Title: Irish Nationalism and the British Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century
Abstract: In the historiography of Irish nationalism in the late nineteenth century the emphasis is less on the ideological content and complexities of nationalist thought than on its political expression. That is to do less than justice, perhaps, to the brief sallies by L. McCaffrey on Isaac Butt's 'federalism'[1] and F. S. L. Lyons on Charles Stewart Parnell's economic ideas[2] and, certainly, to the more substantial Ireland's English Question by Patrick O'Farrell.[3] Richard Davis' exploration of the infusion of new intellectual concepts to Irish nationalism in Arthur Griffith and Non-Violent Sinn Fein might be similarly excepted.[4] None the less, it remains substantially true that, apart from N. Mansergh's The Irish Question 1840–1921, [5] there has been very little investigation of nationalist ideas and their influence particularly in the time of Butt and Parnell. A generation of historians led by Conor Cruise O'Brien has tended to concentrate on defining the political context in which nationalists were forced to act and to explain their political behaviour in terms of that context.
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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