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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... party in . In the college was in large measure an academic outpost of Fine Gael. Of the two parties Fianna Fail was supposedly more independent of the church, but a Dublin wit commented that whereas Fianna Fail ...
... party sympathized. From this standpoint the true Irish political tradition was that exemplified by the revolutionary outlook of Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Thomas Davis, John Mitchel, and Patrick Pearse. There was no Fenian equivalent of ...
Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History Hugh F Kearney. Home Rule party M.P. The Gwynns, a Protestant family, had long-standing links with Trinity College but Aubrey had converted to Catholicism at the age of twelve and as a Jesuit ...
... party, “Old Ireland,” and the Young Irelanders led by the Protestant Thomas Davis. O'Connell himself changed his own political rhetoric from time to time, appealing on some occasions to a wider “civic” Irish nation, and on others to a ...
... Party, attempted to meet the criticism that “Home Rule means Rome Rule” by denying that the party was essentially Catholic. In doing so he—a man who had taken Parnell's side in the Divorce Scandal of —was following in the ...