Constituting Identity: Political Identity Formation and the Constitution in Post-Independence Ireland

by Patrick Hanafin

This title was first published in 2001. Provides an in-depth analysis of the constitutional representation of Ireland and its citizens. In a society built on contradictions, it is appropriate that the so-called foundational document of the polity is itself a complex of conflicting positions. The Irish Constitution can, in this sense, be read in a manner similar to the texts of literary modernism, as a repository of irreconcilable ideas, which together...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138711640
• ISBN13: 9781138711648
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 134 Pages