Paris - Capital of Irish Culture: France, Ireland and the Republic, 1798-1916

by Pierre Joannon (Editor), Kevin Whelan (Editor)

Overview

This collection explores the influence of France on the evolution of Irish political and cultural thought from the eighteenth century, showing how the convergence between the two countries fed into the cultural energies that underpinned the 1916 Rising. In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris loomed large in the wider European imagination. Paris functioned as a political capital for fugitive Irish republicans from 1798 until 1916. This Parisian link was there from the Jacobites, through the United Irishmen to the Young Irelanders and the Fenians. Parisian links remained strong in the build-up to the 1916 Rising and the French exerted a strong intellectual influence on pre-1916 Irish political activists. Contributors include: Thomas Bartlett (U Aberdeen), Laurent Colantonio (U Quebec), Seamus Deane (U Notre Dame), Phyllis Gaffney (UCD), Pierre Joannon, Janick Julienne, Sylvie Kleinman, Anne Magny, Barry McCrea (U Notre Dame), Thomas O'Connor (Maynooth U), Justin Dolan Stover (Idaho State U), Pierre Ranger, Kevin Whelan (U Notre Dame). [Subject: Irish Studies, History, Politics, French Studies, Ireland & France]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781846826511
Publisher:	Four Courts Press
Publication date:	11/17/2017
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Pierre Joannon is the author of many books on the relations between Ireland and France.

Kevin Whelan is Director of the University of Notre Dame Global Gateway in Dublin.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7

Introduction Pierre Joannon Kevin Whelan 9

1 Paris: the promised land? Pierre Joannon 13

2 Paris: capital of Irish culture Kevin Whelan 33

3 Paris, 1796: birthplace of the first Irish Republic? Tone's mission to France and Irish sovereignty Sylvie Kleinman 77

4 Was Bonaparte in the GPO? The legend of Napoleon in Irish history, 1796-1916 Thomas Bartlett 91

5 Catholicism, republicanism and race: Ireland in nineteenth-century French thought Seamus Deane 110

6 Daniel O'Connell, a model for France; Paris of the barricades, an example for Young Ireland Laurent Colantonio 130

7 John Patrick Leonard and the Irish colony in Paris, 1848-89 Janick Julienne 145

8 Maud Gonne and Irish revolutionary agitation in Paris Anne Magny 160

9 'Shattered glass and toppling masonry': war damage in Paris and Dublin Justin Dolan Stover 175

10 Paris, diplomatic capital of the world: Sinn Féin diplomatic initiatives, 1919-21 Pierre Ranger 188

11 Ludovic Naudeau and the Irish War of Independence Pierre Joannon 202

12 Roger Chauviré's perspective on 1916 and its aftermath Phyllis Gaffney 215

13 Dublin, Paris, and the world republic of letters Barry McCrea 227

Postscript Pierre Joannon Kevin Whelan 240

List of Contributors 245

Index 247