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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... Sinn Fein during – , was also a valuable source of evidence for discussion. With the backing of David Daiches we were also able to invite visiting speakers to address the seminar. Among these were F. S. L. Lyons, Denis ...
... Sinn Fein manoeuvres seriously until it was too late. Joyce's Dubliners had also indicated that to the characters in “The Dead” the idea of a rebellion seemed utterly remote. In our enthusiasm for the long-term social dimension at ...
... Sinn Fein, the political party which he founded, was Catholic in its orientation and drew upon the support within the network of Christian Brothers' schools, a powerful and growing force in Irish secondary education. Thanks to such ...
... Sinn Fein, a party which the Catholic episcopate came to support for what it saw as the long-term interest of the Church. A common hostility toward the possible introduction of conscription in was another factor helping to link ...
... Sinn Fein mythology might well have been avoided, but the intransigence of Mrs. Thatcher paralleled that of her predecessors in , despite the pleas of John Hume, the leader of the S.D.L.P. Within the Irish diaspora in the United ...