Éire-Ireland Volume 42 Issue 1/2
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COVER

“So, being satisfied that I had the axe laid to the roots of the right tree I delivered blow on blow,” Ailbhe O'Monachain

The illustration featured on the cover of this volume is taken from The Wolfe Tone Annual, 1947, (1947), 81.  It depicts the republican newspaperman John Mitchel (1815-75) felling the British Empire. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS & CONTRIBUTORS

Amongst Empires:  A Short History of Ireland and Empire Studies in International Context
by Joe Cleary

JOE CLEARY lectures in English at NUI Maynooth.  He is the author of Literature, Partition and the Nation-State:  Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (Cambridge Univesity Press, 2002) and Outrageous Fortune:  Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (Field Day Press, 2006), and editor, with Clare Connolly, of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (2005).

“Come Out of Such a Land, You Irishmen": Daniel O'Connell, American Slavery, and the Making of the "Irish Race"
by Bruce Nelson

BRUCE NELSON is Professor of History at Dartmouth College and the author of Divided We Stand:  American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (2001).  He is currently researching and writing a book on the making of race and nation in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora.

Defining Irish Nationalist Anti-Imperialism: Thomas Davis and John Mitchel
by Niamh Lynch

NIAMH LYNCH is director of the Irish Institute at Boston College.  Her essay is based on her doctoral dissertation, "Live Ireland, Perish the Empire:  Irish Nationalist Anti-Imperialism c. 1840-1900."

"Their Colonial Condition": Connections Between French-Canadians and Irish Catholics in the Nation and Dublin University Magazine
by Jason King

JASON KING is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of West Georgia.  He is the author of The Eternal Paddy:  Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 (2004), which was awarded the American Conference on Irish Studies James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize, and Lives of the Victorian Political Figures:  Charles Stewart Parnell (2007).

The Imperial Politics of Famine:  The 1873-74 Bengal Famine and Irish Parliamentary Nationalism
by Jill Bender

JILL BENDER is currently pursuing a PhD in history at Boston College.  She received her BA in history from the College of William and Mary and her MA in Culture and Colonialism from the National University of Ireland - Galway.  She is the author of "Mutiny or Freedom Fight?:  The 1857 Indian Mutiny and the Irish Press."

Race and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Intellectual Life:  James Fitzjames Stephen, James Anthony Froude, Ireland and India
by G. Peatling

G. PEATLING is the author of British Opinion and Irish Self-Government, 1865-1925 (Irish Academic Press, (2001), The Failure of the Northern Ireland Peace Process (Irish Academic Press, 2004), and of a number of articles in Irish, British, and Atlantic political, intellectual, and social history.

Skirmishing, The Irish World, and Empire, 1876-86
by Niall Whelehan

NIALL WHELEHAN is currently researching his PhD dissertation in the European University Institute in Florence.  His field of interest broadly is the phenomena of political violence among European revolutionary movements in the late nineteenth century, and exchanges that occurred across borders and between countries.

"No Imperial Privilege":  Justin McCarthy, Home Rule, and Empire
by Paul Townend

PAUL TOWNEND is currently Associate Professor of British and Irish history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1999.  His first book, Father Mathew, Temperance, and Irish Identity, was published in 2002 by Irish Academic Press and received the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize in 2003 from the American Conference on Irish Studies.  He is currently working on a book about Irish home rule nationalism and popular anti-imperialism.

The Dominion of Ireland:  The Anglo-Irish Treaty in an Imperial Context
by Jason Knirck

JASON KNIRCK is currently Assistant Professor of History at Central Washington University.  He received his PhD from Washington State University and is the author of Women of the Dail: Gender, Republicanism and the Anglo-Irish Treaty and Imagining Ireland's Independence: The Debates over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.  His research focuses on the political culture of the Irish Revolution.

"The Mosquito Press": Anti-Imperialist Rhetoric in Republican Journalism, 1926-39
by Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin

CAOILFHIONN NÍ BHEACHAIN lectures in Communications at the University of Limerick.  Her PhD dissertation in English, "Beyond the State:  Narrative and Agency in the Irish Free State," was awarded in 2005 by NUI Galway.

India or North America? Reflections on Nicholas Mansergh's Partition Paradigm
by Antoine Mioche

ANTOINE MIOCHE is a Professor of British Studies at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle (France).  His research bears on the British Empire and its interplay with political thought in the United Kingdom.  He has written from a comparative perspective on Ireland, India, Canada, the Empire, and the UK.  His latest book is les Grandes Dates de l'histoire britannique (2003).  He recently completed a book-length project on union in British practice, both imperial and metropolitan.

Edward Said and Irish Criticism
by Conor McCarthy

CONOR MCCARTHY is a Lecturer in English at NUI Maynooth, Ireland.  He is the author of Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 196-1992 (Four Courts Press, 2000), and of the forthcoming Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said.

Postcolonial Literary Studies, Nationalism, and Feminist Critique in Contemporary Ireland
by Emer Nolan

EMER NOLAN lectures in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.  She is the author of James Joyce and Nationalism (Routledge, 1995) and Catholic Emancipation: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce (University of Syracuse Press, 2007).