‘Eternity's commissioner’: Thomas Carlyle, the Great Irish Famine and the geopolitics of travel

Nally, David

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“…reflected a moral economy at war with the new science of political economy. When Thomas Carlyle visited Lord Hill's estate in 1849, however, he clearly read local tensions as a racial struggle for advancement: "Lord George and his Aberdeens versus Celtic nature and Celtic art" (Carlyle 1882, 247;Nally 2006). The influential "Times Commissioner" (otherwise known as Thomas Campbell Foster) also visited Gweedore where he praised how "this former desert and bleak wilderness-this example of barbarism and starvation" was converted into "fertile corn fields, the seat of industry and content, and into a humanized abode."…”

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“…Centralized political administration, a unified police force, paid magistrates, public dispensaries, a unified and regulated network of lunatic asylums, and state-backed elementary schooling-this was a massive undertaking requiring a new "biopolitical" regime of calculation and surveillance. 12 Indeed recent work on other British colonies amply demonstrates that the meticulous management of colonial life was fast becoming the notable characteristic of metropolitan politics (Scott 1995;Kalpagam 2002;Nally 2006;Duncan 2007;Legg 2007).…”

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“That Coming Storm”: The Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great Famine

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2008

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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2008

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Meanwhile, Harzallah takes on the revisionists by stressing the importance of laissez‐faire attitudes in worsening conditions during the Great Famine, contrasting the attitudes of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell in the administration of Indian corn relief; P. Gray offers a comparison between the Famine and the later Indian famines of 1876–9; and Nally points out that despite the enormous literature on the Famine, the travel memoirs of Thomas Carlyle (who visited Ireland in 1846 and 1849) have received little attention.…”

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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Thomas Carlyle, ‘Young Ireland’ and the ‘Condition of Ireland Question’*

Morrow

2008

Hist. J.

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This article reconsiders Thomas Carlyle's views on the crisis facing Ireland in the 1840s and British responses to it. It argues that while Carlyle saw this crisis as being related to difficulties facing contemporary ‘English’ society, he treated it as a distinctive manifestation of a malaise that afflicted all European societies. Carlyle's views on Ireland reflected the illiberal and authoritarian attitudes which underwrote his social and political thought, but they were not, as has sometimes been suggested, premised on anti-Irish prejudices derived from racial stereotypes. An examination of Carlyle's writings on Ireland demonstrate that he attributed the parlous state of that country in the 1840s to widespread failures in leadership and social morality that were not unique to the inhabitants of Ireland and were also to be found in England. Carlyle's works were not only admired by leading members of ‘Young Ireland’, but also generated ideas that framed their response to the economic, social, and political challenges facing Ireland.

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‘Eternity's commissioner’: Thomas Carlyle, the Great Irish Famine and the geopolitics of travel

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

“That Coming Storm”: The Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great Famine

“That Coming Storm”: The Irish Poor Law, Colonial Biopolitics, and the Great Famine

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

Thomas Carlyle, ‘Young Ireland’ and the ‘Condition of Ireland Question’*

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