Was Ireland a Colony? Economics, Politics and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
Author: McDONOUGH, Terrence (Editor).
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005. xiv, 356 pages. Paperback.
The nineteenth-century history of Irish economics, politics and culture cannot be properly understood without examining Ireland’s colonial condition. Recent political developments and economic success have revived interest in a study of the colonial relationship between Britain and Ireland that is more nuanced than the traditional nationalist or academic revisionist view of Irish history. This new approach has arisen in several fields of historical investigation, notably culture, economics and political history.
Until now, nineteenth-century Ireland has been curiously absent from the lively critical and theoretical controversies concerning the value of colonial and postcolonial treatment of Irish history and culture. This timely, cogent and admirably wide-ranging volume sets out to establish the value of colonial perspectives to our understanding of that century, and does so in ways that are bound to stimulate discussion in scholarly disciplines ranging from history to economics to comparative literature and cultural studies.
Contents
Introduction
Terrence McDonough
PART I ECONOMICS
1. Ireland in the Atlantic Economy
Denis O’Hearn
2. Colonialism, Feudalism and the Mode of Production in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Terrence McDonough and Eamonn Slater
3. Was Ireland a Colony? The Evidence of the Great Famine
Christine Kinealy
4. The Material Implications of Colonialism in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Charles E. Orser Jr
PART II POLITICS/HISTORY
5. ‘Ireland’s Last Fetter Struck Off: The Lord Lieutenancy Debate, 1800-67
Peter Gray
6. Colonial Perspectives on Local Government in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Virginia Crossman
7. Hunting & Shooting - leisure, social networking and social complications. Microhistorical Perspectives on Colonial Structures and Individual Practices - The Grehan Family, Clonmeen House, Ireland
Nicola Drucker
8. The Sinews of Empire: Ireland, India and the Construction of British Colonial Knowledge
Tony Ballantyne
PART III IDEOLOGY
9. Defining Colony and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Irish Nationalism
Sean Ryder
10. ‘Becoming a Race Apart’: Representing Irish Racial Difference and the British Working Class in Victorian Critiques of Capitalism
Amy E. Martin
11. Irish Political Economy before and after the Famine
Terrence McDonough, Eamonn Slater and Thomas Boylan
12. Two Kinds of Colony: ‘Rebel Ireland’ and the ‘Imperial Province’
Pamela Clayton
PART IV CULTURE
13. Post-Colonial Perspectives on Irish Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Terrence McDonough
14. Ireland in 1812: Colony or Part of the Imperial Main? The ‘Imagined Community’ in Maria Edgeworth’s ‘The Absentee’
Valerie Kennedy
15. The Subaltern Can Whisper’: Secrecy and Solidarity in the Fiction of John and Michael Banim
Willa Murphy
16. Theatre and Colonialism in Ireland
Lionel Pilkington
17. The Bog as Colonial Topography in Nineteenth-Century Irish Writing
Catherine Wynne
Afterword: Ireland and Colonialism
Terry Eagleton
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
ISBN: 0716528061
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