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Search - Twice Condemned - Irish Views of the Dreyfus Affair

Twice Condemned Irish Views of the Dreyfus Affair
Author: Richard Barrett

This is a very short and simple book. It is a survey of opinions expressed in the columns of Irish newspapers and magazines on the Dreyfus affair while that unique controversy was at its height in the late 1890s. I believe that there are good reasons for looking at this. Discussion of how the Dreyfus affair (or the affaireA") was seen in Irelan... more »d can give us valuable insights into a number of topics, including Irish views of French and World affairs as well as the make up of nationalism, unionism, sectarianism and anti-Semitism inside Ireland itself. The book's contents are based mainly on a study of a number of Irish newspapers and magazines of the time, from all parts of the island and of the political spectrum. This includes all the major national newspapers and a selection of provincial ones, plus religious and political periodicals. It is possible that one or two revealing pieces of writing have been missed, particularly if these were in one of the provincial papers not selected for this study. However, the study still does present a representative and high resolution picture of the state of Irish public opinion. The book focuses on discussion of the affaire, rather than reportage of it. Almost all national dailies and some provincial papers contained extensive factual reports of the affaire's progress, usually supplied by commercial wire services such as Reuter's. Such syndicated reportage informed the debate in Ireland, but does not tell us what people in Ireland were thinking or writing or why, which is the focus of this piece of work. The principal time focus is on the period of the affaire's greatest controversy and divisiveness, namely from early Spring 1898, when Aemile Zola wrote his explosive piece J'accuse, to Autumn 1899 when the Second court-martial of Dreyfus took place at Rennes in Western France. There was originally an intention for this work to encompass material from non-periodical sources such as memoirs, biographies and records kept by organisations. However, an examination of some materials of this type showed that references to the affaire were too few and far between to justify the considerable additional time it would take to find and incorporate them. Nevertheless, a few such sources have been used. Finally, it should be noted that part of the subject of this book has already been covered in my article The Dreyfus affair in the Irish nationalist press, 1898-99A" in Aetudes Irlandaises 31/1, Spring 2007. Richard Barrett August 2010 The front cover image is from the Irish Weekly Independent dated Saturday 16 September 1899

ISBN-13: 9781907179952
ISBN-10: 190717995X
Publication Date: 10/11/2010
Pages: 164
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Publisher: Original Writing Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
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