Paddy & Mr Punch: Connections in Irish And English History - Hardcover

Foster, R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713990953 ISBN 13: 9780713990959

Publisher: Allen Lane, 1993

Synopsis

This collection of historical essays explores the unique connections between Ireland and England. Amongst the subjects dealt with are: "The Irish Question"; varieties of Irishness; the importance of place; famous people, such as Randolph Churchill, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mrs O'Shea, Thackeray, Trollope and Yeats; the making of literary reputations; and - in the last essay, "Marginal Men and Micks on the Make" - a discussion of the uses of exile, both to and from Ireland. Against the cut and dried stereotypes of Anglo-Irish relations, an overall ambiguity is asserted here, whether the topic under discussion is the flawed structure of the Act of Union, the way words are used in Irish political rhetoric, or the divided allegiances of Parnell, Yeats and Bowen. Other works by Roy Foster include "Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family", "Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life", "Modern Ireland 1600-1972", "The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland" and "The Sub-Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue: Selected Essays of Hubert Butler".

About this title

About the Author:

Roy Foster was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1949, and educated in both Ireland and the United States. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a foundation scholar in history, he subsequently became Professor of Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, as well as holding visiting fellowships at St Anthony's College, Oxfrd, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Princeton University. In 1991 he became the first Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and was elected a Fellow of Hertford College. His books include Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family (1976) which is also available through Faber Finds, Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (1981), Modern Ireland 1600 - 1972 (1988), The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (1989) and a two-part biography of W.B. Yeats which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0713990953
• ISBN 13: 9780713990959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400