Rebellion and remembrance in modern Ireland
By: edited by Laurence M. Geary.
Contributors: Geary, Laurence M.
Publisher: Portland, OR; Four Courts Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Revolutions -- Ireland -- Public opinion -- History; Revolutions -- Ireland -- Historiography; Popular culture -- Ireland -- History; Public opinion -- Ireland -- History; Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1798 -- Historiography; Ireland -- History -- Rising of 1848 -- Historiography; Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1798 -- Anniversaries; Ireland -- History -- Rising of 1848 -- Anniversaries; Ireland -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The essays in this volume represent a selection of the papers delivered at the '1798, 1848, 1898: Revolution, Revival and Commemoration' conference which took place at the National University of Ireland, Cork in June 1998"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Sectarianism in 1798 and in Catholic nationalist memory -- James S. Donnelly, Jr.; title: Foreign enemies and internal rebels : the French War and the United Irishmen in New South Wales -- Ruán O'Donnell; title: Popular mobilisation and the rising of 1848 : the clubs of the Irish Confederation -- Gary Owens; title: 'Irish password is no longer repeal, but revolution' : a German view of Ireland's '48 -- Brigitte Anton; title: 'Violence of a servile war' : three narratives of Irish rural insurgency post-1798 -- Tadhg O'Sullivan; title: Tá Gaedhil bhocht cráidhte' : memory, tradition and the politics of the poor in Gaelic poetry and song -- Tom Dunne; title: Memory, story and balladry : 1798 and its place in popular memory in pre-Famine Ireland -- Maura Cronin; title: Young Ireland and the 1798 rebellion -- Seán Ryder; title: "New light" Ulster Presbyterianism and the nationalist rhetoric of John Mitchel -- Robert Mahony; title: Voicing rebellion in Victorian fiction : towards a textual commemoration -- Neil McCaw; title: Presence and absence of Wolfe Tone during the centenary commemoration of the 1798 rebellion -- Sophie Ollivier; title: 'Silent but eloquent reminders' : the nationalist monuments in Cork and Skibbereen --; title: Monument 'where pilgrims may worship and patriotism be renewed' : the sacral nationalism of the Australian '98 centenary -- Jonathan M. Wooding; title: Representations of Irish history in fiction films made prior to the 1916 rising -- Kevin Rockett.