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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... Land of Hope and Glory.” One of their key points was that “the Celts” were seen by the popular English mind as a distinctive and inferior “race.” Matthew Arnold's controversial view on the volatile and childlike temperament of the Celts ...
... land whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contents of athletic youths and the laughter of comely maidens ...
... land reform as a third issue.6 In the election of , however, Cullen's religious nationalism lost ground dramatically to the newly founded Home Rule League led by Isaac Butt, who had shown sympathy for Fenianism to the extent ...
... Land League only three years later. The moment now arrived which Cullen and McSwiney were probably dreading, the speech by John MacHale, archbishop of Tuam. Throughout the middle decades of the century MacHale and Cullen had been at ...
... land of the Montalemberts, the McMahons, and the Dupanloups!” A note of religious nationalism had been sounded, which was taken further by the bishop of Nantes who declared that “if a country is great, it is by religion that greatness ...