Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology

by Gerard Delanty, Patrick O'Mahony, Patrick O'Mahoney

Book Overview

This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the larger 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 19th 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333971108
• ISBN13: 9780333971109
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"