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Constructing Irish National Identity

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137001160

ISBN: 978-1-349-29848-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 17, 2015

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Chapter 1Redeeming Ireland: The Historical Problem and a Model for Cultural Analysis

Kane, Anne

Pages: 1 –29

[In the spring of 1879, the Irish people began the process of redeeming their land, their country, and themselves from British domination. The redemption of Ireland started with an agrarian protest movement that broke out in the west of Ireland. Tenant farmers and their advocates began...
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Chapter 2Historical Antecedents to the Irish Land War

Kane, Anne

Pages: 31 –66

[Arguably the pivotal historical event in the creation of the modern Irish nation, the Land War was itself the culmination of several long and entwined processes of social, cultural, and political struggle and transformation that began with the Act of Union in 1800. During the eight decades prior...
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Chapter 3Emergence of the Irish Land Movement, 1879

Kane, Anne

Pages: 67 –113

[If historical, transformative events begin with a rupture—a break with routine practice that touches off chains of transformative occurrences (Sewell 2005, 227)—the mass meeting at Irishtown, county Mayo, on April 20, 1879, proved to be the explosion that set off the Land War. While mass...
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Chapter 4Movement Expansion, 1880

Kane, Anne

Pages: 115 –170

[Despite the enthusiasm and early mobilization in the west, and the founding of the Irish National Land League (INLL), by the end of 1879 the movement faced significant obstacles to both sustaining the strong campaign in the west and expanding it nationally. Specifically, the INLL confronted...
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Chapter 5Consolidation of Irish Nationalist Identity, 1881

Kane, Anne

Pages: 171 –221

[Upheaval and contradiction prevailed on every front during the last full year of the Land War. The government held out the olive branch of a new Land Act, and at the same time carried out oppressive measures against the Land League and the movement. Faced with government coercion, autonomous...
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Chapter 6Out of the Land War: Irish National Identity

Kane, Anne

Pages: 223 –235

[Nationalism is a messy, usually nasty enterprise, and in few places has the nationalist project been more difficult than in Ireland. The drive for Irish autonomy and independence from Great Britain, and the process of state and nation building in Ireland, has been a long, often violent conflict,...

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