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Ireland in an Imperial World

Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion

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Editors:
  1. Timothy G. McMahon

    1. Milwaukee, USA

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  2. Michael de Nie

    1. University of West Georgia, Carrollton, USA

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  3. Paul Townend

    1. Wilmington, USA

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  • Explores a range of impacts of the British Empire on Irish culture and Ireland’s relationship to Empire
  • Builds on the burgeoning scholarship of the history of Ireland’s in an imperial setting
  • Brings together important contributions from leading and emerging scholars in Irish and imperial history

Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Timothy G. McMahon, Michael de Nie, Paul A. Townend
    Pages 1-22

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 297-307
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About this book

Ireland in an Imperial World interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most importantly, they were integral players simultaneously managing and undermining the British Empire, and through their diasporic communities, they built sophisticated arguments that aided challenges to other imperial projects. In emphasizing the interconnections between Ireland and the wider British and Irish worlds, this book argues that a greater appreciation of empire is essential for enriching our understanding of the development of Irish society at home.  Moreover, these thirteen essays argue plainly that Ireland was on the cutting edge of broader global developments, both in configuring and dismantling Europe’s overseas empires.

Reviews

“This collection of essays marks a valuable contribution to our understanding of Ireland in the British empire. It reinforces the significance of the press in shaping contemporary understandings of empire and in subverting the belief in the power of empire.” (Maria Luddy, English Historical Review HER, Vol. 134 (566), February, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Milwaukee, USA

    Timothy G. McMahon

  • University of West Georgia, Carrollton, USA

    Michael de Nie

  • Wilmington, USA

    Paul Townend

About the editors

Timothy G. McMahon is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University in Milwaukee, USA. A social historian of modern Ireland and the British Empire, McMahon is the author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 (2008) and Vice President of the American Conference for Irish Studies.


Michael de Nie is Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, USA. He is author of The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 (2004), and co-editor (with Karen Steele and Sean Farrell, respectively) of Ireland and the New Journalism (2014) and Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honor of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (2010).


Paul A. Townend is History Department Chair at University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA.  His first book, Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity, won the American Conference on Irish Studies James Donnelly award in 2003. He has published articles in the New Hibernia Review, Catholic Historical Review, Eire/Ireland, and Past and Present and his new book, Anti-Imperialism and the Irish National Movement, is forthcoming.


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