Exhibiting Irishness

Empire, Race, and Nation, c. 1850-1970

Shahmima Akhtar

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English

Manchester University Press
06 November 2024

Museums & museology; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism

Series: Studies in Imperialism

Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative platform for imagining a host of Irish pasts, presents and futures. Fair organisers responded to the contexts of famine and poverty, migration and diasporic settlement, independence movements and partition, as well as post-colonial nation building. My research demonstrates how Irish businesses and labourers, the elite organisers of the fairs and successive Irish governments curated Irishness. The central malleability of Irish identity on display emerged in tandem with the unfolding of Ireland's political transformation from a colony of the British Empire, a migrant community in the United States, to a divided Ireland in the form of the Republic and Northern Ireland.

By: Shahmima Akhtar
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781526157263
ISBN 10: 1526157268
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 06 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shahmima Akhtar is Lecturer in History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Reviews for Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race, and Nation, c. 1850-1970

WINNER of the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture 2025 (American Conference for Irish Studies) 'Exhibiting Irishness is a groundbreaking work that is essential reading for anyone interested in Irish history, visual and material culture, art, ethnic and racial studies, and gender studies. Ultimately, it reveals the fragility, ambivalence and relationality of Irishness—something constantly (re)negotiated, questioned and affirmed in line with societal, historical and political changes. The book, thus, has the potential to transform our understanding of exhibitions and their role in (re)constructing and promoting Irishness' Rise Journal -- .