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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... United Kingdom (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1991): 1–6. – “The Importance of Being British,” The Political Quarterly 71 (January– March 2000): 15–25. – “The Political Background to English Mercantilism,” Economic History Review ...
... United Kingdom. The practical effect of Partition in the south was to make the new state percent Catholic. In the north the protestant majority saw itself as a besieged group within a largely Catholic island and as a consequence ...
... United Kingdom could hardly have been clearer. It was a struggle from which George III emerged the victor. The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland which had been under siege in the s also emerged with its privileged position in ...
... united Irish Parliamentary Party, attempted to meet the criticism that “Home Rule means Rome Rule” by denying that ... Great Britain owe a divided duty; they owe a duty, no doubt, to their country's freedom; but that alongside there is ...
... United Kingdom.28 As we have seen, the Free State was almost wholly Catholic, a state of affairs which had been intensified by the loss of a third of its Protestant population as a consequence of what is now termed “ethnic cleansing.”29 ...