Renegotiating Ireland, Transnational History, and Settler Colonialism in White Australia

Bibliographic Data

ID4053546
AuthorsJimmy H Yan
Year2022
Volume2022
Issue143
Pages109-124
Publication date2022-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRadical History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01636545-9566132
OpenAlexW4281919839
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited41

Efforts to transcend island histories in Irish historiography have predominantly centered a narration of white settler pasts as an outer boundary of Irish history. This article works through the disjunctions between differently situated transnational turns in Irish and Australian historiographies by interrogating metaphors of extension, including "Greater Ireland" in the former historiography. It proposes that to decenter the nation as a historical unit, transnational Irish history requires a critical tension with white settler, and not only Irish, methodological nationalisms. The article surveys the critical possibilities presented by the transnational turn in Irish historiography while questioning its limits, with attention to the paradigm of a transnational Irish revolution. It then flags possible directions for a closer dialogue between transnational Irish history and postnational historiographies of white settler colonialism. An unsettling of discrete historiographical boundaries remains a necessary condition for tracing histories of Ireland beyond, below, and outside the nation

Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Historiography · Irish · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy

Tools

Open DOI