Description:
Presents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish what it is 'to be Irish' within them
Brief description: Sophie Cooper is Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen's University Belfast. Sophie was a William McFarlane Fellow at the University of Edinburgh where she completed her PhD in 2017. Prior to that, she studied at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Exeter. Sophie has previously published on material culture, female travel in the British empire, and ideas of belonging in the Irish diaspora.
Review Quotes: The cutting-edge comparative approach adopted in this study suggests the methodological innovations - often pioneered by scholars of Ireland beyond the island - which can be usefully integrated into histories of modern Ireland. This book, further, illuminates the conceptual possibilities of writing Irish history to scale. If Irish history is to have a global future, it is to be found in the dialectic between the study of the world and the 'small spaces' of the local, the personal, and the private. Cooper's book takes Irish historiography a step further towards a new 'Global Irish' history.--Darragh Gannon, Georgetown University "Australian Historical Studies,"