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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... Irish Ascendancy. Catholics (and Presbyterians) could attend the college but the dominant ethos of the fellows remained Anglican and Unionist. By , however, times had changed. The Irish Revolution of – led to the ...
... Catholic bishop, Fine Gael prostrated themselves. This complex situation in Ireland was made even more complicated by the fact that from to Ireland was partitioned between a twentysix-county Irish Free State (from ...
... Irish political tradition was that exemplified by the revolutionary outlook of Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Thomas Davis, John Mitchel, and Patrick Pearse. There was no Fenian equivalent of the Catholic seminaries, but within the National ...
... Catholicism. Her work soon took on a “revisionist” stance. In an article for Irish Historical Studies on the apparently abstruse topic of “Quarterage” she was able to show that Catholic merchants were able to maintain their place in the ...
... Irish version of the Jewish holocaust, with the British playing the role of the Nazis. In academic circles, however ... Catholic Historical Committee, the aim of which was to open up diocesan archives throughout Ireland and thus make ...