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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... ethno-religious communities, one of which controlled the machinery of government. In towns such as Derry/Londonderry ... cultural apartheid accepted by both sides as a means of preserving their respective ethnic identities. In the North ...
... ethno-religious British nationalism attracts wide support on the Unionist side, and his party, the Democratic ... cultural clinching of the power situation. That's one truth all right. But there is another truth, which is that there's some ...
... ethno-cultural exclusiveness. This tension between civic and ethnic concepts of national identity in France is not merely a contemporary phenomenon. To take the most notorious example, the Dreyfus case at the end of the nineteenth ...
... ethno-cultural not territorial in character. In terms of a contrast between tribal and civic identity, their view suggests that England approximates more to a Le Pen French model than a French civic model. As with France and Germany ...
... ethno-cultural state. There was, however, an alternative view of the English nation which was civic, not ethno-cultural in character. Recent studies have drawn attention to the role of the French Revolution in creating the concept of ...