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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. Leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture address Ireland's entrance into modernity as a response to the lingering memory of the national leader Charles Stewart Parnell.
List 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.
About the author
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).
Summary
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. Leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture address Ireland's entrance into modernity as a response to the lingering memory of the national leader Charles Stewart Parnell.
