Gender Difference, National Identity and Professing History: the Case of Alice Stopford Green

Holton, Sandra Stanley

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“…135 Stopford Green's values allowed for a different kind of historiography to emerge in and about Ireland, one that centred on the nation and one that Sandra Holton has cautiously ascribed to a 'female consciousness'. 136 John Hutchinson has argued: 'Whether they are aware of it or not, most Irish historians are methodological nationalists since they tend to take for granted the nation as the proper unit of analysis.' 137 To that end, the revolutionary claims made about her work by Tom Kettle and others can be now recognised for how her methodology helped to sever medieval Ireland from an Anglocentric framework in the pre-1916 nationalist imaginary and replaced it with a sense of legitimate independent authority.…”

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“…Sandra Holton has analysed her history at the intersection of gender and nationality, and as a deliberate provocation to the 'scientific', professionalised and male-orientated discipline. 18 Acknowledging her influence on a new generation of women historians in Ireland, Nadia Smith has also placed her recovery of a vernacular Irish history within the context of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American women historians who sought to unearth a specifically Native American history. 19 Helen Kingstone has argued perceptively that Stopford Green was writing for a future time: her history could not be fully understood in her own age.…”

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Historical revisit: Mythistory and the making of Ireland: Alice Stopford Green's undoing

Mitchell¹

2020

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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The publication in 1908 of The making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600 by the London-based Irish historian, Alice Stopford Green, provoked a controversy that reveals much about the deepening political tensions at the heart of historical practice in the decade before 1916. Stopford Green took a deliberately controversial approach to the rewriting of medieval Ireland that triggered a bombardment of both positive and negative reactions. Supporters of Irish home rule applauded the work for its innovative analysis and contemporary relevance. But the book elicited a flurry of exasperation from a united front of ‘history men’, who dismissed Stopford Green and her work as ‘political’ and largely fictitious. Anticipating the reaction from a profession that was predominantly sympathetic to a unionist interpretation, Stopford Green had a well-prepared plan that harnessed both her gender and her transnational networks of influence to maximise the dissemination of her radical reimagining of the late medieval Gaelic world. By understanding these deeper strategies of defiance, Alice Stopford Green's history might be reclaimed as a key intervention in the structuring of both Ireland's national tradition and collective consciousness in preparation for independence.

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Historical revisit: Mythistory and the making of Ireland: Alice Stopford Green's undoing

Mitchell¹

2020

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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“…85 and, in 1911, he was so impressed with Irish Nationality that he floated a scheme to have it 'sold by hand throughout Ireland'. 90 In important ways, then, Casement's nationalism developed from his anticolonial activism.…”

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An accumulated wrong: Roger Casement and the anticolonial moments within imperial governance

Kearns

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2019

Journal of Historical Geography

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Taking three moments of governance-executive, legislative, judicial-this paper explains how forms of anticolonial critique were composed and articulated within the general regime of imperial rule. Through the career of Roger Casement, this paper shows how international human rights could develop out of the administration of empires as they monitored and compared the treatment of their own subjects in other imperial spaces. Casement drew particularly on his Irish heritage to identify the expropriation of direct producers as the basis of colonial rule. For Casement, colonialism was coeval with the destruction of native life. This was a far more systematic critique than was typical in commentary on the evils of colonialism. It finally impelled Casement into open rebellion giving him one last opportunity, from the dock as a convicted traitor, to make public an anticolonial epistemology that challenged the legitimacy of imperial sovereignty.

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“…On Alice Stopford Green see the entry in: Spongberg, Curthoys and Caine (, pp. 544–545), Holton () and Smith (, pp. 37–60).…”

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Amateurs by Choice: Women and the Pursuit of Independent Scholarship in 20th Century Historical Writing

Pomata

2013

Centaurus

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In the early decades of the 20th century, women's access to the historical discipline followed fundamentally two paths. For the first time, some (a small minority) entered the profession as academic historians; others worked outside or on the margins of academia, pursuing their research interests as independent scholars. What did being an independent scholar mean for these women? Was it always a form of externally imposed marginalization? My paper argues that this is not the case. First of all, being an independent scholar did not necessarily mean marginality. Some of these women scholars exerted a deep influence on 20th century historiography, and their work is still influential today. Quite apart from posthumous fame, moreover, it should be noted that the lack of academic affiliation did not necessarily preclude for some of these women the possibility of recognition and influence during their lives. Secondly, we should be careful not to assume that being an independent scholar was invariably an externally imposed marginalization. Some of these women scholars can be defined as ‘obligatory amateurs,’ because they were frustrated in their attempt to pursue an academic career. But others, in contrast, deliberately chose independent scholarship over an academic job, and can thus be defined ‘amateurs by choice.’ What was the motivation behind this choice? I argue that an important factor was the resilience of the amateur tradition in historical writing. The amateur tradition offered a strong counterbalance to women's marginality in academia and a source of positive values and models for their participation in the intellectual life.

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Gender Difference, National Identity and Professing History: the Case of Alice Stopford Green

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Historical revisit: Mythistory and the making of Ireland: Alice Stopford Green's undoing

Historical revisit: Mythistory and the making of Ireland: Alice Stopford Green's undoing

An accumulated wrong: Roger Casement and the anticolonial moments within imperial governance

Amateurs by Choice: Women and the Pursuit of Independent Scholarship in 20th Century Historical Writing

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