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Elliott, Jack, (Researcher in history) (2012) Communicating advanced nationalist identity in Dublin, 1890-1917. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis considers the ways in which advanced nationalist identity was
communicated to the broader Irish populace in Dublin from 1890 to 1917. It
contends that the performance and communication of advanced nationalist
identity is best understood within the context of fin-de-siècle Dublin. During
this period the streets formed spaces in which identities, both political and
otherwise, were performed and through reciprocal spectatorship were also
negotiated and mediated. The public funerals of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa
in 1915 and Thomas Ashe in 1917 are the subject of close scrutiny. Through
analysing the performance of these funerals, this thesis shows how the
relationship between the physical space of the city and the body was
integral to the performance of advanced nationalist identity. The Easter
Rising is presented as a moment of rupture between these two funerals,
during which the rebels failed to communicate effectively with their
audience. This thesis further argues that in the immediate aftermath of the
Rising, material culture in the form of relics and massLproduced ephemera
played a vital role in shaping and communicating a narrative of the Rising to
make it intelligible to the Irish populace. The successful construction of an
interpretive framework meant that, by the time the rebels returned from
their various places of internment, public understanding of and
identification with both the Rising and advanced nationalist identity more
broadly, had dramatically increased.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nationalism -- Ireland -- Dublin -- History, Group identity -- Ireland -- Dublin -- History | ||||
Official Date: | November 2012 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of History | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Luddy, Maria | ||||
Sponsors: | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | ||||
Extent: | viii, 322 leaves. | ||||
Language: | eng |
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