Transnational Perspectives in Modern Irish History: Beyond the Island

ISBN-13: 9780415719803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 268 str.

Niall Whelehan

Opis

In comparison with North American or European historiography, debates about transnational history have been slower to arrive in Ireland, perhaps as a result of the national focus that characterized the revisionist debates that dominated Irish historiography in recent decades. However, the centrality of nation-state frameworks of analysis in history and social science research is being brought increasingly into question, and some recent interventions have advanced a transnational agenda in Irish history. Building on this recent work, this book argues that there is a straightforward case to be made for adopting transnational approaches to modern Irish history.

Recenzje

"A transnational approach, properly conceptualized and disciplined, promises to offer the rising generation of historians of Ireland a potentially exciting intellectual and emotional escape route from the suffocating confines of ideologically inspired and conceptually vacuous perspectives.  This is no petty ambition. To derive the full potential advantage of the approach requires transcending the comfortable insular assumptions in which so much of even the most intellectually impressive historiography of Ireland remains cocooned. More power to the pioneers."
-Professor Joe Lee, Director of Glucksman Ireland House, New York University

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Playing with Scales: Transnational History and Modern Ireland  Niall Whelehan  2. Friend, Foe or Family? Catholic Creoles, French Huguenots, Scottish Dissenters: Aspects of the Irish Diaspora at St. Croix, Danish West Indies, c.1760  Orla Power  3. Irish Politics and Labour: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives, 1798-1914  Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild  4. "And All My Great Hardships Endured"?: Irish Convicts in Van Diemen’s Land  Hamish Maxwell-Stewart  5. Count Cavour's 1844 Thoughts on Ireland: Liberal Politics and Agrarian Reform Through Anglo-Italian Eyes  Enrico Dal Lago  6. Ireland’s Great Famine: A Transnational History  Enda Delaney  7. "The Perverted Graduates of Oxford": Priestcraft, "Political Popery" and the Transnational Anti-Catholicism of Sir James Emerson Tennent  Jonathan Jeffrey Wright  8. Irish-Polish Solidarity: Irish Responses to the January Uprising of 1863-64 in Congress Poland  Róisín Healy  9. "A Land Beyond the Wave": Transnational Perspectives on Easter 1916  Fearghal McGarry  10. Irish America Without Ireland: Irish-American Relations with Ireland in the Twentieth Century  Timothy J. Meagher  11. Returnees, Forgotten Foreigners and New Immigrants: Tracing Migratory Movement into Ireland Since the Late-Nineteenth Century  Irial Glynn

O autorze

Niall Whelehan is a Marie Curie Fellow in history at the University of Edinburgh.