Contesting Ireland : Irish voices against England in the eighteenth century /
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| Author / Creator: | McLoughlin, T. O. |
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| Imprint: | Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c1999. |
| Description: | 248 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3983593 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Eighteenth-Century Ireland: A Postcolonial View
- Contesting Ireland
- Postcolonialism
- Fixed and fluid notions of Ireland
- Conquest and religion
- The settlers
- Settlers and land
- The economics of colonialism
- Confrontation: settlers and Westminster
- Confrontation: settlers and Catholics
- Irish postcolonial writing
- Cultural identity
- Predominant discourses in eighteenth-century Ireland
- William Molyneux's 'Case': The Rhetorical Myth
- William Molyneux: the voice of settler protest
- Irony and myth-making
- Debates about conquest
- Establishing the myth
- Ireland, Locke and liberty
- Rhetorical strategies of reconciliation
- The myth and its uses
- Jonathan Swift and the 'Proud Oppressor's Hand'
- Ireland: the injured lady
- Answer to the lady
- Writing back: The Drapier's Letters
- Swift as paternalist
- Gulliver colonised
- Stripping the colonial mask
- Catholic Voices in Mid Eighteenth-Century Ireland
- Religion and nation
- Catholics: predicament and responses
- Civilising the natives
- The language question: English/Irish
- The climate of debate
- Catholic merchants
- Clerical rhetoric
- The Catholic Committee
- Catholics and the writing of history
- Arguing against prejudice: finding a voice
- New challenges, old attitudes
- Voices From Abroad: The Irish in Bordeaux
- Bordeaux and the Irish
- The crisis of 1756 and the Irish response
- The placets
- Individual examples
- Joseph Rivers
- Ulick Burk
- Denis O'Conor
- Nicolas White
- Matthew O'Connor
- Alexander Brown
- Darcy
- Nationalism and exile
- Competing Histories: Charles O'Conor's 'Dissertations' (1753)
- Competing historiographies
- The Dissertations
- Recovering Ireland
- The present and the past
- O'Conor's anti-colonialism
- Conflicting images
- Contesting liberty
- The failed dream
- Edmund Burke: The Divided Irishman
- Burke and empire
- Ireland and conquest
- The 1641 rebellion: colonial and resistance readings
- Burke's early cultural nationalism
- A conflict of interests: the rhetoric of conciliation
- Burke and Fox: varieties of anti-colonial protest
- Burke on India
- The colonial discourse of the centre
- Maria Edgeworth: 'Castle Rackrent'
- The Edgeworths and Ireland
- The ambiguous narrator
- The Rackrents
- Irish self-destruction
- The Rackrents as victims
- The new generation transgresses the old
- Thady's ambivalent response
- Narrative strategies of failure
- The castle: site of contest and displacement
- Castle Rackrent and Union
- New directions
- Wolfe Tone and National Independence
- Early life and education
- A colonial project
- Political awakening
- Tone and the Catholics
- The Argument as resistance
- Aftermath to the Argument
- From words to rebellion
- The memorandum for Jackson
- Index