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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Irish nationalism"”.
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The impact of Irish nationalism on central Scotland, 1898-1939
The impact of Irish nationalism on central Scotland, 1898 – 1939 The years 1898 to 1939 were momentous ones for both Irish and Scottish history. The rise of Sinn Fein, the impact of the First World War and the Easter Rising, followed by the formation of the Irish Free State in 1921 and Eire in 1937 …
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Collective Leadership in Contemporary Irish Nationalism: The Writing of Gerry Adams
… its origins to Theobald Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen, founded in Belfast on October 18, 1791, Irish Republicanism has evolved from its original anti-sectarian, Lockean principles as represented by Tone1 to a modern movement encompassing national self-determination, antisectarianism, cultural …
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Making Fenians: The Transnational Constitutive Rhetoric of Revolutionary Irish Nationalism, 1858-1876
… rhetorical strategies of revolutionary Irish nationalists operating transnationally from 1858-1876. Collectively known as the Fenians, they consisted of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in the United Kingdom and the Fenian Brotherhood in North America. Conceptually grounded in the main …
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A study of associational culture and the development of Irish nationalism, 1780-1830, with the construction of a software information environment
… of associational culture in the development of Irish nationalism during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Parallel to this historical investigation it examines the use of and implements a digital humanities methodology to research and where possible a digital solution was used to …
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Imperial precedents in the Home Rule Debates, 1867-1914
… of Home Rule was the primary focus of mainstream Irish nationalism from the mid-1870s until the Irish parliamentary party’s electoral collapse at the 1918 general election. The Home Rule movement’s predecessor as the dominant force in Irish nationalism was Daniel O’Connell’s repeal movement of the …
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Fenianism - A Male Business? A Case Study of Mary Jane 0'Donovan Rossa (1845-1916)
… of her political attitude and her ardent nationalism. As the eldest of ten children she was to take over responsibility for her family at an early stage of her life. She considered her duty for her family always as primary to unnecessary sacrifices for political principles and strongly …
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Absence and presence: investigating the cinematic representation of Northern Irish unionists (1981-2020)
… cinematic representation in relation to Northern Irish unionists and focusses on feature-length fiction films released between 1981-2020. Prior to this contemporary period, only a handful of mainstream cinema releases featured identifiable unionist characters and their culture. The thesis examines …
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"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts
… successful literary texts that grapple with Irish nationalism: Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People. Each text comes from a different historical moment, but each of these moments is distinguished by major …
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The despotism of fact: Celticism and the transnational critique of capitalism in England and Ireland, 1865-1954
… I argue that by propagating a conception of the Irish subject as biologically resistant to capitalism and given to aesthetic creativity, Celticism crucially shaped the colonial definition of the Irish by the British, the decolonizing and postcolonial Irish responses to this definition, and the …
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Land and Popular Politics in County Kerry, 1872-86
… accepted if not established. During the period Irish nationalism underwent one of its most formative eras in which it developed into the dominant political force in southern Ireland. In examining these processes in county Kerry, this work has analysed the objectives, social composition and …
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Irish disability: Postcolonial narratives of stunted development
… Ireland, Patrick Kavanagh defines his Irish anti-hero by the “impotent worm on his thigh,” a “no-target gun” that represents his purposeless masculinity as life becomes “dried in [his] veins.” Twenty years later, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy presents the coming-of-age tale …
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A Social History of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900
A full understanding of nineteenth century Irish America requires close examination of emigration as well as immigration. Knowledge of Irish pre-emigration experiences is a key to making sense of their post-emigration lives. This work analyzes the regional origins, the migration and settlement …
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Michael Collins and the Nationalist Retrospective
… perspective. Finally, a biography from an Irish historian of a later generation, Tim Pat Coogan. There are in excess of twenty historians who deal significantly with the life and work of Michael Collins. But due to the size and time constraints imposed on this work it is necessary to focus …
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The Dublin Medical Press and medical authority in Ireland 1850 -1890
Nineteenth-century Ireland saw the rise of modern Irish nationalism, sweeping changes in land reform, the growth o f a new bourgeois class and the parallel decline and collapse of eighteenth-century social structures. In short, it was a period that crystallised the major social features of modem …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
… can provide us with a better understating of the Irish poet’s complex interactions with Irish nationalism and British colonialism. By a close reading of some of Yeats’s works from different periods of his long career, it is shown that most of the time he adopted a double, ambiguous, and even …
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Evelyn Gleeson and The Dun Emer Guild: Redefining a Woman’s Place in the Arts
… of specific women who revolutionized Irish art. The thesis emphasizes aspects of art often omitted from art history, including “domestic” pieces such as weaving, embroidery, clothing, and fabrics. During the late nineteenth century, the English Arts and Crafts Movement stimulated a …
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Gender, ritual and power : the Blueshirts and Irish political culture, 1932-1936
… societies. Within a year, though, the Irish state faced a serious and violent extra-parliamentary threat to its authority by the fascistic group the Blueshirts. This group was more than just a political association; it constituted a distinct community within Irish society that was …
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The Evolution of Yeats's Dance Imagery: The Body, Gender, and Nationalism
… his conceptions of the body, gender, and Irish nationalism. The critical tendency to read Yeats's dance emblems in light of symbolist-decadent portrayals of Salome has led to exaggerated charges of misogyny, and to neglect of these emblems' relationship to the poet's nationalism. Drawing …
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Aboriginal Britain: Ethnological folkloristics and the origin of the nation in the work of Sir George Laurence Gomme, Sir John Rhŷs, and Alfred Nutt
… in the context of early twentieth-century Irish nationalism and the Celtic Revival.
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This Irish Fiction of Emily Lawless: a narrative analysis
… for inclusion in a tradition of significant Irish literary voices. The fictional work, in particular, of this writer facilitates access to an expanse of issues which constituted a major part of late nineteenth-century political, social and cultural debate in both Ireland and Britain. Most …
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