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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465609103321

Autore

Hayward Katy

Titolo

Irish nationalism and European integration [[electronic resource] ] : the official redefinition of the island of Ireland / / Katy Hayward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

1-84779-643-5

1-78170-236-5

1-84779-306-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

320.5409417

Soggetti

Nationalism - Ireland - History

Electronic books.

Ireland Politics and government 1922-

Ireland Foreign relations European Union countries

European Union countries Foreign relations Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Biographical notes; Intergovernmental agreements on Northern Ireland, 1973-2002; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Nation-state and European Union; 3 Official discourse and political change in Ireland; 4 The origins of official Irish nationalism; 5 Building the Irish nation-state, 1922-72; 6 Identity, nation and community; 7 Borders, territory and space; 8 Governance, state and polity; 9 Conclusion; Afterword; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How has it been possible for Irish political leaders to actively promote two of the largest challenges to Irish nation-statehood: the concession of sovereignty to the European Union and the retraction of the constitutional claim over Northern Ireland? The author of this book argues that such discourses are integrally connected and, what is more, embody the enduring relevance of nationalism in modern Ireland.As the most comprehensive study to date of official discourse in twentieth-



century Ireland, this book traces the ways in which nationalism can be simultaneously redefined and revitalised