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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... School and Patrick Crotty for an invitation to the Merriman Summer School, both most pleasant occasions. I also owe a debt to the organizers of conferences at Wicklow, Sussex, York, and Oxford at which I spoke. I wish also to thank my ...
... school. Peterhouse had earned a reputation as a college in which history had been taken seriously since the days of Adolphus Ward, master of the College from to . One of the editors of the Cambridge Modern History ...
... School of Economics where history was studied in the context of social science. Here he had been a junior colleague of R. H. Tawney and of Eileen Power (who became his wife). Curiously enough the London School of Economics was billeted ...
... School, L. W. Henry, one of a number of additional supervisors recruited by the college to cope with the flood of ex-servicemen returning after . Henry, a man in his sixties, was the most successful of my supervisors largely ...
... School of Modern History was already attracting about two hundred undergraduates a year. But what was the attraction of history? Part of the answer lay in the possibilities which it opened up for success in examinations for the Home and ...