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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... civic nationalism. He was also associated with anti-Semitism. Sinn Fein, the ... identity took root when England became a “Land of Hope and Glory.” One of ... identity in contemporary Ireland. John Redmond, as we have seen, spoke out for ...
... civic,” more inclusive sense of Irish identity as a challenge to the established ethnic “Faith and Fatherland” image. Change was slow but it was occurring nonetheless. One of the first major signs of this was the gradual liberalization ...
... civic conceptions of nationhood remained. In the s, however, with the rise of the “Celtic Tiger” and ... identity and the opening gambit of any conversation with a stranger almost inevitably involved discovering “what foot he dug ...
... civic and ethnic nationalism, it seems clear that the fortunes of ... identity. The flow of Irish emigrants to England in the postwar years has ... civic emphasis was clear in a speech in by the then Taoiseach Garrett Fitzgerald ...
... civic and ethnic nationalism. In his comparison of France and Germany, the French emphasis on “civic” identity comes off best. Now, however ( ), the legal ban on Muslim women wearing headscarves (the hijab) in French state ...