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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... immigrants to the United States. An important article, “Modernising Values in the History of the United States” ( ), showed him examining the impact of social changes such as immigration or urbanization upon religion, education ...
... immigrant. It was thanks to him that I became acquainted with a wide range of studies dealing with the experiences of immigrants from different parts of Europe. His own work, whose focus eventually shifted to environmental studies, made ...
... immigrants feel “British.” Is the possession of a passport enough or should immigrants be required to learn English and acquire some knowledge of politics, history, and the constitution? In the Irish Republic, so far as recent decades ...
... immigrants. French national identity encourages acculturation, so that, for example, M. Balladur born of Romanian parents, could be accepted as completely French and able to aspire to the Presidency of France. In contrast German ...
... immigrant from Poland, understandably stressed the civic character of British identity. More recently, however, Liah ... immigrants from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the West Indies and not least the Republic of Ireland. It matters a ...