Narratives of Nationalism

Constructing Irish National Identity during the Land War, 1879–82

Bibliographic Data

ID8070947
AuthorsAnne Kane (a Department of Sociology , University of Texas , Austin, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume2
Issue3
Pages245-264
Publication date2000-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNational Identities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1460-8944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9907
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713687701
OpenAlexW1991473555
LanguageEN
Citations received18

This paper explores the process of Irish national identity construction during the Land War of 1879-1882. I take a social constructivist approach to nationalism and a narrative approach to national identity construction, and focus on the discursive struggle between the various, and often conflicting, groups that constituted the land movement. After decades of self-defeating struggle between conflicting nationalist factions, the Land War provided the 'political field' on which a unified national identity emerged from public discourse over landlordism and British domination, and collective action based on new symbolic understandings. At the core of both Land War ideology and the emergent national identity was a discourse of retribution, configured through the collective sharing of narratives, embodying central themes of the injustice of British and landlord domination, and the rights of the Irish to the land and the country

Aesthetics · Collective identity · Identity (music · Ideology · Injustice · Irish · Narrative · National identity · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture

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