Enemies of empire

New perspectives on imperialism, literature and history

Eóin Flannery & Angus Mitchell, editors

Introduction: empire, literature, history
Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell

Fasting for the public: Irish and Indian sources of Marion Wallace
Dunlop’s 1909 hunger strike
Joseph Lennon

Roger Casement: the evolution of an enemy of empire – I
Angus Mitchell

‘We are of necessity anti-imperialists’: Irish republicans and
empire, 1922‒39
Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin

Erskine Childers: the evolution of an enemy of empire – II
Brian P. Murphy OSB

Fraudesia: the British South Africa Company and its enemies
Stephen Donovan

Transient constructs: Soviet monuments and those of their enemies
Talinn Grigor

Offshore Irelands; or, Hy-Brazil hybridized: utopian colonies and
anti-colonial utopias, 1641‒1760
Michael Griffin

The use of Hiberno-English as a mouthpiece for Irish identity in
the Irish Theatre: Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World and
the drama of Martin McDonagh
Róisín Ní Ghairbhí

The language of empire and the empire of language: Joyce and the
return of the postcolonial repressed
Eugene O’Brien

Collateral language: empire, theory and idioms of authority
Eóin Flannery

The limits of ‘Irish Studies’: historicism, culturalism, paternalism
Linda Connolly

Is the ‘post’ in ‘post-totalitarian’ the ‘post’ in ‘postcolonial’?
Michael Kilburn