Smyllie's Ireland: Protestants, Independence, and the Man Who Ran the Irish Times (Irish Culture, Memory, Place)

Synopsis

“A thoughtful, superbly researched and elegantly written study of one the most important pioneering Irish newspaper editors of the past 150 years.” —Journal of British StudiesAs Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early twentieth century, a clear delineation was made between what was “authentically” Irish and what was considered to be English influence. As a member of the Anglo-Irish elite who inhabited a precarious identity somewhere in between, Irish Times editor R. M. Smyllie found himself having to navigate the painful experience of being made to feel an outsider in his own homeland. In this engaging consideration of a bombastic, outspoken, and conflicted man, Caleb Wood Richardson offers a way of seeing Smyllie as representative of the larger Anglo-Irish experience. Richardson explores Smyllie’s experience in a German internment camp in World War I, his foreign correspondence work for the Irish Times at the Paris Peace Conference, and his guiding hand as an advocate for culture and intellectualism. Smyllie had a direct influence on the careers of writers such as Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice, and his surprising decision to include an Irish-language column in the paper had an enormous impact on the career of novelist Flann O’Brien. Smyllie, like many of his class, felt a strong political connection to England at the same time as he had enduring cultural dedications to Ireland. How Smyllie and his generation navigated the collision of identities and allegiances helped to define what Ireland is today.“Describes the rich history of Irish Protestants who found themselves aliens in their own land.” —Communication Booknotes Quarterly

Copyright:

2019

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

196 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780253041265

Related ISBNs:

9780253041234

Publisher:

Indiana University Press

Date of Addition:

01/19/25

Copyrighted By:

IUP

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies, Communication

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