The Long Gestation

Résumé du livre

"Maume challenges this view, arguing for an organic and integrated understanding of the period. He discusses the nationalist tradition inherited from the eighteenth-century Patriots and Young Ireland which was transmitted to a newly literate mass audience. He traces its gaps and incoherences and shows how it re-invented itself in order to produce the Irish-Ireland movement of the 1890s. He pays particular attention to the activities of the various separatist societies grouped under the title Sinn Fein, parliamentary dissidents such as William O'Brien and the mainstream parliamentary party under John Redmond. In the process, he traces the silent rise of Sinn Fein which led to its spectacular victory over the Redmondites in the 1918 election."--Jacket.