Eirinn & Iran go Brach: Iran in Irish-nationalist historical, literary, cultural, and political imaginations from the late 18th century to 1921
This book analyzes particular patterns of nationalist self-configuration and nationalist uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia in Ireland from roughly around the time of the emergence of a broad-based non-sectarian Irish nationalist platform in the late eighteenth century (the Society of United Irishmen) until Ireland’s partition and the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. In approaching Irish nationalism through the particular historical lens of “Iran,” this book underscores the fact that Irish nationalism during this period (and even earlier) always utilized a historical paradigm that grounded Anglo-Irish encounters and Irish nationalism in the broader world history, a process that I term “worlding of Ireland.”
Mansour Bonakdarian
- Anthem Press
- 9781839989452
- 786 pages
- Hardback
- United Kingdom
- Nationalism
