Modern Ireland and Revolution Ernie O'Malley in context
In 1922, following a decade of political ferment and open bloodshed, the Irish Free State was established, became stabilised, and developed along conservative lines. During these years the prevailing impulse was to reprove the actions of republicans who had rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty, leaving m...
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Newbridge, Ireland
Irish Academic Press
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | In 1922, following a decade of political ferment and open bloodshed, the Irish Free State was established, became stabilised, and developed along conservative lines. During these years the prevailing impulse was to reprove the actions of republicans who had rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty, leaving many great revolutionary voices left unheard. One mind, more agile than that of his contemporaries, belonged to Ernie O'Malley. It was through his vastly popular 'clipped lyric' memoirs that many of the complexities of the republican mindset were brought to light for readers worldwide. In Modern Ireland and Revolution, leading Irish historians deliver critical essays that consider the life, writing and monumental influence of Ernie O'Malley, and the modern art that influenced him. After his involvement in the War of Independence and the Civil War, O'Malley developed modernist techniques and a cosmopolitan lifestyle; he was devoted to the arts, moved in circles that included Georgia O'Keeffe and D. H. Lawrence, and through his probing mind counteracted every notion that republicans of his era were dull, inflexible idealists. In this fascinating collection, art and revolution coincide, enriching every preconception of the minds that supported both sides of the Treaty, and revealing untoward truths about the Irish Free State's process of remembrance. -- Publisher description Introduction / Nicholas Allen -- Post-Revolution Perspectives -- 1. On Another Man's Text: Ernie O'Malley, James Joyce and Irish Modernism / Luke Gibbons -- 2. 'Flamboyant, Gothic, Romanesque': Art and Revolution in the mind of Ernie O'Malley / Róisín Kennedy -- 3. From Mexico to Mayo: Ernie O'Malley, Paul Strand and Photographic Modernism / Orla Fitzpatrick -- 4. The Evolution of Ernie O'Malley's Memoir, On Another Man's Wound / Cormac K. H. O'Malley -- 5. The importance of being Ernie O'Malley in Ken Loach's The Wind that Shakes the Barley / Nathan Wallace -- Historical Nationalist Perspectives -- 6. On republican reading: Ernie O'Malley, Irish Intellectual / David Lloyd -- 7. Kindling the Singing Flame: The Destruction of the Public Record Office (30 June 1922) as a Historical Problem / John M. Regan -- 8. Witnessing the Republic: The Ernie O'Malley Notebook Interviews and the Bureau of Military History Compared / Eve Morrison -- 9. 'The People' of On Another Man's Wound / Seamus O'Malley -- 10. 'Literature, Violence, Revolution: Roger Casement and Ernie O'Malley / Macy Todd -- Afterword: Revolutionary Disillusionment / Roy Foster |
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| Beschreibung: | xviii, 253 pages, [8] pages of plates Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781911024378 978-1-911024-37-8 |