Description
Book SynopsisScholars and Rebels must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth century.
Trade Review"The enjoyments of this book are its many elaborate periods, wonderful put-downs and instantly memorable
apercus: practically every paragraph ends with a punch-line."
Reviews "This volume invites comparison to Robert Tracy's recent The Unappeasable Host: Studies in Irish Identities." Choice
"is ambitious in its scope, and it offers an original and compelling exploration of the networks that formed the 'outsized village' that was nineteenth-century Dublin". History of Education
Table of ContentsPreface.
1. Colonial Intellectuals.
2. Portrait of a Clerisy.
3. Savants and Society.
4. The Dismal Science.
5. Young Irelanders and Others.
Index.
