“Oh This Division of Allegiance!” Being Both Irish and British?

Authors

  • Elizabeth Malcolm

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v15i0.3591

Abstract

This is a critical essay on Liam Harte’s anthology The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001. The historian Elizabeth Malcolm questions the selection of Harte’s “life-stories” and points ou the richness of the assembled material.


Keywords: Liam Harte; the Irish in Britain; autobiography; memoir.

Author Biography

  • Elizabeth Malcolm
    Elizabeth Malcolm has degrees from universities in Sydney and Dublin and worked at universities in Trondheim, Belfast and Liverpool, before being appointed in 2000 to the first Australian chair of Irish Studies in Melbourne. Her research interests are mainly in the history of gender, migration, medicine and violence in Ireland. Her most recent books include, The Irish Policeman: a Life, 1822-1922 (Dublin, 2006), and her most recent journal articles are: ‘A New Age or Just the Same Old Cycle of Extirpation? Massacre and the 1798 Irish Rebellion’, Journal of Genocide Research, 15 (2013) and, with Dianne Hall, ‘”The Rebels Turkish Tyranny”: Understanding Sexual Violence in Ireland during the 1640s’, Gender and History, 22 (2010). With Hall, she is also currently writing a history of gender and violence in Ireland and researching the racialisation of the Irish in Australia.

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Published

2013-11-17

Issue

Vol. 15 (2013): ABEI Journal 15

Section

The Critic and the Author

How to Cite

Malcolm, E. (2013). “Oh This Division of Allegiance!” Being Both Irish and British?. ABEI Journal, 15, 79-87. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v15i0.3591