De Nie, Michael and Cleary, Joe
(2007)
Editors’ Introduction.
Eire Ireland - a Journal of Irish Studies, 42 (1&2).
pp. 5-10.
ISSN 0013-2683
Abstract
Ireland and empire is now one of the most vibrant fields of inquiry
in Irish Studies, reflecting in part a burgeoning interest in imperial
topics across the disciplines in European and American universities
in the last twenty years. Inspired by Edward Said and postcolonial
studies, much of the late-twentieth-century work on the British,
French, and other empires focused on placing empire and imperial
themes within national literatures and histories in order to blur distinctions
and divides between domestic society and the colonial
world. The writing of empire into modern Irish literature and history
proved somewhat contentious at first, producing a vibrant and
far-ranging debate on whether or not Ireland after the early modern
period could usefully be considered a colony and on the colonial
and/or postcolonial affiliations of Irish nationalists and the Irish
diaspora.
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