Irish adventures in nation-building

Summary: Irish Adventures in Nation-building is a collection of essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the twentieth century. Vantage points examined include those of prominent revolutionaries, cultural nationalists, clerics, economists, sociologists, political scientists, public intellectuals, journalists, influential civil servants, political leaders and activists who weighted into debates about the condition of Ireland and where it was going. For the most part the focus is on influential arguments and critiques of these set out in seminal periodicals, books and government reports. Collectively these essays chart the main shifts in dominant ideas and shifting cultural, economic and political circumstances during the last hundred years. Topics considered range from why Patrick Pearse's ideas about education were ignored to why Ireland has been recently so open to large-scale immigration, from the intellectual conflicts of the 1930s to the future of Irish identity. This is a genuinely multi-disciplinary book that draws on sociology, political economy, political science as well as upon debates within Irish historiography and Irish Studies to offer a coherent overview of how Ireland and what it means to be Irish has changed during the last century. -- Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 1526109824
ISBN: 9781526109828
ISBN: 9781784993238 (pbk.)
ISBN: 152610928X
ISBN: 9781526109286
ISBN: 9781784993221
ISBN: 1784993220
ISBN: 1526109271
ISBN: 9781526109279
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 196 pages)
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Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Adventures in nation-building -- In defence of methodological nationalism -- Patrick Pearse predicts the future -- Paul Cullen's devotional revolution -- A Catholic vision of Ireland -- Catholic intellectuals -- The limits of cultural nationalism -- Hidden Irelands, silent Irelands -- Liberalism and The Bell -- Behind the Erin curtain -- The new young Irelanders -- Women and social policy -- New rules of belonging -- Partisan reviews -- Tales of two tigers -- The sociology of boom and bust -- Immigration, the Celtic Tiger and the economic crisis -- The future of Irish identity.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.