Ireland : : Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History / / Hugh F. Kearney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kearney, Hugh F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

What 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.The insightful essays collected here all circle around Ireland, with the first section attending to questions of nationalism and the second addressing pivotal moments in the history and historiography of the isle. Kearney contends that Ireland represents a striking example of the power of nationalism, which, while unique in many ways, provides an illuminating case study for students of the modern world. He goes on to elaborate his revisionist “four nations” approach to Irish history.In the book, Kearney recounts his own development in the field and the key personalities, departments, and movements he encountered along the way. It is a unique portrait not only of a humane and sensitive historian, but of the historical profession (and the practice of history) in Britain, Ireland, and the United States from the 1940s to the late 20th century-at once public intellectual history and fascinating personal memoir.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries -- Nationalism: The Case of Ireland—An Introduction -- Part I Contested Ideas of Nationhood -- Chapter One. Contested Ideas of Nationhood, 1800–1995 (1997) -- Chapter Two. 1875: Faith or Fatherland? The Contested Symbolism of Irish Nationalism (2000) -- Chapter Three. Faith and Fatherland Revisited (2000) -- Chapter Four. Parnell and Beyond: Nationalism in These Islands, 1880–1980 (1994) -- Chapter Five. Language and Politics (2001) -- Chapter Six. Thatcher’s Britain Four Nations or One? (1991) -- Chapter Seven. Four Nations History in Perspective (2004) -- Chapter Eight. Civic/Ethnic Identities in a British Context (2000) -- Chapter Nine. The Changing Face of English Nationalism (2000) -- Chapter Ten. England’s Irish Enigma (1997) -- Part II Contested Ideas of National History -- Chapter Eleven. The Irish and Their History (1994) -- Chapter Twelve. Mercantilism and Ireland, 1620–40 (1958) -- Chapter Thirteen. Ecclesiastical Politics and the Counter- Reformation in Ireland, 1618–48 (1960) -- Chapter Fourteen. The Politics of Mercantilism, 1695–1700 (1959) -- Chapter Fifteen. Fr.Mathew: Apostle of Modernization (1979) -- Chapter Sixteen. The Great Famine Legend and Reality (1957) -- Chapter Seventeen. Colonizing Irish History Canny Sets the Agenda (2002) -- Chapter Eighteen. Visions and Revisions Views of Irish History (2001) -- Index -- About the Author