Multi-culturalism
Subtitle: the view from the two Irelands
By: Edna Longley and Declan Kiberd ; foreword by President Mary McAlesse.
Contributors: Kiberd, Declan.
Series: Crosscurrents ;; 1; Crosscurrents (Cork, Ireland) ;; no. 1.
Publisher: Cork University Press in association with the Centre for Cross Border Studies
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cork, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Multiculturalism -- Northern Ireland.; National characteristics, Irish.; Multiculturalism -- Ireland.; Ireland -- Ethnic relations.; Northern Ireland -- Ethnic relations.
Other titles: Multiculturalism
Description: "Two of Ireland's most outspoken critics and cultural commentators, Edna Longley from the North and Declan Kiberd from the South, put forward views on the constrasting directions in which the two societies on the island are moving. Professor Longley asks whether Northerners will increasingly identify with Northern Ireland as a shared point of reference. Will they develop a more flexible sense of their relations with the Republic and a post-devolution Britain? Professor Kiberd asks whether a newly prosperous and confident Republic is genuinely embracing multi-culturalism. Is it moving towards a post-nationalist society which commits its citizens to a truly pluralist vision? What does it mean to be Irish at the turn of the twenty-first century?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78).