796–1916
• 5. Catholicism, republicanism and race: Ireland in nineteenth-century French thought
• 6. Daniel O’Connell, a model for France; Paris of the barricades, an example for Young Ireland
• 7. John Patrick Leonard and the Irish colony in Paris, 1848–89
• 8. Maud Gonne and Irish Revolutionary agitation in Paris
• 9. ‘Shattered glass and toppling masonry’: war damage in Paris and Dublin
• 10. Paris, diplomatic capital of the world: Sinn Féin diplomatic initiatives, 1919–21
• 11. Ludovic Naudeau and the Irish War of Independence
• 12. Roger Chauviré’s perspective on 1916 and its aftermath
• 13. Dublin, Paris, and the world republic of letters
• Postscript
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX
• PLATES