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The Limerick Boycott in Context

by Seán William Gannon (Volume editor) Natalie Wynn (Volume editor)
©2025 Edited Collection XXXII, 286 Pages
Series: Reimagining Ireland, Volume 136

Summary

«Historically it has been fashionable to view the Limerick Boycott as a deplorable but isolated incident. The essays in this volume expertly challenge this view, assiduously placing the boycott in much wider religious and political contexts.»
(Geoffrey Alderman, Professor Emeritus, University of Buckingham)
«The contributors brilliantly embed the Limerick Boycott amid the land and cultural movements that reshaped Irish society, while demonstrating convincingly that European trends informed those at the centre of the boycott. Equally, they use new sources to interrogate the contested memories that played a significant role in shaping earlier scholarship.»
(Timothy G. McMahon, Associate Professor of History, Marquette University)
The Limerick Boycott, instituted in January 1904 by the Redemptorist priest, Fr John Creagh, remains Ireland’s most iconic symbol of anti-Jewish prejudice. A relatively minor, localized episode, the boycott has come to be remembered as a pogrom which effectively destroyed an established provincial Jewish community. This volume brings together new and established scholars in the fields of Irish History and Jewish Studies to provide the first in-depth, critical investigation of the history, historiography, and cultural memory of its events and their afterlife, by examining them through a variety of lenses: local, political, economic, theological/ecclesiastical, sectarian, and Jewish.

Details

Pages
XXXII, 286
Publication Year
2025
ISBN (PDF)
9781800799004
ISBN (ePUB)
9781800799011
ISBN (Softcover)
9781800798991
DOI
10.3726/b19833
Language
English
Publication date
2023 (May)
Keywords
Irish Jewish history Irish-Jewish relations Irish Catholicism
Published
Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2025. XXXII, 286 pp.
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Biographical notes

Seán William Gannon (Volume editor) Natalie Wynn (Volume editor)

Seán William Gannon has published widely on twentieth-century Ireland, the Irish Revolution, and Irish imperial history. He is a Research Associate of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. Natalie Wynn is a Research Associate of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Culture, Trinity College Dublin, specializing in Irish Jewish history, historiography, identity, and experience from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

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