Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-century IrelandSamuel Ferguson (1810-86) was one of 19th-century Ireland's most influential writers, but his politics and cultural agenda have never been fully understood. This book draws on his neglected prose writings to illuminate his layered ideology, and to expose his various determining contexts, including his native Belfast and its Scottish Enlightenment hinterland, the Dublin University Magazine with its fraught literary-political protocol, the communities of the Ordnance Survey Commission, the Nation, and the Royal Irish Academy. Ferguson's guiding agenda is shown to be that of a civic idealism - a grassroots alternative to polarized political trajectories and a compelling ethos for a conflicted Irish Protestantism. The result is both a portrait of an individual in his time and a detailed engagement with Irish cultural politics from the Union to the Revival. |
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... published in 1834. From a literary perspective Ferguson's attack was certainly justified ; even Thomas Davis later agreed that such translations from the Irish were ' slavish and despairing ' . But the review itself smacks of insecurity ...
... published in 1834. From a literary perspective Ferguson's attack was certainly justified ; even Thomas Davis later agreed that such translations from the Irish were ' slavish and despairing ' . But the review itself smacks of insecurity ...
Page 82
... published in the DUM in April 1844 , following the official cancellation of the Memoir . The author laments the speed with which Irish relics and antiquities are disappearing in ' the ship- wreck of time ' , and compares the solicitude ...
... published in the DUM in April 1844 , following the official cancellation of the Memoir . The author laments the speed with which Irish relics and antiquities are disappearing in ' the ship- wreck of time ' , and compares the solicitude ...
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... published in the DUM between 1847 and 1851 ; the first on the newly published biography of the eighteenth - century architect James Gandon , and the second and third on major works by the contemporary art theorist and critic John Ruskin ...
... published in the DUM between 1847 and 1851 ; the first on the newly published biography of the eighteenth - century architect James Gandon , and the second and third on major works by the contemporary art theorist and critic John Ruskin ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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