A man called Mahaffy: an Irish cosmopolitan confronts crisis, 1899-1919
This article examines the last twenty years of the life of one of Ireland's most controversial scholars, the polymath John Pentland Mahaffy. Mahaffy's name still has wide resonance in Irish historiography owing to his interventions in Irish cultural politics in the decades before 1919. He...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Historical research. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987. - 89(2016), 246, Seite 846-865 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2016
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Historical research |
| Schlagworte: | Culture Scholars Politics Historical analysis |
| Zusammenfassung: | This article examines the last twenty years of the life of one of Ireland's most controversial scholars, the polymath John Pentland Mahaffy. Mahaffy's name still has wide resonance in Irish historiography owing to his interventions in Irish cultural politics in the decades before 1919. He is frequently seen as an 'anti-Irish' figure. This article places Mahaffy in the wider context of international scholarship of the late Victorian era, arguing that he was a cosmopolitan whose overriding concern was not Ireland, or even Britain, but the fracturing of the republic of letters. |
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| ISSN: | 0950-3471 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2281.12157 |