Parnell and his times

"Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910-1920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in literature, politics and social mentality. What fed the creative and reformist urge besides the circumstances of the moment and a vision of the future? The leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture assembled in this volume argue that the shadow of the past was also a driving factor: the traumatic, undigested memory of the defeat and death of the charismatic national leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1891). The authors reassess Parnell's impact on the Ireland of his cultural, religious, political and intellectual life in order to trace his posthumous influence into the early twentieth century in fields like political activism, memory culture, history-writing, and literature"--

Introduction : charisma and aftermath / Joep Leerssen -- Parnell’s Ireland and its different temporalities. O’Connell and Parnell / Oliver MacDonagh -- The paradoxes of Parnell / Paul Bew -- Parnell to Pearse / R. F. Foster -- Race, nation, state / Denis Donoghue -- Parnell’s other Ireland : Irish religion in 1891 / Raymond Gillespie -- Inside history : storyteller Éamon a Búrc and the ‘little famine’ of 1879-1880 / Angela Bourke -- Digesting the past : anthologies and bicultural memory in Ireland / Joep Leerssen -- The writing of County histories in Parnell’s Ireland / Nicholas Canny -- After Parnell : the Irish literary and historical imagination. Parnell and James Joyce’s Dubliners : strategies of failure / Frank McGuinness -- ‘The rhythm of beauty’ : Joyce, Yeats, and the 1890s / Edna Longley -- ‘Ingenious lovely things’ : Yeats’s Adjectives / Helen Vendler -- Modernism in the streets : Pearse and Joyce / Declan Kiberd -- Modernism, Belfast, and early twentieth-century Ireland / Terence Brown -- Too rough for verse? Sea crossings in Irish culture / Claire Connolly -- ‘Myth, fact and mystery’ : F. X. Martin, medievalist and historian of the 1916 Rising / Thomas Bartlett -- The …