‘Why Not Study History!’ Remembering Parnell’s Party v. Remembering Redmond’s Party

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-220
Author(s):  
Martin O'Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Sinn Fein ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Irish Revolution ◽  
First World

This chapter focuses on commemoration and public debates on the Irish Party’s place in history, problematizing the notion that the Irish Party was forgotten in ‘de Valera’s Ireland’. It assesses contemporary historiography, literature, theatre, film and commemoration to ascertain a variety of views on the Irish Party in this period. While the success of chiefly localised memorials to the Redmonds and others are analysed, there is particular focus on the celebrations of Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Davitt. Examining the commemorative events held for Parnell and Davitt in 1941 and 1946, this chapter demonstrates that the neglect in this period related to the latter day party led by Redmond which could not be separated from the First World War, the Rising and its defeat by Sinn Féin while Parnell’s movement could be subsumed into a nationalist narrative that culminated in the Irish revolution.

State and Church

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Tregenza
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Church And State ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Spiritual Embodiment ◽  
First World ◽  
The Church

Much nineteenth-century political theory was preoccupied with relations between state and Church. This chapter examines some of the leading European theories of Church and state many of which influenced and reflected broader public debates and institutional developments. In response to the French Revolution and to a series of liberal and democratic reforms various attempts were made to renew the Church by emphasizing its role as the spiritual embodiment of the nation. While in some contexts such as France this would provoke a secular reaction and ultimately a separation of Church and state, elsewhere increasing religious pluralization would generate pluralist state forms and corresponding theories of the plural state. The central themes covered include: ultramontanism to liberal Catholicism in France; the Hegelian theory of the state; liberal Anglicanism and the Broad Church movement; and theories of the plural state from the 1890s to the First World War.

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