James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals. Known to intellectual historians as the author of a monumental History of England in the sixteenth century and as a key exponent of Victorian religious doubt, he is also frequently referenced as the author of a series of scandalously provocative novels and of a hugely controversial biography of Thomas Carlyle. Historians of the British Empire and of Ireland have frequently been compelled to address his sometimes outrageous (but often representative) historical writings. Scholars of mid-Victorian politics have no less often turned to Froude as a typical representative of Victorian fears of democracy, while more recently students of political thought have identified him as an early representative of a new form of Commonwealth civic republicanism.Yet for all that Froude remains a strangely marginalised, fragmented, and neglected figure. Ciaran Brady now addresses this remarkable gap. Based on a thorough critical examination of all of Froude's published works - many of which have been discovered and identified here for the first time - and supplemented by intensive research into Froude's private and widely scattered manuscript materials, he offers the first sustained study of Froude's life and thought. Against the common assumption that Froude's life can be divided along simple lines - the sometime enfant terrible who aged into a respectable man of letters - he argues that there was a deeper coherence underlying everything he wrote from the scandalous productions of the 1840s to the authoritative university lectures of the 1890s.In addition to providing a study of a major but neglected nineteenth century intellectual, Brady offers a critical analysis of the impulses, the aspirations, and the unquestioned assumptions underlying the Romantic project of personal renovation, and an alternative view of that unique phenomenon known as 'the Victorian sage'.

James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet

Biographies & Memoirs

Brady, Ciaran

Historical

Oxford University Press

James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals. Known to intellectual historians as the author of a monumental History of England in the sixteenth century and more generally as a key exponent of Victorian religious doubt, he is also frequently referenced by literary critics and historians as the author of a series of scandalously provocative novels and of a major and hugely controversial biography of Thomas Carlyle. Historians of the British Empire and historians of Ireland have frequently been compelled to address his sometimes outrageous (but often representative) historical writings. Scholars of mid-Victorian politics have no less often turned to Froude as a typical representative of Victorian fears of democracy, while more recently students of political thought have identified him as an early representative of a new form of Commonwealth civic republicanism.Yet for all that Froude remains a strangely marginalised, fragmented, and neglected figure. Ciaran Brady now addresses this remarkable gap. Based on a thorough critical examination of all of Froude's published works (many of which have been discovered and identified here for the first time), and supplemented by intensive research into Froude's private and widely scattered manuscript materials, he offers the first sustained study of Froude's life and thought. Against the common assumption that Froude's life can simply be divided along simple lines - the sometime enfant terrible who aged into a respectable man of letters - he argues that there was a deeper coherence underlying everything he wrote from the scandalous productions of the 1840s to the authoritative university lectures of the 1890s.In addition to providing a study of a major but neglected nineteenth century intellectual, Brady offers a critical analysis of the impulses, the aspirations, and the unquestioned assumptions underlying the Romantic project of personal renovation, and an alternative view of that unique phenomenon known as 'the Victorian sage'.

This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that the immense difficulties faced by the reformers in pursuing their objectives forced them to make administrative innovations that ultimately contradicted and undermined their original policy.

The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536–1588 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Ulster: An Illustrated History

During the present century, "Ulster" has come to signify the six counties of present-day Northern Ireland. Historic Ulster, however, was one of the four provinces of Ireland embracing in addition the counties of Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. This concise account traces the long and varied history of the region, from the pre-Norman Celtic period to the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1986. While Ulster through the centuries has in many ways developed in accordance with general Irish social, political and economic trends, it has also been subject to a number of special factors - Scottish immigration, religious differences, the growth of its own distinctive industrial base - which have increasingly set it apart from the rest of the island. As a result, the history of the province is both intellectually problematic and politically controversial. Each chapter draws on the most up-to-date research to give a fresh and authoritative view of the period under consideration, highlighting the major themes and issues within a narrative framework.

Walker, Brian

O'Dowd, Mary

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

Natives and Newcomers: Essays on the Making of Irish Colonial Society, 1534-1641

Irish Academic Pr

Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism 1938-1994

<p>Ã«Ciaran Brady has done an excellent job in putting together a collection of documents which both traces the history of revisionism in Irish historiography and uncovers most of the contentious intellectual issues which revisionism raises.Ã Irish Studies Review Ã«The book is admirably suited to the teaching of university courses on Irish history, where historiography is now a major issue.Ã Irish Times</p>

Irish Academic Press

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Worsted in the game: Losers in Irish history

Dublin: The Lilliput Press

<p>This encyclopedia gives a wealth of information about: Ireland's history, its modern-day institutions, politics, and government; towns and places in Ireland, including tourist attractions; Irish men and women in all fields of activity; and Ireland's notable cultural heritage, literature, music, film, and sport. The work should appeal to anyone looking for reliable information about Ireland and its place in Europe.</p>

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Ireland

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Helicon Publishing

This is an extended and critical study of Shane O'Neill, a 16th-century Irish king. Known as ""Shane the Proud,"" his exploits against the English have been memorialized in drama, poetry, and fiction. Ciaran Brady, a leading historian in Early Modern History, returns this neglected and misunderstood historical figure to his rightful place - at the center of this turbulent period in Irish history. In doing so Brady reveals not only the highly complex nature of the problems confronting Shane and his English adversaries, and the genuine nature of the attempts of both sides to find a permanent solution on mutually acceptable terms, but also the combination of surface contingencies and deeper ideological forces that doomed their efforts to failure.

Shane O'Neill (Life and Times New Series)

University College Dublin Press

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James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet

James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet

The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536–1588 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)

The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536–1588 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)

Ulster: An Illustrated History

Natives and Newcomers: Essays on the Making of Irish Colonial Society, 1534-1641

Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism 1938-1994

Worsted in the game: Losers in Irish history

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Ireland

Shane O'Neill (Life and Times New Series)