| Domain | Article in Book |
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| Title | "Music hall unionism : Robert Martin and the politics of the stage-Irishman" |
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| Title Of Book | Gray, Peter, 1965- (ed.), Victoria's Ireland? : Irishness and Britishness, 1837-1901 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004) |
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| Author | Maume, Patrick |
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| Publication Date | 2004 |
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| Start-End Page | 69 — 80 |
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| Number Of Pages | 12 p. |
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| Era Covered | 1837 — 1901 |
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| Language | English |
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| ISBN | 1851827587 |
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| Subject Classification |
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| Person As Subject | Martin, Robert, 1846-1905 |
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| Country | Ireland |
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| Notes | Outlines the career of Robert Martin (1846-1905), humorous journalist and entertainer, Conservative propagandist, Irish landowner, and brother of the novelist Violet Martin ("Martin Ross" of Somerville and Ross). The article discusses how Martin deploys stage-Irish imagery (derived from Charles Lever) of paternalist landlords and submissive tenants joined in drunken hedonism in order to oppose Irish demands for Home Rule, to provide a consoling self-image which compensated for his increasing marginalisation as an Irish landlord, and to link Unionism to the hedonism of the male Bohemian journalists and music-hall attendes who provided his audience. The article also discusses how the misogyny of Martin's writings contrasts with the feminism of "Somerville and Ross", how his political activities influenced nationalist reponses to their writings, and how Martin's depiction of landlords as benevolent parents and tenants as violent and ungratefu l children includes an exaltation of Queen Victoriaas universal matriarch and upholder of familial order. |
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