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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... identity took root when England became a “Land of Hope and Glory.” One of their key points was that “the Celts” were ... national identity. The Gaelic League stressed the key role of language. Yet others such as Sir Horace Plunkett ...
... identity. The new government took full advantage of the holding of a Eurcharistic Congress in to emphasize ... National Pilgrimage.” The war was described as the “inevitable consequence of universal sin and infidelity” and the ...
... national identity. The aim is to have all know Irish and to let the nationalising and assimilating influence of the language and all it opens up work on all. It is stupid and shortsighted of the Protestants to be trying to segregate ...
... National Identity and the Study of Irish History, English Historical Review (April: 1996), p. 340. 25. Progress slowed, however, after the election of a new Pope, Paul VI, in 1963. See John Cooney, John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of ...
... identity comes off best. Now, however ( ), the legal ban on Muslim women wearing headscarves (the hijab) in ... national identity, as the essays presented in this section suggest. The Republic is now a full member of the European ...