States of Mind

Two Centuries of Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1780-1980

Oliver MacDonagh author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:1st Oct '24

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States of Mind cover

Originally published in 1983 and slightly revised in 1985, joint winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, States of Mind is an exploration of the ideas underlying Anglo-Irish conflict over the past two centuries. This is a book about nationalism and colonialism and above all about political ideology. The ideology is popular, to be inferred from behaviour rather than found in treatises. Often it was, and is, expressed in images and slogans. The resultant cross-purposes and double meanings, ambiguity and dualism are characteristic of cultural collision and accommodation generally. This book throws light upon a very wide range of modern history, and not just upon the relations of one particular metropolitan power and its dependency. The definition and treatment of the subject, as well as the conclusions, are strikingly novel.

Original Reviews of States of Mind:

States of Mind combines imagination, wit, erudition and literary and analytical skills of the highest order. On the MacDonagh level--admittedly reached by few--history is an art as well as a science" Dervia Murphy.

‘It is quite simply a masterpiece’. The Economist

‘This brilliantly glancing study…Most books three times as long do not give cause for half as much thought.’ Roy Foster,Observer.

ISBN: 9781032861777

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

158 pages