Marc Mulholland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Mulholland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulholland |
| SIGNATURE | MULHOLLAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Catherine University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history: the rise of republicanism in the 1800s, Home Rule and the civil rights movement, the growth of Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA, and the DUP, before bringing the story up to date, drawing on newly available memoirs by paramilitary militants to offer previously unexplored perspectives, as well as recent work on Northern Irish gender relations. This…
Northern Ireland and the Far Left, c. 1965 – 1975
The far left, defined as those to the left of orthodox communism, with few but important exceptions defined the Northern Ireland Troubles in essentially republican terms as a struggle to complete Irish national self-determination. Despite this lack of independent orientation, far left ideas fertilised both republicanism and loyalism in the 1970s. They are an important element in understanding the dynamics of ideological conflict in the period
How it began, what might have been? Political memoirs of Northern Ireland in the 1960s
Northern Ireland political memoirs as they deal with the 1960s and the outbreak of the Troubles have a vividness born of dashed hopes and nostalgic regret. Their themes interweave, highlighting the structural deficiencies of Unionist governance and the asymmetry of class and political structuration across the communal divide. Central issues include the failure of Terence O’Neill and the debatable caesura that the Civil Rights Movement represented…
Revolution and the Whip of Reaction: Technicians of Power and the Dialectic of Radicalisation
This article argues that sociologically informed studies of revolution tend to underestimate the importance of counter-revolution and 'reaction' in generating radicalisation. Revolutions are inherently political. Most accounts recognise this, but emphasise the executive organs of state - such as monarch, cabinet or ministers - at the expense of the intermediary 'technicians of power'. Revolutions, however, typically seek to refashion an entire te…
An Impatient Life: A Memoir, by Daniel Bensaïd, tr. David Ferbach
Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912–1921, by William MurphyIrish Political Prisoners, 1920–1962: Pilgrimages of Desolation, by Seán McConville
These two books between them cover the experience of political imprisonment in Ireland in the fifty years between 1912 and 1962. The idea of ‘political imprisonment’ is applied in two ways. First, as William Murphy explains, political status was often a de facto recognised category. The Prisons Act of 1877 created a category of relatively privileged first-class prisoners, usually politically motivated. The General Prisons Board in 1889 was given …
Irish Socialist Republicanism, 1906–36, by Adrian Grant
‘Socialist Republicanism’ is defined by an epigram in this book by Adrian Grant as seeking individual freedom, national freedom, and freedom from wage-slavery. This was to be guaranteed by a republic of workers and small farmers. Grant criticises previous scholars of socialist republicanism (notably Henry Patterson and Richard English) for over-emphasising the intellectual incoherence of socialist republicanism as an explanation for its failure. …
Marxists of Strict Observance’? The Second International, National Defence, and the Question of War
In August 1914, as war broke out, socialist parties across Europe offered support to their own governments. The Socialist International was shattered. This rush to defencism has traditionally been seen as a volte face in which the International's frequent protestations in favour of peace and international working-class solidarity were suddenly abandoned. The collapse has been variously ascribed to socialist helplessness, betrayal, or ideological …
Modernism and British Socialism, by Thomas Linehan
This short book spans the period 1880 to 1910, a period when ethical socialism blossomed in Britain. Thomas Linehan draws heavily on the work of Roger Griffen on the modernist origins of fascism. Griffen posits a protracted phase of ‘liminoidality’ from about 1850, as capitalism reshaped society at unprecedented speed. Reaction to the de-spiritualisation of the world, he argues, generated among the disorientated a specific proto-fascist sensibili…
Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism
An examination of state-building, class conflicts, revolutions and fear of revolutions from the English Civil War of the 1640s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Great Recession from 2003. Sheds new light on key topics and events, and offers a fully substantiated argument about the interplay of bourgeois liberty and proletarian democracy
Modernising Conservatism: The Northern Ireland Young Unionist Movement in the 1960s
The origins of neo‐liberalism and neo‐conservatism may be found in the 1960s, when radical conservatives orientated towards the young and idealised the middle class as the primary agent of modernity. In Northern Ireland, a struggle for the soul of the Young Unionist Movement pitted a liberal anti‐sectarianism against a neo‐conservative belief in unionist destiny. The triumph of the latter contributed to the collapse of Ulster Unionist moral autho…
Irish Republican Politics and Violence before the Peace Process, 1968–1994
Analyses of the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland tend to underplay the influence of political strategy in the 1970s, preferring to emphasise militarism. Similarly, the persistence of militarism in the 1980s is often obscured by the attention paid to a ‘new’ republican political orientation. This article seeks to draw attention to the IRA's evolving attitude to the ‘problem’ of Ulster unionism, and republicanism's various estimations of the lik…
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict — Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history — the rise of republicanism in the 1800s, Home Rule and the civil rights movement, the growth of Sinn Fein and the pro…
The ‘best and most forward-looking’ in Ulster unionism: The Unionist Society (est. 1942)
During the premiership of Captain Terence O’Neill, from 1963 to 1969, an inclusive, liberal unionism for the first time guided the policies of the Northern Ireland state. Liberal roots in the Unionist Party, however, were never deep, and liberal unionism was effectively destroyed by the onset of the ‘Troubles’. It was an ambiguous creed, more pro-British than anxious to conciliate Irish nationalism. Liberal unionism’s aversion to overt and offens…
The Longest War: Northern Ireland’s Troubled History
The Troubles in Northern Ireland have proved one of the most intractable conflicts in Europe since the Second World War, consistently attracting international attention, particularly from the United States. This highly readable exploration of the central issues and debates about Northern Ireland sets them in the historical context of hundreds of years of conflict. It tackles many questions, such as: What accounts for the perpetuation of ethnic an…
Northern Ireland at the Crossroads: Ulster Unionism in the o'Neill Years, 1960-69
Centred on the dramatic premiership of Terence O'Neill, Northern Ireland at the Crossroads examines the most hopeful decade for Ulster Unionism this century. O'Neill's bold ambition to reach out to ca
Assimilation versus Segregation: Unionist Strategy in the 1960s
After an eighty-year record of remarkable unity in the face of threats from Irish Nationalism, Ulster Unionism suddenly fragmented in the late 1960s. This has been explained by reference both to the fissile nature of the Unionist pan-class alliance and to fundamental divisions over identity. Though important, these were not new factors and were compatible with a high degree of organizational unity. What ruptured the movement was Terence O'Neill's…
Irish Republican Politics and Violence before the Peace Process, 1968–1994
Analyses of the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland tend to underplay the influence of political strategy in the 1970s, preferring to emphasise militarism. Similarly, the persistence of militarism in the 1980s is often obscured by the attention paid to a ‘new’ republican political orientation. This article seeks to draw attention to the IRA's evolving attitude to the ‘problem’ of Ulster unionism, and republicanism's various estimations of the lik…
The Longest War: Northern Ireland’s Troubled History
The Troubles in Northern Ireland have proved one of the most intractable conflicts in Europe since the Second World War, consistently attracting international attention, particularly from the United States. This highly readable exploration of the central issues and debates about Northern Ireland sets them in the historical context of hundreds of years of conflict. It tackles many questions, such as: What accounts for the perpetuation of ethnic an…
Revolution and the Whip of Reaction: Technicians of Power and the Dialectic of Radicalisation
This article argues that sociologically informed studies of revolution tend to underestimate the importance of counter-revolution and 'reaction' in generating radicalisation. Revolutions are inherently political. Most accounts recognise this, but emphasise the executive organs of state - such as monarch, cabinet or ministers - at the expense of the intermediary 'technicians of power'. Revolutions, however, typically seek to refashion an entire te…
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history: the rise of republicanism in the 1800s, Home Rule and the civil rights movement, the growth of Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA, and the DUP, before bringing the story up to date, drawing on newly available memoirs by paramilitary militants to offer previously unexplored perspectives, as well as recent work on Northern Irish gender relations. This…
An Impatient Life: A Memoir, by Daniel Bensaïd, tr. David Ferbach
Marxists of Strict Observance’? The Second International, National Defence, and the Question of War
In August 1914, as war broke out, socialist parties across Europe offered support to their own governments. The Socialist International was shattered. This rush to defencism has traditionally been seen as a volte face in which the International's frequent protestations in favour of peace and international working-class solidarity were suddenly abandoned. The collapse has been variously ascribed to socialist helplessness, betrayal, or ideological …
Assimilation versus Segregation: Unionist Strategy in the 1960s
After an eighty-year record of remarkable unity in the face of threats from Irish Nationalism, Ulster Unionism suddenly fragmented in the late 1960s. This has been explained by reference both to the fissile nature of the Unionist pan-class alliance and to fundamental divisions over identity. Though important, these were not new factors and were compatible with a high degree of organizational unity. What ruptured the movement was Terence O'Neill's…
Modernising Conservatism: The Northern Ireland Young Unionist Movement in the 1960s
The origins of neo‐liberalism and neo‐conservatism may be found in the 1960s, when radical conservatives orientated towards the young and idealised the middle class as the primary agent of modernity. In Northern Ireland, a struggle for the soul of the Young Unionist Movement pitted a liberal anti‐sectarianism against a neo‐conservative belief in unionist destiny. The triumph of the latter contributed to the collapse of Ulster Unionist moral autho…
Northern Ireland and the Far Left, c. 1965 – 1975
The far left, defined as those to the left of orthodox communism, with few but important exceptions defined the Northern Ireland Troubles in essentially republican terms as a struggle to complete Irish national self-determination. Despite this lack of independent orientation, far left ideas fertilised both republicanism and loyalism in the 1970s. They are an important element in understanding the dynamics of ideological conflict in the period
Northern Ireland at the Crossroads: Ulster Unionism in the o'Neill Years, 1960-69
Centred on the dramatic premiership of Terence O'Neill, Northern Ireland at the Crossroads examines the most hopeful decade for Ulster Unionism this century. O'Neill's bold ambition to reach out to ca
Assimilation versus Segregation: Unionist Strategy in the 1960s
After an eighty-year record of remarkable unity in the face of threats from Irish Nationalism, Ulster Unionism suddenly fragmented in the late 1960s. This has been explained by reference both to the fissile nature of the Unionist pan-class alliance and to fundamental divisions over identity. Though important, these were not new factors and were compatible with a high degree of organizational unity. What ruptured the movement was Terence O'Neill's…
The ‘best and most forward-looking’ in Ulster unionism: The Unionist Society (est. 1942)
During the premiership of Captain Terence O’Neill, from 1963 to 1969, an inclusive, liberal unionism for the first time guided the policies of the Northern Ireland state. Liberal roots in the Unionist Party, however, were never deep, and liberal unionism was effectively destroyed by the onset of the ‘Troubles’. It was an ambiguous creed, more pro-British than anxious to conciliate Irish nationalism. Liberal unionism’s aversion to overt and offens…
The Longest War: Northern Ireland’s Troubled History
The Troubles in Northern Ireland have proved one of the most intractable conflicts in Europe since the Second World War, consistently attracting international attention, particularly from the United States. This highly readable exploration of the central issues and debates about Northern Ireland sets them in the historical context of hundreds of years of conflict. It tackles many questions, such as: What accounts for the perpetuation of ethnic an…
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict — Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history — the rise of republicanism in the 1800s, Home Rule and the civil rights movement, the growth of Sinn Fein and the pro…
Irish Republican Politics and Violence before the Peace Process, 1968–1994
Analyses of the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland tend to underplay the influence of political strategy in the 1970s, preferring to emphasise militarism. Similarly, the persistence of militarism in the 1980s is often obscured by the attention paid to a ‘new’ republican political orientation. This article seeks to draw attention to the IRA's evolving attitude to the ‘problem’ of Ulster unionism, and republicanism's various estimations of the lik…
Modernising Conservatism: The Northern Ireland Young Unionist Movement in the 1960s
The origins of neo‐liberalism and neo‐conservatism may be found in the 1960s, when radical conservatives orientated towards the young and idealised the middle class as the primary agent of modernity. In Northern Ireland, a struggle for the soul of the Young Unionist Movement pitted a liberal anti‐sectarianism against a neo‐conservative belief in unionist destiny. The triumph of the latter contributed to the collapse of Ulster Unionist moral autho…
Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism
An examination of state-building, class conflicts, revolutions and fear of revolutions from the English Civil War of the 1640s to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Great Recession from 2003. Sheds new light on key topics and events, and offers a fully substantiated argument about the interplay of bourgeois liberty and proletarian democracy
Modernism and British Socialism, by Thomas Linehan
This short book spans the period 1880 to 1910, a period when ethical socialism blossomed in Britain. Thomas Linehan draws heavily on the work of Roger Griffen on the modernist origins of fascism. Griffen posits a protracted phase of ‘liminoidality’ from about 1850, as capitalism reshaped society at unprecedented speed. Reaction to the de-spiritualisation of the world, he argues, generated among the disorientated a specific proto-fascist sensibili…
Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912–1921, by William MurphyIrish Political Prisoners, 1920–1962: Pilgrimages of Desolation, by Seán McConville
These two books between them cover the experience of political imprisonment in Ireland in the fifty years between 1912 and 1962. The idea of ‘political imprisonment’ is applied in two ways. First, as William Murphy explains, political status was often a de facto recognised category. The Prisons Act of 1877 created a category of relatively privileged first-class prisoners, usually politically motivated. The General Prisons Board in 1889 was given …
Irish Socialist Republicanism, 1906–36, by Adrian Grant
‘Socialist Republicanism’ is defined by an epigram in this book by Adrian Grant as seeking individual freedom, national freedom, and freedom from wage-slavery. This was to be guaranteed by a republic of workers and small farmers. Grant criticises previous scholars of socialist republicanism (notably Henry Patterson and Richard English) for over-emphasising the intellectual incoherence of socialist republicanism as an explanation for its failure. …
Marxists of Strict Observance’? The Second International, National Defence, and the Question of War
In August 1914, as war broke out, socialist parties across Europe offered support to their own governments. The Socialist International was shattered. This rush to defencism has traditionally been seen as a volte face in which the International's frequent protestations in favour of peace and international working-class solidarity were suddenly abandoned. The collapse has been variously ascribed to socialist helplessness, betrayal, or ideological …
An Impatient Life: A Memoir, by Daniel Bensaïd, tr. David Ferbach
Revolution and the Whip of Reaction: Technicians of Power and the Dialectic of Radicalisation
This article argues that sociologically informed studies of revolution tend to underestimate the importance of counter-revolution and 'reaction' in generating radicalisation. Revolutions are inherently political. Most accounts recognise this, but emphasise the executive organs of state - such as monarch, cabinet or ministers - at the expense of the intermediary 'technicians of power'. Revolutions, however, typically seek to refashion an entire te…
Northern Ireland and the Far Left, c. 1965 – 1975
The far left, defined as those to the left of orthodox communism, with few but important exceptions defined the Northern Ireland Troubles in essentially republican terms as a struggle to complete Irish national self-determination. Despite this lack of independent orientation, far left ideas fertilised both republicanism and loyalism in the 1970s. They are an important element in understanding the dynamics of ideological conflict in the period
How it began, what might have been? Political memoirs of Northern Ireland in the 1960s
Northern Ireland political memoirs as they deal with the 1960s and the outbreak of the Troubles have a vividness born of dashed hopes and nostalgic regret. Their themes interweave, highlighting the structural deficiencies of Unionist governance and the asymmetry of class and political structuration across the communal divide. Central issues include the failure of Terence O’Neill and the debatable caesura that the Civil Rights Movement represented…
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction explores the pivotal moments in Northern Irish history: the rise of republicanism in the 1800s, Home Rule and the civil rights movement, the growth of Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA, and the DUP, before bringing the story up to date, drawing on newly available memoirs by paramilitary militants to offer previously unexplored perspectives, as well as recent work on Northern Irish gender relations. This…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · History (11 works) · Irish and British Studies (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Irish (8 works) · History (7 works)