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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... Famine: Legend and Reality (1957) Colonizing Irish History: Canny Sets the Agenda (2002) Visions and Revisions: Views of Irish History (2001) Index About the Author 2O3 2.11 224 237 256 270 28O 290 299 309 Acknowledgments I wish to ...
... Famine: Legend and Reality (1957) Colonizing Irish History: Canny Sets the Agenda (2002) Visions and Revisions: Views of Irish History (2001) Index About the Author 2O3 2.11 224 237 256 270 28O 290 299 309 Acknowledgments I wish to ...
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... Famine: Legend and Reality,” Studies (Summer 1957): 184-92. Oxford University Press for “The Irish and Their History.” History Workshop 31 (1991): 149–55. University of Notre Dame Press for “1875: Faith or Fatherland: The Contested ...
... Famine: Legend and Reality,” Studies (Summer 1957): 184-92. Oxford University Press for “The Irish and Their History.” History Workshop 31 (1991): 149–55. University of Notre Dame Press for “1875: Faith or Fatherland: The Contested ...
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... Famine, proved to be more controversial. The editors, Williams and Edwards, intended to produce a scholarly reassessment of the Famine. In the event they were seen to have sponsored a volume in which the tragic aspects of those years ...
... Famine, proved to be more controversial. The editors, Williams and Edwards, intended to produce a scholarly reassessment of the Famine. In the event they were seen to have sponsored a volume in which the tragic aspects of those years ...
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... Famine has come to be seen in some circles as the Irish version of the Jewish holocaust, with the British playing the role of the Nazis. In academic circles, however, debate continues and perhaps no final judgment is possible about ...
... Famine has come to be seen in some circles as the Irish version of the Jewish holocaust, with the British playing the role of the Nazis. In academic circles, however, debate continues and perhaps no final judgment is possible about ...
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... Famine of – the North East remained relatively, though not totally, unscathed and bitter memories of the Famine did not fuel resentment here as they did elsewhere in Ireland and among the Catholic Irish Diaspora in the ...
... Famine of – the North East remained relatively, though not totally, unscathed and bitter memories of the Famine did not fuel resentment here as they did elsewhere in Ireland and among the Catholic Irish Diaspora in the ...
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Page 61 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 128 - When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
Page 189 - We against whom you have done this thing are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Grattan; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created the most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
Page 34 - Irishmen and Irishwomen. In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Page 37 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 287 - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Page 35 - The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights, and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien Government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past.
Page 44 - ... a land whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contests of athletic youths and the laughter of comely maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age.
Page 34 - In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...
Page 61 - ... or lay aside, according to their temporary ideas of convenience. They consider it as the foundation of their whole constitution, with which, and with every part of which, it holds an indissoluble union. Church and state are ideas inseparable in their minds, and scarcely is the one ever mentioned with'out mentioning the other.