Irish Views on Old Austria and Austrian Views on the Irish Question, 1848 - 1918 (Vol.2)

This thesis looks at the closing years of the §Austrian Empire, principally 1848 1918, and the §growth of Czech nationalism, in contrast and §comparison with the development of Irish §nationalism, as reflected in a provincial Irish §newspaper, the Cork Examiner. And, moreover, how §discernible the question of Ireland was on a §Continental scale and in view of a World War. The §years 1914 to 1918, pivotal to many nationalist §aspirations in Europe, Panslav or Irish, mark the §primary time-span, and the Cork Examiner, founded §1841, at a time when nationalist sentiment among the §literate masses was globally detectable, is the §primary source of information this study relies on. §As this thesis juxtaposes Ireland and Bohemia, §former colonies in former empires, it is worthwhile §noting the quality and quantity of interest they §showed in each other s destinies, or, indeed, lack §of it. The geographic, denominational and thus §cultural distance between Ireland and Bohemia seems §to have proved too great to allow satisfactory §monitoring of potentially mutually supportive §political movements, essentially nationalist and §separatist in nature.