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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... Scots, and the Welsh on the grounds that they shared the same language and religion (or so he thought). It was not surprising that Seeley should have opposed Irish Home Rule. In due course he became a leading figure within the circles ...
... departments distinct from the History Department proper. These were Scottish History and Economic History, each of which guarded their own independence from their much larger rival. The Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries 25.
... Scottish nationalism which became manifest in the s. There was little contact with the small Scottish History Department or the School of Scottish Studies. After the loose interdisciplinary structure of Sussex organized around ...
... Scottish and English settlers, many of whom were committed Protestants. Urban areas such as Dublin and Cork as well as Belfast had substantial and wealthy Protestant minorities. The distinctive character of the North East had been ...
... Scots to follow the example of earlier heroes, such as William Wallace, George Buchanan, and Fletcher of Saltoun. But British unionism proved to be stronger than Scottish nationalism.14 Scots radicals set up a British Convention and ...