Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Stephen O'Neill (Autor)

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320 Seiten

2026
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83624-481-3 (ISBN)

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Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland. Examining the island’s literature, art, history and visual culture, it argues that the establishment and maintenance of partition had a deep impact on the ways that Irish culture was produced and interpreted. Drawing upon archives from both partition states, as well as the private papers of several authors, it resituates debates around Irish culture and politics within the polemics of state formation, including work from Evie Hone, St John Ervine, Michael McLaverty, William Conor, Flann O’Brien, Agnes Romilly White, Benedict Kiely, Dorothy Macardle and many others. It also places literature and culture within the context of literary congresses, art exhibitions, state festivals and World’s Fairs. In considering partition not as a past event but a process which continues in the present, this study recovers the networks of influence and production as well as the debates around partition that propelled Irish culture in these years. Placing the production of culture and the invention of tradition by the two Irish partition states in conversation with each other for the first time, Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 argues for a reconsideration of the language, imagery and chronology of the island’s division.

Stephen O’Neill is Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin.

Introduction: The Long Partition of Ireland

1. Irish Culture and the Boundary Question

2. Senses of State, 1925–1932

3. The Pasts and Futures of Partition

4. Facing Gethsemane: Partition, Fatalism, and the ‘northern minority’

5. The Antinomies of 'Ulster' Regionalism

Until Then

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 239 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83624-481-9 / 1836244819
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-481-3 / 9781836244813
Zustand	Neuware