Dreams of the future in nineteenth-century Ireland / edited by Richard J. Butler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Richard J. (Editor), editor.

William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Series:

Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland (Series)

The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Future, The--Public opinion--History--19th century.

Future, The.

Public opinion--Ireland--History--19th century.

Public opinion.

Irish--Attitudes--History--19th century.

Irish.

Irish--Attitudes.

Social conditions.

History.

Ireland--Social conditions--19th century.

Ireland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 344 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Dreams of the future in 19th-century Ireland

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The Future and The Past

1. Dreaming the Future while Arguing the Past: Temperaments and Temporalities in Irish Writing / Jim Kelly

2. `Shrovetide will be a Merry Time in Ireland Yet: Fenian Visions of Ireland's Future / Patrick Bethel

3. Imagining Alternative Political Futures for Ireland in the 1880s: The Example of Home Rule Fiction / Pauline Collombier-Lakeman

II. Dreams and Diasporas

4. Visions of Respectability: Charlotte Grace O'Brien and the Politics of Emigrant Philanthropy / Catherine Healy

5. Visions for Ireland and for her Language as Depicted in Nineteenth-Century Irish American Print Media / Fiona Lyons

6. "The Future Destiny of these Countries': The Young Ireland Generation and Nationalist Futures in Australia and Canada, 1848-71 / Christopher P. Morash

7. Melbourne Visions of an Irish Future in the 1880s / Sophie Cooper

8. Imagining Irish Futures in East Asia: Narratives of Encounter and Return among Professional Diasporas in China, c.1860-1900 / Loughlin J. Sweeney

III. Religious Futures

9. Visions of the Future in Humanitarian Responses to the Great Irish Famine / Aoife O'Leary McNeice

10. After Lammenais and L'Avenir: The Liberal Catholicism of Walter Sweetman and the Catholic Modernism of William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne / Patrick Maume

IV. From Here to Modernity

11. Transatlantic Exchange, Urban Development, and Heterogeneous Engineering in the West of Ireland: Belmullet's Unbuilt Railways, c.1820

1920 / Richard J. Butler

12. Imagining the Railway Revolution in Pre-Famine Ireland: Technology, Governance, and the Drummond Commission, 1832-39 / Peter Hession

13. P.J. Smyth's Nationalist Dreams of a Free-Trading Ireland and Direct Sea Links with the European Continent / Raphael Ingelbien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-331) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

180085675X

9781800856752

OCLC:

1240772461

Publisher Number:

99989195858