The road to Asia, and the Grafton Hotel, Dublin
Ireland in the ‘British world’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9980225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Jeffery (0000-0003-4053-7825, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 142 |
| Pages | 243-256 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1214 • E-ISSN: 2056-4139 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021121400007069 |
| OpenAlex | W180335828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
The title of this essay draws on a quotation from an article reflecting on the 1919–22 ‘crisis of empire’ written by the late J. A. (Jack) Gallagher (one half of Robinson and Gallagher, the finest double act in British imperial historiography). The complete sentence from which the title is derived reads as follows: ‘But for us the road to Asia lies through the swing doors of the Grafton Hotel in Dublin, one of the cover headquarters of the revolutionary Irish Government’. From time to time, alas, even Gallagher (like Homer) nodded, and it has to be said that his typically arresting image of the route to Asia is somewhat occluded by the fact that there is not, and never has been, a Grafton Hotel in Dublin. (He was evidently thinking of the Gresham Hotel.) Yet the underlying point of his image is sound
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Empire · Government (linguistics · Historiography · Irish · Linguistics · Political science · Sentence · Classics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |