How the Irish Became White Supremacists

AvSean O’ Dubhghaill

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments in which ideas about Irishness have been constructed, exploited, and racialised. Exploring race, exceptionalism, and white supremacy, this book aims to start a conversation about the ways in which the idea of what it means to be ‘Irish’ has been constructed, reified, and commodified and the role that Irish Studies, and academia in general, plays in this. Dismantling the notion of Irishness, this text examines contemporary developments in Ireland relating to asylum seekers and ‘non-nationals’ in contemporary literary works, exploring a phenomenon that structures and creates power disparities. This volume will be an essential resource for academics interested in understanding current developments in Irish society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
Antal sidor:166
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032947068

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Sean O’ Dubhghaill is Professor of International Relations at the Brussels School of Governance. He published An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium: Belonging, Identity and Community in 2020.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction 0.1 What is white supremacy?Chapter 1: Hostility and Hospitality1.1. Afrophobia and hibernophobia are not new: What is ‘group threat theory’? 1.2. The contact hypothesis and structural violence: How racial prejudice wanes as estrangement does1.3. Host/Guest1.4. Ireland’s full: When hospitality runs outChapter 2: Suspect Communities and Hibernophobia2.1. Suspect communities2.2. Similar behaviours, different levels of suspicion2.3. On the receiving end of suspicion: On auto-ethnography2.4. All suspicions are imagined unequally2.5. Imagined communities versus suspect communities are equivalent to an imagined community versus a community imaginedChapter 3: Multiculturalism, Populism and Xenophobia3.1. To oppose immigration3.2. What multiculturalism needs to succeed3.3. What kinds of policies does multiculturalism entertain? 3.4. No fences make good neighbours: Resolving conflict3.5. Populism, or division is normal and natural3.6. Irexit, or lies that populists need to be true3.7. When is it rational to be xenophobic? Chapter 4: Diaspora Policy4.1. The Irish diaspora is a great resource4.2. Identity and business4.3. The risk to Irish StudiesChapter 5: Leuven and the Reinvention of Ireland5.1. The Irish diaspora and enterprise5.2. The fire in LeuvenChapter 6: Re-visiting How the Irish became White (Supremacists)6.1. Difference and Prophet Song6.2. The Irish became White6.3. On the impossibility of studying the Irish6.4. No one gives a damn about the IrishChapter 7: Believe in Dublin. Believe in Ireland7.1. Believe in Dublin7.2. What is it to believe?7.3. Recommendations