Author: Conor Mulvagh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782054603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. As a professor, a politician, and the leader of a paramilitary organisation, MacNeill fused scholarship and activism into a complex life that both followed and led the course of Irish independence from gestation to maturation. MacNeill is arguably best known as the man who tried to stop the 1916 Rising. However, as this book shows, as a newspaper editor, a language teacher, a historian, a paramilitary leader, a parliamentarian, a convict, and a cabinet minister, he crafted both the ideas and institutions of his own time while revising scholarly understandings of the society and institutions of medieval Ireland through his teaching and writings. MacNeill was also a political theorist and even a propagandist who moulded the Irish-Ireland and Sinn Féin movements through his writings and his oratory. A supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Free State's first minister for education, MacNeill lost his son Brian who was killed fighting on the anti-Treaty side of Ireland's Civil War. After independence, MacNeill was centrally involved in the attempt to redraw the Irish border in his role as the Free State's representative on the Irish Boundary Commission. Its collapse took MacNeill's political career down with it and he reverted to his passion for scholarship, drafted his memoirs, founded the Irish Manuscripts Commission, and delivered a landmark lecture tour in the United States. While he received adulation as a scholar in his last years, his contribution to politics and state formation was variously marginalised and maligned, a pattern that persisted in the decades after his death. This collection confronts the complexities and apparent contradictions of MacNeill's life, work, and ideas. It explores the ways in which MacNeill's activities and interests overlapped, his contribution to the Irish language and to Irish history, his evolving political outlook, and the contribution he made to the shaping of modern Ireland.
Eoin MacNeill
Author: Conor Mulvagh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782054603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. As a professor, a politician, and the leader of a paramilitary organisation, MacNeill fused scholarship and activism into a complex life that both followed and led the course of Irish independence from gestation to maturation. MacNeill is arguably best known as the man who tried to stop the 1916 Rising. However, as this book shows, as a newspaper editor, a language teacher, a historian, a paramilitary leader, a parliamentarian, a convict, and a cabinet minister, he crafted both the ideas and institutions of his own time while revising scholarly understandings of the society and institutions of medieval Ireland through his teaching and writings. MacNeill was also a political theorist and even a propagandist who moulded the Irish-Ireland and Sinn Féin movements through his writings and his oratory. A supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Free State's first minister for education, MacNeill lost his son Brian who was killed fighting on the anti-Treaty side of Ireland's Civil War. After independence, MacNeill was centrally involved in the attempt to redraw the Irish border in his role as the Free State's representative on the Irish Boundary Commission. Its collapse took MacNeill's political career down with it and he reverted to his passion for scholarship, drafted his memoirs, founded the Irish Manuscripts Commission, and delivered a landmark lecture tour in the United States. While he received adulation as a scholar in his last years, his contribution to politics and state formation was variously marginalised and maligned, a pattern that persisted in the decades after his death. This collection confronts the complexities and apparent contradictions of MacNeill's life, work, and ideas. It explores the ways in which MacNeill's activities and interests overlapped, his contribution to the Irish language and to Irish history, his evolving political outlook, and the contribution he made to the shaping of modern Ireland.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782054603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. As a professor, a politician, and the leader of a paramilitary organisation, MacNeill fused scholarship and activism into a complex life that both followed and led the course of Irish independence from gestation to maturation. MacNeill is arguably best known as the man who tried to stop the 1916 Rising. However, as this book shows, as a newspaper editor, a language teacher, a historian, a paramilitary leader, a parliamentarian, a convict, and a cabinet minister, he crafted both the ideas and institutions of his own time while revising scholarly understandings of the society and institutions of medieval Ireland through his teaching and writings. MacNeill was also a political theorist and even a propagandist who moulded the Irish-Ireland and Sinn Féin movements through his writings and his oratory. A supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the Free State's first minister for education, MacNeill lost his son Brian who was killed fighting on the anti-Treaty side of Ireland's Civil War. After independence, MacNeill was centrally involved in the attempt to redraw the Irish border in his role as the Free State's representative on the Irish Boundary Commission. Its collapse took MacNeill's political career down with it and he reverted to his passion for scholarship, drafted his memoirs, founded the Irish Manuscripts Commission, and delivered a landmark lecture tour in the United States. While he received adulation as a scholar in his last years, his contribution to politics and state formation was variously marginalised and maligned, a pattern that persisted in the decades after his death. This collection confronts the complexities and apparent contradictions of MacNeill's life, work, and ideas. It explores the ways in which MacNeill's activities and interests overlapped, his contribution to the Irish language and to Irish history, his evolving political outlook, and the contribution he made to the shaping of modern Ireland.
The Scholar Revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867-1945, and the Making of the New Ireland
Author: Francis X. Martin
Publisher: Shannon : Irish University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher: Shannon : Irish University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Eoin Macneill
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906865610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906865610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Eoin MacNeill, Scholar and Man of Action, 1867-1945
Author: Michael Tierney
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Essays and Studies Presented to Professor Eoin MacNeill, D.LITT., on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, May 15th, 1938
Author: John Sprott Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic philology
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Féil-stríḃinn Eóin Ṁic Néill
Author: John Ryan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic philology
Languages : de
Pages : 593
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celtic philology
Languages : de
Pages : 593
Book Description
Eoin MacNeill, Scholar and Man of Action, 1867-1945
Author: Michael Tierney
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Eoin MacNeill on the 1916 Rising
Author: Francis Xavier Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Phases of Irish History
Author: Eoin Mac Neill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Making the Medieval Relevant
Author: Chris Jones
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110546485
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to address the concerns and interests of contemporary society. This volume presents a number of carefully commissioned essays that demonstrate the fertility and originality of recent work in Medieval Studies. Above all, they have been selected for relevance. Most contributors are in the earlier stages of their careers and their approaches clearly reflect how interdisciplinary methodologies applied to Medieval Studies have potential repercussions and value far beyond the boundaries of the Middles Ages. These chapters are powerful demonstrations of the value of medieval research to our own times, both in terms of providing answers to some of the specific questions facing humanity today and in terms of much broader considerations. Taken together, the research presented here also provides readers with confidence in the fact that Medieval Studies cannot be neglected without a great loss to the understanding of what it means to be human.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110546485
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to address the concerns and interests of contemporary society. This volume presents a number of carefully commissioned essays that demonstrate the fertility and originality of recent work in Medieval Studies. Above all, they have been selected for relevance. Most contributors are in the earlier stages of their careers and their approaches clearly reflect how interdisciplinary methodologies applied to Medieval Studies have potential repercussions and value far beyond the boundaries of the Middles Ages. These chapters are powerful demonstrations of the value of medieval research to our own times, both in terms of providing answers to some of the specific questions facing humanity today and in terms of much broader considerations. Taken together, the research presented here also provides readers with confidence in the fact that Medieval Studies cannot be neglected without a great loss to the understanding of what it means to be human.