Histories of the Irish future
By: Bryan Fanning
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781472526458; 9781472532954; 9781472528988; 9781472523723
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: History
Description: "Histories of the Irish Future is an intellectual history of Ireland and a history of Irish crises viewed through the eyes of twelve key writers: William Petty, William Molyneux, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Richard Whately, Friedrich Engels, John Mitchel, James Connolly, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Jeremiah Newman, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Fintan O'Toole. Their analyses of the shifting conditions of Ireland and their efforts to address Ireland's predicaments are located within the wider social, political, economic and cultural anxieties of their times. The result is a pioneering interdisciplinary contribution to modern Irish history and Irish Studies that will appeal to students of politics, economic history, and philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modest proposals and Irish futures; title: William Petty's final solution; title: William Molyneux and the case for Ireland; title: Edmund Burke and the case for Union; title: Thomas Malthus and Catholic emancipation; title: Richard Whately and the end of ascendancy; title: Friedrich Engels and the crisis of Irish character; title: John Mitchel and the last conquest of Ireland; title: James Connolly and Catholic nationalism; title: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington versus the Free State; title: Jeremiah Newman and Catholic decline; title: The lonely passion of Conor Cruise O'Brien; title: Fintan O'Toole's second republic; title: Ghosts of futures past.