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Palgrave Advances in Irish History
Palgrave Advances in Irish History provides a much-needed historiographical and interpretative overview of Irish history. While there has always been a large amount of history written in and about Ireland much of it has focused only on the (putative) nation state and relations with Britain. This volume focuses not only on political histories but offers a comprehensive account of Irish history in its manifold aspects such as literary, labor, medical and women's history and history of the Irish population and diasporas, sexuality, and cultural identity, language and traditions.
307 pages, Paperback
First published February 17, 2009
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Mary McAuliffe
9 books3 followersMary McAuliffe is Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD, specialising in Irish women's / gender history.
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January 14, 2015
Interesting series of essays on how the perception of various ideas has changed over the 20th Century with finding further information and looking at things in a different, and sometimes less politicised or polarised way.
The first Essay is on Irish Political History: Guidelines and reflections, looking at Irish Politics and political figures from O'Connell to the 21st Century.
Ireland 1600-1780: new approaches is the next chapter, looking at what it meant to be Irish and English in Ireland and abroad
The Irish Famine: history and representation looks again at the Irish Famine and how different writers have had different opinions on the causes and effects
Economic and Labour History looks at how poor the scholarship in this area is but how it's growing
Conceiving Irish diasporas: Irish Migration and migrant communities in the modern period - what it ways
Local History looks at the growth of local, mostly non-Dublin-centric histories of the country
Institutionalisation in Irish history and society looks at how institutions grew, from the poor law workhouses to psychiatric institutions, including a small amount about Magdalene houses, the concept behind them and their legacy.
Irish Histories: Gender, women and sexualities looks at how women are occasionally written out of history and how people have attempted to put them back in, it's a bit of a struggle. I often objected to gendered teaching because I believed it enabled the general history departments to continue to ignore women in history and just point at the "gender studies" department as where to go to include that. I think we still haven't really resolved that issue.
Ireland: Identities and cultural how the concept of Irishness and catholicism in particular excluded others.
Visualising Irish history talks about painting, popular imagery and how Ireland has been depicted in image and how this has changed over time.
All fairly interesting, none of it really made me want to write any of it down but it did make me think.
The first Essay is on Irish Political History: Guidelines and reflections, looking at Irish Politics and political figures from O'Connell to the 21st Century.
Ireland 1600-1780: new approaches is the next chapter, looking at what it meant to be Irish and English in Ireland and abroad
The Irish Famine: history and representation looks again at the Irish Famine and how different writers have had different opinions on the causes and effects
Economic and Labour History looks at how poor the scholarship in this area is but how it's growing
Conceiving Irish diasporas: Irish Migration and migrant communities in the modern period - what it ways
Local History looks at the growth of local, mostly non-Dublin-centric histories of the country
Institutionalisation in Irish history and society looks at how institutions grew, from the poor law workhouses to psychiatric institutions, including a small amount about Magdalene houses, the concept behind them and their legacy.
Irish Histories: Gender, women and sexualities looks at how women are occasionally written out of history and how people have attempted to put them back in, it's a bit of a struggle. I often objected to gendered teaching because I believed it enabled the general history departments to continue to ignore women in history and just point at the "gender studies" department as where to go to include that. I think we still haven't really resolved that issue.
Ireland: Identities and cultural how the concept of Irishness and catholicism in particular excluded others.
Visualising Irish history talks about painting, popular imagery and how Ireland has been depicted in image and how this has changed over time.
All fairly interesting, none of it really made me want to write any of it down but it did make me think.
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