Abstract Recent historiography gives an increasingly nuanced picture of interactions between religion and wider society in nineteenth-century Ireland. Yet, when considering the relationships between religion and philanthropy, something central to everyday life in urban centres, emphasis is still placed on the role of the institutional Catholic Church, and there is a sense that lay Catholics were less involved in charity than their Protestant counterparts. Connected with this is the idea that Protestant charities used open forms of governance, but Catholic charities were secretive, an assertion that parallels claims about tensions between Catholicism and democracy. This historiography, however, also suggests that the situation in the early nineteenth century may have been different from later in the century. This article compares small-scale Catholic and Protestant parochial charities in early nineteenth-century Dublin, while also considering similar institutions associated with Presbyterian congregations in Edinburgh. It indicates that some Catholic parochial charities were at least as committed to open procedures and lay participation as their Anglican and Presbyterian counterparts. By exploring these charities and making comparisons, the article shows that some of Dublin's middle-class Catholics were dedicated to the same ideals as early nineteenth-century British reformers.
{"title":"‘Our sacred and civil obligations as Christians and as Citizens’: religion, charity and governance in early nineteenth-century Dublin and Edinburgh","authors":"J. Curran","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent historiography gives an increasingly nuanced picture of interactions between religion and wider society in nineteenth-century Ireland. Yet, when considering the relationships between religion and philanthropy, something central to everyday life in urban centres, emphasis is still placed on the role of the institutional Catholic Church, and there is a sense that lay Catholics were less involved in charity than their Protestant counterparts. Connected with this is the idea that Protestant charities used open forms of governance, but Catholic charities were secretive, an assertion that parallels claims about tensions between Catholicism and democracy. This historiography, however, also suggests that the situation in the early nineteenth century may have been different from later in the century. This article compares small-scale Catholic and Protestant parochial charities in early nineteenth-century Dublin, while also considering similar institutions associated with Presbyterian congregations in Edinburgh. It indicates that some Catholic parochial charities were at least as committed to open procedures and lay participation as their Anglican and Presbyterian counterparts. By exploring these charities and making comparisons, the article shows that some of Dublin's middle-class Catholics were dedicated to the same ideals as early nineteenth-century British reformers.","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46023772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This paper explores the foundation of the Dublin Horse Show from 1868–80, when it was held at the Royal Dublin Society's (R.D.S.) headquarters on Merrion Square. Early iterations were intended to address the depletion of the equine population in the mid-nineteenth century, a matter of concern for agriculture and industry, but also for those with an interest in sport and horses as opportunities for leisure. Horse shows arose nearly simultaneously in Ireland and England as intersections between associational culture, agricultural improvement and a burgeoning middle-class leisure sphere established animal shows as instruments for improving breeding, but also as forms of entertainment. The popular success of horse shows fostered the development of economic clusters, as local businesses began to depend on them as reliable sources of annual income. They also reflected equestrian sport's migration from largely elite pursuits into popular recreation, including competitions that would eventually lead to the modern sport of showjumping. The events established at the early R.D.S. Horse Show are still recognisable today in their combination of improvement and leisure based in the promotion of Irish horses as exemplars of sporting excellence.
{"title":"‘Many attend chiefly in search of pleasure’: the Great National Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society, 1868–80","authors":"S. Murphy","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores the foundation of the Dublin Horse Show from 1868–80, when it was held at the Royal Dublin Society's (R.D.S.) headquarters on Merrion Square. Early iterations were intended to address the depletion of the equine population in the mid-nineteenth century, a matter of concern for agriculture and industry, but also for those with an interest in sport and horses as opportunities for leisure. Horse shows arose nearly simultaneously in Ireland and England as intersections between associational culture, agricultural improvement and a burgeoning middle-class leisure sphere established animal shows as instruments for improving breeding, but also as forms of entertainment. The popular success of horse shows fostered the development of economic clusters, as local businesses began to depend on them as reliable sources of annual income. They also reflected equestrian sport's migration from largely elite pursuits into popular recreation, including competitions that would eventually lead to the modern sport of showjumping. The events established at the early R.D.S. Horse Show are still recognisable today in their combination of improvement and leisure based in the promotion of Irish horses as exemplars of sporting excellence.","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49368489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On every tide: the making and re-making of the Irish world. By Sean Connolly. Pp 488. London: Little Brown. 2022. £12.99/£25.","authors":"M. Daly","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48629488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denis Brenan Bullen (1802–66) inspector of anatomy for the province of Munster: the controversial career of a Cork surgeon. By Michael Hanna. Pp 64. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2021. €9.95. - The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840–69. By David Byrne. Pp 64. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2021. €9.95. - Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo. By Frank Mayes. Pp 64. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2021. €9.95. - Peadar Cowan (1903–62): Westmeath G.A.A. administrator and political maverick. By Tom Hunt. Pp 64. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2021. €9.95. - The Dublin cattle market's decline, 1955–73. By Declan O'Brien. Pp 64. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2021. €9.95. - Volume 47 Issue 171
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Shaun Blanchard relates in his essay, a more combative approach to the emerging world at the end of the eighteenth century was that of Charles Walmsley, a Benedictine who served as one of the four vicars apostolic in England. Arising from his interest in the New Testament Book of Revelation, he composed a broad historical survey, suffused with a negative view of Enlightenment and Protestantism. The book became widely popular (echoes are found in the Irish agrarian disturbances of the 1820s); the author had experienced the fury of a Protestant mob who wrecked his house during the anti-Catholic Gordon riots of 1780. Drawing comprehensively on specialised archival research, these essays help illuminate the world of British and Irish men and women who lived in religious communities on the continent down to the collapse of the ancien régime in the 1790s. Given the geographical spread of the themes covered, the absence of maps is regrettable. By noting ongoing links with the Catholic community in England, and engagement with broader intellectual and cultural trends in the host countries, together with a focus on communities of women, the collection expands our understanding of the Catholic presence from England, Scotland and Ireland on the continent in the early modern era.
{"title":"The devil from over the sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland. By Sarah Covington. Pp x, 409. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £25.","authors":"Coleman A. Dennehy","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.14","url":null,"abstract":"Shaun Blanchard relates in his essay, a more combative approach to the emerging world at the end of the eighteenth century was that of Charles Walmsley, a Benedictine who served as one of the four vicars apostolic in England. Arising from his interest in the New Testament Book of Revelation, he composed a broad historical survey, suffused with a negative view of Enlightenment and Protestantism. The book became widely popular (echoes are found in the Irish agrarian disturbances of the 1820s); the author had experienced the fury of a Protestant mob who wrecked his house during the anti-Catholic Gordon riots of 1780. Drawing comprehensively on specialised archival research, these essays help illuminate the world of British and Irish men and women who lived in religious communities on the continent down to the collapse of the ancien régime in the 1790s. Given the geographical spread of the themes covered, the absence of maps is regrettable. By noting ongoing links with the Catholic community in England, and engagement with broader intellectual and cultural trends in the host countries, together with a focus on communities of women, the collection expands our understanding of the Catholic presence from England, Scotland and Ireland on the continent in the early modern era.","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44545693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The last fifty years have witnessed the production of a large body of scholarship exploring the political and social history of the Irish Civil War and its aftermath. Debate has focused principally on the administrative abilities and democratic credentials of the Free State government and the extent to which revolutionary ideals were expressed institutionally following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. However, there has been strikingly little attempt to contextualise, rather than appraise, the lineage of the moral and ideological assumptions embedded in the executive council's public professions of political conviction, or to understand Treatyite policy-making on its own terms. In particular, historians have tended to weigh and measure the performance of the Cumann na nGaedheal government against anachronistic and moralising definitions of what the Irish revolution stood for at the expense of any systematic attempt to reconstruct the manner in which relevant historical actors understood this relationship. Focusing on the heterodox intellectual firmament of the Irish-Ireland movement, this paper demonstrates that the Cumann na nGaedheal government never abandoned the political languages of the revolution; rather, they constructed an ideology to support the new state rooted in their own interpretation of what they considered revolutionary ideals of Irish-Ireland nationalism.
摘要在过去的五十年里，大量学者对爱尔兰内战及其后果的政治和社会历史进行了探索。辩论主要集中在自由邦政府的行政能力和民主资格，以及1921年批准《英爱条约》后革命理想在多大程度上得到了制度表达。然而，令人惊讶的是，很少有人试图将嵌入行政委员会政治信仰公共职业中的道德和意识形态假设的谱系置于背景中，而不是进行评估，或者根据其自身的条件来理解Treatyite政策制定。特别是，历史学家倾向于将Cumann na nGaedhal政府的表现与爱尔兰革命所代表的不合时宜的道德定义进行权衡和衡量，而牺牲了重建相关历史行为者理解这种关系的方式的任何系统性尝试。本文聚焦于爱尔兰-爱尔兰运动的异端知识领域，证明了Cumann na nGaedhal政府从未放弃革命的政治语言；相反，他们构建了一种支持新国家的意识形态，这种意识形态植根于他们自己对爱尔兰-爱尔兰民族主义革命理想的解释。
{"title":"Revolution and nationalism in Treatyite political thought, 1891–1924","authors":"Seán Donnelly","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The last fifty years have witnessed the production of a large body of scholarship exploring the political and social history of the Irish Civil War and its aftermath. Debate has focused principally on the administrative abilities and democratic credentials of the Free State government and the extent to which revolutionary ideals were expressed institutionally following the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. However, there has been strikingly little attempt to contextualise, rather than appraise, the lineage of the moral and ideological assumptions embedded in the executive council's public professions of political conviction, or to understand Treatyite policy-making on its own terms. In particular, historians have tended to weigh and measure the performance of the Cumann na nGaedheal government against anachronistic and moralising definitions of what the Irish revolution stood for at the expense of any systematic attempt to reconstruct the manner in which relevant historical actors understood this relationship. Focusing on the heterodox intellectual firmament of the Irish-Ireland movement, this paper demonstrates that the Cumann na nGaedheal government never abandoned the political languages of the revolution; rather, they constructed an ideology to support the new state rooted in their own interpretation of what they considered revolutionary ideals of Irish-Ireland nationalism.","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48917699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Irish Revolution: a global history. Edited by Patrick Mannion and Fearghal McGarry. Pp 376. New York: New York University Press. 2022. US$35.00.","authors":"Jimmy Wintermute","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45553304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shadow of a taxman: who funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Pp 336. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. £65.00.","authors":"R. Kowalski","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.23","url":null,"abstract":"contexts. A well-researched","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47051723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Miserable conflict and confusion’: the Irish question and the British national press, 1916–22. By Erin Kate Scheopner. Pp 275. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2022. £95.","authors":"Martin O’Donoghue","doi":"10.1017/ihs.2023.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2023.22","url":null,"abstract":"contexts. A well-researched","PeriodicalId":44187,"journal":{"name":"IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49577643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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