Sylvie Kleinman
2005
| Keywords | {Franco-Irish links, esp. 1792-1803}; {1798 Rebellion, esp. French invasion plans and Humbert’s campaign in Ireland}; {Theobald Wolfe Tone: Career, Writings and Legacy}; {Late 18th century republicanism and nationalism}; {Irish nationalist self-writing}; {Iconography of Daniel O’Connell, esp. cartoons}; {French < > English translation}; |
| Nickname | Sylvie Kleinman |
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| Education | Lycée français de New York; Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne); British Institute in Paris (Univ. of London in Paris); Trinity College, Dublin; Dublin City University. |
| Consultancy work | Curatorial (2023): Co-curator (with Dr. Frank Rynne), The Year of the French 1798-2023 Exhibition: DFA & Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (October-December 2023) Opened by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar 14 Oct 2023
https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en-ce-moment/expositions-evenements/1798-lann%C3%A9e-des-fran%C3%A7ais?nb=1
Archival research & Cataloguing (2020): The ‘Wolfe Tone Archive’, Whyte’s Eclectic Collector Catalogue (25-26 July, 2020) Lots 27-33, pages 11-19. Cataloguing and Historical evaluation of 1798 military manuscripts. Included (lot 33) an unknown 2nd holograph version of Theobald Wolfe Tone’s address to the court martial, 10 November 1798.
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| Outreach activities | Panelist, History Ireland Hedge School. https://www.historyireland.com/hedge-schools/ Panelist, History Ireland & NLI podcast. Ulysses in history History in Ulysses: In this centenary year of its publication, this History Ireland Hedge School (3 May 2022) considers James Joyce’s Ulysses, set in Dublin on a single day, 16 June 1904. What was the history of the book? What is the history in the book? With Tommy Graham, Felix Larkin, Sylvie Kleinman, Katherine Mc Sharry and Dan Mulhall |
| Awards | 2007-2009: Irish Research Council (Govenment of Ireland) Post-doctoral Scholarship, Dept. of History, TCD. The Travels and military career in France and French-occupied Europe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1796-1798. July 2021: Maddock Research Fellow, Marsh’s Library: Huguenot Charity in Ireland, ca 1692-1929: From French origins to social chapter of Dublin’s history |
| Other activities | TV DOCUMENTARIES Martha Witherington & Theobald Wolfe Tone: Scéalta Grá na hÉireann Series 2 Episode 4, TG4, 27 September 2023 https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/online-boxsets/play/?pid=6337860177112 [I disassociate myself from the factual errors in this programme]
Would you have Voted for the Act of Union? The Long & the Short of It, BBC1 NI, Friday 15 September, 2023 I deconstructed some of the satirical cartoons (ca 1799-1801) produced during the Union debates. The United Irishmen…Remembered, Disremembered, Imagined, Misremembered… (Alan Gilsenan & Yellow Asylum Productions with X-Press Feeders) Cork Film Festival 12 November 2023 |
| Book Chapters | ‘In the Service of Two Masters: Irish translators as power ‘Matty and the Daffs: The family life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Where Crown met Town The Presence of Lay Catholics, and ‘Paris, 1796: Birthplace of the first Irish Republic? Tone’s Initiating insurgencies abroad : French plans to ‘chouannise’ Tone and the French expeditions to Ireland, 1796-1798 : La Paix au Château ? L’occupation française de l’Irlande en ‘Vive la pain bis et la liberté!’ : Voyages et apprentissages de ‘’Amidst Clamour and Confusion’ : Civilian and Military ‘Libérer ou exploiter ? L’Irlande dans la stratégie ‘”Un Brave de plus” : Theobald Wolfe Tone, alias Adjutant general James Smith : French officer and Irish patriot ‘What did the French ever do for us? Or, some thoughts on ‘Sorrow and Celebration in the Paris Diary of Theobald “’Unhappy is the man and nation whose destiny depends on ‘Pardon my French : the linguistic trials and tribulations of ‘The Accidental Tourist : Theobald Wolfe Tone’s secret |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | Article: ‘A “Democrat” from the start: Theobald Wolfe Tone, emblematic founder of Irish republicanism, anti-monarchism, and the “baneful influence of England”’, in Anti-monarchism in the British isles and Beyond RANAM Recherches anglaises & nord américaines 58 (2024), 43-63. https://journals.openedition.org/ranam/1078
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| Other Journals | Sylvie Kleinman, ‘Feelings and ‘literary fame’?: Tone’s self-writings and the reader experience in Jim Smyth & Tommy Graham (eds.), Wolfe Tone 225 History Ireland Special edition 1798-2023 (April, 2024), 44-50. Sylvie Kleinman, ‘Reflections on Irish national flags, 1798-1848’, History Ireland 31/4 (July/Aug 2023), 16-17. (This article discusses some of the French and Belgian roots of the Irish flag, and challenges misconceptions about the colours of the Irish tricolour)
“Ireland and the ‘£20 millions swindle’ Irish names in the British Legacy of Slavery database”, History Ireland 29/3 (May/June 2021), 26-29. ‘Spinning the Legacy of the French Revolution’, Platform, History Ireland 28/2 March-April (2020),12-13.
”De Gaulle in Ireland: When France’s ‘Long Fella’ found his roots” History Ireland 27/4 July-Aug (2019), 8-9. Platform: ‘Time to decommission ‘Wolfe’ Tone at ‘Scenes of Gaiety now filled with beds’: Dublin Castle’s |
| Published reports | The ‘Wolfe Tone Archive’, Whyte’s Eclectic Collector Catalogue (25-26 July, 2020) Lots 27-33, pages 11-1: Cataloguing and Historical evaluation of 1798 military manuscripts. Included (lot 33) an unknown 2nd holograph version of Theobald Wolfe Tone’s address to the court martial, 10 November 1798. |
| Electronic Publications | Sylvie Kleinman, ‘Practice before policy : Translation and ‘Rhétorique de la souveraineté nationale irlandaise: Un Brave de plus La carrière militaire de Theobald Wolfe ‘A Rough Guide to Revolutionary Paris : Wolfe Tone as an ‘French connection II: Robert Emmet and Malachy |
| Reviews | Book review: Laurent Colantonio, L’homme-nation Daniel O’Connell et le laboratoire politique Irlandais, 1775–1847 (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2023) in Irish Historical Studies 48-173 (May 2024) 188-189. https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2024.11 Pierre Ranger & Anne Magny, Une révolutionnaire irlandaise en France: Maude Gonne et l’Internationale nationaliste 1887-1914 (Oxford, Peter Lang: 2021) Irish Historical Studies Vol 46 Special Issue 170: A New Agenda for Women’s and Gender History in Ireland (Nov 2022), 371-2. doi:10:1017/ihs.2022.34 TV Documentary Reviews – ‘Seen on TV’, History Ireland: ‘One Hundred Years of Ulysses’ HI May/June 2022 Vol 30/3 Ireland’s Dirty Laundry HI July/August 2022 Vol 30/4 Nazi sa Gaeltacht HI September/October HI May/June 2022 Vol 30/5 Ardal O’Hanlon: Tomb Raider HI Nov/Dec 2022 Vol 30/6 Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (Murder in West Cork) HI Jan/Feb 2023 Vol 31/1 |
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