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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... influence of a watchmaker in Leyden.) Needless to say it was assumed that English history was in no sense “European.” England had taken its own “sonderweg.” It was possible to attend lectures in other disciplines and I took advantage of ...
... influence of a colleague who was generally recognized as a historian of genius —Frederick William Maitland. Maitland's vision was, in his own words, “to produce, after due consideration of the undigested and scattered materials, a ...
... influence of Prothero and his associate J. R. Tanner which counted in the long run. Looking back I would now argue that the Seeley and Prothero schools of thought each offered nationalist interpretations of English history, although ...
... influence in the History Department was striking. He had been professor there since and the younger historians in the department followed his lead in their “Namierite” approach to the history of parliament. John Roskell ...
... , Dublin was the most influential academic institution within the new Irish State. Perhaps inevitably, it was also a heavily politicized institution. It was in fact a stronghold of the Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries 11.