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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... Republic of Ireland”) and a six-county unit of “Northern Ireland” which remained part of the United Kingdom. The practical effect of Partition in the south was to make the new state percent Catholic. In the north the protestant ...
... Republic when they and other orders faced the threat of anticlericalism. The French Revolution itself was seen as a Masonic conspiracy aiming to undermine the Church, a view which enjoyed papal backing. History essays produced by Holy ...
... Republic, found itself on the defensive. I did not remain in Ireland long enough to witness the full extent of the changes which were to come, as in my own fortunes and those of my family changed drastically. Our younger son ...
... Republic. In doing so, however, they inevitably aroused the bitter antagonism of the Ulster Protestant population, whose relatives were in France on the Western Front, the eve of the Battle of the Somme ( June ). The Rising of ...
... Republic “under the protection of the Most High God.” If we attempt to see this document in comparative terms, “ethnic” or “civic,” there is no doubt that the Declaration of is an example of “civic nationalism.” The Irish Republic ...