The Irish in the South, 1815-1877

The Irish in the South, 1815-1877
Author: David T. Gleeson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2002-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807875635

The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture. The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self-identification as temporary exiles from famine and British misrule. They countered this isolation by creating vibrant, tightly knit ethnic communities in the cities and towns across the South where they found work, usually menial jobs. Finding strength in their communities, Irish immigrants developed the confidence to raise their voices in the public arena, forcing native southerners to recognize and accept them--first politically, then socially. The Irish integrated into southern society without abandoning their ethnic identity. They displayed their loyalty by fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War and in particular by opposing the Radical Reconstruction that followed. By 1877, they were a unique part of the "Solid South." Unlike the Irish in other parts of the United States, the Irish in the South had to fit into a regional culture as well as American culture in general. By following their attempts to become southerners, we learn much about the unique experience of ethnicity in the American South.

The Great Irish Potato Famine

The Great Irish Potato Famine
Author: James S Donnelly
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752486934

In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, changing the country forever. During and after this terrible human crisis, the British government was bitterly accused of not averting the disaster or offering enough aid. Some even believed that the Whig government's policies were tantamount to genocide against the Irish population. James Donnelly's account looks closely at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potato famine and explores the way that natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations.

Governing Hibernia

Governing Hibernia
Author: K. Theodore Hoppen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198207433

The first book to examine in detail how British ministers and politicians sought to govern Ireland throughout the period of Anglo-Irish Union (1800-1921), this trenchant and original account argues that British politicians had little understanding or time for Irish matters, and oscillated between policies of coercion and assimilation.

The Heather Blazing

The Heather Blazing
Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476704473

Colm Tóibín’s “lovely, understated” novel that “proceeds with stately grace” (The Washington Post Book World) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic. Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Tóibín reconstructs the history of Eamon’s relationships—with his father, his first “girl,” his wife, and the children who barely know him—and he writes about Eamon’s affection for the Irish coast with such painterly skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel of stunning power, “seductive and absorbing” (USA Today).

The Irish Counter-revolution, 1921-1936

The Irish Counter-revolution, 1921-1936
Author: John M. Regan
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
Total Pages: 475
Release: 1999
Genre: Counterrevolutionaries
ISBN: 9780717128853

The most original and stimulating interpretation of the politics of the Irish Free State to be published in decades." Ronan Fanning, Sunday Independent "This is an excellent study, firmly grounded in original research, which sheds new light on this period." Fearghal McGarry, Irish Historical Studies

Modernism, Empire, World Literature

Modernism, Empire, World Literature
Author: Joe Cleary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108492355

Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.

The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass

The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass
Author: Harry Clifton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781930630604

The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass follows the success of Secular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004, which won the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now Award, the most prestigious poetry award in Ireland. In this new, deeply meditative and wide-ranging collection, Harry Clifton brings his extraordinary poetic and intellectual gifts to bear on the present state of Irish culture. These are both personal and public reflections (on love, marriage, middle age, and history) that stake his claim as one of the most significant Irish poets now writing.

Ireland in an Imperial World

Ireland in an Imperial World
Author: Timothy G. McMahon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137596376

Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most importantly, they were integral players simultaneously managing and undermining the British Empire, and through their diasporic communities, they built sophisticated arguments that aided challenges to other imperial projects. In emphasizing the interconnections between Ireland and the wider British and Irish worlds, this book argues that a greater appreciation of empire is essential for enriching our understanding of the development of Irish society at home. Moreover, these thirteen essays argue plainly that Ireland was on the cutting edge of broader global developments, both in configuring and dismantling Europe’s overseas empires.