An Irish Nationalist Perspective on Eastern Europe: William Smith O’Brien’s Travel Journals, 1861-1864

• Authors: Róisín Healy

Title variants

An Irish Nationalist Perspective on Eastern Europe: William Smith O’Brien’s Travel Journals, 1861-1864

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The travel journals of Irish nationalist politician William Smith O’Brien, challenge the claim by Lar-ry Wolff of a general western European condescension towards eastern Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. Hostility towards British rule in Ireland led Smith O’Brien to celebrate and identify with the Hungarians and Poles in their struggles against their imperial rulers during his travels in the 1860s. He concluded, however, that the Irish suffered more under Britain than these nations under either Austria or Russia.

Keywords

EN

Ireland; Poland; Hungary; Nationalism; Travel-Writing; Orientalism

PL

Irlandia; Polska; Węgry; nacjonalizm; literatura podróżnicza; orientalizm

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Studia Historyczne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 4 (244)
• Pages: 55-72

Dates

published

2021-06-01

Contributors

author

Róisín Healy

• National University of Ireland, Galway

Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/SH.61.2018.04.04