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Book review: Leisure and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century

contemporaries who became or were by instinct, primarily parliamentarians. His social radicalism here is cast in opposition to Parnell and others, but particularly to the conservative Catholic nationalism of Tim Healy who remains a counterpoint to Davitt. The sense to which Davitt represented a font of alternative possibilities remains a motif throughout the book. King suggests he was more aware of displacement from the younger generation than others in the Irish Party. Davitt’s importance for more socially progressive younger nationalists like Tom Kettle, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Lindsay Crawford is brought into clear focus towards the end of this book. However, it was not these figures which carried through the Irish revolution and, as the author notes, these devotees of Davitt had passed away or emigrated by the end of 1916. This does not diminish the significance of Davitt or his enduring importance though. King emphasises that point with this significant contribution to scholarship; this book will interest not just scholars of Davitt but also those with interests in many of the social and political movements discussed in this wide-ranging and absorbing study.