Terry Eagleton provides a novel account of Ireland's neglected
"national" intellectuals, an extraordinary group, including such
figures as Oscar Wilde's father William Wilde, Charles Lever,
Samuel Ferguson, Isaac Butt, Sheridan Le Fanu. They formed a kind
of Irish version of "Bloomsbury," but one composed, exceptionally,
of scientists, mathematicians, economists, and lawyers, rather than
preponderantly of artists and critics.
Their work, much of it published in the pages of the "Dublin
University Magazine," was deeply caught up in networks of kinship,
shared cultural interests and intersecting biographies in the
outsized village of nineteenth-century Dublin. Eagleton explores
the preoccupations of this remarkable community, in all its
fascinating ferment and diversity, through the lens of Antonio
Gramsci's definitions of "traditional" and "organic" intellectuals,
and maps the nature of its relation to the Young Ireland movement,
combining his account with some reflections on intellectual work in
general and its place in political life.
"Scholars and Rebels" is essential reading for all those
concerned to understand not just the complexities of
nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent
Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the
twentieth century.
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