Women and the Irish Nation

Women and the Irish Nation
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781137284587
ISBN-13 : 1137284587
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and the Irish Nation by : J. MacPherson

At the turn of the twentieth century women played a key role in debates about the nature of the Irish nation. Examining women's participation in nationalist and rural reform groups, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of Irish identity in the prelude to revolution and how it was shaped by women.

'And so began the Irish Nation'

'And so began the Irish Nation'
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781317189152
ISBN-13 : 1317189159
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis 'And so began the Irish Nation' by : Brendan Bradshaw

Nationalism is a particularly slippery subject to define and understand, particularly when applied to early modern Europe. In this collection of essays, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight into how concepts of ’nationalism’ and ’national identity’ can be understood and applied to pre-modern Ireland. Drawing upon a selection of his most provocative and pioneering essays, together with three entirely new pieces, the limits and contexts of Irish nationalism are explored and its impact on both early modern society and later generations, examined. The collection reflects especially upon the emergence of national consciousness in Ireland during a calamitous period when the late-medieval, undeveloped sense of a collective identity became suffused with patriotic sentiment and acquired a political edge bound up with notions of national sovereignty and representative self-government. The volume opens with a discussion of the historical methods employed, and an extended introductory essay tracing the history of national consciousness in Ireland from its first beginnings as recorded in the poetry of the early Christian Church to its early-modern flowering, which provides the context for the case studies addressed in the subsequent chapters. These range across a wealth of subjects, including comparisons of Tudor Wales and Ireland, Irish reactions to the ’Westward Enterprise’, the Ulster Rising of 1641, the Elizabethans and the Irish, and the two sieges of Limerick. The volume concludes with a transcription and discussion of ’A Treatise for the Reformation of Ireland, 1554-5’. The result of a lifetime’s study, this volume offers a rich and rewarding journey through a turbulent yet fascinating period of Irish history, not only illuminating political and religious developments within Ireland, but also how these affected events across the British Isles and beyond.

Irish Freedom

Irish Freedom
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 660
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ISBN-10 : 9780330475822
ISBN-13 : 0330475827
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Irish Freedom by : Richard English

Richard English's brilliant new book, now available in paperback, is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed. Full of rich detail, drawn from years of original research and also from the extensive specialist literature on the subject, it offers explanations of why Irish nationalists have believed and acted as they have, why their ideas and strategies have changed over time, and what effect Irish nationalism has had in shaping modern Ireland. It takes us from the Ulster Plantation to Home Rule, from the Famine of 1847 to the Hunger Strikes of the 1970s, from Parnell to Pearse, from Wolfe Tone to Gerry Adams, from the bitter struggle of the Civil War to the uneasy peace of the early twenty-first century. Is it imaginable that Ireland might – as some have suggested – be about to enter a post-nationalist period? Or will Irish nationalism remain a defining force on the island in future years? 'a courageous and successful attempt to synthesise the entire story between two covers for the neophyte and for the exhausted specialist alike' Tom Garvin, Irish Times

A History of the Irish Nation

A History of the Irish Nation
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1028
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105038932732
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of the Irish Nation by : Mary Francis Cusack

The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity

The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781469620114
ISBN-13 : 1469620111
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity by : Cian T. McMahon

Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide--including some 45 million in the United States--claim it as their ancestral home. In this wide-ranging, ambitious book, Cian T. McMahon explores the nineteenth-century roots of this transnational identity. Between 1840 and 1880, 4.5 million people left Ireland to start new lives abroad. Using primary sources from Ireland, Australia, and the United States, McMahon demonstrates how this exodus shaped a distinctive sense of nationalism. By doggedly remaining loyal to both their old and new homes, he argues, the Irish helped broaden the modern parameters of citizenship and identity. From insurrection in Ireland to exile in Australia to military service during the American Civil War, McMahon's narrative revolves around a group of rebels known as Young Ireland. They and their fellow Irish used weekly newspapers to construct and express an international identity tailored to the fluctuating world in which they found themselves. Understanding their experience sheds light on our contemporary debates over immigration, race, and globalization.

Propaganda and Nation Building

Propaganda and Nation Building
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781317572145
ISBN-13 : 1317572149
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Propaganda and Nation Building by : Kevin Hora

This book examines the origins of Ireland in its first independent incarnation, the Irish Free State (1922-1937). It explores how contemporary public relations and propaganda techniques were used to construct an identity for this new state – a state which after enduring seven years of insurrection and civil war, became one of the most stable democracies in Europe. This stability, the book argues, was constructed not solely through policies enacted by governments, but through the construction of a Gaelic, Catholic and Celtic national identity. By shifting the perspective to how nation building was communicated, it weaves an interdisciplinary narrative that initiates a new understanding of nation building - providing insights of increasing relevance in current world events. Avoiding a simplistic cause and effect history of public relations, the book examines the uses and effects of early public relations from a political and societal perspective and suggests that while governments were only modestly successful in their varied propaganda efforts, cumulatively they facilitated a transition from violence to peace. This will be of interest to researchers and advanced students with an interest in public relations, propaganda studies, nation building and Irish studies.

The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation

The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105002352073
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Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation by : Thomas Bartlett

This is a survey of the origins and development of the Catholic Question in 18th and early 19th century Ireland: One of the Beresford family remarked in 1820: When I was a boy the Irish People meant the Protestants, now it means the Roman Catholics. In essence this book traces how that change came about and explains its causes.

Sinews of the Nation

Sinews of the Nation
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9780745664415
ISBN-13 : 0745664415
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Sinews of the Nation by : Dan Lainer-Vos

Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national bonds - are organizational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation. Sinews of the Nation treats nation-building as a practical organizational accomplishment and examines how the Irish republicans and the Zionist movement secured financial support in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Comparing the Irish and Jewish experiences, whose trajectories of homeland-diaspora relations were very different, provides a unique perspective for examining how national movements use economic transactions to attach disparate groups to the national project. By focusing on fundraising, Lainer-Vos challenges the common view of nation-building as only a matter of forging communities by imagining away internal differences: he shows that nation-building also involves organizing relationships so as to allow heterogeneous groups to maintain their difference and yet contribute to the national cause. Nation-building is about much more than creating unifying symbols: it is also about creating mechanisms that bind heterogeneous groups to the nation despite and through their differences.

New Guests of the Irish Nation

New Guests of the Irish Nation
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0716529661
ISBN-13 : 9780716529668
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis New Guests of the Irish Nation by : Bryan Fanning

"New Guests of the Irish Nation interrogates Irish responses to immigration within a broader analysis of the history of Irish nation-building. It draws on a decade of research by a leading expert on immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland. Bryan Fanning's analysis of academic debates and public policy challenges prevalent academic thinking about racism and emphasises the dangers of ethnic nepotism in a context where many immigrants are unlikely to become Irish citizens. New Guests of the Irish Nation addresses the long-term challenges of coming to terms with mass immigration. These include limits to empathy and solidarity that need to be treated realistically in debates about integration and the specific mechanics of exclusion that pertain in different institutional settings." --Book Jacket.

Nation/Nazione

Nation/Nazione
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1906359598
ISBN-13 : 9781906359591
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Nation/Nazione by : Colin Barr

Nation-Nazione brings together scholars of Ireland and Italy to examine the multiple intersections, impacts, and influences that flowed between Italy and Ireland, and Italian and Irish nationalists in the nineteenth century. The book contributes to a fuller understanding of the national movements of both places, and the often surprising and unexpected intersections from electoral politics to culture to military force, as well as the abiding impact of Italian events, myths, and personalities in Ireland, and Irish in Italy. For Irish historians, it questions the image of Irish isolation or exceptionalism, just as it reminds Italians that the most distant corners of Europe impacted on their own national history.