Paddy and Mr. Punch: Connections in Irish and English History by R. F. Foster
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Paddy and Mr. Punch
Paddy and Mr. Punch
Summary
A collection of essays which explore the paradoxes of the Irish political and social identity. As a follow-up to Modern Ireland, the author addresses the turbulent history of Ireland, providing his thoughts on the issues surrounding contemporary Ireland.
Paddy and Mr. Punch Summary
Table of Contents
History and the Irish question; varieties of Irishness - cultures and anarchy in Ireland; interpretations of Parnell - the importance of locale; Parnell and his people - the ascendancy and home rule; knowing your place - words and boundaries in Anglo-Irish relations; the Irishness of Elizabeth Bowen; love, politics and textual corruption - Mrs O'Shea's Parnell; Fatal Drollery - parliamentary novels, outsiders and Victorian political history; Paddy and Mr Punch; good behaviour - Yeats, Synge and Anglo-Irish etiquette; protestant magic - W.B. Yeats and the spell of Irish history; to the northern counties station - Lord Randolph Churchill and the Orange card; thinking from hand to mouth - Anglo-Irish literature, Gaelic nationalism and Irish politics in the 1890s; marginal men and Micks on the make - the uses of Irish exile, c1840-1922.
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GOR001979693
9780140171709
0140171703
Paddy and Mr. Punch: Connections in Irish and English History by R. F. Foster
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19950629
400
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