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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... issues as the Magna Carta and the role of parliament. We also read Stubbs's Charters as well as parts of his History. Oakeshott's lectures were intellectually exciting but it was in Postan's lectures that we were made aware of what ...
... issue for Franciscans was their attitude to money. Francis himself refused to handle money but a later generation came to believe that it was lawful to have financial dealings through an “interposed person” (per interpositam personam) ...
... issue and with it the question as to whether the Irish nation was an ethno-religious or a civic entity. This issue lay behind the political struggle between Daniel O'Connell's party, “Old Ireland,” and the Young Irelanders led by the ...
... issues were often the key to parliamentary elections. The rise of the Home Rule movement, first under Butt and then Parnell, showed that civic-minded leaders could exercise considerable power. After the fall of Parnell in ...
... issue. For example, during the years of the coalition government ( – ), the minister for education Richard Mulcahy still saw language as the key to national identity. The aim is to have all know Irish and to let the ...