Open AccessAn Irish Nationalist Perspective on Eastern Europe: William Smith O’Brien’s Travel Journals, 1861-1864
Author(s) -
Róisín Healy
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studia historyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0025-1429
DOI - 10.12797/sh.61.2018.04.04
Subject(s) - irish , nationalism , perspective (graphical) , history , economic history , irish nationalism , political science , law , art , politics , philosophy , linguistics , visual arts
An Irish Nationalist Perspective on Eastern Europe: William Smith O’Brien’s Travel Journals, 1861-1864
The travel journals of Irish nationalist politician William Smith O’Brien, challenge the claim by Lar-ry Wolff of a general western European condescension towards eastern Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. Hostility towards British rule in Ireland led Smith O’Brien to celebrate and identify with the Hungarians and Poles in their struggles against their imperial rulers during his travels in the 1860s. He concluded, however, that the Irish suffered more under Britain than these nations under either Austria or Russia.