Overview
Nationalism is a particularly slippery subject to define and understand, particularly when applied to early modern Europe. In this collection of essays, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight into how concepts of ’nationalism’ and ’national identity’ can be understood and applied to pre-modern Ireland. Drawing upon a selection of his most provocative and pioneering essays, together with three entirely new pieces, the limits and contexts of Irish nationalism are explored and its impact on both early modern society and later generations, examined. The collection reflects especially upon the emergence of national consciousness in Ireland during a calamitous period when the late-medieval, undeveloped sense of a collective identity became suffused with patriotic sentiment and acquired a political edge bound up with notions of national sovereignty and representative self-government. The volume opens with a discussion of the historical methods employed, and an extended introductory essay tracing the history of national consciousness in Ireland from its first beginnings as recorded in the poetry of the early Christian Church to its early-modern flowering, which provides the context for the case studies addressed in the subsequent chapters. These range across a wealth of subjects, including comparisons of Tudor Wales and Ireland, Irish reactions to the ’Westward Enterprise’, the Ulster Rising of 1641, the Elizabethans and the Irish, and the two sieges of Limerick. The volume concludes with a transcription and discussion of ’A Treatise for the Reformation of Ireland, 1554-5’. The result of a lifetime’s study, this volume offers a rich and rewarding journey through a turbulent yet fascinating period of Irish history, not only illuminating political and religious developments within Ireland, but also how these affected events across the British Isles and beyond.
Full Product Details
Author: Brendan Bradshaw
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.725kg
ISBN: 9781472442567
ISBN 10: 1472442563
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 17 July 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Bradshaw's work here should in many cases be seen as important, provocative points from which to start rather than finish reading about early modern Irish identity, national consciousness, and nationhood. This in itself is testament to the influence of this scholar whose arguments continue to spark new thinking and new approaches. - Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).
Bradshaw's work here should in many cases be seen as important, provocative points from which to start rather than finish reading about early modern Irish identity, national consciousness, and nationhood. This in itself is testament to the influence of this scholar whose arguments continue to spark new thinking and new approaches. - Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).
Bradshaw's work here should in many cases be seen as important, provocative points from which to start rather than finish reading about early modern Irish identity, national consciousness, and nationhood. This in itself is testament to the influence of this scholar whose arguments continue to spark new thinking and new approaches. - Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).
Author Information
Brendan Bradshaw S.M. is a Life Fellow of Queen's College Cambridge, UK.
