The Minority Voice
Hubert Butler and Southern Irish Protestantism, 1900-1991
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 January 2012
- ISBN 9780199641567
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 222x147x23 mm
- Weight 526 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first full-length study of essayist and controversialist Hubert Butler offers a comprehensive account of a literary and social figure whose importance in twentieth-century Irish culture is increasingly recognised.
MoreLong description:
'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?' So asked the Kilkenny man-of-letters Hubert Butler (1900-1991) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish Independence. As both a product and critic of this culture, Butler posed the question repeatedly, refusing to accept as inevitable the marginalization of his community within the newly established state. Inspired by the example of the Revivalist generation, he challenged his compatriots to approach modern Irish identity in terms complementary rather than exclusivist. In the process of doing so, he produced a corpus of literary essays European in stature, informed by extensive travel, deep reading, and an active engagement with the political and social upheavals of his age. His insistence on the necessity of Protestant participation in Irish life, coupled with his challenges to received Catholic opinion, made him a contentious figure on both sides of the sectarian divide.
This study addresses not only Butler's remarkable personal career, but also some of the larger themes to which he consistently drew attention: the need to balance Irish cosmopolitanism with local relationships; to address the compromises of the Second World War and the hypocrisies of the Cold War; to promote a society in which constructive dissent might not just be tolerated but valued. As a result, by the end of his life, Butler came to be recognised as a forerunner of the more tolerant and expansive Ireland of today.
[a] wide-ranging and complex study by Robert Tobin.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Intellectual Genealogy of a Southern Protestant, c.1900-1930
Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and War, 1930-1945
Irish Community and Protestant Belonging, 1930-1949
Christianity, Mass Society, and Cold War, 1945-1972
Public Controversy and Intellectual Dissent, 1949-1972
History, Heritage, and Scholarship, 1930-1972
The Intellectual Legacy of a Southern Protestant, 1972-1991
Postscript
Appendices
Hubert Butler's Published Writings and Radio Broadcasts
The Kilkenny Debates: Topics and Participants
