Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916 - Tapa dura

Moran, Sean Farrell

 
9780813207759: Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption: The Mind of the Easter Rising, 1916
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ISBN 10: 0813207754 ISBN 13: 9780813207759
Editorial: The Catholic University of America Press, 1993

Sinopsis

Patrick Pearse, an important Irish journalist, educator, and artist, came to play the pivotal role in the Easter Rising of 1916. Here Seán Farrell Moran examines Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture to explain how this unlikely revolutionary became the spokesman of the violent forces within the nationalist movement. ""I was excited and intrigued by the work, responses I imagine will be those of a large number of readers. They will be students of Irish history, of course, but the book will appeal, too, to followers of present-day Irish politics, to the significant number of readers of biography, and to those interested in psychohistory. . . . The significance of violent self-sacrifice in Irish cultural history is, prima facie, a topic calling for psychohistorical investigation, but Moran's scrupulous assessment of previous scholarship leads event the skeptical reader to the same conclusion.""-G. J. Barker-Benfield, Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Albany

""Moran delves into the psyche of Patrick Pearse . . . to outline a man seeking success if not in this life then in the next. Pearse was executed following the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, becoming the first modern Irish leader advocating physical force to die for his principles. Moran asks why Pearse, an unlikely hero, did so. . . . As a counter to nationalistic texts, Moran's study fills a niche in academic collections of modern Irish history.""-Library Journal

""Lucid, engaging and well researched.""-Irish Independent Weekender

""[A]n intriguing character study of Patrick Pearse . . .""-Tom Garvin, Irish Political Studies

""Pearse has been the subject of several biographies, but this is the first to apply the insights of psychoanalysis to either Pearse or . . . any of the other significant figures of 20th-century Irish history. Moran seems well suited to this task.""-The Psychohistory Review

Sean Farrel Moran is associate professor of history at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

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Reseña del editor

Patrick Pearse, an important Irish journalist, educator, and artist, came to play the pivotal role in the Easter Rising of 1916. Here Sean Farrell Moran examines Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture to explain how this unlikely revolutionary became the spokesman of the violent forces within the nationalist movement. "I was excited and intrigued by the work, responses I imagine will be those of a large number of readers. They will be students of Irish history, of course, but the book will appeal, too, to followers of present-day Irish politics, to the significant number of readers of biography, and to those interested in psychohistory...The significance of violent self-sacrifice in Irish cultural history is, prima facie, a topic calling for psychohistorical investigation, but Moran's scrupulous assessment of previous scholarship leads event the skeptical reader to the same conclusion."-G. J. Barker-Benfield, Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Albany "Moran delves into the psyche of Patrick Pearse ...to outline a man seeking success if not in this life then in the next. Pearse was executed following the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916, becoming the first modern Irish leader advocating physical force to die for his principles. Moran asks why Pearse, an unlikely hero, did so...As a counter to nationalistic texts, Moran's study fills a niche in academic collections of modern Irish history."-Library Journal "Lucid, engaging and well researched."-Irish Independent Weekender "[A]n intriguing character study of Patrick Pearse ..."-Tom Garvin, Irish Political Studies "Pearse has been the subject of several biographies, but this is the first to apply the insights of psychoanalysis to either Pearse or ...any of the other significant figures of 20th-century Irish history. Moran seems well suited to this task."-The Psychohistory Review Sean Farrel Moran is associate professor of history at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

Reseña del editor

Patrick Pearse's role in the development of Irish nationalism remains controversial. Previous historical analysis has tended to view him as either a saint-like father of his country or a disturbing failure whose success was limited to the glorification of violence in Irish nationalism. In each case, historians have not been able to clarify adequately how Pearse, an unlikely revolutionary, came to play the pivotal role in the Easter Rising of 1916. In this book, Sean Farrell Moran psychoanalyses Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture to explain how he became the spokesman for the violent forces within the nationalist movement. Examining Pearse's psycho-social development, his speeches, poetry and political writings, and his careers as an important Irish journalist, educator and artist, Moran reveals that Pearse was unprepared for adulthood. Pearse sought to resolve this psychological need in a resolute act that would redeem himself; in the process, he became increasingly preoccupied with violence and death. In his personal search for psychological resolution, Moran suggests, Pearse spoke to his time. His quest coincided with the failure of Irish artists, politicians, and Irish republicans to win national independence. This failure led many Irish nationalists to embrace violence as the sole means for personal and national redemption. Pearse articulated his vision of redemptive violence in mythic terms - promising eternal victory - and helped to mobilise republicans for a doomed insurrection. This book argues that Pearse's achievement has had a lasting impact on the course of subsequent Irish politics and continues to provide both motivation and justification to Irish republicans. By embracing the myth of redemptive violence over the dictates of reason and pragmatism, Patrick Pearse vocalised the Irish rejection of modernity at a critical moment in European history. Moran's book re-evaluates Pearse, the Easter Rising and Irish republicanism. It also provides an examination of European and British intellectual history, with implications for the study of political violence and terrorism.

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Editorial
The Catholic University of America Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0813207754
ISBN 13 
9780813207759
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Número de páginas
233
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