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The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the
Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays
forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish
Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and
illuminate both the historical events themselves and the material
conditions of reading and writing in late nineteenth-century
Ireland. Divisions into 'us' and 'them' were convenient for
political reasons, but the fiction of the period frequently
modifies this alignment and draws attention to the complexity of
the land problem. This collection includes studies of canonical
land war novels, publication channels, collaborations between
artists and authors, literary conventions and the interplay between
personal experience and literary output. It also includes unique
resources such as a reprinted letter by the author Mary Anne
Sadlier and a reproduction of Rosa Mulholland's little-known play
Our Boycotting. The book concludes with a detailed bibliography of
land war fiction between 1879 and 1916, which should inspire
further reading and research into the genre.
The fifth Earl Spencer was lord lieutenant of Ireland twice
(1868-71, 1882-5). It was a problematic office, combing both
symbolic, constitutional aspects with an administrative role that
could embroil it in politics. On the first occasion Spencer managed
to save the office from political controversy. On the second,
during the politically turbulent 1880s, he was given an explicit
mandate to act as a governing lord lieutenant. This effectively
produced the appearance of a bifurcated government with the Liberal
government at Westminster able psychologically to distance itself
from the Irish Executive under Spencer. Equally, the Irish
Parliamentary Party, effected a bifurcated opposition. This work
continues the argument of the author's 2001 book, Abject Loyalty:
Nationalism and Monarch in Ireland during the Reign of Queen
Victoria, that in nineteenth-century Ireland, political affinity
with Britain was damaged by the sacrifice for short-term political
ends of constitutional offices (such as the monarchy and lord
lieutenancy) that were important for bolstering that affinity.This
ground-breaking study, exploring the career intricacies of lord
lieutenant Earl Spencer, sheds new light on an area of Irish
History, as of yet, largely unexplored.
The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major new series that
charts one of the most venerable book cultures in Europe, from the
earliest manuscript compilations to the flourishing book industries
of the late twentieth century. For the first time, it offers a
history of the Irish book as a created object situated in a world
of communications, trade, transport, power, and money, and examines
the ways in which books have both reflected and influenced social,
political, and intellectual formations in Ireland. It is an
important project for the understanding of Ireland's written and
printed heritage, and is by its nature of profound cross-cultural
significance, embracing as it does all the written and printed
traditions and heritages of Ireland and placing them in the global
context of a worldwide interest in book histories.
Volume III: The Irish Book in English 1800-1890 details the story
of the book in Ireland from the Act of Union, which ended Ireland's
lucrative exemption from British copyright, to the Irish revival,
with its emphasis on cultural nationalism. Though retaining its own
identity during this period the Irish publishing industry also
participated in a wider British publishing culture, less perhaps
the result of political change than the result of the
industrialization of production. The chapters in this volume deal
with book production and distribution and the differing of ways in
which publishing existed in Dublin, Belfast, and the provinces. The
nineteenth century saw a dramatic rise in literacy rates in
Ireland, the advent of national education, and the development of
new opportunities and spaces for reading that eclipsed previous
communal reading practices. Religious publishing was a major
enterprise not only because of the rise in devotionalism but also
because of the religious controversies that raged in the early part
of the century. Literary genres engaged both Irish and British
audiences with Irish issues, though they found a publishing outlet
largely through London publishers. Scholarly societies of both the
antiquarian and scientific varieties sustained a relatively high
degree of local publishing, mostly through journals. Medical and
musical publishing appeared for quite a while to defy the
centralizing pull of British publishing. In spite of the challenges
of the times, writers, publishers, readers, and institutions often
responded with energy and creativity to a world of extraordinary
change. It was a world of considerable diversity and great
fascination. Relying on a high degree of original research, both
archival and bibliographical, this volume treats both general
trends and individual stories.
Scholars of history and literature from Britain and the US as well
as Ireland look at a period when often antagonistic religious
movements had a profound effect on Irish culture. They cover the
devotional revolution revisited, Protestant anxiety in the age of
Catholic emancipation, configuring Catholicism, international
perspectives, and evangelica
This volume consists of the proceedings of the tenth international
conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-century
Ireland, held in Dublin in June 2002. It contains articles by
scholars specializing in the Anglo-Irish literary revival, the
Gaelic League and other movements which together constituted that
cultural movement from the 1880s to the 1920s which has become
known as the Irish revival. Essays focus on some of the key issues
in the study of the revival today. They include the ways in which
participants in the revival were both conscious fashioners and
critics of its later image and the positioning of movements within
the revival, from theosophy to agricultural cooperation. Neglected
material aspects of the revival from museums to clothing are also
tackled, as is the issue of the urban settings for the revival in
Dublin, Belfast and London. Finally, considerable attention is paid
to what can be learned from individuals previously deemed
peripheral and from fresh historical perspectives on some of the
key texts of the literary revival.
This late 19th century novel was one of the first to deal with
crime and punishment in Ireland, as well as a host of other issues
from a feminist as well as socially progressive point of view. Long
out of print, Professor Murphy makes the case for its inclusion in
the canon of Irish literature via a superbly written Introduction
and an extensive series of notes and text discussions. Full text
reproduced.
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