Description
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.
About the Author
GERARD DELANTY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Nationalism in the Modern World.
PATRICK O'MAHONEY is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is co-author of Nationalism in the Modern World.
Book Information
ISBN 9780333627976
Author Patrick O'Mahony
Format Hardback
Page Count 222
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
About the Author
GERARD DELANTY is Professor of Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Nationalism in the Modern World.
PATRICK O'MAHONEY is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. He is co-author of Nationalism in the Modern World.
Book Information
ISBN 9780333627976
Author Patrick O'Mahony
Format Hardback
Page Count 222
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
