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The Irish and the Imagination of Race R. B. Culver Feminists and conservative women eachThis book analyzes the role of Irishness in nineteenth century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Focusing on the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, Patrick O'Malley interrogates the bardic verse epic, the gothic tale, the realist novel, the stage melodrama, and the political polemic to ask how many mid nineteenth century Irish nationalist writers with liberationist politics