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In The Eternal Paddy , Michael de Nie examines anti-Irish prejudice, Anglo-Irish relations, and the construction of Irish and British identities in nineteenth-century Britain. This book provides a new, more inclusive approach to the study of Irish identity as perceived by Britons and demonstrates that ideas of race were inextricably connected with class concerns and religious prejudice in popular views of both peoples. De Nie suggests that while traditional anti-Irish stereotypes were fundamental to British views of Ireland, equally important were a collection of sympathetic discourses and a self-awareness of British prejudice. In the pages of the British newspaper press, this dialogue created a deep ambivalence about the Irish people, an ambivalence that allowed most Britons to assume that the root of Ireland’s difficulties lay in its Irishness. Drawing on more than ninety newspapers published in England, Scotland, and Wales, The Eternal Paddy offers the first major detailed analysis of British press coverage of Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book traces the evolution of popular understandings and proposed solutions to the \"Irish question,\" focusing particularly on the interrelationship between the press, the public, and the politicians. The work also engages with ongoing studies of imperialism and British identity, exploring the role of Catholic Ireland in British perceptions of their own identity and their empire.

'Ireland In An Imperial World' interrogates the myriad ways through which Irish men and women experienced, participated in, and challenged empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most importantly, they were integral players simultaneously managing and undermining the British Empire, and through their diasporic communities, they built sophisticated arguments that aided challenges to other imperial projects. In emphasizing the interconnections between Ireland and the wider British and Irish worlds, this book argues that a greater appreciation of empire is essential for enriching our understanding of the development of Irish society at home.

Here, de Nie comments on at least two larger discussions about the British empire and its relationship with Ireland. He makes a case for the importance of newspapers in tile late 19th century in informing high political debates about empire, representing what contemporary politicians took to be popular opinion, and generally indicating the possible parameters of debate. Systematic press analysis across a wide political spectrum has been neglected by new imperial historians more concerned with less influential aspects of popular culture, he claims. At the same time, he also argues that the new imperial history has failed to engage thoroughly with Irish attitudes to empire, in their full diversity and complexity. He further argues in sum that 'just as Irish imperial studies must expand beyond its focus on the nationalists and consider the diversity of Ireland's engagement with empire, so must the new imperial history more fully incorporate the popular press and particularly non-English voices in order to craft a more comprehensive and satisfactory account of British imperial sensibilities.' Reprinted by permission of the University of Chicago Press. © All rights reserved