Nic Craith, Máiréad(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
The Good Friday agreement gave an impetus to interest in the issue of cultural di-versity in contemporary Northern Ireland, extending to the issue of smaller language groups, such as Irish and Ulster Scots. While these two ...
Thomas, Ned(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2001)
Starting with an interpretation of the 1997 Welsh referendum result in terms of identity, the paper broadens the discussion of political culture to include changes in the Welsh economy, the influence of the European Union, ...
The challenge of dealing with diversity within democracy and of creating a new
political culture in a divided society is the starting point of this paper. Using theories of recognition, these questions are examined in ...
Buckley, Anthony D.(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2010)
Ulster Protestant attitudes to, for example, history, religion or territory, have been
portrayed by scholars as full of animosity towards Catholics. In fact, Protestant culture, like any other, is enabling, giving people ...
One of the earliest novels set in Ireland to achieve popular and critical acclaim was Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent (1800). It is reported that King George III got great entertainment in reading this short novel, which ...
This paper discusses the best way to deal with difference in the public sphere. The liberal public-private distinction focuses on control and relegates difference to the private. It is subject to the criticism that it is ...
Feldman, Alice(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper explores the challenges posed by the ethnic diversification of contemporary Irish society for conventional understandings of and responses to issues of religion, community and politics. It argues that the ...
This paper reports on the Cultural Heritage and Migration project which was conducted as part of the UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) series of demonstrator research projects. The project, undertaken ...