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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... secular institution. It was as a result of these informal comings and goings that I was asked to go for an interview in Dublin. In September I became a member of the academic staff as an “assistant” in the History Department. I ...
... secular, remained strongly Protestant and unionist in outlook. Needless to say all this was as yet unknown to the young Englishman (as he saw himself) who arrived in Dublin in . Indeed his anglocentric historical education at ...
... secular state, a fact underlined with particular force during the visit of John Paul II, a pope with a particular devotion to the Virgin Mary for whom a pilgrimage 46 Nationalism: The Case of Ireland—An Introduction.
... secular attitudes to Irish nationality. With the abolition of censorship, the legalization of divorce and contraception, and the acceptance of abortion, the Irish Republic faces a situation in which there is no single, unproblematic ...
... secular and the hijab with its religious implications is raising problems of assimilation which are proving difficult to deal with. In an Irish context, the Cyclops episode in Ulysses illustrates a similar situation. Leopold Bloom, a ...