Additional information

Full Title

Nation States The Cultures of Irish Nationalism

Author(s)

Michael Mays

Edition
ISBN

9780739158043, 9780739111352, 9780739121177

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the nation fashions itself as the a priori ground of identity, and those processes through which nationalism engenders an ostensibly unique national identity corresponding to one and only one nation-state, the place where we always have been, and can only ever be, ‘at home.’