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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... scholar. My supervisor during my second year was Dom David Knowles, a former Benedictine monk and a very distinguished ... scholars do not always make good teachers and my memory of Knowles is that he was more interested in his own work ...
... wealthy institutions and as a scholar of the college (from December ) I lived for two years in a comfortable set of rooms which were kept clean by a college servant (my “gyp”) and 4 Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries.
... scholar writing on “revisionist” lines was Maureen Wall, a young Irish speaker from Co. Donegal. Maureen Wall had ... scholarly reassessment of the Famine. In the event they were seen to have sponsored a volume in which the tragic ...
... scholar whose social science emphasis deriving from his education at the London School of Economics was still unusual in Ireland. Connell's insistence on using the concept “peasant” in an Irish context aroused antagonism in some circles ...
... scholars during these years included John Whyte of the U.C.D. Politics Department and the Welsh scholar Thomas Jones Hughes of the Geography Department, whose work gave rise to an influential school of Irish historical geography. As far ...