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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... monarchy was able to count upon Irish Catholic support because of its Gaelic origins, stretching, so its historians maintained, back into the mists of time.6 But were the Irish a Catholic nation or could Protestants such as James Butler ...
... monarchy, and hence, the concept of Britain as an ethno-religious unit. The conflict between ethnic and civic conceptions of the future United Kingdom could hardly have been clearer. It was a struggle from which George III emerged the ...
... monarchy, the Church, and the aristocracy. The monarchy and the House of Lords represented the hereditary element in the constitution, but within the House of Commons itself a quasi-hereditary element was also to be found in the persons ...
... monarchy as a “delusion”—a “factitious dignity” designed to mystify the people. America was a “never-to-be expunged reproach to our Matchless Constitution—matchless in rotten boroughs and sinecures.”8 Bentham's hostile attitude toward ...
... monarchy successfully repulsed the challenge of the French Revolution. The hereditary character of the Constitution survived in the monarchy and the House of Lords and in other key institutions of Church and State. In the aftermath of ...