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  • MERE IRISH & FÃ?OR-GHAEL
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • SPELLING, TYPOGRAPHY, NOMENCLATURE
  • Table of Contents
  • INTRODUCTION:AIMS AND METHODS
  • 1. THE IDEA OF NATIONALITY TERMINOLOGY AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • 2. IRELAND IN ENGLISH REPRESENTATIONS
  • 2.1. Early and medieval descriptions
  • 2.2. The Tudor period
  • 2.3. The seventeenth century
  • 2.4. The eighteenth century
  • 3. THE FICTIONAL IRISHMAN. IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Pre-restoration drama
  • 3.3 The later seventeenth century3.3.1 Howard and Crowne
  • 3.3.2 Plot and credence: Thomas Shadwell
  • 3.3.3 Anti-Irish dramatic pamphlets
  • 3.4 The early eighteenth century
  • 3.4.1. Bulls, blunders and George Farquhar: return to comedy
  • 3.4.2. The fortune-hunter: funny or dangerous?
  • 3.5. The mid-century amelioration
  • 3.5.1. Irish officers: Charles Molloy and Charles Shadwell
  • 3.5.2. Smollett's Reprisal
  • 3.5.3. Thomas Sheridan
  • 3.6 The positive Stage Irishman
  • 3.6.1 Charles Macklin
  • 3.6.2. Macklin's impact
  • 3.6.3. Sentiments that deserve applause: Irish characters and English national feeling3.6.4. Noble savage vs. savage nobleman: the pride of mere Irish
  • 3.6.5. The duel and Sir Lucius O'Trigger
  • 3.6.6 Conclusion
  • 4. GAELIC POETRY AND THE IDEA OF IRISH NATIONALITY
  • 4.1. Bardic poetry and clan society, 1200-1600
  • 4.1.1. Introduction
  • 4.1.2. A note on the Gaelic order and on bardic conventions
  • 4.1.3. The Hiberno-Norman presence
  • 4.1.3.1. Goill, high-kingship and prophecy
  • 4.1.3.2. Poets and Hiberno-Norman patrons
  • 4.1.4. The Old English presence4.1.5. Tudor expansionism
  • 4.1.6. The breakdown of the bardic order
  • 4.2. From the end of bardic poetry to the end of the Gaelic literary tradition
  • 4.2.1. Introduction: some general aspects surveyed.
  • 4.2.2. Post-bardic poetry of the seventeenth century
  • 4.2.3. Dáibhà Ã? Bruadair and his time
  • 4.2.4. Aogán Ã? Rathaille and the aisling
  • 4.2.5. The waning of Gaelic literature and the growth of a national Gaelic stance
  • 4.2.6. Conclusion
  • 5. THE PUBLIC ASSERTION OF IRISH CIVILITY
  • 5.1. Introduction: persecution and exile of the learned classes5.2. Old English and Gaelic recusants
  • 5.3. Pious and counter-reformatory works, and the importance of the Irish language
  • 5.4. The Gaelic nationalization of the recusant enterprise
  • 5.5. The Cromwellian aftermath
  • 6. GAEL AND ANGLO-IRISH: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRISH NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  • Prelude: The spread and development of celtological interest in the seventeenth century
  • 6.1. English gentlemen born in Ireland: the Ascendancy in the earlier eighteenth century