Cóilín Owens
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042473
- eISBN:
- 9780813051567
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042473.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
“After the Race” commemorates the Rebellion of 1803. It tours the sites of the hero's futile rising and execution, cites his famous speech, and honors his final request: that he be remembered in a ...
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“After the Race” commemorates the Rebellion of 1803. It tours the sites of the hero's futile rising and execution, cites his famous speech, and honors his final request: that he be remembered in a charitable silence. The announcement of dawn with which the story ends is a refurbishment of a trite figure from the attic of Irish nationalist symbolism. A survey of the contemporary uses of this symbol sets forth how Joyce appropriates it and how this story adumbrates its development in the “Telemachus” episode of Ulysses and its full efflorescence in the ricorso of Finnegans Wake.Less
“After the Race” commemorates the Rebellion of 1803. It tours the sites of the hero's futile rising and execution, cites his famous speech, and honors his final request: that he be remembered in a charitable silence. The announcement of dawn with which the story ends is a refurbishment of a trite figure from the attic of Irish nationalist symbolism. A survey of the contemporary uses of this symbol sets forth how Joyce appropriates it and how this story adumbrates its development in the “Telemachus” episode of Ulysses and its full efflorescence in the ricorso of Finnegans Wake.
Paul Bew
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199561261
- eISBN:
- 9780191701832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199561261.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Political History
The interpretation of the 1798 rebellion became a key battleground; for hard-line Protestants, it became a matter of necessity to insist that the rebellion was inspired by visceral Catholic ...
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The interpretation of the 1798 rebellion became a key battleground; for hard-line Protestants, it became a matter of necessity to insist that the rebellion was inspired by visceral Catholic sectarianism. The objective of British policy was to create an armed nation with loyal Catholic support. Prime Minister William Pitt was always explicit about the strategic considerations involved in the Anglo–Irish relationship. However, Pitt's plans to link Catholic emancipation to the union were dropped by an unusually determined King — backed by the Church of England — Pitt and his allies were forced to abandon the linkage and resign from government on 3 February 1801. In Ireland, a sense of resentment began to intensify. English hypocrisy was too visible. It was a sense of British indifference which threatened to undermine the union.Less
The interpretation of the 1798 rebellion became a key battleground; for hard-line Protestants, it became a matter of necessity to insist that the rebellion was inspired by visceral Catholic sectarianism. The objective of British policy was to create an armed nation with loyal Catholic support. Prime Minister William Pitt was always explicit about the strategic considerations involved in the Anglo–Irish relationship. However, Pitt's plans to link Catholic emancipation to the union were dropped by an unusually determined King — backed by the Church of England — Pitt and his allies were forced to abandon the linkage and resign from government on 3 February 1801. In Ireland, a sense of resentment began to intensify. English hypocrisy was too visible. It was a sense of British indifference which threatened to undermine the union.
Coilin Owens
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042473
- eISBN:
- 9780813051567
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042473.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
“After the Race” registers James Joyce's personal anxieties and rivalries on the verge of his emigration from Dublin. In the figure of Villona, the detached and gifted musician, Joyce sketches his ...
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“After the Race” registers James Joyce's personal anxieties and rivalries on the verge of his emigration from Dublin. In the figure of Villona, the detached and gifted musician, Joyce sketches his first self-portrait, heralding the dawn of his own literary career as “the poet of my nation.” The story reflects the radical nationalist perception articulated by Arthur Griffith that the staging the Gordon Bennett Cup Race and King Edward VII's visit in July 1903 were both designed to upstage the centennial celebration of Robert Emmet's rebellion. The story allegorizes these Anglo-Irish tensions within the Great Game of global politics. The technique of the story—its design, use of free indirect discourse, multivalent language, significant silences, and cunning allusions—assimilates elements from its author's rhetorical education and invokes precedents from Ovid, Villon, Dumas, Dolmetsch, and the Irish oral tradition. The story therefore documents Joyce's multiple affinities with the mainstream of European literature and with the popular movement to revive native cultural practices. On the moral and philosophical planes, the story invokes the Pauline criticism of pagan materialism while brilliantly parodying the vacuous calculations of Theosophy. This apprentice exercise exhibits many of Joyce's permanent themes and is demonstrably a sophisticated political and philosophic work written in the shadow of Dante's Divine Comedy.Less
“After the Race” registers James Joyce's personal anxieties and rivalries on the verge of his emigration from Dublin. In the figure of Villona, the detached and gifted musician, Joyce sketches his first self-portrait, heralding the dawn of his own literary career as “the poet of my nation.” The story reflects the radical nationalist perception articulated by Arthur Griffith that the staging the Gordon Bennett Cup Race and King Edward VII's visit in July 1903 were both designed to upstage the centennial celebration of Robert Emmet's rebellion. The story allegorizes these Anglo-Irish tensions within the Great Game of global politics. The technique of the story—its design, use of free indirect discourse, multivalent language, significant silences, and cunning allusions—assimilates elements from its author's rhetorical education and invokes precedents from Ovid, Villon, Dumas, Dolmetsch, and the Irish oral tradition. The story therefore documents Joyce's multiple affinities with the mainstream of European literature and with the popular movement to revive native cultural practices. On the moral and philosophical planes, the story invokes the Pauline criticism of pagan materialism while brilliantly parodying the vacuous calculations of Theosophy. This apprentice exercise exhibits many of Joyce's permanent themes and is demonstrably a sophisticated political and philosophic work written in the shadow of Dante's Divine Comedy.
James G. Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076930
- eISBN:
- 9781781700822
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076930.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five-year-old former Trinity College student and doctor's son. His ...
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On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five-year-old former Trinity College student and doctor's son. His name was Robert Emmet and he was standing trial for heading a rebellion on 23 July 1803. The iconic power of Robert Emmet in Irish history cannot be overstated. Emmet looms large in narratives of the past, yet the rebellion which he led remains to be fully contextualised. This book repairs this omission and explains the complex of politicisation and revolutionary activity extending into the 1800s, detailing the radicalisation of the grass roots, their para-militarism and engagement in secret societies. Drawing on a range of sources, the book offers a comprehensive insight into a relatively neglected period of history.Less
On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five-year-old former Trinity College student and doctor's son. His name was Robert Emmet and he was standing trial for heading a rebellion on 23 July 1803. The iconic power of Robert Emmet in Irish history cannot be overstated. Emmet looms large in narratives of the past, yet the rebellion which he led remains to be fully contextualised. This book repairs this omission and explains the complex of politicisation and revolutionary activity extending into the 1800s, detailing the radicalisation of the grass roots, their para-militarism and engagement in secret societies. Drawing on a range of sources, the book offers a comprehensive insight into a relatively neglected period of history.
Jacqueline Hill
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206354
- eISBN:
- 9780191677083
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206354.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
Revolutionary thinking in Ireland during the 1790s purportedly assumed formidable proportions when the United Irishmen, persecuted by government and despairing of reform, moved towards alliance with ...
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Revolutionary thinking in Ireland during the 1790s purportedly assumed formidable proportions when the United Irishmen, persecuted by government and despairing of reform, moved towards alliance with France and separation from Britain. Historians now emphasize the presence, almost from the outset, of a more radical and secretive element within the movement, but it has also emerged that others were contemplating revolution in Ireland during the 1790s. The counter-revolutionary efforts of government and local authorities began in 1792 and continued until after Robert Emmet's rebellion of 1803. For Dublin corporation, the task of countering revolutionary tendencies and maintaining law and order was a role that conformed well with its historic self-image. Against a background of worsening international relations, ideological turmoil, Defenders raiding for arms in the countryside, armed Volunteers parading in Dublin, and the Catholic Committee holding a convention to press for political rights, towards the end of 1792 more conservative Protestants were becoming distinctly anxious.Less
Revolutionary thinking in Ireland during the 1790s purportedly assumed formidable proportions when the United Irishmen, persecuted by government and despairing of reform, moved towards alliance with France and separation from Britain. Historians now emphasize the presence, almost from the outset, of a more radical and secretive element within the movement, but it has also emerged that others were contemplating revolution in Ireland during the 1790s. The counter-revolutionary efforts of government and local authorities began in 1792 and continued until after Robert Emmet's rebellion of 1803. For Dublin corporation, the task of countering revolutionary tendencies and maintaining law and order was a role that conformed well with its historic self-image. Against a background of worsening international relations, ideological turmoil, Defenders raiding for arms in the countryside, armed Volunteers parading in Dublin, and the Catholic Committee holding a convention to press for political rights, towards the end of 1792 more conservative Protestants were becoming distinctly anxious.
