Ireland and Empire in the Late Nineteenth Century

This book examines the place of imperialism in the cultural, political and economic life of late nineteenth—century Irish society.

It highlights the tensions which arose because Ireland was at the same time both a colonial subject of Britain, yet also shared aspects of the imperial culture which was being formed during this period. It considers how Empire seeped into everyday Irish life, explores how Irish men and Irish women were intimately bound up with British expansionism, with imperial ...