Comment: The return of revisionism

Journal of British Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 134-145

  Curtis Jr , L Perry ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61149397897     PISSN: 00219371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424983     Document Type: Note

References (28)

1. T. W. Moody, "Irish History and Irish Mythology," Hermathena, no. 124 (Summer 1978): 7-24
2. For Gilley's critique, see "English Attitudes to the Irish in England, 1780-1900," in Immigrants and Minorities in British Society, ed. Colin Holmes (London, 1978), pp. 81-110
3. For my response to Gilley, see L. P. Curtis, Jr., Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature, rev. ed. (Washington, D.C., 1997), esp. pp. 109-13
4. Luke Gibbons, "Race against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History," in his Transformations in Irish Culture (Cork, 1996), pp. 149-50
5. See also Curtis, Apes and Angels, pp. 191-92, n. 198
6. For English racializing of the indigenous Irish in the early modern era, see Steve Garner, Racism in the Irish experience (London, 2004), chap. 3, pp. 74-81
7. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York, 1991), esp. pp. 133-50
8. John Beddoe, The Races of Britain (Bristol and London, 1885), pp. 2-11, 219-20, 223-24, 268. According to Beddoe the highest "Index of Nigrescence" was found among the Celts of Wales, western Ireland, and the Scottish Highlands
9. Alan O'Day, "Home Rule and the Historians," in The Mating of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy, ed. D. George Boyce and Alan O'Day (London and New York, 1996), esp. pp. 148, 159
10. These and similar observations may be found in Michael de Nie, The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 (Madison, Wisc., 2004), esp. pp. 117-19
11. Christine Bolt, Victorian Attitudes to Race (London, 1971)
12. Nancy Stepan, The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800-1960 (London, 1982)
13. George W. Stocking, Jr., Victorian Anthropology (New York, 1987)
14. Quoted in D. George Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland (London, 1991), p. 215
15. Curtis, ASC, pp. 100-104
16. These comments by Charles Bretherton, Lord Alfred Douglas, and Herbert Pirn appear in R. M. Douglas, "Anglo-Saxons and Attacotti: The Racialization of Irishness in Britain between the Wars," Ethnic and Racial Studies 25, no. 1 (January 2002): 40-63, esp. 45-48
17. Erskine Childers, The Framework of Home Rule (London, 1911), p. xv
18. Quoted in Douglas, "Anglo-Saxons and Attacotti," pp. 41-44
19. Mary J. Hickman, "Alternative Historiographies of the Irish in Britain: A Critique of the Segregation/Assimilation Model," in The Irish in Victorian Britain, ed. Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley (Dublin, 1999), pp. 236-53
20. See also David Fitzpatrick, "A Curious Middle Place: The Irish in Britain, 1871-1921," in The Irish in Britain, 1815-1939, ed. Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley (London, 1989), pp. 10-59
21. Clare Carroll and Patricia King, eds., Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (Notre Dame, Ind., 2003), p. 3
22. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, "The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Problems of Integration," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1 (1981): 149-74
23. De Nie, Eternal Paddy, esp. pp. 21, 33, 267
24. Garner, Racism, p. 122
25. "Knox on the Celtic Races," Anthropological Review and Journal 6 (1868): 176-77
26. See also Robert Knox, The Races of Men: A Fragment (London, 1850), pp. 321-24
27. Bernard Shaw, The Matter with Ireland, ed. David H. Greene and Dan H. Laurence (London, 1962), p. 294
28. Bernard Shaw, "Preface for Politicians," John Bull's Other Island (London, 1907), pp. xxxiv-xxxv