Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism

00 Lloyd argues that nineteenth-century Irish Nationalism, in demanding that Irish literature concentrate on representing Irish identity, actually imports a British cultural model which remains a powerful instrument of imperialist hegemony. James Clarence Mangan's writings, composed in the early decades of Irish nationalism, bear the marks of resistance to that model. Lloyd argues that nineteenth-century Irish Nationalism, in demanding that Irish literature concentrate on representing Irish identity, actually imports a British cultural model which remains a powerful instrument of imperialist hegemony. James Clarence Mangan's writings, composed in the early decades of Irish nationalism, bear the marks of resistance to that model.