Paddy and Mr. Punch by R F Foster

Paddy and Mr. Punch by R F Foster

This collection of historical essays explores the unique connections between Ireland and England. Amongst the subjects dealt with are: "The Irish Question"; varieties of Irishness; the importance of place; famous people, such as Randolph Churchill, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mrs O'Shea, Thackeray, Trollope and Yeats; the making of literary reputations; and - in the last essay, "Marginal Men and Micks on the Make" - a discussion of the uses of exile, both to and from Ireland. Against the cut and dried stereotypes of Anglo-Irish relations, an overall ambiguity is asserted here, whether the topic under discussion is the flawed structure of the Act of Union, the way words are used in Irish political rhetoric, or the divided allegiances of Parnell, Yeats and Bowen. Other works by Roy Foster include "Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family", "Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life", "Modern Ireland 1600-1972", "The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland" and "The Sub-Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue: Selected Essays of Hubert Butler".

Roy Foster was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1949 and educated in Ireland and in the United States. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he was a Foundation Scholar in History, he subsequently became Professor of Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, as well as
holding visiting fellowships at St Anthony's College, Oxford, the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and Princeton University. In 1991 he became the first Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy since 1989. His previous
books include Charles Stewart Parnell: The Man and His Family (1976), Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life (1981), Modern Ireland 1600-1972 (1988), The Sub-Prefect Should Have Held His Tongue: Selected Essays of Hubert Butler (1990), Paddy and Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History
(1993), and W. B. Yeats: The Apprentice Mage Vol. I (1997).

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ISBN 13	9780713990959
ISBN 10	0713990953
Title	Paddy and Mr. Punch
Author	R F Foster
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1993-09-30
Number of pages	400
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