Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin, and lectures regularly at Boston College. He has presented cultural and literary features on Irish and European television and has recently published his first novel, Sam’s Fall.

'I have to admire what he has unwrapped - a kind of preview of the new order in which we shall have to reinterpret our regional, national and transnational commitments if we are to escape the arrogance of nationalism and its programmed consequences.' - The Observer'The book is worth buying for the politics section alone: Kearney's analysis of such concepts as nationality, sovereignty, regionalism and republicanism make the book a sourcebook of political theory for the Irish situation. In its own re-imaginings, of Irish history, politics and culture, Postnationalist Ireland challenges rather than offends and offers a fragile strand of hope for our future.' - The Irish News

• Introduction: Beyond the nation-state Part I Politics 1 Beyond sovereignty 2 Ideas of a republic 3 Genealogy of the republic 4 Postnationalism and postmodernity 5 Rethinking Ireland Part II Culture 6 The fifth province: Between the local and the global 7 Myths of motherland 8 Myth and nation in modern Irish poetry Part III Philosophy 9 George Berkeley: We Irish think otherwise 1110 John Toland: An Irish philosopher? 11 John Tyndall Irish science Postscript: Towards a postnationalist Ireland

Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin, and lectures regularly at Boston College. He has presented cultural and literary features on Irish and European television and has recently published his first novel, Sam’s Fall.

'I have to admire what he has unwrapped - a kind of preview of the new order in which we shall have to reinterpret our regional, national and transnational commitments if we are to escape the arrogance of nationalism and its programmed consequences.' - The Observer'The book is worth buying for the politics section alone: Kearney's analysis of such concepts as nationality, sovereignty, regionalism and republicanism make the book a sourcebook of political theory for the Irish situation. In its own re-imaginings, of Irish history, politics and culture, Postnationalist Ireland challenges rather than offends and offers a fragile strand of hope for our future.' - The Irish News

• Introduction: Beyond the nation-state Part I Politics 1 Beyond sovereignty 2 Ideas of a republic 3 Genealogy of the republic 4 Postnationalism and postmodernity 5 Rethinking Ireland Part II Culture 6 The fifth province: Between the local and the global 7 Myths of motherland 8 Myth and nation in modern Irish poetry Part III Philosophy 9 George Berkeley: We Irish think otherwise 1110 John Toland: An Irish philosopher? 11 John Tyndall Irish science Postscript: Towards a postnationalist Ireland