Irish elites in the nineteenth century / Ciaran O'Neill, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Neill, Ciaran (Lecturer in history), editor.

Series:

Nineteenth-century Ireland series ; 15.

Nineteenth-century Ireland series ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upper class--Ireland--History--19th century.

Upper class.

Upper class--Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century.

Manners and customs.

History.

Ireland--Social conditions--19th century.

Ireland.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2013]

Summary:

This collection of essays, published in association with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, challenges the view that national identification or religious affiliation provided such a strong focus in the lives of individuals as to render unimportant ties such as those of geography, class, social background and sectional interest. Power, wealth and influence were distributed in myriad ways in the nineteenth century, often through localized elites or social networks. County clubs, old school networks and voluntary and charitable organizations appeared throughout the century, vying for the attention of the established elite and the rising middle classes alongside political parties, freemasonry and sports and social clubs. Aspirational behaviour was evident at many levels of society and affected Irish men and women of all religious backgrounds. Book jacket.

Contents:

Elites and the built environment

Architectures of gentility in nineteenth-century Ireland / Andrew Tierney

Building Victorian Dublin : Meade & Son and the expansion of the city / Susan Galavan

Rethinking the landed estate

Elites, ritual and the legitimation of power on an Irish landed estate, 1855-90 / Kevin Mc Kenna

Assuming control : elite women as household managers in late nineteenth-century Ireland / Maeve O'Riordan

'Gentlemen practisers' : solicitors as elites in mid-nineteenth-century Irish landed society / Joanne McEntee

Local elites and associational culture

'The most perfect specimen of civilised nature' : the Shannon Estuary Group - elite theory and practice / Matthew Potter

Double helix : two elites in politics and journalism in Ireland, 1870-1918 / Felix M. Larkin

The three Fs - founders, fellowship and finance : the influence of book club members on Belfast's civic identity in the nineteenth century / Pamela Emerson

The Big House at play : archery as an elite pursuit from the 1830s to the 1870s / Brian Griffin

Writing the Decline

The ruins of Youghal : Canon Samuel Hayman, antiquarianism and the decline of Irish Anglican ascendency / Patrick Maume

Lady Gregory's fans : the Irish Protestant landed class and negotiations of power / Anna Pilz

Exporting Irish elites

A diasporic elite - the emergence of an Irish middle class in nineteenth-century Manchester / Neil Smith and Mervyn Busteed

Men who did not exist? : Irish tourists and the definition of a national elite / Raphaël Ingelbien

A new role for Irish Anglicans in the later nineteenth century : the HCMS and imperial opportunity / Timothy G. McMahon

Portraying the political elites

Visual parody and political commentary : John Doyle and Daniel O'Connell / Fintan Cullen

'A rara avis' : Jeremiah Jordan, Methodist and Nationalist MP / Nicola K. Morris

Revisiting blocked mobility

The Irish revival, elite competition and the First World War / John Hutchinson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846823510

184682351X

OCLC:

842356683