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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... Century, both of which I came to appreciate only after I had left Cambridge. Postan's approach derived from his European background, his training as an economist, and his work as a graduate student at the London School of Economics ...
... Century and the works of George Unwin and Eileen Power. When I asked for a general reading list he recommended the works of A. D. Lindsay on modern democracy, G. H. Gooch on Nineteenth-century historians, Jacques Maritain's True ...
... century topic offered by Jack Plumb. My own choice was “St. Francis and the Franciscan Order,” which was given by David Knowles. This proved to be a most rewarding experience. The problems raised by the sources for the life of St ...
... century Renaissance. But job opportunities were few and far between. Knowles backed me for a research assistantship to Fritz Saxl of the Warburg Institute in London but Saxl died suddenly and I decided instead to apply for the post of ...
... century Trinity College had been very much an organ of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy. Catholics (and Presbyterians) could attend the college but the dominant ethos of the fellows remained Anglican and Unionist. By , however, times ...