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"Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century" is a
contribution to the intellectual history of Ireland and to the
history of the human sciences. It seeks to document a selected yet
systematic set of views on Ireland as 'Other' during the nineteenth
century. Of its ten chapters, six comprise the views on Ireland
(social, cultural and political) of significant thinkers from
outside the island. The selected thinkers are: Gustave de Beaumont
(1802-66), friend of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59); John Stuart
Mill (1806-73); Harriet Martineau (1802-76); Sir Henry Maine
(1822-88); Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95);
James Anthony Froude (1818-94). In addition, the two significant
themes of Celticism and Race, constructs through which the Irish
were frequently viewed, will also be included; under these
headings, attention will be given to the thought of Matthew Arnold
and Robert Knox. All of this is accompanied by a historical
introduction and a concluding afterword by Peter Gray. The
contributors to the project have been chosen for their expertise in
their respective topics and represent a range of academic
disciplines. All of the topics (with the exception of that on
Harriet Martineau) were presented as papers at a conference held
under the auspices of the Anthropological Association of Ireland in
Headfort House, Kells, Co. Meath, on Friday-Saturday, 18-19 March
2005.
Executed by the British in 1916 for treason, Roger Casement is one
of Ireland's most colorful, mythologized, and controversial
figures. His infamous Black Diaries, with their homosexual
materials, were famously published by the Olympia Press in a
suspect edition in 1959. In 1903 when he was a British consul, he
left his base on the Lower Congo River and made a Conrad-like
journey through the "heart of darkness" regions of the Upper Congo
to personally investigate reports of alleged atrocities (Conrad
found Casement to be "most intelligent and sympathetic"). His
subsequent report gained him fame by exposing the appalling
cruelties of the colonial and commercial regime there, and was a
crucial instrument in the British government's efforts to bring
about change in King Leopold's Congo Free State. He later exposed
similar exploitation in Niger, Mozambique, and South America. This
carefully edited work brings together Casement's report, as well as
his diary of that year, with previously excised names restored and
explanatory notes provided. The editors provide an overview of
Casement's career and a thorough historical background to these
documents. Seamus O Siochain teaches at the National University of
Ireland and is completing a major biography of Casement. Michael
O'Sullivan was at Dublin City University until his death in 2002.
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