The lessons of history are often invoked; one of the most important is that it can be very difficult to judge the likely verdict of the future on the choices made in a given present. Parnell remains a national hero in Ireland; his political genius is acknowledged by many who are less sure of the long term consequences of the political movement he led.
But to the majority of his politically astute contemporaries, the savvy Irish elites of his day, Parnell was a demagogue who enabled the short-sighted and opportunistic rejection of the best way forward for the Irish people into a better future and a brighter era of cooperation. Because he refused to let go of the past and move on from bitterness and grievance, the argument went, his trading in the emotionally effective but short-sighted currency of anti-imperialism left the Irish outside of the power structures that self-interest dictated they accept and adapt to.
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Lovely insights, pack with lots of info for history lovers! Your email address will not be published. Regardless of intentions or success, the Easter Rising fired imaginations, both in Ireland and abroad. In the United States, a sizable population of Irish heritage tended to sympathize with the Rising -- and the political desires that motivated it.
And while Irishmen and women may have had mixed, or even negative, feelings towards the Rising itself, the valour of those who died for it and their principles inspired a new wave of Irish nationalism.
Irish independence became a drum that never failed to beat. These actions proved to be the first maneuvers in the war that would end in a Free State in Ireland and, ultimately, independence for the modern Irish nation. Indeed, studies of the organisation have tended to concentrate on the notion of self-image and the projection of a national identity.
Its popularity can also be explained by the factors that governed the lives of working men in the Victorian era in Ireland. Garnam has suggested that their behaviour was prescribed by social and economic factors to a far greater degree than political ones.
Soccer or rugby was ruled out to those whose only leisure time was on Sundays; therefore the only option open to them was G. It has been argued that the League appealed not only to those who were interested in gaining political independence but also to people who were in real danger of social decline. These strategies coupled a new national self-image with a moralistic emphasis.
Indeed, many members of these groups, who were only vaguely interested in the linguistic aims of the League, would become its strong allies. Hutchinson, The dynamics of cultural nationalism: the Gaelic revival and the creation of the Irish nation state London, , p.
MacDonagh, W. Mandle and Pauric Travers eds , Irish culture and nationalism, Dublin, , p. MacDonagh, et al, Irish culture and nationalism, Dublin, , p. Have a question about Irish History or studying at Queen's?
Have a question about Irish History or studying at Queen's? Have an opinion? Check out the Discussion Forum!! Connolly I. Introduction Any attempt to understand nineteenth-century Irish history must balance the dangers of reading history backwards against the need to take account of long-term trends.
Nineteenth-century unionism was not yet centred exclusively on Ulster 5. The Protestant population had its own divisions of class, economic interest and religion, all of which had to be set aside in the construction of a united Unionist movement from the s 2. The mobilisation of Irish Protestants against Catholic emancipation in the s and Repeal in the s can be seen as foreshadowing the emergence of unionism.
But Protestant politics during the nineteenth century involved a variety of causes. From Thomas Davis to Douglas Hyde it was Protestants rather than Catholics who took the lead in developing cultural nationalism. Protestants were also prominent, out of all proportion to their numbers, in both Liberal and moderate nationalist politics 2. In taking up the causes of cultural nationalism and moderate reform, Protestants were in part seeking to defend their community against the rise of an exclusively Catholic nationalism.
Against this background it becomes easier to understand the apparently puzzling career of Parnell 2. What's New Hot Topics
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