Parnell and his Times

Acknowledgement; List of contributors; List of illustrations; Introduction: charisma and aftermath Joep Leerssen; Part I. Parnell's Ireland and its different temporalities: 1. O'Connell and Parnell Oliver MacDonagh; 2. The Paradoxes of Parnell Paul Bew; 3. Ireland from Parnell to Pearse R.F. Foster; 4. Race, nation, state Denis Donoghue; 5. Parnell's other Ireland: religious radicals in late-nineteenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; 6. Inside history: storyteller Éamon a' Búrc (1866-1942) and the «little famine» of 1879-1880 Angela Bourke; 7. Digesting the past: anthologies and bi-cultural memory in Ireland Joep Leerssen; 8. The writing of county histories in Parnell's Ireland Nicholas Canny; Part II. After Parnell: the Irish literary and historical imagination: 9. Joyce's dubliners and Parnell: strategies of failure? Frank McGuinness; 10. The rhythm of beauty»: Joyce, Yeats, and the 1890s Edna Longley; 11. «Ingenious lovely things»: Yeats's adjectives Helen Vendler; 12. Modernism in the streets: Pearse and Joyce Declan Kiberd; 13. Modernism, Belfast, and early-twentieth-century Ireland Terence Brown; 14. Too rough for verse? Sea crossings in Irish culture Claire Connolly; 15. «Myth, fact, and mystery»: F.X. Martin, medievalist and historian of the 1916 rising Thomas Bartlett; 16. The Easter rising: four fallacies and some reflections David Fitzpatrick; 17. Belatedness and late style Irish style: contemporary Irish poetry and the problem of belatedness Clair Wills; Illustration credits; Index.