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Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (Univ of Chicago PR)
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Title: Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (Univ of Chicago PR)
Author: Conor Cruise O'Brien
ISBN: 9780226616520
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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Publisher Description:
Scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates why peace has been so elusive in Northern Ireland. He explains the conflation of religion and nation through Irish history into our own time. Using his life as a prism through which he interprets Ireland's past and present, O'Brien identifies case after case of the lethal mixing of God with country that has spilled oceans of blood throughout this century of nationalism and that, from Bosnia to Northern Ireland, still curses the world. O'Brien's bravura performance [is] seductive in its intellectual sweep and literary assurance.--Toby Barnard, Times Literary Supplement Has the magical insistence which Conor Cruise O'Brien can produce at his best. . . . Where he looks back to his own childhood the book shines. He writes of his mother and father with effortless grace and candor, with a marvelous, elegant mix of affection and detachment.--Observer
Author: Conor Cruise O'Brien
ISBN: 9780226616520
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
N 1493210
Publisher Description:
Scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates why peace has been so elusive in Northern Ireland. He explains the conflation of religion and nation through Irish history into our own time. Using his life as a prism through which he interprets Ireland's past and present, O'Brien identifies case after case of the lethal mixing of God with country that has spilled oceans of blood throughout this century of nationalism and that, from Bosnia to Northern Ireland, still curses the world. O'Brien's bravura performance [is] seductive in its intellectual sweep and literary assurance.--Toby Barnard, Times Literary Supplement Has the magical insistence which Conor Cruise O'Brien can produce at his best. . . . Where he looks back to his own childhood the book shines. He writes of his mother and father with effortless grace and candor, with a marvelous, elegant mix of affection and detachment.--Observer
