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This volume of the Irish Critical Receptions Series traces the development of the literary reputation of Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and the contemporary reception history of her writings. One of the most widely reviewed and commercially successful authors of her time, until recently Owenson's literary reputation was largely eclipsed by her contemporaries Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott. It has only been in the later decades of the twentieth century that scholars have begun to re-examine Owenson as a pivotal figure in post-Union Irish literature and culture. In this work, Owenson is situated firmly in the context of her role in the development of the Irish 'national tale' and in terms of her often overlooked contribution to the genre of the Romantic-era novel. The critical material included in this volume will provide scholars with a more complete historical context in which to understand how Owenson's career and personal life served as touchstones for cultural debates surrounding gender, nationality, and authorship. Her career in Italy as a travel writer and commentator is also discussed at length.

Chapters: 1. Ireland and the wider world in the 12th century. 2. The coming of The Normans. 3. The establishment and consolidation of the lordship of Ireland. 4. The response of the native Irish. 5. Internal tensions within the lordship. 6. The Bruce Invasion. 7. The mid fourteenth century: factionalism, decline, and the "Black Death". 8. Attempts at recovery: Royal intervention. 9. Fifteenth century Ireland. 10. The rise and fall of the Kildare Geraldine supremacy. 11. The Reformation. 12. The renewal of Royal interest in Ireland. 13. Social and economic developments in sixteenth century Ireland. 14. Conquest, submission and settlement.

This volume contains over a hundred original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1922 to today. Included among these documents are Irish Boundary Commission Report 1925, speeches by Craigavon 1939 and Churchill 1943, The Constitution of Ireland 1937, The Offences Against the State Act 1939, Ireland Act 1949, speeches, letters and articles by Noel Browne, John Costello, Archbishop McQuaid, and Sean MacBride regarding The Mother and Child Scheme, Education (Northern Ireland) Act 1947, Statement of end of IRA Campaign 1962, extracts from the Irish News, the News Letter, the Irish Times, the Times and the Daily Mirror on deployment of British troops in 1969, Jack Lynch's speech August 1969, press reports of the Arms Trial 1970, articles from the United Irishman 1969 -1970 and An Phoblacht 1970, extracts from Sean Mac Stiofain Memoirs and Provisional Republican pamphlets 1973, Sunningdale Agreement 1973, The Glover Report 1978, Danny Morrison's 'Ballot Paper and Armalite 'speech 1981, The Anglo Irish Agreement 1985, Gerry Adams' Politics of Irish Freedom and extracts from Iris Bheag 1986-1989, press reports of Abortion Referendum campaign 1992, extracts from Catholic Church and pro-Divorce campaign statements, Downing Street Declaration 1993, Mitchell Report 1996, The Good Friday Agreement 1998 and David Trimble's Nobel Peace Prize speech 1998. Appendices include the electoral and political statistics for Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State, Eire and the Republic of Ireland 1922-2002

This volume contains over 170 original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1603-1800. Included among these documents are 1609 - Instructions for the inquisition of the state of the tenants in Ireland and other matters relating to the forfeited estates, 1616 - Account and opinion of the state of Ireland by Lord Chichester, 1622 - Report of the commissioners of inspection on the Irish plantations, 1632 - Appointment of Wentworth as chief governor of Ireland, 1640 - Subsidy Act, 1641 - Proclamation of Phelim O'Neill &c., 24 Oct. 1641, 1642 - Acts of the Ecclesiastical Congregation, Kilkenny, 10-13 May 1642, 1642 - Petition of the Confederate Supreme Council to Charles I, 31 July 1642, 1648 - Speech of Capt. Oliver French, agent of the Supreme Council, to the States General of the United Provinces, 5 May 1648, 1650s - Cromwellian Union, 1678 - Draft legislation for banishing Catholic prelates and regular clergy, 1689 - Jacobite parliament's Act of Attainder, 1697 - Bishops' Banishment Act, 1700 - Act of Resumption, 1723 - Address of the House of Commons to the king on Wood's halfpence, 27 Sept. 1723, 1745 - The question of security and Scottish Jacobite rising, 1778 - Formation of the first Volunteer units, 1782 - Catholic Relief Act, 1796 - The Insurrection Act, 1798 - Documents on the rebellion.

Description:1. Introduction: Irish and Latin documents as sources for Irish history(Including a discussion of problems in using so-called 'traditional' information; the difficulties in dating early texts found in later manuscripts; the compilatory nature of Irish annals; differing attitudes to Irish and Latin language sources; the local rather than national nature of much pre-Norman material)2. Chapter 1: Fifth-century and earlier sources(These to include extracts dealing with Ireland from Strabo's Geography, Tacitus' Agricola & Annals; Ptolemy's Geography & Almagest; Solinus' Collectanea rerum Memorabilium; Ammianus Marcellinus' History; the writings of St Jerome; Orosius' History against the pagans; Patrick's Confessio as found in the Book of Armagh; Ogam stones)3. Chapter 2: Sixth-century sources:(These to include extracts from Ogam stones; Columbanus' letters & sermons; Penitential of Finnian; Amra Columcille (an elegy on the death of St Columba)4. Chapter 3: Seventh-century sources(These to include extracts from 7th century annals dealing with high-kings of Tara and provincial kings of Ireland; two poems on Leinster genealogies; Cogitosus' life of Brigit; Muirchú's life of Patrick - as found in the Book of Armagh; Tírechán's Collectanea; two poems on Columba; Cáin Adomnáin - a legal tract on the rights of women and clerics)l lament for Cuimíne Foto; the Antiphonary of Bangor.5. Chapter 4: Eighth-century sources.(These to include extracts from Cíarraige genealogies; annals of Iona; Munster sources on kingship; extracts from law-tracts dealing with role of rulers (both secular and ecclesiastical); marriages; control of land; role of poets; wisdom tracts on rulers; Timna Cathair Máir - poetic account of Leinster kingdoms; charter material from the Book of Armagh)6. Chapter 5: Ninth-century sources;(These to include extracts from origin legends of dynasties such as the Uí Néill & the Éoganachta - most important kings in northern and southern halves of Ireland respectively. Also Senchas Síl Ír - traditions about the prehistoric history of Ulster ; annals dealing with arrival of Vikings; Baile in Scáil - account of kings of Tara and their burial places; annals dealing with Fedelmid mac Crimthann - king and holy man; Vita Tripartita - legendary account of Patrick's British childhood & his travels in Ireland; annals of Armagh; Bethu Brigde - legendary account of Brigit including her consecration as a bishop; Monastery of Tallaght - account of the Céli Dé.7. Chapter 6: Tenth-century sources(Annals dealing with Clonmacnoise; the kingdom of Mide; Tuathal Techtmar & the story of Uisnech; annals of Dál Cais; annals for Viking wars of 917; Flann Manistrech's poems concerning political events; Lanfranc's & Anselm's letters - by archbishops of Canterbury to Irish kings; professions of bishops of Dublin, Waterford and Limerick; annals giving bishops territorial titles)8. Chapter 7: Eleventh-century sources(Accounts of Battle of Clontarf and annals dealing with Brian Boru's descendants; annals dealing with the kingdom of Leinster; Óenach Carmain - a poem on the assembly of the Leinstermen; Metrical Dindshenchas on Teltown (site of annual fair connected to kingship of Tara); Conchubranus' Life of St Monena)9. Chapter 8: Twelfth-century sources(These to include extracts from Cogadh Gaedhal re Gallaibh; The Book of Rights; the kingdom of Cenél nÉogain; the kingdom of Connacht; Banshenchas; Synodal decrees of 1101; Dublin poem - on taxes due to Armagh by Vikings; Bernard's Life of Malachy; Leabhar Gabála Érenn - the book of the [prehistoric] invasions of Ireland; the miracles of St Laurence O'Toole; Jocelin of Furness' Life of Columba; foundation charter of Newry)

It was in 1916 that Patrick Pearse proclaimed Ireland a sovereign nation on the basis of its mourning, stating that "from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations." The concept of creating an Irish nation as a process of mourning has been both popular and prevalent in the writing of politicians, philosophers, artists, and patriots of every kind. This book analyzes Irish literary, political, and nationalist rhetoric as works of mourning. It focuses on a series of interlocking commemorative discourses: obituaries, decommissioning talks, and hunger strike commemorations. Reading reiterations of these discursive structures in the texts of Beckett, Joyce, and Yeats, as well as in the theories of memory and history from Nietzsche to Derrida, it shows how the nation paradoxically ruptures its political, historical, and cultural limits in the act of thinking or promising them into existence. It argues that as the borders of "Irishness" are both established and exceeded through memories of the dead, the language of mourning opens the way for affirmative re-evaluations of Irish identity as an always-incomplete project.

A new study of the political and social context of selected Irish historical dramas of the 18th ,19th and 20th centuries. Includes both thematic analyses of plays dealing with Robert Emmet and Brian Boru as well as individual analyses of plays be Dion Boucicault, Brian Friel, Denis Johnson, Lady Gregory, David Rudkin, Thomas Shadwell, W.B. Yeats. This work will be of great interest to researchers in Irish theatre and drama as well in Irish social history." . . (T)his work breaks new ground in the study of the historical and political in Irish drama. The historical drama in Ireland has always had an element of "claiming" the past for a very particular political or religious present i.e. "our heroes" against theirs, or, too often, "our hatred" against theirs . . . Professor Hawkins is to be congratulated for a fine research work that discusses the theatre as a means of historical and political persuasion and possession and redress."Professor R.B. Mahony.

This new research monograph discusses the basis of one of Ireland's most extensive (and profitable) hoaxes: the MacCarthy Mor Affair, and the attendant scandal surrounding the selling of Irish traditional titles to otherwise sane businessmen and professionals. Murphy's research covers the origins of the old Gaelic titles in pre-Norman Ireland. Principally the title of Chief, the collapse of the Gaelic order, the survival of some chiefly titles, the Gaelic Revival and the emergence of the Office of Arms. An account is given of the Office of Chief Herald as part of the new Irish state and the courtesy recognition under Dr. MacLysaght in 1944 and years that followed. Finally the emergence of one Terrence MacCarthy of Belfast as "MacCarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond" and his initial success and final unmasking is amusingly and cogently described.

This monograph is a serious sustained study of one of Ireland's most important emerging literary practitioners : Colm Toibin. Professor Turner focuses on the origins of Toibin's career, his stylistic and thematic shift that became apparent in THE STORY OF NIGHT(1996). Another aspect of this critical evaluation is an examination of Toibin's career as a journalist and non fiction writer. This period in Toibin's life began the process of investigation into Marian veneration and belief one of the key elements and characterics of Irish Catholicism especially in rural and small town Southern Ireland. Turner discusses THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP, Marian veneration in Ireland(SEEING IS BELIEVING), Toibin's Hispanic and Internationalist vocabularies(THE SOUTH and THE STORY OF THE NIGHT), sons and lovers in Toibin's fictive universe (THE HEATHER BLAZING and THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP), religion and journalism as in the nonfiction THE SIGN OF THE CROSS and SEEING IS BELIEVING and finally Toibin's sexual politics and homosexuality and their effect on his work.

Dr. Charles Lucas (1713-1771) was a leading Irish opposition politican during the middle years of the 18th century. He has been neglected due to the more dramatic events of the later eighteenth century but his misunderstood role as a precursor to those events (a Dublin Parliament, revolt and risings)needs to be understood and his politics reassessed. The present monograph deals with the reform of the Dublin Corporation after 1741, Lucas as a candidate for a parliamentary seat in the Dublin by-election of 1748-49, his enforced exile after 1749 as a result of his anti-English propaganda, his return to Ireland in 1760 and his final years as one of Dublin City's MPs.This publication will be the first substantial biographical and political study Lucas in over a century. Hitherto historians have dealt with Lucas as an anti-Catholic bigot and active municipal deal maker and profiteer. This view is challenged by the author and a new look is taken at Lucas's ideas and his critical attitude towards British rule. Also discussed is Lucas's interest in the theatre, reform of the drugs trade and his later career as a physician.

This illustrated work will prove invaluable as a research and informational tool in understanding the rich and varied literary life in Ireland during the last 50 years of the 20th century. Each year is discussed through the key books, articles and reviews of the day and each year is illustrated with interesting and sometimes rare photographs and drawings. The development of Irish writing from the rather somber and repressed post war years to the present riches in poetry and novels and belle-lettres is a gripping and compelling story. The almanac should prove useful as a teaching supplement as well as aide memoire for a period that saw terrific change and upheaval in the literary world and Ireland's emergence as a prosperous successful European nation. with an enviable national literature.

This work expands and enhances Professor Foster's well known work, Colonial Consequences (Dublin, 1991). Covering both cultural and literary topics, the book discusses science and Oscar Wilde, Yeats and Northern nationalism, the plays of Martin McDonagh and the Field Work phenomena. Professor Foster is one of the best known contemporary Irish critics.