Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Joseph Moffatt Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 468 ISBN: 9783846521847
Описание
The history of Ireland highlights how Irish identity has proved to be both an emotive and divisive force in Irish society. Events in both pre and post-independent Ireland point out how central Irishness has been within Irish society and also highlights how a sense of national identity has often been assumed as shared, natural and fundamentally taken for granted. Accepting that hegemonic understandings of Irishness change, so in 1900 – when Ireland was of course part of the United Kingdom – the dominant sense of Irishness may differ to that of 1971 or 2004, there can be no avoiding the position that people in Ireland remain firmly socialised through a discourse of nationalised identity. The aim of this book is to investigate how young people engage with this nationalised identity and position their own self-understandings of Irishness.
