Description As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early 20th century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to be English influence.
About the Author Caleb Wood Richardson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque..
How Smyllie and his generation navigated the collision of identities and allegiances helped to define what Ireland is today.
Smyllie, like many of his class, felt a strong political connection to England at the same time as he had enduring cultural dedications to Ireland.
Smyllie had a direct influence on the careers of writers such as Patrick Kavanagh and Louis MacNeice, and his surprising decision to include an Irish-language column in the paper had an enormous impact on the career of novelist Flann O\'Brien.
Richardson explores Smyllie\'s experience in a German internment camp in World War I, his foreign correspondence work for the Irish Times at the Paris Peace Conference, and his guiding hand as an advocate for cultural and intellectualism.
In this engaging consideration of a bombastic, outspoken, and conflicted man, Caleb Wood Richardson offers a way of seeing Smyllie as representative of the larger Anglo-Irish experience.
Smyllie\'s role as an influential editor of the Irish Times meant he had to confront most of the issues that defined the Irish experience, from Ireland\'s neutrality during World War II to the fraught cultural claims surrounding the Irish language and literary censorship.
Smyllie found himself having to navigate the painful experience of being made to feel an outsider in his own homeland.
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Description As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early 20th century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to be English influence
