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Title Uncertain futures : essays about the Irish past for Roy Foster / edited by Senia Paseta
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)
Contents Cover; Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I; 1: RFFA: Writing Life; Acknowledgemen ts; 2: Roy Foster, an Irish Historian in Britain; 3: Roy Foster and Oxford; I; II; Part II; 4: The Impediments to Freehold Ownership of Land and the Character of the Irish Land War; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; 5: British Politicians and the Transformation of Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; 6: Gladstone and Ireland: The Perils of the Intellectual; 7: Land War Homicides; I; II; III; IV
8: The Parnell-Churchill Nexus: Arthur Baumann, Winston Churchill, and Roy Foster9: A Temper of Misgiving: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of Synge's Time; I THE NIMBLE PLAYBOY; II HUMOUR IS OF THE SHADOWED PART; III A WATCH WAS FLUNG; 10: Breaking Faith: Elizabeth Bowen and Disloyalties; 11: Between the Redmondite and Revolutionary Generations: Denis Gwynn in Old and New Ireland; I; II; III; IV; 12: Fighting their Fathers' Fight: The Post-Revolutionary Generation in Independent Ireland; I; II; III; 13: Force, Law, and the Irish Revolution; 14: The Strange Death of Loyalist Monaghan, 1912-1921; I
IIIII; IV; V; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 15: Feeding the Cats: Yeats and Pound at Rapallo, 1928; 16: 'Sense and Shite': Roddy Doyle, Roy Foster, and the Past History of the Future; I; II; III; IV; 17: Theobald Wolfe Tone and the Common Name of Irishman in 1960s Ireland; 18: 'There's No Banshee Now': Absence and Loss in Twentieth-Century Dublin; I; II; III; 19: Provisional Truths: IRA Memoirs and the Peace Process; I; II; III; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 20: Seminars and Shootings: Politics, History, and University Teaching in Belfast
21: Shamrock and Saltire: Irish Home Rule, Independence, and the Scottish Referendum, 1914-2014I; II; III; IV; V; VI; 22: Words and Irish History: An Experiment; I AN IRISH THESAURUS; II SOME QUESTIONS; III IRELAND'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM; IV IRELAND'S REJECTION OF FREEDOM; V RESOLUTIONS?; Bibliography of the Major Writings of Roy Foster to 2014; BOOKS; Monographs; Catalogue; Essay Collections; Edited Collections; ESSAYS-CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED COLLECTIONS; Academic Articles; INTRODUCTIONS AND FOREWORDS; BOOK REVIEWS; Academic Journals; Index
Summary Marking Roy Foster's retirement from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and recognising his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual, this essay collection charts Foster's career while reflecting on developments in the field of Irish history writing, teaching, and research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 17, 2016)
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
SUBJECT Ireland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067989
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Pašeta, Senia, editor
Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949- honouree.
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