Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780333971109)

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.

Author: Patrick O'Mahony,Gerard Delanty
ISBN-10: 0333971108
ISBN-13: 9780333971109
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/17/1998
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.52w x 0.57d