1st Edition
'And so began the Irish Nation' Nationality, National Consciousness and Nationalism in Pre-modern Ireland
By Brendan Bradshaw
Copyright 2015
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Part I Historical Method; Chapter 1 A Word on Words; Chapter 2 Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Modern Ireland; Chapter 3 Revising Irish History; Part II Introduction; Chapter 4 Nationality, National Consciousness and Nationalism in Premodern Ireland; Part III Case Studies; Chapter 5 The Tudor Reformation and Revolution in Wales and Ireland: the Origins of the British Problem; Chapter 6 The Beginnings of Modern Ireland; Chapter 7 Native Reaction to the Westward Enterprise: a Case Study in Gaelic Ideology; Chapter 8 Geoffrey Keating: Apologist for Irish Ireland; Chapter 9 Patrick Sarsfield and the Two Sieges of Limerick, 1690, 1691; Part IV Review Articles; Chapter 10 The Elizabethans and the Irish: a Muddled Model,; Chapter 11 The Ulster Rising of 1641,; Part V Epilogue; Chapter 12 Irish Nationalism: an Historical Perspective,; Part VI Appendix; Chapter 13 Cromwellian Reform and the Origins of the Kildare Rebellion; Chapter 14 A Treatise for the Reformation of Ireland 1554–55;
Biography
Brendan Bradshaw S.M. is a Life Fellow of Queen's College Cambridge, UK.
"Bradshaw’s work here should in many cases be seen as important, provocative points from which to start rather than finish reading about early modern Irish identity, national consciousness, and nationhood. This in itself is testament to the influence of this scholar whose arguments continue to spark new thinking and new approaches."
- Dianne Hall, Victoria University, Melbourne in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, volume 33.1 (2016).
