Uncertain futures : essays about the Irish past, for Roy Foster

This Volume Has Been Produced To Mark The Retirement Of Roy Foster From The Carroll Professorship Of Irish History At The University Of Oxford, And To Mark His Extraordinary Career As A Historian, Literary Critic, And Public Intellectual. It Consists Of Twenty Three Essays Contributed By Many Of The Leading Historians Of Modern Ireland, Including Scholars Whose Work Has Influenced Roy Foster's Own Research, Leading Irish Historians Who Have Influenced And Have Been Influenced By Foster, And Younger Scholars Who Were Supervised And/or Mentored By Roy And Whose Work He Greatly Admires. Essays Chart Foster's Career While Reflecting On Developments In The Field Of Irish History Writing, Teaching, And Research Since The 1970s. Focussing On The History Of Ireland Since 1800, These Essays Cover A Wide Spectrum Of Topics And Ideas Including Aspects Of The Irish Land Question, Generational And Intellectual Tensions, Political Biography, And Social And Cultural Change--publisher Description. Machine Generated Contents Note: Part I -- 1. Rff: A Writing Life / Tom Dunne -- 2. Roy Foster, An Irish Historian In Britain / Marianne Elliott -- 3. Roy Foster And Oxford / Toby Barnard -- Part Ii -- 4. The Impediments To Freehold Ownership Of Land And The Character Of The Irish Land War / R. V. Comerford -- 5. British Politicians And The Transformation Of Rural Society In Nineteenth-century Ireland / K. Theodore Hoppen -- 6. Gladstone And Ireland: The Perils Of The Intellectual / Marie-louise Jennings -- 7. Land War Homicides / Marc Mulholland -- 8. The Parnell-churchill Nexus: Arthur Baumann, Winston Churchill, And Roy Foster / Paul Bew -- 9. A Temper Of Misgiving: W. B. Yeats And The Ireland Of Synge's Time / Ben Levitas -- 10. Breaking Faith: Elizabeth Bowen And Disloyalties / Hermione Lee -- 11. Between The Redmondite And Revolutionary Generations: Denis Gwynn In Old And New Ireland / Colin W. Reid -- 12. Fighting Their Fathers' Fight: The Post-revolutionary Generation In Independent Ireland / Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid -- 13. Force, Law, And The Irish Revolution / Charles Townshend -- 14. The Strange Death Of Loyalist Monaghan, 1912 -- 1921 / Tim Wilson -- 15. Feeding The Cats: Yeats And Pound At Rapallo, 1928 / Lauren Arrington -- 16. `sense And Shite': Roddy Doyle, Roy Foster, And The Past History Of The Future / Matthew Kelly -- 17. Theobald Wolfe Tone And The Common Name Of Irishman In 1960s Ireland / Ultan Gillen -- 18. `there's No Banshee Now': Absence And Loss In Twentieth-century Dublin / Erika Hanna -- 19. Provisional Truths: Ira Memoirs And The Peace Process / Ian Mcbride -- 20. Seminars And Shootings: Politics, History, And University Teaching In Belfast / Richard English -- 21. Shamrock And Saltire: Irish Home Rule, Independence, And The Scottish Referendum, 1914 -- 2014 / Alvin Jackson -- 22. Words And Irish History: An Experiment / David Fitzpatrick. Edited By Senia Pašeta. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 283-289) And Index. 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