Description: This work provides a recasting of contemporary Irish politics, culture, literature and philosophy by examining the concept of absolute national sovereignty and asking if it is a luxury we can afford in the new emerging Europe.
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'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