Richard J. Butler is Director of Research at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

• Introduction: Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Richard J. Butler Section 1: The Future and The Past1. Dreaming the Future while Arguing the Past: Temperaments and Temporalities in Irish Writing Jim Kelly2. ‘Shrovetide will be a Merry Time in Ireland Yet’: Fenian Visions of Ireland’s FuturePatrick Bethel 3. Imagining Alternative Political Futures for Ireland in the 1880s: the Example of Home Rule Fiction Pauline Collombier-Lakeman Section 2: Dreams and Diasporas4. Visions of Respectability: Charlotte Grace O’Brien and the Politics of Emigrant Philanthropy Catherine Healy 5. ‘The Language of the Conqueror in the Mouth of the Conquered is the Language of the Slave’: Visions for Ireland and for her Language as Depicted in Nineteenth-Century Irish American Print Media Fiona Lyons 6. ‘The Future Destiny of these Countries’: The Young Ireland Generation and Nationalist Futures in Australia and Canada, 1848–1871 Christopher P. Morash 7. ‘To Cultivate a Spirit of Individual Independence and Self-Respect’: Melbourne Visions of an Irish Future in the 1880s Sophie Cooper 8. Imagining Irish Futures in East Asia: Narratives of Encounter and Return among Professional Diasporas in China, c. 1860–1900 Loughlin J. Sweeney Section 3: Religious Futures9. Visions of the Future in Humanitarian Responses to the Great Irish Famine Aoife O’Leary McNeice 10. After Lammenais and L’Avenir: The Liberal Catholicism of Walter Sweetman and the Catholic Modernism of William Gibson, Second Lord Ashbourne Patrick Maume Section 4: From Here to Modernity11. Transatlantic Exchange, Urban Development, and Heterogeneous Engineering in the West of Ireland: Belmullet’s Unbuilt Railways, c. 1820–1920 Richard J. Butler 12. Imagining the Railway Revolution in Pre-Famine Ireland: Technology, Governance, and the Drummond Commission, 1832–39 Peter Hession 13. P.J. Smyth’s Nationalist Dreams of a Free-Trading Ireland and Direct Sea Links with the European Continent Raphaël Ingelbien

Richard J. Butler is Director of Research at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

• Introduction: Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Richard J. Butler Section 1: The Future and The Past1. Dreaming the Future while Arguing the Past: Temperaments and Temporalities in Irish Writing Jim Kelly2. ‘Shrovetide will be a Merry Time in Ireland Yet’: Fenian Visions of Ireland’s FuturePatrick Bethel 3. Imagining Alternative Political Futures for Ireland in the 1880s: the Example of Home Rule Fiction Pauline Collombier-Lakeman Section 2: Dreams and Diasporas4. Visions of Respectability: Charlotte Grace O’Brien and the Politics of Emigrant Philanthropy Catherine Healy 5. ‘The Language of the Conqueror in the Mouth of the Conquered is the Language of the Slave’: Visions for Ireland and for her Language as Depicted in Nineteenth-Century Irish American Print Media Fiona Lyons 6. ‘The Future Destiny of these Countries’: The Young Ireland Generation and Nationalist Futures in Australia and Canada, 1848–1871 Christopher P. Morash 7. ‘To Cultivate a Spirit of Individual Independence and Self-Respect’: Melbourne Visions of an Irish Future in the 1880s Sophie Cooper 8. Imagining Irish Futures in East Asia: Narratives of Encounter and Return among Professional Diasporas in China, c. 1860–1900 Loughlin J. Sweeney Section 3: Religious Futures9. Visions of the Future in Humanitarian Responses to the Great Irish Famine Aoife O’Leary McNeice 10. After Lammenais and L’Avenir: The Liberal Catholicism of Walter Sweetman and the Catholic Modernism of William Gibson, Second Lord Ashbourne Patrick Maume Section 4: From Here to Modernity11. Transatlantic Exchange, Urban Development, and Heterogeneous Engineering in the West of Ireland: Belmullet’s Unbuilt Railways, c. 1820–1920 Richard J. Butler 12. Imagining the Railway Revolution in Pre-Famine Ireland: Technology, Governance, and the Drummond Commission, 1832–39 Peter Hession 13. P.J. Smyth’s Nationalist Dreams of a Free-Trading Ireland and Direct Sea Links with the European Continent Raphaël Ingelbien

Richard J. Butler is Director of Research at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

• Introduction: Dreams of the Future in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Richard J. Butler Section 1: The Future and The Past1. Dreaming the Future while Arguing the Past: Temperaments and Temporalities in Irish Writing Jim Kelly2. ‘Shrovetide will be a Merry Time in Ireland Yet’: Fenian Visions of Ireland’s FuturePatrick Bethel 3. Imagining Alternative Political Futures for Ireland in the 1880s: the Example of Home Rule Fiction Pauline Collombier-Lakeman Section 2: Dreams and Diasporas4. Visions of Respectability: Charlotte Grace O’Brien and the Politics of Emigrant Philanthropy Catherine Healy 5. ‘The Language of the Conqueror in the Mouth of the Conquered is the Language of the Slave’: Visions for Ireland and for her Language as Depicted in Nineteenth-Century Irish American Print Media Fiona Lyons 6. ‘The Future Destiny of these Countries’: The Young Ireland Generation and Nationalist Futures in Australia and Canada, 1848–1871 Christopher P. Morash 7. ‘To Cultivate a Spirit of Individual Independence and Self-Respect’: Melbourne Visions of an Irish Future in the 1880s Sophie Cooper 8. Imagining Irish Futures in East Asia: Narratives of Encounter and Return among Professional Diasporas in China, c. 1860–1900 Loughlin J. Sweeney Section 3: Religious Futures9. Visions of the Future in Humanitarian Responses to the Great Irish Famine Aoife O’Leary McNeice 10. After Lammenais and L’Avenir: The Liberal Catholicism of Walter Sweetman and the Catholic Modernism of William Gibson, Second Lord Ashbourne Patrick Maume Section 4: From Here to Modernity11. Transatlantic Exchange, Urban Development, and Heterogeneous Engineering in the West of Ireland: Belmullet’s Unbuilt Railways, c. 1820–1920 Richard J. Butler 12. Imagining the Railway Revolution in Pre-Famine Ireland: Technology, Governance, and the Drummond Commission, 1832–39 Peter Hession 13. P.J. Smyth’s Nationalist Dreams of a Free-Trading Ireland and Direct Sea Links with the European Continent Raphaël Ingelbien