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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... Lords of Human Kind, and Edward Thompson the brilliant historian of the English working class, both of them Cambridge graduates in the thirties. In the contest between two nationalist versions of English history, victory by and large ...
... Lord North and the People in , Namier encouraged his junior colleague Eric Robson to write a highly critical review, unsigned, in the Times Literary Supplement. As well as enjoying a reputation for a “Namierite” approach to ...
... Lord Acton and seems to have sympathized with his dilemmas during the Vatican Council of . (I remember Desmond once discussing the decree concerning papal infallibility and explaining its ambiguity.) Aubrey Gwynn, professor of ...
... lord deputy from to , was suggested to me by Brian Wormald, and I soon came to see the attractions of working on something which straddled both sides of the Irish Sea. Dudley Edwards was my supervisor and it was thanks ...
... Lord Chief Justice. Other graduates of University College included Charles Haughey, the future Taoiseach, and Tony O'Reilly, the entrepreneur. Others went on to careers in the Irish diplomatic service. For politicians and others the “L ...