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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... nation was a “greater” England which included its English-speaking colonial possessions overseas. Seeley also regarded as English the Irish, the Scots, and the Welsh on the grounds that they shared the same language and religion (or so ...
... nation. Seeley's brand of imperialism has now passed into history, although his Expansion of England is a remarkable piece of work, still worth reading. For all his insistence on the need to analyze the contemporary political scene ...
... Irish twist. On this view the Church represented the Irish nation in its struggle through centuries of persecution. The period of the penal laws in the eighteenth century was seen as one in which the alliance between priest and people ...
... Ireland. There is no end, apparently, to debate in history, not least in Irish history. notes . See Reba Soffer's excellent article, “Nation, Duty, Character and Confidence: History at Oxford – ,” in The Historical ...
... nation states,” territorial homelands where Poles, Czechs, Serbs and others ... Irish nationalism, backed as it was by powerful lobbies among the Irish ... Ireland, much 33 Nationalism: The Case of Ireland—An Introduction.