Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and HistoryWhat is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History. |
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... Celtic studies, among them T. F. O'Rahilly and Daniel Binchy, both of whom were strong “revisionists” in our modern sense. I had come to Ireland as a medievalist. Almost immediately, however, I found myself conscripted into lecturing on ...
... Celtic scholar. It was at this point that the chance arose of moving to the University of Pittsburgh as Amundson Professor of British History. I had come to know “Pitt” well after a year as visiting professor in – , followed ...
... Celtic scholar who became a good friend of mine. When I returned to England I was a very different person. At Sussex, however, my education as a historian continued and I was introduced to new worlds of literary criticism and of social ...
... Celts help to fuel these attitudes, and not surprisingly there was a reaction in Ireland, leading in its turn to the idea of a Celtic Renaissance. Patrick Pearse's own idealization of the role of the Celtic warrior Cuchulain emerged ...
... Celtic Tiger” and unprecedented economic growth it became apparent that De Valera's image of Ireland as a simple rural society had passed into history. In a referendum permitted the legalization of divorce. On the basis of a ...