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Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries  Nationalism: The Case of Ireland—An Introduction  pa r t i : Contested Ideas of Nationhood  Contested Ideas of Nationhood, – ()   : Faith or Fatherland? The Contested Symbolism of Irish Nationalism ()   Faith and Fatherland Revisited ()   Parnell and Beyond: Nationalism in These Islands, – ()   Language and Politics ()   Thatcher’s Britain: Four Nations or One? ()   Four Nations History in Perspective ()   Civic/Ethnic Identities in a British Context ()   The Changing Face of English Nationalism ()   England’s Irish Enigma ()  vii pa r t i i : Contested Ideas of National History  The Irish and Their History ()   Mercantilism and Ireland, – ()   Ecclesiastical Politics and the Counter-Reformation in Ireland, – ()   The Politics of Mercantilism, – ()   Fr. Mathew: Apostle of Modernization ()   The Great Famine: Legend and Reality ()   Colonizing Irish History: Canny Sets the Agenda ()   Visions and Revisions: Views of Irish History ()  Index  About the Author  viii Contents ...

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