Irish adventures in nation-building

Bryan Fanning

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781784993238
  9781784993221
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526109286
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: Social Sciences

Irish Adventures in Nation-building consists of eighteen mostly-chronological essays examining the debates and processes that have shaped the modernisation of Ireland since the beginning of the twentieth century. The 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 weighed into debates about the condition of Ireland and where it was going. 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 offers an accessible overview of how Ireland and what it means to be Irish has changed during the last century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1 Adventures in nation-building
• 2 In defence of methodological nationalism
• 3 Patrick Pearse predicts the future
• 4 Paul Cullen’s devotional revolution
• 5 A Catholic vision of Ireland
• 6 Catholic intellectuals
• 7 The limits of cultural nationalism
• 8 Hidden Irelands, silent Irelands
• 9 Liberalism and The Bell
• 10 Behind the Erin curtain
• 11 The new young Irelanders
• 12 Women and social policy
• 13 New rules of belonging
• 14 Partisan reviews
• 15 Tales of two tigers
• 16 The sociology of boom and bust
• 17 Immigration, the Celtic Tiger and the economic crisis
• 18 The future of Irish identity
• Select bibliography
• Index