Hugh F. Kearney is Amundson Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught from 1975 to 1999. He has also taught at universities in Dublin and Sussex and at Edinburgh, where he was Richard Pares Professor of history from 1970 to 1975.

Kearneys work has brilliantly illuminated, from a distinctive comparative perspective, Anglo-Irish relations over several centuries. Ireland collects his seminal articles, framed by historiographical reflections on his unique experience of doing history in four countries: Ireland, England, Scotland, and the United States. - J. J. Lee,New York University This varied collection of Hugh Kearney's ruminations on Irish history and the troubled course of Irish historical writing will shed much lightand perhaps also some heat. (The Historian)

• Acknowledgments Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries Nationalism: The Case of Ireland-An Introduction Part I: Contested Ideas of NationhoodContested Ideas of NationhoodFaith or Fatherland? The Contested Symbolism of Irish Nationalism Faith and Fatherland RevisitedParnell and Beyond: Nationalism in These IslandsLanguage and Politics Thatcher's Britain: Four Nations or One?Four Nations History in Perspective Civic/Ethnic Identities in a British Context The Changing Face of English Nationalism England'sIrish Enigma Part II: Contested Ideas of National HistoryThe Irish and Their History Mercantilism and IrelandEcclesiastical Politics and the Counter-Reformation in IrelandThe Politics of MercantilismFr. Mathew: Apostle of ModernizationThe Great Famine: Legend and Reality Colonizing Irish History: Canny Sets the AgendaVisions and Revisions: Views of Irish History Index About the Author

Hugh F. Kearney is Amundson Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught from 1975 to 1999. He has also taught at universities in Dublin and Sussex and at Edinburgh, where he was Richard Pares Professor of history from 1970 to 1975.

Kearneys work has brilliantly illuminated, from a distinctive comparative perspective, Anglo-Irish relations over several centuries. Ireland collects his seminal articles, framed by historiographical reflections on his unique experience of doing history in four countries: Ireland, England, Scotland, and the United States. - J. J. Lee,New York University This varied collection of Hugh Kearney's ruminations on Irish history and the troubled course of Irish historical writing will shed much lightand perhaps also some heat. (The Historian)

• Acknowledgments Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries Nationalism: The Case of Ireland-An Introduction Part I: Contested Ideas of NationhoodContested Ideas of NationhoodFaith or Fatherland? The Contested Symbolism of Irish Nationalism Faith and Fatherland RevisitedParnell and Beyond: Nationalism in These IslandsLanguage and Politics Thatcher's Britain: Four Nations or One?Four Nations History in Perspective Civic/Ethnic Identities in a British Context The Changing Face of English Nationalism England'sIrish Enigma Part II: Contested Ideas of National HistoryThe Irish and Their History Mercantilism and IrelandEcclesiastical Politics and the Counter-Reformation in IrelandThe Politics of MercantilismFr. Mathew: Apostle of ModernizationThe Great Famine: Legend and Reality Colonizing Irish History: Canny Sets the AgendaVisions and Revisions: Views of Irish History Index About the Author