Published in the American journal, Boundary 2, Feb. 2018.
We are all post-revisionists now. After... more Published in the American journal, Boundary 2, Feb. 2018. We are all post-revisionists now. After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is helpful to move beyond a narrow focus on an event itself, and to consider 1916 instead as the political culmination of a longer social and cultural revolution that should be set within a wider international, imperial, and military context. The year 1916 as a political moment gave substance to these earlier revolutions but stalled rather than furthered the social revolution, as its legacy was undermined by a counterrevolution. Moreover, 1916 should not be viewed through an exclusively Irish lens: it involved several international actors—the British Empire, the protagonists of World War I, the women’s movement, the Catholic Church, and socialism. Ignited by international as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating the relationship between la longue durée and les eventments
We are all postrevisionists now.After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is help... more We are all postrevisionists now.After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is helpful to move beyond a narrow focus on an event itself, and to consider 1916 instead as the political culmination of a longer social and cultural revolution that should be set within a wider international, imperial, and military context. The year 1916 as a political moment gave substance to these earlier revolutions but stalled rather than furthered the social revolution, as its legacy was undermined by a counterrevolution. Moreover, 1916 should not be viewed through an exclusively Irish lens: it involved several international actors—the British Empire, the protagonists of World War I, the women’s movement, the Catholic Church, and socialism. Ignited by inter national as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating the relationship between la longue durée and les eventments.
Published in the American journal, Boundary 2, Feb. 2018.
We are all post-revisionists now. After... more Published in the American journal, Boundary 2, Feb. 2018. We are all post-revisionists now. After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is helpful to move beyond a narrow focus on an event itself, and to consider 1916 instead as the political culmination of a longer social and cultural revolution that should be set within a wider international, imperial, and military context. The year 1916 as a political moment gave substance to these earlier revolutions but stalled rather than furthered the social revolution, as its legacy was undermined by a counterrevolution. Moreover, 1916 should not be viewed through an exclusively Irish lens: it involved several international actors—the British Empire, the protagonists of World War I, the women’s movement, the Catholic Church, and socialism. Ignited by international as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating the relationship between la longue durée and les eventments
We are all postrevisionists now.After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is help... more We are all postrevisionists now.After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is helpful to move beyond a narrow focus on an event itself, and to consider 1916 instead as the political culmination of a longer social and cultural revolution that should be set within a wider international, imperial, and military context. The year 1916 as a political moment gave substance to these earlier revolutions but stalled rather than furthered the social revolution, as its legacy was undermined by a counterrevolution. Moreover, 1916 should not be viewed through an exclusively Irish lens: it involved several international actors—the British Empire, the protagonists of World War I, the women’s movement, the Catholic Church, and socialism. Ignited by inter national as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating the relationship between la longue durée and les eventments.
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We are all post-revisionists now. After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is helpful to move beyond a narrow focus on an event itself, and to consider 1916 instead as the political culmination of a longer social and cultural revolution that should be set within a wider international, imperial, and military context. The year 1916 as a political moment gave substance to these earlier revolutions but stalled rather than furthered the social revolution, as its legacy was undermined by a counterrevolution. Moreover, 1916 should not be viewed through an exclusively Irish lens: it involved several international actors—the British Empire, the protagonists of World War I, the women’s movement, the Catholic Church, and socialism. Ignited by international as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating the relationship between la longue durée and les eventments
We are all post-revisionists now. After the centenary commemoration of the insurrection, it is helpful to move beyond a narrow focus on an event itself, and to consider 1916 instead as the political culmination of a longer social and cultural revolution that should be set within a wider international, imperial, and military context. The year 1916 as a political moment gave substance to these earlier revolutions but stalled rather than furthered the social revolution, as its legacy was undermined by a counterrevolution. Moreover, 1916 should not be viewed through an exclusively Irish lens: it involved several international actors—the British Empire, the protagonists of World War I, the women’s movement, the Catholic Church, and socialism. Ignited by international as well as national forces, its outcome must also be assessed in terms of the arid postwar settlement that contributed to interwar fascism and authoritarianism. This essay introduces a wider spatial horizon and a longer time frame for considering the Rising: it is an exercise in calibrating the relationship between la longue durée and les eventments