For the Land They Loved: Irish Political Melodramas, 1890-1925

By: Cheryl Herr

Fueled by the Enlightenment's model of revolutionary cultural change, the hopeful Irish rose against British rule in the famous rebellion of 1798. The British responded quickly and violently to suppress it, and for generations after, Irish school children knew intimately the stories of patriotism, terror, and betrayal that came out of the '98 Rising. The enactment of these stories, through a series of extremely popular political melodramas, reinforced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815624816
• ISBN13: 9780815624813
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"