Remembering the revolution : dissent, culture, and nationalism in the Irish Free State / Frances Flanagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flanagan, Frances, 1977- author.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Duffy, Eimar, 1893-1935.

O'Duffy, Eimar.

O'Hegarty, P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield), 1879-1955.

O'Hegarty, P. S.

Russell, George, 1857-1951.

Russell, George.

Ryan, Desmond.

Nationalism--Ireland--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

History.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916--Influence.

Physical Description:

viii, 249 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Remembering the Revolution chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of irish independence. While tales of heroism and martyrdom dominated popular accounts of the revolution, a handful of nationalists reflected on the period in more ambivalent terms. For them, the freedoms won in revolution came with great costs: the grievous loss of civilian lives, the brutalisation of Irish society, and the loss of hope, for a united and prosperous independent nation. To many nationalists, their views on the revolution were traitorous. For others, they were the courageous expression of some uncomfortable truths. This volume explores these struggles over revolutionary memory through the lives of four significant nationalist intellectuals: Eimar O'Duffy, P.S. O'Hegarty, George Russell, and Desmond Ryan. It provides a lively account of their controversial critiques of the Irish revolution, and an intimate portrait of the friends, enemies, institutions, and influences that shaped them. Based on wide-ranging archival research, Remembering the Revolution puts the history of Irish revolutionary memory in a transnational context. It shows the ways in which international debates about war, human progress, and the fragility of Western civilisation were crucial in shaping the understandings of the revolution in Ireland, It provides a fresh context for analysis of the major writers of the period, such as Sean O'Casey, W.B. Yeats, and Sean O'Faolain, as well as a new outlook on the genesis of the revisionist/nationalist schism that continues to resonate in Irish society today. Jacket illustration: 'Exiles' by Patrick Hennessy (1943). From the collection at Dublin City Gallery. The Hugh Lane. Book jacket.

Contents:

Writing the revolution in the Irish Free State

Eimar O'Duffy and the waste of 1916

Clean minded separatists and the mob: P.S. O'Hegarty and the ambiguous victory of Sinn Fein

Shivering elders and the exploits of youth: George Russell's interpretations of the Irish revolution

Remembering Sion: Desmond Ryan's therapeutic revolution

Conclusion: dissent, disillusionment, and the nationalist ideal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-237) and index.

ISBN:

9780198739159

019873915X

OCLC:

915123680