Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology

O'Mahony, Patrick; Campling, Jo; Delanty, Gerard

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-06-17

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333971109

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286443

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 222