LEADER 03645nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910970625303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612424199 010 $a9781282424197 010 $a128242419X 010 $a9780299233334 010 $a0299233332 024 7 $a2027/heb08407 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006601 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000340740 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264189 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340740 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10408073 035 $a(PQKB)10933489 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444905 035 $a(OCoLC)507436207 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444905 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10351462 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL242419 035 $a(dli)HEB08407 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011659287 035 $a(Perlego)4508481 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006601 100 $a20090413d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA nation of politicians $egender, patriotism, and political culture in late eighteenth-century Ireland /$fPadhraig Higgins 210 $aMadison, WI $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2010 215 $ax, 333 p 225 1 $aHistory of Ireland and the Irish diaspora 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299233341 311 08$a0299233340 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aBetween the years 1778 and 1784, groups that had previously been excluded from the Irish political sphere-women, Catholics, lower-class Protestants, farmers, shopkeepers, and other members of the laboring and agrarian classes-began to imagine themselves as civil subjects with a stake in matters of the state. This politicization of non-elites was largely driven by the Volunteers, a local militia force that emerged in Ireland as British troops were called away to the American War of Independence. With remarkable speed, the Volunteers challenged central features of British imperial rule over Ireland and helped citizens express a new Irish national identity. In A Nation of Politicians, Padhraig Higgins argues that the development of Volunteer-initiated activities-associating, petitioning, subscribing, shopping, and attending celebrations-expanded the scope of political participation. Using a wide range of literary, archival, and visual sources, Higgins examines how ubiquitous forms of communication-sermons, songs and ballads, handbills, toasts, graffiti, theater, rumors, and gossip-encouraged ordinary Irish citizens to engage in the politics of a more inclusive society and consider the broader questions of civil liberties and the British Empire. A Nation of Politicians presents a fascinating tale of the beginnings of Ireland's richly vocal political tradition at this important intersection of cultural, intellectual, social, and public history. Winner of the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies 410 0$aHistory of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. 606 $aPolitical participation$zIreland$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aIreland$xHistory$y1760-1820 607 $aIreland$xPolitics and government$y1760-1820 607 $aIreland$xMilitia$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aPolitical participation$xHistory 700 $aHiggins$b Padhraig$0983494 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970625303321 996 $aA nation of politicians$92245101 997 $aUNINA