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'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?' So asked the Kilkenny man-of-letters Hubert Butler (1900-1991) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish Independence. As both a product and critic of this culture, Butler posed the question repeatedly, refusing to accept as inevitable the marginalization of his community within the newly established state. Inspired by the example of the Revivalist generation, he challenged his compatriots to approach modern Irish identity in terms complementary rather than exclusivist. In the process of doing so, he produced a corpus of literary essays European in stature, informed by extensive travel, deep reading, and an active engagement with the political and social upheavals of his age. His insistence on the necessity of Protestant participation in Irish life, coupled with his challenges to received Catholic opinion, made him a contentious figure on both sides of the sectarian divide. This study addresses not only Butler's remarkable personal career, but also some of the larger themes to which he consistently drew attention: the need to balance Irish cosmopolitanism with local relationships; to address the compromises of the Second World War and the hypocrisies of the Cold War; to promote a society in which constructive dissent might not just be tolerated but valued. As a result, by the end of his life, Butler came to be recognised as a forerunner of the more tolerant and expansive Ireland of today.
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Robert Tobin was raised in Boston and Texas and took his first degree from Harvard. A Fulbright Scholar, he also holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is an ordained priest in the Church of England, having served as a curate in Buckinghamshire and as the Episcopal/Anglican Chaplain at Harvard before taking up his present post as Chaplain and Tutor at Oriel College, Oxford.
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Hubert Butler-biography
2012/4/13
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In this lucid informative biography of Hubert Butler, Ireland's leading 20th century essayist, Robert Tobin grasps Butler's many analytic threads - ethnic, religious, political and not least parochial, provincial Ireland - and twines them together. He keeps all the balls in the air simultaneously and continuously engages and fascinates the reader. His narration is first class. Academic writers often manage the technical side of their work well - the research, organization, collection of data, lists of sources and bibliography - but fall short on the storytelling that holds the interest of the reader. Tobin does both brilliantly. Furthermore he notes Butler's sharp wit and ironic expression. In summary this book is magnificent: amazingly well researched, sensitively and subtly argued, and beautifully written.
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