Aidan Beatty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aidan Beatty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aidan |
| FAMILY NAME | Beatty |
| SIGNATURE | BEATTY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Capitalism and Irish studies
Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism, and the Irish Revolution
Irish and World Histories
Stuart Hall and the Absent Irish
Stuart Hall was undoubtedly one of the key theorists of late twentieth-century British politics and one of the most important leaders in the development of a serious understanding of race and racism in British society. This short review essay examines the odd ways in which Ireland and Irishness are only nominally present-and thus, in a real sense, absent-in his voluminous writings. Given the centrality of Irishness to the deep history of race in …
The Problem of Capitalism in Irish Catholic Social Thought, 1922-1950
The Catholic Church in 20th-century Ireland was infamously anti-communist. In this paper, I look at the other side of this equation: what did the leading savants of Irish Catholicism think of capitalism? Where anti-communism often goes hand-in-glove with an uncritical support for capitalism, Irish Catholic thinkers were often equally suspicious of both communism and capitalism. And their opposition to both economic ideologies drew on similar rati…
Counter-revolutionary masculinities: Gender, social control and revising the chronologies of Irish nationalist politics
The period from 1912 to 1923 is the most heavily privileged period in modern Irish historiography and it has become commonplace to describe this period as “The Irish Revolution.” Moreover, a number of Irish historians have built on this to see the post-1922 period as the “Irish Counter-Revolution,” when more radical political impulses were suppressed in favour of the Free State’s vision of conservative law and order. This paper challenges these p…
C onor M orrissey . Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923
Irish nationalism in the twentieth century had an undoubtedly Catholic flavor, from the Easter Rising, when the nation was ostensibly reborn in a latter-day Calvary, to the use of martyrdom tropes in the 1910s and 1920s and up through to the Hunger Strikes in 1981. And yet Irish nationalism has always resisted slipping full force into Catholicism; Parnell was an Anglican and also served as “the uncrowned King of Ireland” in the later nineteenth c…
J. M. Synge and travel writing of the Irish revival
In the summer of 1915, shortly before he delivered his famous eulogy at the grave of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Patrick Pearse travelled to the Connemara Gaeltacht with various family members as wel
The Gaelic League and the spatial logics of Irish nationalism
The Gaelic League was founded in 1893 with the aim of reviving the Irish language, as well as promoting home-grown industries and social reform. By the turn of the century, it had become one of the most important cultural organisations in Ireland. This article studies a central element of the league's ideology and praxis, albeit one that has thus far received little attention: its promotion of a specifically nationalist understanding of Irish spa…
Marx and Engels, Ireland, and the Racial History of Capitalism
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture
Belfast Is Not Here”: The Israeli Press and the Good Friday Agreement
In April 1998, Catholic Nationalists and Protestant Unionists in Northern Ireland signed a historic peace agreement, The Good Friday Agreement. The article examines how the news of this peace agreement was received in Israel, which was dealing with its own issues of peace agreements and peace processes. Israeli press coverage of peace in Northern Ireland ranged from the jealous to the congratulatory, from a dovish desire to find lessons for Israe…
Zionism and Irish Nationalism: Ideology and Identity on the Borders of Europe
This paper is a comparative cultural history of Zionism and Irish nationalism, focusing on themes of race, gender and identity. It seeks to highlight the strong similarities of both nationalist projects: to show how Zionists and Irish nationalists were both heavily invested in state-building projects that would disprove European racist stereotypes about their respective nations and yet, paradoxically, were also part of the general history of Euro…
Jews and the Irish nationalist imagination: Between philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism
This article focuses on three of the most canonical Irish nationalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Michael Davitt (1846-1906) and Eamon de Valera (1882-1975) - and the various claims they made that the Irish nation was analogous to the Jewish nation. In his recent work on Anti-Judaism David Nirenberg has shown how abstract 'figures of Judaism' have been used in large swathes of European political thou…
The Genders of Nationalist Space
This chapter begins with an end: the 1915 funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. Born in 1831, O’Donovan Rossa was a veteran of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a famously satirical journalist who had mostly lived in exile in New York since his release from prison in 1871. 2 On 29 June 1915 he died at St Vincent’s Hospital on Staten Island and another IRB ’exile’, John Devoy, took charge of his funeral arrangements. Notwithstanding O’Donovan Ro…
Regulating Sex, Gender and Leisure in the Irish Free State
The Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling, borrowing from the signal work of Max Weber, argues for the idea of a ‘unique “fingerprint” that distinguishes each state-society complex and is created through interaction between the state and civil society.’ 2 In the case of Israel, Kimmerling talks of the pre-1948 Jewish community in Palestine as a ‘state in the making’. A direct result of the existence of this proto-state, he feels, was that after 1…
Time, Gender and the Politics of National Liberation, 1916–1923
On 21 January 1919, the same day that Sinn Féin established an independent Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, a small group of local nationalists acting on their own initiative, attacked and killed two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) constables escorting workmen and dynamite at a quarry in Soloheadbeg in South Tipperary. The ambush at Soloheadbeg has often been seen as the starting point of the Irish War of Independence. 2 In his memoirs of his exper…
Fianna Fáil, Masculinity and the Economics of National Salvation
This chapter begins with a fairy tale. ‘Once upon a time, there lived in Ireland a man who grew wheat.’ At first, this man lived a harmonious and autarchic life, selling his crops to the other men of Ireland, who, in turn, ‘made boots and clothes for him.’ Unfortunately, though, this peaceful all-male economy was soon destroyed by the market forces of international capitalism. The land had become a dumping ground for cheaply made foreign goods an…
National Sovereignty, Male Power and the Irish Language
In the spring of 1914, fearing for the future of St Enda’s College (his perennially cash-strapped nationalist hothouse) Patrick Pearse agreed to go on an extended trip to the US, hoping there to gain funds from wealthy nationalist-minded Irish-Americans. The trip was partly organised through the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation Pearse had just joined and his involvement with which would lead, two years later, to his execution. 2 Thes…
Conclusions
With the war over, it was time for a celebration. In 1922, the Irish Free State began to plan a major spectacle, the Tailteann Games, billed as ‘The Irish Race Olympic’. It did not bode well, though, that the planned 1922 Games had to be cancelled due to threats of Republican violence. 2 Rescheduled to 1924, the Games were held every four years until 1932, when they ran afoul of government parsimony and Fianna Fáil hostility towards a Treatyite e…
Organised Manhood
In September 1924, Guth an Gharda [The Policeman’s Voice], a short-lived newspaper published by and for the members of the Irish Free State’s nascent police force, featured a caricature entitled ‘Jew Regard for the Law’ (See Fig. 3.1). Punning on Irish people’s similar pronunciations of ‘d-u-e’ and ‘j-e-w’, what might at first appear mere antisemitic doggerel had some deeper veins of nationalist meaning. This cartoon ‘Jew’ embodied a number of th…
Introduction: Ireland in the World-System
Ireland in the World-System: An Interview with Denis O'Hearn
In this interview, Denis O’Hearn presents his views of Ireland’s historical and contemporary status in the capitalist world-system and which countries Ireland could be profitably compared with. He discusses how Ireland has changed since the publication of his well-known work on "The Atlantic Economy" (2001) and addresses questions related to the European Union and the looming break-up of Britain as well as contemporary Irish politics on both side…
An Irish Revolution Without A Revolution
There is a conventional view among Irish historians that a revolution occurred in that country between the passing of the Third Home Rule Bill of 1912 and the end of the Civil War in 1923. The violence of those years, the collapse in support for the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), the meteoric rise to power of Sinn Féin, a new sense of meritocracy, a greater sense of democracy and a widespread radicalism; all are seen as elements of a major chan…
Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938
This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish stereotypes and create more prideful (and highly gendered) images of their respective nations
Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938
This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish stereotypes and create more prideful (and highly gendered) images of their respective nations
An Irish Revolution Without A Revolution
There is a conventional view among Irish historians that a revolution occurred in that country between the passing of the Third Home Rule Bill of 1912 and the end of the Civil War in 1923. The violence of those years, the collapse in support for the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), the meteoric rise to power of Sinn Féin, a new sense of meritocracy, a greater sense of democracy and a widespread radicalism; all are seen as elements of a major chan…
Irish Modernity and the Politics of Contraception, 1979–1993
Irish Modernity and the Politics of Contraception, 1979–1993 Aidan Beatty In his seminal study Nationalism and Sexuality (1985) the cultural historian George Mosse argued that nationalism, "the most powerful ideology of modern times," has had since its birth an intimate relationship with "respectability"— that is, the normative codes of public and private behavior, including sexual behavior, which also emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth cen…
Ireland in the World-System: An Interview with Denis O'Hearn
In this interview, Denis O’Hearn presents his views of Ireland’s historical and contemporary status in the capitalist world-system and which countries Ireland could be profitably compared with. He discusses how Ireland has changed since the publication of his well-known work on "The Atlantic Economy" (2001) and addresses questions related to the European Union and the looming break-up of Britain as well as contemporary Irish politics on both side…
The Gaelic League and the spatial logics of Irish nationalism
The Gaelic League was founded in 1893 with the aim of reviving the Irish language, as well as promoting home-grown industries and social reform. By the turn of the century, it had become one of the most important cultural organisations in Ireland. This article studies a central element of the league's ideology and praxis, albeit one that has thus far received little attention: its promotion of a specifically nationalist understanding of Irish spa…
Zionism and Irish Nationalism: Ideology and Identity on the Borders of Europe
This paper is a comparative cultural history of Zionism and Irish nationalism, focusing on themes of race, gender and identity. It seeks to highlight the strong similarities of both nationalist projects: to show how Zionists and Irish nationalists were both heavily invested in state-building projects that would disprove European racist stereotypes about their respective nations and yet, paradoxically, were also part of the general history of Euro…
Capitalism and Irish studies
Irish and World Histories
Stuart Hall and the Absent Irish
Stuart Hall was undoubtedly one of the key theorists of late twentieth-century British politics and one of the most important leaders in the development of a serious understanding of race and racism in British society. This short review essay examines the odd ways in which Ireland and Irishness are only nominally present-and thus, in a real sense, absent-in his voluminous writings. Given the centrality of Irishness to the deep history of race in …
Counter-revolutionary masculinities: Gender, social control and revising the chronologies of Irish nationalist politics
The period from 1912 to 1923 is the most heavily privileged period in modern Irish historiography and it has become commonplace to describe this period as “The Irish Revolution.” Moreover, a number of Irish historians have built on this to see the post-1922 period as the “Irish Counter-Revolution,” when more radical political impulses were suppressed in favour of the Free State’s vision of conservative law and order. This paper challenges these p…
Marx and Engels, Ireland, and the Racial History of Capitalism
Belfast Is Not Here”: The Israeli Press and the Good Friday Agreement
In April 1998, Catholic Nationalists and Protestant Unionists in Northern Ireland signed a historic peace agreement, The Good Friday Agreement. The article examines how the news of this peace agreement was received in Israel, which was dealing with its own issues of peace agreements and peace processes. Israeli press coverage of peace in Northern Ireland ranged from the jealous to the congratulatory, from a dovish desire to find lessons for Israe…
Introduction: Ireland in the World-System
Irish Modernity and the Politics of Contraception, 1979–1993
Irish Modernity and the Politics of Contraception, 1979–1993 Aidan Beatty In his seminal study Nationalism and Sexuality (1985) the cultural historian George Mosse argued that nationalism, "the most powerful ideology of modern times," has had since its birth an intimate relationship with "respectability"— that is, the normative codes of public and private behavior, including sexual behavior, which also emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth cen…
The Genders of Nationalist Space
This chapter begins with an end: the 1915 funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa. Born in 1831, O’Donovan Rossa was a veteran of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and a famously satirical journalist who had mostly lived in exile in New York since his release from prison in 1871. 2 On 29 June 1915 he died at St Vincent’s Hospital on Staten Island and another IRB ’exile’, John Devoy, took charge of his funeral arrangements. Notwithstanding O’Donovan Ro…
Regulating Sex, Gender and Leisure in the Irish Free State
The Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling, borrowing from the signal work of Max Weber, argues for the idea of a ‘unique “fingerprint” that distinguishes each state-society complex and is created through interaction between the state and civil society.’ 2 In the case of Israel, Kimmerling talks of the pre-1948 Jewish community in Palestine as a ‘state in the making’. A direct result of the existence of this proto-state, he feels, was that after 1…
Time, Gender and the Politics of National Liberation, 1916–1923
On 21 January 1919, the same day that Sinn Féin established an independent Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, a small group of local nationalists acting on their own initiative, attacked and killed two Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) constables escorting workmen and dynamite at a quarry in Soloheadbeg in South Tipperary. The ambush at Soloheadbeg has often been seen as the starting point of the Irish War of Independence. 2 In his memoirs of his exper…
Fianna Fáil, Masculinity and the Economics of National Salvation
This chapter begins with a fairy tale. ‘Once upon a time, there lived in Ireland a man who grew wheat.’ At first, this man lived a harmonious and autarchic life, selling his crops to the other men of Ireland, who, in turn, ‘made boots and clothes for him.’ Unfortunately, though, this peaceful all-male economy was soon destroyed by the market forces of international capitalism. The land had become a dumping ground for cheaply made foreign goods an…
National Sovereignty, Male Power and the Irish Language
In the spring of 1914, fearing for the future of St Enda’s College (his perennially cash-strapped nationalist hothouse) Patrick Pearse agreed to go on an extended trip to the US, hoping there to gain funds from wealthy nationalist-minded Irish-Americans. The trip was partly organised through the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation Pearse had just joined and his involvement with which would lead, two years later, to his execution. 2 Thes…
Conclusions
With the war over, it was time for a celebration. In 1922, the Irish Free State began to plan a major spectacle, the Tailteann Games, billed as ‘The Irish Race Olympic’. It did not bode well, though, that the planned 1922 Games had to be cancelled due to threats of Republican violence. 2 Rescheduled to 1924, the Games were held every four years until 1932, when they ran afoul of government parsimony and Fianna Fáil hostility towards a Treatyite e…
Organised Manhood
In September 1924, Guth an Gharda [The Policeman’s Voice], a short-lived newspaper published by and for the members of the Irish Free State’s nascent police force, featured a caricature entitled ‘Jew Regard for the Law’ (See Fig. 3.1). Punning on Irish people’s similar pronunciations of ‘d-u-e’ and ‘j-e-w’, what might at first appear mere antisemitic doggerel had some deeper veins of nationalist meaning. This cartoon ‘Jew’ embodied a number of th…
Introduction: Ireland in the World-System
Ireland in the World-System: An Interview with Denis O'Hearn
In this interview, Denis O’Hearn presents his views of Ireland’s historical and contemporary status in the capitalist world-system and which countries Ireland could be profitably compared with. He discusses how Ireland has changed since the publication of his well-known work on "The Atlantic Economy" (2001) and addresses questions related to the European Union and the looming break-up of Britain as well as contemporary Irish politics on both side…
An Irish Revolution Without A Revolution
There is a conventional view among Irish historians that a revolution occurred in that country between the passing of the Third Home Rule Bill of 1912 and the end of the Civil War in 1923. The violence of those years, the collapse in support for the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), the meteoric rise to power of Sinn Féin, a new sense of meritocracy, a greater sense of democracy and a widespread radicalism; all are seen as elements of a major chan…
Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938
This book is a comparative study of masculinity and white racial identity in Irish nationalism and Zionism. It analyses how both national movements sought to refute widespread anti-Irish or anti-Jewish stereotypes and create more prideful (and highly gendered) images of their respective nations
Belfast Is Not Here”: The Israeli Press and the Good Friday Agreement
In April 1998, Catholic Nationalists and Protestant Unionists in Northern Ireland signed a historic peace agreement, The Good Friday Agreement. The article examines how the news of this peace agreement was received in Israel, which was dealing with its own issues of peace agreements and peace processes. Israeli press coverage of peace in Northern Ireland ranged from the jealous to the congratulatory, from a dovish desire to find lessons for Israe…
Zionism and Irish Nationalism: Ideology and Identity on the Borders of Europe
This paper is a comparative cultural history of Zionism and Irish nationalism, focusing on themes of race, gender and identity. It seeks to highlight the strong similarities of both nationalist projects: to show how Zionists and Irish nationalists were both heavily invested in state-building projects that would disprove European racist stereotypes about their respective nations and yet, paradoxically, were also part of the general history of Euro…
Jews and the Irish nationalist imagination: Between philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism
This article focuses on three of the most canonical Irish nationalists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), Michael Davitt (1846-1906) and Eamon de Valera (1882-1975) - and the various claims they made that the Irish nation was analogous to the Jewish nation. In his recent work on Anti-Judaism David Nirenberg has shown how abstract 'figures of Judaism' have been used in large swathes of European political thou…
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture
J. M. Synge and travel writing of the Irish revival
In the summer of 1915, shortly before he delivered his famous eulogy at the grave of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Patrick Pearse travelled to the Connemara Gaeltacht with various family members as wel
The Gaelic League and the spatial logics of Irish nationalism
The Gaelic League was founded in 1893 with the aim of reviving the Irish language, as well as promoting home-grown industries and social reform. By the turn of the century, it had become one of the most important cultural organisations in Ireland. This article studies a central element of the league's ideology and praxis, albeit one that has thus far received little attention: its promotion of a specifically nationalist understanding of Irish spa…
Marx and Engels, Ireland, and the Racial History of Capitalism
The Problem of Capitalism in Irish Catholic Social Thought, 1922-1950
The Catholic Church in 20th-century Ireland was infamously anti-communist. In this paper, I look at the other side of this equation: what did the leading savants of Irish Catholicism think of capitalism? Where anti-communism often goes hand-in-glove with an uncritical support for capitalism, Irish Catholic thinkers were often equally suspicious of both communism and capitalism. And their opposition to both economic ideologies drew on similar rati…
Counter-revolutionary masculinities: Gender, social control and revising the chronologies of Irish nationalist politics
The period from 1912 to 1923 is the most heavily privileged period in modern Irish historiography and it has become commonplace to describe this period as “The Irish Revolution.” Moreover, a number of Irish historians have built on this to see the post-1922 period as the “Irish Counter-Revolution,” when more radical political impulses were suppressed in favour of the Free State’s vision of conservative law and order. This paper challenges these p…
C onor M orrissey . Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900–1923
Irish nationalism in the twentieth century had an undoubtedly Catholic flavor, from the Easter Rising, when the nation was ostensibly reborn in a latter-day Calvary, to the use of martyrdom tropes in the 1910s and 1920s and up through to the Hunger Strikes in 1981. And yet Irish nationalism has always resisted slipping full force into Catholicism; Parnell was an Anglican and also served as “the uncrowned King of Ireland” in the later nineteenth c…
Irish and World Histories
Stuart Hall and the Absent Irish
Stuart Hall was undoubtedly one of the key theorists of late twentieth-century British politics and one of the most important leaders in the development of a serious understanding of race and racism in British society. This short review essay examines the odd ways in which Ireland and Irishness are only nominally present-and thus, in a real sense, absent-in his voluminous writings. Given the centrality of Irishness to the deep history of race in …
Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism, and the Irish Revolution
Irish (22 works) · Irish and British Studies (22 works) · Political science (21 works) · Politics (21 works) · Law (20 works) · History (19 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Nationalism (11 works) · History (10 works)