Irish nationalists and the making of the Irish race / Bruce Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Bruce, 1940-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

History.

Irish--Ethnic identity.

Irish.

Ireland--History.

Ireland.

National characteristics, Irish.

Race--History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012]

Contents:

Part 1 The Making of the Irish Race

Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) Race 3

Chapter 1 "The blood of an Irishman": The English Construction of the Irish Race, 1534-1801 17

Chapter 2 Celts, Hottentots, and "white chimpanzees": The Racialization of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century 30

Part 2 Ireland, Slavery, and Abolition

Chapter 3 "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen": Daniel O'Connell, American Slavery, and the Making of the Irish Race 57

Chapter 4 "The Black O'Connell of the United States": Frederick Douglass and Ireland 86

Part 3 Ireland and Empire

Chapter 5 "From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer Fight for Freedom" 121

Chapter 6 "Because we are white men": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish Quest for Self-Government, 1899-1922 148

Part 4 Ireland and Revolution

Chapter 7 Negro Sinn Féiners and Black Fenians: "Heroic Ireland" and the Black Nationalist Imagination 181

Chapter 8 "The Irish are for freedom everywhere": Eamon de Valera, the Irish Patriotic Strike, and the "last white nation ... deprived of its liberty" 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691153124

0691153124

OCLC:

761383919