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Ireland and Masculinities in History

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Editors:
  1. Rebecca Anne Barr

    1. National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

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  2. Sean Brady

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

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  3. Jane McGaughey

    1. School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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  • Examines how expressions of masculinity have been central to Irish history from the eigtheenth to the twenty-first century
  • Engages with the cultural and social possibilities inherent in understanding gender as historically contingent, shifting and multiform
  • Promotes new and creative avenues for questioning how gender has shaped Ireland's past, present and future

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Ireland and Masculinities in History: An Introduction

    • Rebecca Anne Barr, Sean Brady, Jane McGaughey
    Pages 1-17

  3. Caught in a Contract: Congreve, Farquhar and Contractarian Masculinities

    • James Ward
    Pages 19-38

  4. ‘Whole Swarms of Bastards’: A Modest Proposal, the Discourse of Economic Improvement and Protestant Masculinity in Ireland, 1720–1738

    • Clíona Ó Gallchoir
    Pages 39-65

  5. Bog Men: Celtic Landscapes in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Satire

    • Declan Kavanagh
    Pages 67-88

  6. Primogeniture, Strict Settlement and the Rituals of Masculinity on an Irish Landed Estate, 1855–90

    • Kevin McKenna
    Pages 89-108

  7. Thomas A. Hickey: The ‘Uncrowned King’ and Irish Masculinity on Two Continents

    • Peter H. Buckingham
    Pages 109-131

  8. Games for Boys: Masculinity, Boyhood and Play 1922–1939

    • Mary Hatfield
    Pages 133-153

  9. Fianna Fáil’s Agrarian Man and the Economics of National Salvation

    • Aidan Beatty
    Pages 155-175

  10. Bachelor Trouble, Troubled Bachelors: The Cultural Figure of the Bachelor in Ballybunion and Mullingar

    • Ed Madden
    Pages 177-202

  11. Irish Fatherhood in the Twentieth Century

    • Dara E. Purvis
    Pages 203-219

  12. ‘No Idle Sightseers’: The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and the Masculine World of Politics During the Ulster Crisis, 1912–14

    • Pamela McKane
    Pages 221-252

  13. Irish Protestant Masculinities and Orangewomen in Scotland, Canada and England, 1890–1918

    • D. A. J. MacPherson
    Pages 253-272

  14. Masculinities, Political Transition and Power: A Case Study of Northern Ireland

    • Fidelma Ashe
    Pages 273-292

  15. Afterword: Irish Masculinities and Gender History

    • Sonya O. Rose
    Pages 293-301

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 303-313
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About this book

This edited collection presents a selection of essays on the history of Irish masculinities. Beginning with representations of masculinity in eighteenth-century drama, economics, and satire, and concluding with work on the politics of masculinity post Good-Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the collection advances the importance of masculinities in our understanding of Irish history and historiography. Using a variety of approaches, including literary and legal theory as well as cultural, political and local histories, this collection illuminates the differing forms, roles, and representations of Irish masculinities. Themes include the politicisation of Irishmen in both the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland; muscular manliness in the Irish Diaspora; Orangewomen and political agency; the disruptive possibility of the rural bachelor; and aspirational constructions of boyhood. Several essays explore how masculinity is constructed and performed by women, thus emphasizing the necessity of differentiating masculinity from maleness. These essays demonstrate the value of gender and masculinities for historical research and the transformative potential of these concepts in how we envision Ireland’s past, present, and future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

    Rebecca Anne Barr

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

    Sean Brady

  • School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Jane McGaughey

About the editors

Rebecca Anne Barr is Lecturer in English Literature at National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research focuses on fictional form, masculinity, and sexuality in the eighteenth-century novel. With Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon and Sophie Vasset, she is co-editor of Bellies, Bowels and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century (2018).


Sean Brady is Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. His publications include Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 (Palgrave, 2005 & 2009), What is Masculinity? (Palgrave, 2011), co-edited with John H. Arnold, and The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Popular Culture in Europe (Palgrave, 2018), which he co-edited with Christopher Fletcher, Rachel Moss and Lucy Riall. His current research examines masculinities and sexualities in Northern Ireland's history.

Jane McGaughey is Associate Professor of Diaspora Studies at Concordia University’s School of Irish Studies in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Ulster’s Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarisation in the North of Ireland, 1912-1923 (2012). Her research focuses on popular representations of Irish sexualities, migration, loyalty, and violence since the early nineteenth century.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ireland and Masculinities in History

  • Editors: Rebecca Anne Barr, Sean Brady, Jane McGaughey

  • Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02638-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02637-0Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02638-7Published: 21 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Gender and Sexuality, Social History

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