Jim Smyth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3673631 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jim Smyth |
| PRENOMES | Jim |
| SOBRENOME | Smyth |
| ASSINATURA | SMYTH J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6161-4936 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Nation in British Literature and Culture
The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the…
The Power of Pathos
James Burn Russell's pamphlet, Life in One Room (1888), is almost certainly the best known and, as is argued here, the most influential published work in the history of social reform in modern Scotland. Regardless of Russell's own intentions and political beliefs Life in One Room became the default source for those who sought to promote housing for the working class and council housing in particular. It is remarkable just how often, and at what l…
Music, emotion and remembrance
The unveiling of memorials to those who fell in the First World War were highly solemn, dramatic and emotional events. Yet, while much attention has been given by historians to memorials and the purposes behind memorialisation, there has been less discussion of just how the feelings of the public were stimulated and provoked. Most accounts concentrate on the aesthetics and symbolism of the monuments themselves, and the speeches given by the offic…
Lost Alternatives to Council Housing? An Examination of Stirling's Alternative Housing Initiatives, c. 1906–1939
This article aims to examine possible alternatives to the first wave of council-house building in Scotland. Alternative approaches to deal with Scotland's housing problem are considered and the reasons for their failure to compete with council housing are considered. The Burgh of Stirling has been chosen because its politics suggest that it may have been less enthusiastic about building council houses and more amenable to exploring alternative so…
Cold War Culture
Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. It was the age of Keynesianism, of welfare state consensus, incipient consumerism, and, to its detractors - the so-called 'Angry Young Men' and the emergent New Left - a new age of complacency. While Prime Minister Harold Macmillan famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good', the playwright John Osborne lamented that 'there aren't any good, brave …
Craig Bailey. Irish London
Journal Article Craig Bailey. Irish London: Middle-Class Migration in the Global Eighteenth Century. Get access Craig Bailey. Irish London: Middle-Class Migration in the Global Eighteenth Century. (Eighteenth-Century Worlds.) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 250. $99.95. Jim Smyth Jim Smyth University of Notre Dame [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hist…
Thomas Chalmers, the ‘Godly Commonwealth’, and Contemporary Welfare Reform in Britain and the Usa
Current prescriptions for welfare reform and increased reliance on the voluntary sector often base their appeal on the lessons of history, in particular the apparent successes of Victorian philanthropy in combating ‘pauperism’. This article looks at how this message has become influential in the USA and the UK among the ruling parties of right and left through the particular prism of the neo-conservative appreciation of the work of Thomas Chalmer…
Local elites and social control
This article examines the role played by local councillors in constructing new housing in Scotland during the inter-war period. Rather than view local authorities as simply the objective agency of central government's ambitions to construct council houses, we argue that the self-interest and motivations of councillors have to be recognized as significant factors in this process. It is argued also that the concerns of private landlords were neithe…
Leaving Northern Ireland
This article explores the dichotomy between the high prevalence and low incidence of youth mobility intentions, utilising the results of quantitative and qualitative research conducted with 400 students during 2010 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Comparisons with results from a prior study on student mobility also show that the recent recession had made relatively little impact upon the prevalence of mobility intentions. Following a theoretical per…
Spatial reflexivity and undergraduate transitions in the Republic of Ireland after the Celtic Tiger
This article explores the geographical mobility intentions of students aged between 18 and 24 years in the Republic of Ireland after the end of the economic boom commonly referred to as the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Focusing upon a sample of undergraduates in Dublin and Cork, the article looks at how many respondents intend to move abroad in the future, where the potential leavers intend to go and for how long they envisage staying away, in addition to ela…
Lewis Namier, Herbert Butterfield and Edmund Burke
Although in respect of historical arguments, methodologies and prose style Herbert Butterfield and Lewis Namier were sharply contrasting (indeed antipathetic) historians, they had more in common that either would have chosen to admit. Paradoxically, those commonalities converged on the figure of Edmund Burke. For Namier, Burke was a political charlatan; Butterfield thought him ‘a mountain of a man’. Both nonetheless had distinctively Burkean conc…
Neighbourhood Identity
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
People, politics and power
I wouldn’t mind moving actually
This article examines orientations towards future geographical mobility amongst young people in Northern Ireland presently studying at third level educational institutions. Following contextualisation of youth mobility as pertaining to students in this region, the results of recent quantitative and qualitative research are discussed. Over half of these young people, 55 per cent, see themselves living outside Northern Ireland at some point in the …
The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763–98, Volume III
Remembering the Year of the French
Modernizing England's Past
The road to God knows where
Republicanism has understood itself as a radical movement, committed to the idea of a United Ireland-a political entity based upon socialist principles. Involvement in the political process has brought considerable success in the form of elected representatives in Northern Ireland, the Republic and Westminster. The discourse of republicanism has undergone a significant transformation as Sinn Féin has sought to widen its electoral appeal. The tran…
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (review)
Reviewed by: British Identities and English Renaissance Literature Jim Smyth British Identities and English Renaissance Literature. By Baker and Maley (eds.). : Cambridge University Press, 2002. In perhaps the most sucessful essay in this volume, “Orrery’s Ireland and the British Problem, 1641–1679’” John Kerrigan notes that Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill’s (as he was known before being raised to the earldom of Orrery in 1660), “acquaintance with po…
Resisting Labour
This article examines the co-operation between unionists and liberals in inter-war Glasgow. As with the parliamentary challenge of labour, unionists and liberals were confronted at the local level also. The usual response was some sort of municipal alliance or pact. In Scotland, where unionist support for continuing links with liberals was particularly pronounced, this took the form of specific ‘moderate’ parties created to contest local election…
Up off our Bellies and onto our Knees
Catriona M. M. Macdonald, The Radical Threat
Policing Ireland
The Royal Ulster Constabulary can be located within a context of policing which deviates significantly from other Western European countries. A centralised, armed and paramilitary force has existed in Ireland since 1822, not as a response to social changes induced by industrialisation, but as a direct agent of British colonial policy in Ireland. The RUC is culturally, politically and organisationally locked into its role as a counter-insurgency f…
The Men of No Property
The paperback edition of the extremely popular The Men of No Property is a study of the popular dimensions of Irish radicalism in the age of the French revolution. It focuses on the lower-class secret
Disadvantage and New Prosperity in Restructured Belfast
Structural changes in the global economy have had far reaching effects on the class structure and spatial configuration of cities. Although most cities have been effected in a broadly similar fashion, each specific city displays distinctive local characteristics. Differing modalities of state policy interact with global processes and local realities. This article looks at the effects of these processes on Belfast and argues that the traditional c…
I wouldn’t mind moving actually
This article examines orientations towards future geographical mobility amongst young people in Northern Ireland presently studying at third level educational institutions. Following contextualisation of youth mobility as pertaining to students in this region, the results of recent quantitative and qualitative research are discussed. Over half of these young people, 55 per cent, see themselves living outside Northern Ireland at some point in the …
Neighbourhood Identity
This paper explores the value of path dependency as a tool to explain why the social identity of particular neighbourhoods can remain relatively fixed over time. Three neighbourhoods in a small Scottish city are examined using historical documentary and sociological qualitative research methods, over an 80‐year period. Class is shown to be the dominant influence in determining social attitudes towards these three neighbourhoods. Path dependency h…
Like amphibious animals
Ireland in the 1690s was a protestant state with a majority catholic population. These protestants sometimes described themselves as ‘the king's Irish subjects’ or ‘the people of Ireland’, but rarely as ‘the Irish’, a label which they usually reserved for the catholics. In constitutional and political terms their still evolving sense of identity expressed itself in the assertion of Irish parliamentary sovereignty, most notably in William Molyneux…
The Men of No Property
Leaving Northern Ireland
This article explores the dichotomy between the high prevalence and low incidence of youth mobility intentions, utilising the results of quantitative and qualitative research conducted with 400 students during 2010 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Comparisons with results from a prior study on student mobility also show that the recent recession had made relatively little impact upon the prevalence of mobility intentions. Following a theoretical per…
The ballot bomb
Why Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries intervened in elections in Northern Ireland during the 1980s to buttress their credibility is examined. The failure of Loyalist candidates to attract votes is contrasted with the success achieved by Republican candidates as a result of the 1981 hunger strike crisis. It is argued that the British public's stereotype of terrorism in Northern Ireland amplified the political impact of Sinn Fein's electoral b…
Spatial reflexivity and undergraduate transitions in the Republic of Ireland after the Celtic Tiger
This article explores the geographical mobility intentions of students aged between 18 and 24 years in the Republic of Ireland after the end of the economic boom commonly referred to as the ‘Celtic Tiger’. Focusing upon a sample of undergraduates in Dublin and Cork, the article looks at how many respondents intend to move abroad in the future, where the potential leavers intend to go and for how long they envisage staying away, in addition to ela…
Up off our Bellies and onto our Knees
Unintentional mobilization
The hunger strike of IRA prisoners in 1980–1981 was the catalyst for far‐reaching changes in the policy of both the British and Irish governments toward Northern Ireland. The consequences of the mass mobilization of the minority population around the issue of political status for prisoners—a far‐reaching realignment of political and social forces—were both unintended and unexpected. In almost paradigmatic fashion, the events illustrate both the s…
Resisting Labour
This article examines the co-operation between unionists and liberals in inter-war Glasgow. As with the parliamentary challenge of labour, unionists and liberals were confronted at the local level also. The usual response was some sort of municipal alliance or pact. In Scotland, where unionist support for continuing links with liberals was particularly pronounced, this took the form of specific ‘moderate’ parties created to contest local election…
Manning the ramparts
Depuis l'epoque de la Reforme, la religion est devenue une caracteristique du conflit ethnique et colonial en Irlande. La naissance d'un Etat irlandais libre a facilite la fusion entre la catholicisme et le nationalisme. Ainsi, une ideologie dominante a commence d'operer; elle est composee de deux elements: une version locale de la preoccupation de Rome pour le modernisme et le socialisme et une identification de l'Irlande avec le catholicisme en…
Music, emotion and remembrance
The unveiling of memorials to those who fell in the First World War were highly solemn, dramatic and emotional events. Yet, while much attention has been given by historians to memorials and the purposes behind memorialisation, there has been less discussion of just how the feelings of the public were stimulated and provoked. Most accounts concentrate on the aesthetics and symbolism of the monuments themselves, and the speeches given by the offic…
Thomas Chalmers, the ‘Godly Commonwealth’, and Contemporary Welfare Reform in Britain and the Usa
Current prescriptions for welfare reform and increased reliance on the voluntary sector often base their appeal on the lessons of history, in particular the apparent successes of Victorian philanthropy in combating ‘pauperism’. This article looks at how this message has become influential in the USA and the UK among the ruling parties of right and left through the particular prism of the neo-conservative appreciation of the work of Thomas Chalmer…
Lewis Namier, Herbert Butterfield and Edmund Burke
Although in respect of historical arguments, methodologies and prose style Herbert Butterfield and Lewis Namier were sharply contrasting (indeed antipathetic) historians, they had more in common that either would have chosen to admit. Paradoxically, those commonalities converged on the figure of Edmund Burke. For Namier, Burke was a political charlatan; Butterfield thought him ‘a mountain of a man’. Both nonetheless had distinctively Burkean conc…
People, politics and power
Policing Ireland
The Royal Ulster Constabulary can be located within a context of policing which deviates significantly from other Western European countries. A centralised, armed and paramilitary force has existed in Ireland since 1822, not as a response to social changes induced by industrialisation, but as a direct agent of British colonial policy in Ireland. The RUC is culturally, politically and organisationally locked into its role as a counter-insurgency f…
An Entirely Exceptional Case’
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Stretching the boundaries
(1988). Stretching the boundaries: The control of dissent in Northern Ireland. Terrorism: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 289-308
Peter Petroff and the socialist movement in Britain, 1907–18
This essay describes the work of the Russian émigré, Peter Petroff, during his exile in Britain between 1907 and 1918. As a revolutionary Marxist schooled in the rigours of the Russian Social Democratic movement, Petroff presented a direct challenge to the orthodoxies of British social democracy. His struggle to change the political and organizational concepts of the British Socialist Party was most closely aided by the legendary Clydeside Social…
Unintentional mobilization
The hunger strike of IRA prisoners in 1980–1981 was the catalyst for far‐reaching changes in the policy of both the British and Irish governments toward Northern Ireland. The consequences of the mass mobilization of the minority population around the issue of political status for prisoners—a far‐reaching realignment of political and social forces—were both unintended and unexpected. In almost paradigmatic fashion, the events illustrate both the s…
Stretching the boundaries
(1988). Stretching the boundaries: The control of dissent in Northern Ireland. Terrorism: Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 289-308
Lives of the Left
An Entirely Exceptional Case’
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The ballot bomb
Why Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries intervened in elections in Northern Ireland during the 1980s to buttress their credibility is examined. The failure of Loyalist candidates to attract votes is contrasted with the success achieved by Republican candidates as a result of the 1981 hunger strike crisis. It is argued that the British public's stereotype of terrorism in Northern Ireland amplified the political impact of Sinn Fein's electoral b…
Nationalist nightmares and postmodernist utopias
The Making and Undoing of a Confessional State
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Like amphibious animals
Ireland in the 1690s was a protestant state with a majority catholic population. These protestants sometimes described themselves as ‘the king's Irish subjects’ or ‘the people of Ireland’, but rarely as ‘the Irish’, a label which they usually reserved for the catholics. In constitutional and political terms their still evolving sense of identity expressed itself in the assertion of Irish parliamentary sovereignty, most notably in William Molyneux…
The Men of No Property
Paternalism as an Employer Strategy, 1800-1960
Employers rarely accept a labour market as a given set of supply functions to which they respond as they construct factor inputs and cost structures. The limited value of the neo-classical sense of a labour market seeking the equilibrium of a market-clearing wage has long been recognized (Wilkinson 1981). In the majority of specific historical situations such a notion is at best of normative value and at worst incomplete and misleading. Employers…
Republicans and conservatives
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Manning the ramparts
Depuis l'epoque de la Reforme, la religion est devenue une caracteristique du conflit ethnique et colonial en Irlande. La naissance d'un Etat irlandais libre a facilite la fusion entre la catholicisme et le nationalisme. Ainsi, une ideologie dominante a commence d'operer; elle est composee de deux elements: une version locale de la preoccupation de Rome pour le modernisme et le socialisme et une identification de l'Irlande avec le catholicisme en…
Disadvantage and New Prosperity in Restructured Belfast
Structural changes in the global economy have had far reaching effects on the class structure and spatial configuration of cities. Although most cities have been effected in a broadly similar fashion, each specific city displays distinctive local characteristics. Differing modalities of state policy interact with global processes and local realities. This article looks at the effects of these processes on Belfast and argues that the traditional c…
Cease-fire in Northern Ireland-The Phoney Peace
The Men of No Property
The paperback edition of the extremely popular The Men of No Property is a study of the popular dimensions of Irish radicalism in the age of the French revolution. It focuses on the lower-class secret
Policing Ireland
The Royal Ulster Constabulary can be located within a context of policing which deviates significantly from other Western European countries. A centralised, armed and paramilitary force has existed in Ireland since 1822, not as a response to social changes induced by industrialisation, but as a direct agent of British colonial policy in Ireland. The RUC is culturally, politically and organisationally locked into its role as a counter-insurgency f…
Catriona M. M. Macdonald, The Radical Threat
Up off our Bellies and onto our Knees
British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (review)
Reviewed by: British Identities and English Renaissance Literature Jim Smyth British Identities and English Renaissance Literature. By Baker and Maley (eds.). : Cambridge University Press, 2002. In perhaps the most sucessful essay in this volume, “Orrery’s Ireland and the British Problem, 1641–1679’” John Kerrigan notes that Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill’s (as he was known before being raised to the earldom of Orrery in 1660), “acquaintance with po…
Resisting Labour
This article examines the co-operation between unionists and liberals in inter-war Glasgow. As with the parliamentary challenge of labour, unionists and liberals were confronted at the local level also. The usual response was some sort of municipal alliance or pact. In Scotland, where unionist support for continuing links with liberals was particularly pronounced, this took the form of specific ‘moderate’ parties created to contest local election…
The road to God knows where
Republicanism has understood itself as a radical movement, committed to the idea of a United Ireland-a political entity based upon socialist principles. Involvement in the political process has brought considerable success in the form of elected representatives in Northern Ireland, the Republic and Westminster. The discourse of republicanism has undergone a significant transformation as Sinn Féin has sought to widen its electoral appeal. The tran…
Modernizing England's Past
Remembering the Year of the French
I wouldn’t mind moving actually
This article examines orientations towards future geographical mobility amongst young people in Northern Ireland presently studying at third level educational institutions. Following contextualisation of youth mobility as pertaining to students in this region, the results of recent quantitative and qualitative research are discussed. Over half of these young people, 55 per cent, see themselves living outside Northern Ireland at some point in the …
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