Rethinking Irish history : Nationalism, identity and ideology

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Rethinking Irish history : Nationalism, identity and ideology

Title remainder

Nationalism, identity and ideology

Statement of responsibility

Gerard Delanty and Patrick O'Mahony ; Consultant editor Jo Campling

Creator

• O'Mahony, Patrick

Contributor

• Delanty, Gerard

Subject

• Ireland -- Historiography
• National characteristics, Irish -- Historiography
• Group identity -- Ireland -- Historiography
• Nationalism -- Ireland -- Historiography

Language

eng

Summary

This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the longer perspective of history. Drawing on recent sociological theory, the authors demonstrate how national identity was invented and codified by a nationalist intelligentsia in the late nineteenth century. The trajectory of this national identity is traced as a process of crisis and contradiction. One of the central arguments is that the negative implications of Irish national identity have never been fully explored by social science

Cataloging source

UK-WkNB

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction