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OverviewExhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative platform for imagining a host of Irish pasts, presents and futures. Fair organisers responded to the contexts of famine and poverty, migration and diasporic settlement, independence movements and partition, as well as post-colonial nation building. My research demonstrates how Irish businesses and labourers, the elite organisers of the fairs and successive Irish governments curated Irishness. The central malleability of Irish identity on display emerged in tandem with the unfolding of Ireland's political transformation from a colony of the British Empire, a migrant community in the United States, to a divided Ireland in the form of the Republic and Northern Ireland. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shahmima AkhtarPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9781526157263ISBN 10: 1526157268 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 30 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Irish identities on display 1 Famine and industry: Ireland’s original exhibitions 2 Diaspora and migration: Displayed Ireland abroad 3 Home rule and capitalism: Irish modernities 4 Interwar and partition: A divided Ireland 5 Debt and disagreement: Postcolonial Ireland Conclusion: Ireland on display Bibliography Index -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationShahmima Akhtar is Lecturer in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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