Ireland and national identity – Reply to the Irish ambassador | MelaniePhillips.com
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"Pondering the complexities that occur when national aspirations and identities come into conflict with each other, I wrote of Irish nationalism that 'the claim to unite Ireland is tenuous since Ireland itself has a tenuous claim to nationhood, having seceded from Britain as the Irish Free State only in 1922. Britain, by contrast, is an authentic unitary nation.'"
Ireland and national identity – Reply to the Irish ambassador | MelaniePhillips.com
Ireland and national identity – Reply to the…
Ireland and national identity – Reply to the Irish ambassador | MelaniePhillips.com
"Pondering the complexities that occur when national aspirations and identities come into conflict with each other, I wrote of Irish nationalism that 'the claim to unite Ireland is tenuous since Ireland itself has a tenuous claim to nationhood, having seceded from Britain as the Irish Free State only in 1922. Britain, by contrast, is an authentic unitary nation.'"