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Author Higgins, Padhraig.

Title A nation of politicians : gender, patriotism, and political culture in late eighteenth-century Ireland / Padhraig Higgins
Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 333 pages) : illustrations, map
Series History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora
History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
Contents "Alehouse Politicians": The Culture of Print and the Political Nation -- "Paddy Shall Rise": Celebration, Commemoration, and National Identity -- Shopping for Ireland: Consumption, Gender, and the Politics of Free Trade -- The New Magna Carta: Voluntary Association, the Crowd, and the Uses of Official Political Culture -- A Rage Militaire: The Volunteers -- "Playing the Man": Invasion, Masculinity, and the Citizen-Soldier -- Petticoat Government: Women and Patriotism -- "A Democratical Spirit": Reform, Protectionism, and Popular Politics
Summary Annotation Between the years 1778 and 1784, groups that had previously been excluded from the Irish political spherewomen, Catholics, lower-class Protestants, farmers, shopkeepers, and other members of the laboring and agrarian classesbegan to imagine themselves as civil subjects with a stake in matters of the state. This politicization of non-elites was largely driven by the Volunteers, a local militia force that emerged in Ireland as British troops were called away to the American War of Independence. With remarkable speed, the Volunteers challenged central features of British imperial rule over Ireland and helped citizens express a new Irish national identity.<br /> In A Nation of Politicians , Padhraig Higgins argues that the development of Volunteer-initiated activitiesassociating, petitioning, subscribing, shopping, and attending celebrationsexpanded the scope of political participation. Using a wide range of literary, archival, and visual sources, Higgins examines how ubiquitous forms of communicationsermons, songs and ballads, handbills, toasts, graffiti, theater, rumors, and gossipencouraged ordinary Irish citizens to engage in the politics of a more inclusive society and consider the broader questions of civil liberties and the British Empire. A Nation of Politicians presents a fascinating tale of the beginnings of Irelands richly vocal political tradition at this important intersection of cultural, intellectual, social, and public history. Winner of the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index
Notes English
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Subject Political participation -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY.
Militia
Political participation
Politics and government
SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- 1760-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068013
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068038
Ireland -- Militia -- History -- 18th century
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009015029
ISBN 9780299233334
0299233332
0299233340
9780299233341
9786612424199
6612424192