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ETUDES IRLANDAISES
VOL 31; NUMB 1; 2006
ISSN 0183-973X

pp. 7-10
IN MEMORIAM JOHN McGAHERN.
Mikowski, S.

pp. 11-26
Reclaiming the Wilderness: Nature and Perception in Caitriona O'Reilly.
Holdridge, J.

pp. 27-36
Decontextualisation et decentrement dans > de Paul Muldoon.
Schneider, F.

pp. 37-50
La Politique au theatre: nouvelles approches en Irlande.
Dumay, E.-J.

pp. 51-68
Entre Swedenborg et Henry James: > de Sheridan Le Fanu, ou
l'echec du detective.
Girard, G.

pp. 69-86
Dialect, Gender, and Colonialism in The Real Charlotte.
McClellan, A.

pp. 87-106
>: History, Anxiety and Elizabeth Bowen.
Delaney, P.

pp. 107-124
Interview with Stephen Livingstone (19 February 2004): Human Rights in
Northern Ireland.
Mailhes, C.

pp. 125-140
Conceptions corporatistes en Irlande et dans la peninsule iberique.
Boullet, V.

pp. 141-150
Le Nationalisme constitutionnel irlandais entre deterritorialisation et
reterritorialisation.
Cauvet, P.

pp. 151-168
Le Rapport Patten: texte et contextes. Elements pour une analyse politique
et systemique de la reforme de la police en Irlande du Nord.
Mandeville, A.

pp. 169-182
The 2001 Census - To Tick or Not To Tick: The Existence of an Irish Ethnic
Identity in England?.
O keeffe, G.

pp. 183-200
Le Sida en Republique d'Irlande.
Brillet, P.

pp. 201-216
Extension du domaine de l'intime: Paul Durcan et les tableaux de la National
Gallery of Ireland.
Goarzin, A.

p. 217
Lord DUNSANY, In the Land of Time And Other Fantasy Tales.
Fierobe, C.

p. 217
AE (George William Russell), Le Flambeau de la vision.
Brihault, J.

p. 218
William TREVOR, A Bit On the Side.
Mikowski, S.

p. 218
John MCGAHERN, Memoir.
Mikowski, S.

p. 219
Chris ARTHUR, Irish Haiku.
Jacquin, D.

pp. 220-221
Declan KIBERD, The Irish Writer and the World.
Poulain, A.

p. 222
Desmond EGAN: Music et autres poemes.
Alluin-Popot, R.

p. 223
Tina O'TOOLE (ed.), Dictionary of Munster Women Writers, 1800-2000.
Neville, G.

pp. 224-225
Michael BOSS, Irene GILSENAN NORDIN, Britta OLINDER, eds, Re-Mapping Exile.
Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History.
Escarbelt, B.

p. 226
Susanne HAGEMANN, Feminism and Territoriality.
Maignant, C.

p. 226
Hermann Josef REAL, ed., The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe.
Boulaire, F.

p. 227
Gaid GIRARD: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Une ecriture fantastique.
Fierobe, C.

p. 228
Michael FAHERTY, ed., The Poetry of W.B.Yeats, A reader's guide to essential
criticism.
Genet, J.

p. 229
Ciaran ROSS, Aux frontieres du vide. Beckett: une ecriture sans memoire ni
desir.
Lecossois, H.

p. 230
Lois OPPENHEIM ed., Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies.
Bonafous-Murat, C.

p. 231
Jean-Michel RABATE ed., Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies.
Bonafous-Murat, C.

p. 232
Margot NORRIS, Ulysses.
Jousni, S.

p. 233
Gerardine MEANEY, Nora.
Jousni, S.

p. 234
Lorie-Anne DUECH, James Joyce. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man.
Rabate, J.-M.

p. 235
Bertrand CARDIN, Miroirs de la filiation, Parcours dans huit romans
irlandais contemporains.
Fierobe, C.

p. 236
Francis EDWARDS, The Succession, Bye and Main Plots of 1601-1603.
Bigand, K.

p. 237
Liam CHAMBERS, Michael Moore, c. 1639-1726, Provost of Trinity, Rector of
Paris.
Lemaitre, F.

p. 238
Seamus DEANE, Foreign Affections. Essays on Edmund Burke.
Mankin, R.

p. 239
Raymond GILLEPSIE, Reading Ireland. Print, Reading and Social Change in
Early Modern Ireland.
Mikowski, S.

p. 240
Eva Roa WHITE, A Case Study of Ireland and Galicia's Parallel Paths to
Nationhood.
Gormale, P. O.; Gormally, P.

p. 241
Christophe GILLISSEN, Une relation unique. Les relations
irlando-britanniques de 1921 a 2001.
Bevant, Y.

p. 241
Brian GIRVIN et Gary MURPHY (dir.), The Lemass Era: Politics and Society in
the Ireland of Sean Lemass.
Boullet, V.

p. 242
Fiorella Kotsoris PADOA SCHIOPPA, ed., The Principle of Mutual Recognition
in the European Integration Process.
Gillissen, C.

p. 243
Aogan MULCAHY, ed., Policing Northern Ireland: Conflict, Legitimacy and
Reform.
Mailhes, C.

pp. 244-245
Maurice GOLDRING, Renoncer a la terreur.
Hutchinson, W.

p. 246
Brian FALLON: Irish Art 1830-1990.
Goarzin, A.

p. 247
Virginia TEEHAN, Elizabeth WINCOTT HECKETT, eds, The Honan Chapel: A Golden
Vision.
Cahill, D.

p. 248
J.S. CROWLEY, R.J.N. DEVOY, D. LINEHAN, P. O'FLANAGAN, eds.; M.J. MURPHY,
cartographic ed., Atlas of Cork City.
Riordain, C. N.

p. 249
David DICKSON, Old World Colony, Cork and South Munster 1630-1830.
Escarbelt, B.

pp. 250-250
Dermot MORAN, The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena: A Study of Idealism
in the Middle Ages.
Santi, R.

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Once again I find myself away from reliable sources and at the mercy of
Google's inconsistencies. Speak, oh wise listers!

Was the famous performance space in Dublin called the Antient Concert Rooms,
with a "t," or was it Ancient? Specifically, what was it called in 1899?

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IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES
NUMB 136; 2005
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p. 361
The experience and understanding of religious revival in Ulster
Presbyterianism, c. 1800-1930.
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pp. 386-402
Sheriffs' sales during the land war, 1879-82.
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p. 403
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James Craig and Orangeism, 1903-10.
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Dear Jim,

I always thought the correct name was the Antient Concert Rooms -
that's what Dublin histories, like Maurice Craig's, use. But,
although I don't have a Thom's Directory for 1899, I do have ones for
1892 and 1903. Both give the name as the Ancient Concert Rooms, 42
Great Brunswick Street, proprietor in 1903 Mrs Gregg. So, it would
seem that, by the 1890s, Thom's was using the spelling 'Ancient'.

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Here's a question into which the list ought to be able to sink its teeth.

I'm writing something in which I want to make a passing mention of how
Riverdance has such cultural currency that it has been parodied in
mainstream media. I know there was a Dr Pepper commercial, "Hudson River
Dance-not as good as the original," and I think Leslie Nielsen spoofed it in
one of the Naked Gun movies.

What are other Riverdance send-ups/parodies? Did Saturday Night Live ever
do one?

Riverdance is, I think, one of the most eminently mockable shows in
history....


Jim Rogers
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On the excellent British comedy Green Wing, the characters have
occasionally broken into faux Irish step dancing.

There is also the hilarious appearance of Graham Norton and his youth
group dancing in the caravan while Ted and Dougal are on vacation. On
Father Ted, I need hardly add.

But I'm not sure if this is Riverdance-specific really.

Peter Hart


On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Rogers, James wrote:

> Here's a question into which the list ought to be able to sink its teeth.
>
> I'm writing something in which I want to make a passing mention of how
> Riverdance has such cultural currency that it has been parodied in
> mainstream media. I know there was a Dr Pepper commercial, "Hudson River
> Dance-not as good as the original," and I think Leslie Nielsen spoofed it in
> one of the Naked Gun movies.
>
> What are other Riverdance send-ups/parodies? Did Saturday Night Live ever
> do one?
>
> Riverdance is, I think, one of the most eminently mockable shows in
> history....
>
>
> Jim Rogers
> New Hibernia Review
>
>

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IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW VOL 36; PART 1; 2006
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pp. viii-xii
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A World Too Wide.
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See...

1.
The Takeshi Kitano 2003 movie, Zat=F4ichi...

The official web site is at

http://www.zatoichi.co.uk/

and a web search will turn up the mention of Riverdance in many reviews.

2.
The 2001 animation Shrek...

In the Robin Hood sequence...

No doubt more will occur...

Paddy


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I'm writing something in which I want to make a passing mention of how
Riverdance has such cultural currency that it has been parodied in
mainstream media. I know there was a Dr Pepper commercial, "Hudson =
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Riverdance is, I think, one of the most eminently mockable shows in
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Jim Rogers
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Hello again,

This one should be fun...

Yes, there have been a wide variety of Riverdance parodies. My two
favorite, which have probably had the widest exposure, appeared on
Saturday Night Live (mocking Michael Flatley in Lord of the Dance) and
The Simpsons (mocking Riverdance).

The Simpsons episode is in the finale of season 16, "The Father, The
Son and the Holy Guest Star" which I believe was originally broadcast
May 15, 2005. The airing was delayed from the scheduled date of April
10 to honor the death of the Pope, and to avoid immediate backlash from
the show's thorough mockery of Irish Catholic themes. The list may (or
may not) be interested to know that there is a fan website which lists
all Irish references on the Simpsons, including a "No Irish Need Apply"
sign, on the website http://www.snpp.com/guides/irish.refs.html It
also lists a show on November 16, 1997 in which Apu, the local Indian
storekeeper, is seen Riverdancing in a disco. August 23, 1998 also
lists a "Lard of the Dance" section.

The Saturday Night Live episode featured the grossly overweight Chris
Farley performing a Lord of the Dance Tribute, complete with a fake
tattoo on his quavering belly. I can't find the actual date, but it
must have been in 1996 or 1997, as this is when the two overlapped -
before Farley's death. The section was very brief, but the sweating
and gesturing is profuse.

Though I haven't seen it, Crest toothpaste is said to have done an
advertisement for their Night Effects toothpaste in which a woman has a
dream in which she is dancing on stage with a line of Riverdancing
William Shatners. Oh, if only life were like that!

I think there was a Riverdance reference in the movie Shrek as well.

Drew Carey's show on ABC has an improvisational section, and Riverdance
has been mocked there. On www.youtube.com, the segment can be found
under the title Change: Western Riverdance.

Apparently, olympic skaters Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz' 1998
Olympic performance incorporated aspects of Riverdance. I suppose that
this is more of a reference than an outright mock.

Even the Mark Morris dance troupe threw a subtle Riverdance mockery
into his peice, entitled V.

I'll check in with some of the Riverdance mucisians in New York to see
if they know of any others. I'm sure there are many in the coleective
knowledge. Last night's informal poll of one local traditional
musician included his memories of a University of Michigan athletics
fundraiser performance in which the entire hockey team did Riverdance
moves with a soloist; a commercial for Hudson River Lines ("or maybe it
was a beer commercial") in which a number of overweight men Riverdance;
and a commercial for the Irish Tourism Board ("or maybe it was a beer
commercial") in which bored patrons at a pub in Ireland have Riverdance
footwork going on above their heads, and the waiter Riverdances past
with a tray of Guinness.

The phenomenon of mocking Riverdance seems to have taken root as a
social phenomenon throughout the Irish-American under-30 demographic.
In the traditional music scene, many young Irish Americans, upon their
first introduction to a traditional session at a bar, will launch into
a bad Michael Flatley impersonation. This kind of impersonation
usually blends the Riverdance moves with Scotish Highland dancing moves
(one arm over the head and one on the hip) - as can be seen with a
brief search of the term "Riverdance" on uploadable amateur video
websites such as www.youtube.com With a brief search, I have found
short videos entitled "Redneck Riverdance," "Condom Riverdance" in
which the dancer is stamping on inflated condoms, "Lord of the
Livingroom," and so forth. For quite a few younger Irish Americans,
Riverdance is their first exposure to Irish dance, and as it is a show
that is very popular with their parents, it is open for ridicule.

I hope this helps.

Sincerely,


Scott Spencer
Glucksman Ireland House
New York University
212 998 3955
scott.spencer[at]nyu.edu
www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu

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Friends:=20

I was startled this morning to realize that it is another five months,
today, until Christmas - but if you simply cannot bear waiting so long =
for
good things to arrive, then next week you should look to your mailboxes =
or
to the on-line offerings of Project Muse=AE for the latest issue of NEW
HIBERNIA REVIEW.=20

A table of contents with brief descriptions of the articles is below.
Contributor guidelines, subscription details, and other information can =
also
be found at this slightly out-of-date web site:
www.stthomas.edu/irishstudies

Happy reading!

Jim Rogers
Managing Editor

New Hibernia Review, vol 10, number 2, Summer 2006

"Dying the Good Death: Wake and Funeral Customs in County Tyrone" by =
Ray
Cashman (Ohio State University), pp 9-26

A folklorist's account of wake and funeral customs in rural County =
Tyrone,
occasioned by the death of John Mongan of Ballymongan. Starting from =
the
functionalist approach of classic anthropology, Cashman also discusses
dimensions of the wake and funeral that cannot be assessed in terms of =
pure
utility. =20

"Sport, Identity, and the People of the Irish Border Lands" by David =
Hassan
(University of Ulster at Jordanstown), pp. 26-43.

Hassan's study of sports ideology in the Irish border areas finds that =
sport
can simultaneously create a common ground to be shared in a divided
community, and also serve as a forceful statement of separateness for
individual teams and their followers. The Crossmaglen Rangers of the =
GAA
provide a vivid example of the latter. =20

"Fil=EDocht Nua: New Poetry" by Kerry Hardie, pp. 44-51

The recipient of the 2005 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy for Poetry presented =
by the
Center for Irish Studies offers ten new poems arising out of her own
experience of chronic illness, and out her own grateful appreciation of
nature and landscape. =20

"The Text of It: A Conversation with Eavan Boland" by Pillar Vilar
(Universidad de Granada), pp 52-67.

A 2004 interview; Boland's thoughtful responses offer new insights =
into her
longstanding concerns, among them the distinction between the past and
history, the private world of women in a publicly masculine tradition, =
and
the Irish heritage of silences. Boland also takes note of poetry's
affinities and differences with the visual arts of photography, and
discusses her position as a prominent Irish poet living part of the =
year in
the United States.=20
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"Smaller Differences: 'Scotch-Irish' and 'Real Irish' in the
Ninteenth-century American South" by David T. Gleeson (College of
Charleston), pp. 68- 91.

An extended look at the Irish experience in the states of the =
Confederacy,
where both Protestant and Catholic Irish insisted that a common Irish
identity must not be trumped by religious differences. Gleeson notes =
that at
a time when the Orange Order thrived elsewhere in the United States, =
the
South thoroughly resisted its sectarianism. Such inclusiveness shows =
that
nineteenth-century definitions of Irishness could be unexpectedly =
broad.

"Lessons in Lunacy: Mental Illness in Liam O'Flaherty's Famine" by Paul
Marchbanks (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), pp. 92-105.

In O'Flaherty's novel, the physical horrors of the Famine may arrest =
the
reader, but so too does the psychological disintegration of its =
victims.
O'Flaherty was acutely aware of mental illness throughout his life, and
fascinated by its possible origins: his treatment of insanity in Famine =
and
other works is alert to the communal and social nature of the problem =
of
madness. =20

"'Something Is Being Eroded': The Agrarian Epistemology of Brian =
Friel's
Translations" by Richard Rankin Russell (Baylor University), pp. =
106-22.
=20
A discussion of Translations in light of the playwright's concern about =
the
destruction of a cohering worldview rooted in agrarian life. Russell
particularly notes affinities between Friel and the work of such =
American
authors as Wendell Berry and the Southern Agrarians of the 1930s, all =
of
whom distrust the purely mechanical and empirical. =20

"'Our Barbed Wire Ivory Tower': The Prison Writings of Gerry Adams" by
Lachlan Whalen (Marshall University), pp. 123-39. =20

Whalen scrutinizes Adams's prison stories-many of which first appeared =
under
the pseudonym "Brownie" in the Republican News-and finds they serve to
illuminate an ongoing prisoners' dialogue about strategies of =
resistance. In
Adams's words, the POWs were also "political activists and theorists =
whose
influence could expand beyond the confines of the prison camp." =20

"'Haunted to the Edge of Trance': Performance and Orality in the Early =
Poems
of W B Yeats" by Matthew Spangler (San Jose State University), pp. =
140-66.=20

Yeats's near-obsession with the qualities of oral performance =
demonstrates
his insistent linkage of verse and stage. Yeats often used and =
manipulated
language largely for its potential as sound, especially during his
collaborations after 1900 with actress Florence Farr, which employed a
psaltery--an eccentric musical instrument they had custom-built for =
their
performances.=20



James S. Rogers
University of St Thomas #5008
2115 Summit Ave
St Paul, MN 55105-1096
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This may be of interest to the list.

Seeking Panelists for Blackstone Canal Symposium, Massachusetts
Friday, November 3 & Saturday, November 4

Seeking Panelists - "They Came; They Built; They Stayed: The Legacy of
The Pre-Famine Irish in the Blackstone Valley"

Seeking Panelists - "Assessing the Blackstone Canal: Failure or Success,
Separating Fact from Myth"

Site: Uxbridge, MA

Contact:
Ranger Chuck Arning
Chuck_Arning[at]nps.gov
The John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
One Depot Square
Woonsocket, RI 02895
(401) 762-0440
"Experience Your America"



William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

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This CFP from H-Albion may be of interest to the list.

Please consider this message a preliminary "call for papers" to the
Fifth Fifteenth-Century Conference (sponsored by the Richard III
Society and the Program in Medieval Studies and the English Department
of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

This tri-annual conference will be held 6 May 2007, just before the
annual International Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University
(10-13 May).

The Fifteenth-Century Conference will once again be held at scenic
Allerton Park in Montecello, Illinois. It will feature Prof. Barrie
Dobson, Cambridge University (retired), and Prof. Pamela King,
University of Bristol, as plenary and keynote speakers.

The formal call for papers as well as information on fees,
accommodations, etc., will appear on our website in mid-August (URL
forthcoming). Papers should be approximately 45 minutes long and can
deal with any aspect of fifteenth-century England. (Our definition of
"fifteenth-century England" is rather broad, covering England and its
realm--both insular and continental--from c. 1350 to c. 1550.) Paper
proposals should be submitted by 15 October 2006 for consideration by
the conference organizers.

Proposals can be sent to:

Prof. Rob Barrett

Electronically - rwb[at]uiuc.edu

OR via post to: Dept. of English, 208 English Building, MC-718, 608
South Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

OR

Dr. Michael Myers:

Electronically - mdmyers[at]uiuc.edu

OR via post to: General Curriculum, 912 S. Fifth St. MC-492, University
of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820, USA


William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA

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Forwarded from H-NET

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Albion[at]h-net.msu.edu (July 2006)

Joseph P. Finnan. John Redmond and Irish Unity, 1912-1918. Irish Studies
Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University
Press, 2004. xxi + 307 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. =
$29.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8156-3043-3.

Reviewed for H-Albion by Michael Hopkinson, University of Stirling

New Approaches to the Career of John Redmond.

It has long been apparent that the life of the Irish Parliamentary Party
leader John Redmond has been due for substantial re-evaluation. There =
has
been no major biography published for several decades and Redmond has =
been
all too easily stereotyped as one of Irish history's losers, as a leader
progressively out of step with his times and overtaken by more =
charismatic
and relevant leaders. As Joseph Finnan points out in this study, there =
are
few memorials to Redmond outside his native Wexford. The recent change =
in
the Irish context, involving talk of conciliation and respect between
traditions within Ireland, and between Britain and Ireland, has been
accompanied by a new-found respect for Redmond and the moderate,
constitutional position. The questioning of previous republican =
certainties
has led many to take another look at the Home Rule tradition, and with =
that
the life of Redmond, and to ask whether a severing of all constitutional
ties with Britain and the implementation of partition was inevitable. =
This
is particularly apparent in the recent work of Paul Bew and Alvin =
Jackson.
The authors of the Good Friday Agreement were aware of the Redmond =
legacy.
Nowadays some are even plucking up enough courage to call themselves
Redmondites. Such changes in historical perspective have been =
accompanied
by work on a wide range of sources, many of them freshly tapped.

It is, therefore, not surprising that Finnan has chosen to work on =
Redmond.
Finnan's book is solidly researched and clearly written and argued. He =
is
clearly a promising and determined scholar. There is little to quarrel =
with
in most of the soundly based conclusions. The book suffers, however, =
from
three weaknesses. First, it is only a partial biography covering the =
latter
part of Redmond's career--the family background and the Parnellite and
post-Parnellite periods are reviewed far too quickly. This necessarily
involves a concentration on weakness and failure, and prevents =
consideration
of how far Redmond can be interpreted from different, more complex,
perspectives. It also limits sufficient consideration of Redmond's
character and background. Insufficient account can be given of the
importance of Redmond's stays in Australia and the United States. =
Second,
Finnan has not used or included in his bibliography some recent =
important
works which have opened up fresh views on important aspects of Redmond's
career. No mention is made of Patrick Maume's work, and particularly =
his
_The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life, 1891-1918_ (2000). =
Strangely,
Finnan refers to Michael Laffan's review of Paul Bew's _Ideology and the
Irish Question: Ulster Unionism, 1912-1916_ (1998) without including =
Bew's
book in the bibliography. Laffan's essential _The Resurrection of =
Ireland:
the Sinn Fein Party, 1916-1923_ (2005) is also ignored, together with =
Fergus
Campbell's _Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of =
Ireland
1891-1921_ (2005). The continuing significance of the land question is
generally underplayed. Third, the book's range is somewhat narrowly
concentrated on high politics. The recent stress on regions and =
localities
in Irish historiography is ignored. Matthew Kelly's published work, too
recent for Finnan to consider, illustrates how much Redmond pandered to
Fenian interests in the 1890s, particularly on the prison amnesty =
question,
and that the divide between constitutional and physical force =
nationalism
was often not as wide as usually depicted.[1]

Finnan gives a sympathetic account of Redmond's motivation, considering =
at
some length whether a more aggressive leader could have won more =
concessions
from the British Government. It is difficult to contest Finnan's =
argument
that Redmond was the victim of external circumstances, notably the =
Ulster
Crisis and the length and unpopularity of the First World War, over =
which he
had no control. It is well to be reminded that Redmond appeared as a
popular hero for much of the Third Home Rule Bill's passage. Redmond's
tragedy was that, far from being a means to bring Nationalist and =
Unionist
together and reconciling Nationalist Ireland with Britain, the war
intensified all Irish divisions and destroyed his party. His party =
suffered
from the complacency that went with its single party dominance and also =
from
its dependence on British politicians. Nonetheless Redmond chronically
failed to come to terms with the depth of Ulster Loyalist resistance to =
Home
Rule, frequently reassuring the British Government that it was all a big
bluff, and he could surely have won more concessions from the Liberal
Government as a price for his support for Britain in the war. It is
difficult to believe that Parnell would have proved so quiescent. =
Redmond
did not show the determination in dealing with Westminster between 1912 =
and
1917 as he did in ruthlessly taking over the leadership of the Irish
Volunteers in June 1914. It may well be true, however, that the period
between 1910 and 1914 had only seen a temporary revival in the =
Nationalist
Party's fortunes and that the party's problems were deep-seated and
long-lasting. Analysis of this, however, goes into territory far beyond =
the
confines of this book. Finnan ends with somewhat forced and awkward
comparisons between Redmond's views and career and those of John Hume, =
Tomas
Masaryk and Ehud Barak. There are still dangers in Irish history of =
being
so present-minded.

In sum this is a useful and promising study. We await, however, a
full-scale biography of Redmond which may well contest the traditional,
somewhat patronizing, approach.

Note

[1]. M. J. Kelly, _The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism, 1882-1916_
(Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2006).


William H. Mulligan, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of History
Murray State University
Murray KY 42071-3341 USA=20
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