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Zusatztext This book is a pioneering and forensic study which adds a great deal to our understanding of the Irish revolution and its ripples through Ireland after partition. In so doing, Flanagan does important work in contextualising debates over Irish culture and society in the 1920s within broader European trends, and as such, her work sits alongside Mo Moulton's recent Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England in resituating the Irish 1920s as a crucial part of a broader European malaise ... in delineating the lives of these men in the period after they had fallen into political irrelevance, Flanagan poses fundamental questions about how Irish historians have chosen narratives and chased stories; as such this book asks broader questions about the nature of historical practice which will be of relevance to all. Informationen zum Autor Frances Flanagan was born in Perth, Western Australia. She obtained bachelor degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Western Australia. After several years as a lawyer, she won a Commonwealth scholarship to read for a DPhil in history at the University of Oxford. She has been a senior scholar at Hertford College Oxford, a Marshall Fellow at the London Institute of Historical Research, and a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. She currently works at the University of Sydney, and lives in Sydney with her husband and two daughters. Klappentext Chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of independence by significant nationalist intellectuals: Eimar O'Duffy, P. S. O'Hegarty, George Russell, and Desmond Ryan. It provides a lively account of their controversial critiques of the revolution, and an intimate portrait of their lives and times. Zusammenfassung Chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of independence by significant nationalist intellectuals: Eimar O'Duffy, P. S. O'Hegarty, George Russell, and Desmond Ryan. It provides a lively account of their controversial critiques of the revolution, and an intimate portrait of their lives and times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Writing the revolution in the Free State 2: Eimar O'Duffy and the Waste of 1916 3: Clean Minded Separatists and the Mob: P.S. O'Hegarty and the ambiguous victory of Sinn Fein 4: Shivering Elders and the Exploits of Youth: George Russell's interpretations of the Irish revolution 5: Remembering Sion: Desmond Ryan's therapeutic revolution Conclusion: Dissent, disillusionment, and the nationalist ideal Bibliography ...
