Histories of the Irish future / Bryan Fanning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanning, Bryan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern.

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

Ireland--History.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Histories of the Irish Future is an intellectual history of Ireland and a history of Irish crises viewed through the eyes of twelve key writers: William Petty, William Molyneux, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Richard Whately, Friedrich Engels, John Mitchel, James Connolly, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Jeremiah Newman, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Fintan O'Toole. Their analyses of the shifting conditions of Ireland and their efforts to address Ireland's predicaments are located within the wider social, political, economic and cultural anxieties of their times. The result is a pioneering interdisciplinary contribution to modern Irish history and Irish Studies that will appeal to students of politics, economic history, and philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

1. Modest Proposals and Irish Futures

2. William Petty's Final Solution

3. William Molyneux and the Case for Ireland

4. Edmund Burke and the Case for Union

5. Thomas Malthus and Catholic Emancipation

6. Richard Whately and End of Ascendancy

7. Friedrich Engels and the Crisis of Irish Character

8. John Mitchel and the Last Conquest of Ireland

9. James Connolly and the Triumph of Catholic Nationalism

10. Hannah Sheehy Skeffington versus the Free State

11. Jeremiah Newman and Catholic Decline

12. The Lonely Passion of Conor Cruise O'Brien

13. Fintan O'Toole's Second Republic

14. Ghosts of Futures Past

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472523723

1472523725

9781472532954

1472532953

9781474210706

1474210708

9781472528988

1472528980

OCLC:

893682921