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Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910–1920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in literature, politics and public opinion. What fed the creative and reformist urge besides the circumstances of the moment and a vision of the future? The leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture assembled in this volume argue that the shadow of the past was also a driving factor: the traumatic, undigested memory of the defeat and death of the charismatic national leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). The authors reassess Parnell's impact on the Ireland of his time, its cultural, religious, political and intellectual life, in order to trace his posthumous influence into the early twentieth century in fields such as political activism, memory culture, history-writing, and literature.

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Author:   Joep Leerssen (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781108495264

ISBN 10:   1108495265
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   17 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgement; List of contributors; List of illustrations; Introduction: charisma and aftermath Joep Leerssen; Part I. Parnell's Ireland and its different temporalities: 1. O'Connell and Parnell Oliver MacDonagh; 2. The Paradoxes of Parnell Paul Bew; 3. Ireland from Parnell to Pearse R.F. Foster; 4. Race, nation, state Denis Donoghue; 5. Parnell's other Ireland: religious radicals in late-nineteenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; 6. Inside history: storyteller Éamon a' Búrc (1866-1942) and the «little famine» of 1879-1880 Angela Bourke; 7. Digesting the past: anthologies and bi-cultural memory in Ireland Joep Leerssen; 8. The writing of county histories in Parnell's Ireland Nicholas Canny; Part II. After Parnell: the Irish literary and historical imagination: 9. Joyce's dubliners and Parnell: strategies of failure? Frank McGuinness; 10. The rhythm of beauty»: Joyce, Yeats, and the 1890s Edna Longley; 11. «Ingenious lovely things»: Yeats's adjectives Helen Vendler; 12. Modernism in the streets: Pearse and Joyce Declan Kiberd; 13. Modernism, Belfast, and early-twentieth-century Ireland Terence Brown; 14. Too rough for verse? Sea crossings in Irish culture Claire Connolly; 15. «Myth, fact, and mystery»: F.X. Martin, medievalist and historian of the 1916 rising Thomas Bartlett; 16. The Easter rising: four fallacies and some reflections David Fitzpatrick; 17. Belatedness and late style Irish style: contemporary Irish poetry and the problem of belatedness Clair Wills; Illustration credits; Index.

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'… most of the contributions are solid, insightful, and sometimes brilliant … it is a volume well worth reading.' John McCourt, James Joyce Quarterly

Author Information

Joep Leerssen is Professor of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His books Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael (1986) and Remembrance and Imagination (1996) helped establish the specialism of Irish Studies. His comparative work on national (self-)stereotyping and cultural nationalism earned him the Spinoza Prize in 2008. He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (2018).

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