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'And so began the Irish Nation' - Nationality, National Consciousness and Nationalism in Pre-modern Ireland (Hardcover, New Ed)
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'And so began the Irish Nation' - Nationality, National Consciousness and Nationalism in Pre-modern Ireland (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Nationalism is a particularly slippery subject to define and
understand, particularly when applied to early modern Europe. In
this collection of essays, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight
into how concepts of 'nationalism' and 'national identity' can be
understood and applied to pre-modern Ireland. Drawing upon a
selection of his most provocative and pioneering essays, together
with three entirely new pieces, the limits and contexts of Irish
nationalism are explored and its impact on both early modern
society and later generations, examined. The collection reflects
especially upon the emergence of national consciousness in Ireland
during a calamitous period when the late-medieval, undeveloped
sense of a collective identity became suffused with patriotic
sentiment and acquired a political edge bound up with notions of
national sovereignty and representative self-government. The volume
opens with a discussion of the historical methods employed, and an
extended introductory essay tracing the history of national
consciousness in Ireland from its first beginnings as recorded in
the poetry of the early Christian Church to its early-modern
flowering, which provides the context for the case studies
addressed in the subsequent chapters. These range across a wealth
of subjects, including comparisons of Tudor Wales and Ireland,
Irish reactions to the 'Westward Enterprise', the Ulster Rising of
1641, the Elizabethans and the Irish, and the two sieges of
Limerick. The volume concludes with a transcription and discussion
of 'A Treatise for the Reformation of Ireland, 1554-5'. The result
of a lifetime's study, this volume offers a rich and rewarding
journey through a turbulent yet fascinating period of Irish
history, not only illuminating political and religious developments
within Ireland, but also how these affected events across the
British Isles and beyond.
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