Navigating historical crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic : essays for Catherine Shannon / Mary Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shannon, Catherine B., 1938-.

Shannon, Catherine B.

Irish--America--History.

Irish.

Irish--Canada--History.

Ethnicity--Ireland.

Ethnicity.

International relations.

Ireland--History--19th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--20th century.

Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Northern Ireland.

Ireland--Relations--United States.

United States--Relations--Ireland.

United States.

America.

Canada.

Genre:

Festschriften.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cork : Cork University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon's scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research by distinguished scholars and social-justice activists on both sides of the Atlantic. The essays illuminate the historical relationship between Ireland and North America over past centuries. They offer new readings of the transatlantic crosscurrents that shape our understanding of Irish emigration and North American settlement, and constructions of ethnic Irish identities. This collection brings together respected Irish, British, American, and Canadian historians, literary scholars, and social-justice activists to address the following thematic approaches to the Irish and Irish American historical experience: Famine impact and legacy; Boston Irish political culture; Irish Revolution-era nationalist activism; Northern Ireland conflict. Considered from a range of historical, literary, political, and cultural perspectives, the essays collected here examine crucial forces connecting the ancestral home and the adopted homeland over centuries of Irish migration and North American settlement. They revise traditional depictions of ethnic Irishness in explorations of the Famine's consequence, ethnic Irish prominence in Boston, the 1916-era watershed, and Northern Ireland's troubled political and cultural landscape--lenses that expose crucial historical navigations across the Irish Atlantic. These new readings of the evolution of the ethnic identity collectively generate a major contribution to modern Irish and Irish American historical scholarship.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface: Catherine B. Shannon: Happy Recollections: Nicholas Canny

Introduction: Mary C. Kelly

Part 1: Framing the Irish Atlantic

1 The 'Kingdom of God' and the 'kingdom of Ireland': the life, work and politics of hymnist Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-95): Mary M. Burke and Rachael Sealy Lynch

2 Shovelling out Ireland's permanent deadweight during the Great Famine: the Cork workhouse paupers sent to New Brunswick in 1850: Gerard Moran

3 Ireland, America and transnational radicalism: David M. Doolin

4 When history and hope rhymed: Fanny Parnell - nationalist, feminist and patriot poet: Christine Kinealy

5 'I cannot banish the thought of home': young Irish women's responses to urban-industrial America: Kerby A. Miller

6 The Balfour war mission to America in 1917 and the Irish problem: Francis M. Carroll

Part 2: Crosscurrents: Identities and Incarnations

7 'Ireland's family re-union': the 1932 Eucharistic Congress: Mary E. Daly

8 Differing with the American cousins: the Irish Catholics of Canada fight the Great War, 1914-18: Mark G. McGowan

9 The Gaelic American, 1921-8: reporting on the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Irish Free State: Michael Doorley

10 Duelling mythologies of James Michael Curley: Suzann Buckley

11 John McGahern and the historian of modern Ireland: Diarmaid Ferriter

12 Wild Atlantic Ways: Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

13 John Hume and the evolution of power-sharing in Northern Ireland: Seán Farren

14 Boston's three Irelands: busing, class and Irish ethnic identity, 1970-2015: Matthew O'Brien

Part 3: Bridging Atlantic

15 'forever one and the same person'

16 Charting a course: framing scholarship and practical politics in the work of Catherine B. Shannon.

17 Catherine B. Shannon: in her own words

18 Catherine B. Shannon and the role of women in the Northern Ireland peace process

19 Safe spaces on the Falls

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Kelly, Mary Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic

ISBN:

9781782055020

9781782055006

1782055002

9781782055013

1782055010

OCLC:

1303666003