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Sat 03 Mar 2003An Englishwoman's Diary
The early years of the last century were a period of intense intellectual and political ferment in Ireland and it was not at all certain that the Irish State would take the narrowly Catholic form it subsequently did.
Some commentators - such as Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin, editors of Reinventing Ireland. Culture, Society and the Global Economy (2002), say we should not be afraid of delving into the past to rediscover strands in Irish life that transcend narrow forms of nationalisms and that can be reinterpreted to suit contemporary Ireland.
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