Making Ireland modern : the transformation of society and culture / Enda Delaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delaney, Enda, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Social life and customs--18th century.

Ireland.

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

Ireland--Social life and customs--20th century.

Ireland--Social conditions--18th century.

Ireland--Social conditions--19th century.

Ireland--Social conditions--20th century.

Ireland--History--18th century.

Ireland--History--19th century.

Ireland--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Here is a provocative and original reinterpretation of modern Irish history. There is a widespread misconception that Ireland became 'modern' much later than its neighbours, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is grounded in several enduring stereotypes and caricatures: of Ireland as a 'timeless' and unchanging 'land of saints and scholars'; of its society and culture in the long nineteenth century as puritanical, regressive, or archaic; of Gaelic language and culture as 'backward' or inward-looking in contrast to a 'modern' English counterpart; and of the island as natural and rural in the face of the urban and technological 'progress' of modernity. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from poetry and novels to contemporary historical documents, historian Enda Delaney offers a reinterpretation of Ireland's encounter with modernity that corrects these stereotypes.

Contents:

1. Leviathan

2. Squaring the land

3. Capitalists

4. The wisdom of providence

5. Men of war

6. The spirit of the age

7. ‘Plaze yer honour’: power and knowledge

8. Making good citizens

9. The wider world

10. Work and leisure

11. Chapter and verse

12. A new order

13. Consumers

14. In the village

15. Seeing is believing

16. Sensory worlds

17. At the crossroads

18. Lord of the creation

19. ‘The Saxon’s language’: cultural change and the Irish language

20. Pray for us sinners

21. Old and new Ireland

22. Old and new Ireland

Notes:

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 20, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191878411

0191878413

OCLC:

1545080086

Publisher Number:

CIPO000288152