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Acknowledgments I wish to thank Joe Lee for his encouragement and advice in connection with this volume. I also wish to thank Dr. Proinsias O Drisceoill for inviting me to speak at Kilkenny under the auspices of the Arts Education Programme of the County Kilkenny Vocational Educational Committee. I also am grateful to Edna Longley for inviting me to the John Hewitt Summer School and Patrick Crotty for an invitation to the Merriman Summer School, both most pleasant occasions. I also owe a debt to the organizers of conferences at Wicklow, Sussex, York, and Oxford at which I spoke. I wish also to thank my colleagues Evelyn Rawski and Irina Liveseanu, who shared the seminar on “Comparative Nationalism” at the University of Pittsburgh. Permission to reproduce copyrighted material is acknowledged from: Cultures of Ireland for “Language and Politics: Teanga agus Polaitiocht,” Language and Politics (Dublin ): –. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review for “The Great Famine: Legend and Reality,” Studies (Summer ): –. Oxford University Press for “The Irish and Their History,” History Workshop  (): –. University of Notre Dame Press for “: Faith or Fatherland: The Contested Symbolism of Irish Nationalism,” Stewart J. Brown and David W. Miller, eds., Piety and Power in Ireland, –: Essays in Honour of Emmet Larkin (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, ): –. ———.“Faith and Fatherland Revisited,” Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal  (Winter /Spring ): –. Cambridge University Press for “Ecclesiastical Politics and the Counter-Reformation in Ireland, –,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History  (October ): –. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. for “Four Nations or One?” Bernard Crick, ed., National Identities: The Constitution of the United Kingdom (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers , ): –. ———.“The Importance of Being British,” The Political Quarterly  (January– March ): –. ix ———.“The Political Background to English Mercantilism,” Economic History Review, second series  (): –. Palgrave Macmillan for “Four Nations History in Perspective,” Helen Brocklehurst and Robert Phillips, eds., History, Nationhood and the Question of Britain (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ): –. Cork University Press for “Contested Ideas of Nationhood, –,” The Irish Review  (Winter/Spring ): –. ———.“Visions and Revisions: Views of Irish History,” The Irish Review  (Summer ): –. ———.“Canny sets the Agenda,” The Irish Review  (Autumn ): –. I am particularly grateful to John Fuller for permission to quote from his father Roy Fuller’s poem in memory of the historian W. H. Chaloner. I am also conscious of the fact that in reprinting papers and lectures written over many years it is impossible to avoid some measure of repetition . For this I must apologise to my readers. x Acknowledgments ...

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