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Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of "Iran," this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland's partition and the founding of Irish Free State in 1922.
List of contents
Introduction, Chapter One "Iran" in Irish Nationalist Antiquarian Imaginations: The Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century; Chapter Two Thomas Moore's Poetic and Historical Irans: Intercepted Letters (1813), Lalla Rookh (1817), and The History of Ireland (1835); Chapter Three Irans of Young Ireland Imaginations, 1842-1848: From Thomas Osborne Davis' "Thermopylae" to James Clarence Mangan's "Aye-travailing Gnomes"; Chapter Four Contemporary Affinities: The Nation & the Anglo-Iranian War of 1856-1857; Chapter Five An Gorta Mór of Others and Nationalist Neglect: The Nation & the Iranian Famine of 1870-1872; Chapter Six The Ghosts of Iran's Past in Irish Nationalist Imaginations in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; Chapter Seven Irish Nationalists and the Iranian Question, 1906-1921; Chapter Eight Perspectival Detour: Iranian Familiarity with Ireland and the Irish Question Prior to the Easter Rising; Chapter Nine Nation, History, and Memory: The Irish Free State, Europe-Centered Worlding of Ireland, and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939); Conclusion; Historical Apophenia, Affinities, Departures, and Nescience; Bibliography
About the author
Mansour Bonakdarian specializes in modern British, Irish, Iranian, and imperial history.
Summary
Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of “Iran,” this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland’s partition and the founding of Irish Free State in 1922.
