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Fosterage was a central feature of medieval Irish society, yet the widespread practice of sending children to another family to be cared for until they reached adulthood is a surprisingly neglected topic. Where it has been discussed, fosterage is usually conceptualised and treated as a purely legal institution. This work seeks to outline the emotional impact of growing up within another family. What emerges is a complex picture of deeply felt emotional ties binding the foster family together. These emotions are unique to the social practice of fosterage, and we see the language and feelings originating within the foster family being used to describe other relationships such as those in the monastery or between humans and animals. This book argues that the more we understand how people felt in fosterage, the more we understand medieval Ireland

Preface: Women in Ireland / by Jane Ohlmeyer -- Gender and the Irish family, 1852-1922 / Rachel Murphy -- Gender and migration : the Irish experience, 1850-1922 / Patrick Fitzgerald -- Gender and the big house, 1852-1922 / Maeve O'Riordan -- Doing good? Irish women, Catholicism and charity, 1852-1922 / Sarah Roddy -- Gender and the Irish language in post-famine Ireland / Nicholas M. Wolf -- Gender, medicine and the state in Ireland, 1852-1922 / Ciara Breathnach -- 'A fat, pompous old woman, ignorant, and illiterate' : popular midwifery in nineteenth-century Ireland / Laurence M. Geary -- Gender, folklore and magical healing in Ireland, 1852-1922 / Andrew Sneddon -- Gender and insanity in Ireland, 1800-1923 / Oonagh Walsh -- Gender, childhood and institutionalisation in Ireland, 1730-1922 / Sarah-Anne Buckley -- Women, sexuality and reproduction, 1850-1922 / Leanne McCormick -- Crime, punishment and gender / Elaine Farrell -- The emergence of Irish masculinity studies / Aidan Beatty -- Homosexuality and lesbianism in Irish newspapers, 1861-1922 / Catherine Lawless and Ciara Breathnach -- Women's educational activism and higher education in Ireland, 1850-1912 / John Walsh -- 'The peeress and the peasant' : popular mobilisation and the Ulster Women's Unionist Council, 1911-21 / Diane Urquhart -- 'A voice in the affairs of the nation' : Irish women and nationalism 1872-1922 / Margaret Ward -- 'A political nonentity with infants, criminals, and lunatics' : first wave feminism in Ireland 1872-1922 / Sonja Tiernan -- Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (1878-1954) and transnationalism : an Irish suffragist as an anti-colonial feminist in colonial India / Jyoti Atwal -- Female revolutionaries and political violence in India and Ireland, 1919-1939 / Eunan O'Halpin.

Originally published in 1952, A History of Ireland Under the Union was written by an historian who played an active part in the political events of the later part of the period. In Ireland there are two national traditions: that of the Kingdom of the Gael, established at the end of the 4th Century A.D. and the other colonial tradition evolved by the descendants of various generations of Planters from England. The book provides a full account of 19th Century Irish history and shows how the colonial nationalists discarded their nationalism after 1801 and how the emerging Gael, under Daniel O' Connell adopted and fused the two traditions into an Irish national tradition which was vitalised by Irish literature and culture. Containing much original source material the book throws light on aspects of Irish history whose significance is often overlooked such as the part played by the RIC and the Secret Societies in Ireland and the USA.

The Irish contribution to Australian history goes both deep and wide. Originally published in 1986 the essays in this collection contribute both to the understanding of Ireland's place in Australian history and to the interpretation of the Irish scene in the nineteenth century. Ranging from law to W. B. Yeats, and from monumental sculpture to violence and crime, the papers reflect the diversity of the Irish-Australian experience and the persistence of a distinctively Irish culture even when transported across the world.

What is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History.The insightful essays collected here all circle around Ireland, with the first section attending to questions of nationalism and the second addressing pivotal moments in the history and historiography of the isle. Kearney contends that Ireland represents a striking example of the power of nationalism, which, while unique in many ways, provides an illuminating case study for students of the modern world. He goes on to elaborate his revisionist "four nations" approach to Irish history.In the book, Kearney recounts his own development in the field and the key personalities, departments, and movements he encountered along the way. It is a unique portrait not only of a humane and sensitive historian, but of the historical profession (and the practice of history) in Britain, Ireland, and the United States from the 1940s to the late 20th century-at once public intellectual history and fascinating personal memoir

"This is the first book to bring a philosophical lens to issues of socio-political and cultural importance in twenty-first century Ireland. While the social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Ireland has inspired extensive scholarly debate both within and well beyond the field of Irish Studies, there is a distinct lack of philosophical voices in these discussions. The aim of this volume is to enrich the fields of Philosophy and Irish Studies by encouraging a manifestly philosophical exploration of contemporary issues and concerns. The essays in this volume collectively address diverse philosophical questions on contemporary Ireland by exploring a variety of themes, including: diaspora, exile, return; women's bodies and autonomy; historic injustices and national healing; remembering and commemoration; institutionalisation and containment; colonialism and Ireland as "home"; conflict and violence; Northern Ireland and the peace process; nationalism, patriotism, and masculinities; ethnicity, immigration, and identity; and translation, art and culture. Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland marks a significant contribution to contemporary theorizations of Ireland by incorporating both Irish and transatlantic perspectives. It will appeal to a broad audience of scholars and advanced students working in philosophy, Irish Studies, feminist theory, history, legal studies, and literary theory. Beyond academia, it will also engage those interested in contemporary Ireland from policy and civil society perspectives."--

Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Ireland and Masculinities in History: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Caught in a Contract: Congreve, Farquhar and Contractarian Masculinities -- Introduction-The Contracting Hero -- Dramatising Contract -- The Patriot Critique of Contract -- Conclusion-Enabling Critique -- Chapter 3 'Whole Swarms of Bastards': A Modest Proposal, the Discourse of Economic Improvement and Protestant Masculinity in Ireland, 1720-1738 -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 4 Bog Men: Celtic Landscapes in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Satire -- Goddess Famine: Satirising Scotland in the 1760s -- Fringe Fantasies: National Identity and Boggy Propaganda -- Peat Burial: Arthur Murphy's Irish Blunder -- Chapter 5 Primogeniture, Strict Settlement and the Rituals of Masculinity on an Irish Landed Estate, 1855-90 -- Chapter 6 Thomas A. Hickey: The 'Uncrowned King' and Irish Masculinity on Two Continents -- Chapter 8 Fianna Fáil's Agrarian Man and the Economics of National Salvation -- The Economic History of the Land of Erin -- Fianna Fáil's Agrarian Masculinity -- Masculinty and the Cumann na nGaedheal Red Scare -- The Economic War and the Restoration of National Dignity -- Continuity and Revolution on the Global Periphery -- Chapter 9 Bachelor Trouble, Troubled Bachelors: The Cultural Figure of the Bachelor in Ballybunion and Mullingar -- The Figure of the Bachelor -- Ballybunion, 1972: The Gay Bachelor -- Mullingar, 1968/1940: The Westmeath Bachelor -- Chapter 10 Irish Fatherhood in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 11 'No Idle Sightseers': The Ulster Women's Unionist Council and the Masculine World of Politics During the Ulster Crisis, 1912-14 -- Chapter 12 Irish Protestant Masculinities and Orangewomen in Scotland, Canada and England, 1890-1918.

A History of Settlement in Ireland provides a stimulating and thought-provoking overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the issues of settlement change and distribution within the contexts of:* environment* demography* culture.The collection goes further by setting the agenda for future research in this rapidly expanding area of academic interest.This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the archaeology, history and social geography of Ireland