Description
Drawing on the work of specialists in art history, religion, science, sport and leisure, war, and heritage studies, this volume explores aspects of the construction of national identity in Ireland and elsewhere. The book thus transcends some of the limiting, specialism boundaries which bedevil academia and restrict a proper understanding of identity and culture, and their relations with particular places, wherever they may be. The resulting volume of stimulating essays demonstrates, among other things, that cultural history, to which this volume is a contribution, need not necessarily or exclusively be the preserve of 'cultural historians'. This collection is based on papers presented to the 26th biennial Irish Conference of Historians, held at the University of Ulster, May 2003.
Keith Jeffery, Introduction
Keith Robbins (Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales at Lampeter) Locating Wales
- culture, place and identity
Marie Bourke (National Gallery of Ireland) Turn of the century Irish artists and a growing sense of national identity
Kenneth McConkey (University of Northumbria) Politics and that girl
- discourse and distraction in Orpen's 'Irish' painting
Enda Leaney (National University of Ireland, Galway) Science and conflict in nineteenth-century Ireland
Mike Cronin (De Montfort University) Sport and nation building in the Irish Free State, 1922-9
Paul Dimeo (University of Stirling) Cricket and the misrepresentation of Indian sports history
Peter Wilson (University of Sunderland) War, political culture and central European state formation from the middle ages to the nineteenth century
Joan Beaumont (Deakin University) Gallipoli and Australian national identity
William Logan (Deakin University) Hoa Lo
- a Vietnamese approach to conserving places of pain and injustice
Jock Philips (New Zealand Ministry of Heritage) Race and New Zealand national identity
Index
"The editors are effective in their stated aim ‘to mix ... the study of Irish history with that of other places, ideally to the benefit of both.' [The] contributors build their essays on extensive research and have established publication records. Their insights highlight how history can be fruitfully examined from a cross-cultural perspective in order to inform Irish historiography."
Irish Studies Review April 2007
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