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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... result the coun- try had missed legitimate stages of social development , having been unable to progress from clan rule to mature constitution , and having switched its affec- tions instead from clan chief to ' clan Rome ' . Against the ...
... result the coun- try had missed legitimate stages of social development , having been unable to progress from clan rule to mature constitution , and having switched its affec- tions instead from clan chief to ' clan Rome ' . Against the ...
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... result of a trick , is displeasing to me ; for I like in architecture , as in everything else , to see what the result ( whether it be a conclusion in an argument or an architectural effect in building ) is supported by ; and therefore ...
... result of a trick , is displeasing to me ; for I like in architecture , as in everything else , to see what the result ( whether it be a conclusion in an argument or an architectural effect in building ) is supported by ; and therefore ...
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... result of choice rather than relegation . Far from becoming isolated as a consequence of his cultural activism , he consciously developed through the nature of his research a specific and supportive fraternity . Again , this might be ...
... result of choice rather than relegation . Far from becoming isolated as a consequence of his cultural activism , he consciously developed through the nature of his research a specific and supportive fraternity . Again , this might be ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 7 |
Scotland Ulster and the Hibernian nightsentertainments | 29 |
The Irish Minstrelsy review 1834 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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