This interdisciplinary study addresses Hungarian perspectives on Ireland and Irish engagements with Hungary from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, examining nationalist, colonialist and imperialist aspects of these encounters. It discusses Hungarian writings on Ireland during the 1830s and 1840s, including commentaries on the Irish political leader, Daniel O'Connell. McAteer analyses Hungarian translations of verses from Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies by Sándor Petofi, the iconic poet of the Hungarian Revolution, 1848-49. He addresses Irish nationalist responses to the Hungarian Revolution in The Nation newspaper and in Irish poetry. McAteer also shows the transnational connection that William Smith O'Brien's Hungarian journal of 1861 forms between nineteenth-century Irish and Hungarian politics, Smith O'Brien having led the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. The book provides the first account of debates during the 1880s over whether or not the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich/Compromise of 1867 provided a basis for an Irish Home Rule settlement. McAteer sheds light on these debates as they arose in the British, Irish and Hungarian press, in addition to Westminster Parliament. He thereby lays a basis for new readings of the two most significant political and literary engagements between Ireland and Hungary in modern times: Arthur Griffith's The Resurrection of Hungary, first published in 1904, and James Joyce's Ulysses, published in 1922 but set famously in Dublin in 1904. Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905: Transnational Politics and Literature will appeal to anyone interested in transnational aspects of nationalism and modernism; in European and imperial contexts for Irish history, politics and literature; in nineteenth century Hungarian history and culture.
| ISBN: | 9783032147349 |
| Publication date: | 3rd April 2026 |
| Author: | Michael McAteer |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 298 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 European history Literature: history and criticism |
This interdisciplinary study addresses Hungarian perspectives on Ireland and Irish engagements with Hungary from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, examining nationalist, colonialist and imperialist aspects of these encounters. It discusses Hungarian writings on Ireland during the 1830s and 1840s, including commentaries on the Irish political leader, Daniel O'Connell. McAteer analyses Hungarian translations of verses from Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies by Sándor Petofi, the iconic poet of the Hungarian Revolution, 1848-49. He addresses Irish nationalist responses to the Hungarian Revolution in The Nation newspaper and in Irish poetry. McAteer also shows the transnational connection that William Smith O'Brien's Hungarian journal of 1861 forms between nineteenth-century Irish and Hungarian politics, Smith O'Brien having led the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. The book provides the first account of debates during the 1880s over whether or not the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich/Compromise of 1867 provided a basis for an Irish Home Rule settlement. McAteer sheds light on these debates as they arose in the British, Irish and Hungarian press, in addition to Westminster Parliament. He thereby lays a basis for new readings of the two most significant political and literary engagements between Ireland and Hungary in modern times: Arthur Griffith's The Resurrection of Hungary, first published in 1904, and James Joyce's Ulysses, published in 1922 but set famously in Dublin in 1904. Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905: Transnational Politics and Literature will appeal to anyone interested in transnational aspects of nationalism and modernism; in European and imperial contexts for Irish history, politics and literature; in nineteenth century Hungarian history and culture.
Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905 features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, European history, Literature: history and criticism
Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905 is available in Hardback
Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905 was written by Michael McAteer and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland
Ireland and Hungary, 1840-1905 has 298 pages
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