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Ireland's Imperial Connections, 1775-1947, edited by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright

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Ireland's Imperial Connections, 1775-1947

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edited by Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright

Springer eBooks.Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain's imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American Revolution and Indian Independence, this book examines Irish involvement in empire in several interlinked sections: through issues of migration and inhabitation; through literary and historical representations of empire; through Irish support for imperialism and involvement with resistance movements abroad; and through Irish participation in the extensive and intricate networks of empire. Informed by recent historiographical and theoretical perspectives, and including several detailed archival investigations, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and evolving view of a burgeoning field of research and will be of interest to scholars of Irish studies, imperial and postcolonial studies, history and literature.--, Provided by publisher

1. Introduction - Daniel Sanjiv Roberts and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright -- I Inhabiting Empire -- 2. "Residing in this Distant Portion of the Great Empire": The Irish in Imperial Halifax, Nova Scotia - Peter Ludlow and Terrence Murphy -- 3. From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa - Eve Patten -- 4. Walking to China: Infatuation and the Irish in New South Wales - Killian Quigley -- 5. Competing Narratives: 'White Slavery', Servitude and the Irish in Late Eighteenth-Century America - Martyn Powell -- II Writing/ Imagining Empire -- 6. "Humble Obedience to the Will of Heaven": Charles Johnston's Providential and Migratory Sensibility - Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- 7. Prudence and Prejudice in Maria Edgeworth's "Murad the Unlucky" (1804) - Sonja Lawrenson -- 8. "Purely a Local Study"?: Narratives of Empire in George Benn's History of the Town of Belfast - Jonathan Jeffrey Wright -- III Resistance/Collusion -- 9. The 1857 Indian Uprising in Irish Ballads: Voices of the Subaltern - Sarah Raphaela Adjobimey -- 10. Afghanistan, the Indian "Mutiny," and the Bicultural Stereotype of John Nicholson- Pramod K. Nayar -- 11. Violent Resistance: The Irish Revolution and India - Kate O'Malley -- IV Networking -- 12. Stateless and Destitute: The O'Rourke Family of Saint-Domingue, Nantes and Wexford, 1788-1805 - Orla Power -- 13. An Irish Surgeon in Barbados and Demerara: Vexation, Misery and Opportunity - Jennifer McLaren -- 14. "Colouring the map red": Lady Hariot Dufferin and the Imperial Networks of the Dufferin Fund - Sarah Hunter.-