Irish academics offer insights into Ireland’s increasingly outward-looking place in the world as mediated through the EU and its institutions
Irish citizens should have a good understanding of international and European contexts as they hold political leaders to account in forthcoming European and domestic elections. That is best provided by Irish authors with experience and expertise who are able to communicate them to a general audience. Photograph: iStock/Getty. Ireland is a great country of which we should be proud, he began, having had a “stable and continuous democracy for 100 years, one of only a handful in the world”.
This is all the more reason why Irish citizens should have a good understanding of these international and European contexts as they hold political leaders to account in forthcoming European and domestic elections. That is best provided by Irish authors with experience and expertise who are able to communicate them to a general audience.
Holmes and Simpson regard the assertion as a little excessive, given that “the form of nationalism that took hold in Ireland was for a long time quite insular in tone”. But they agree it captures the later capacity of Irish nationalism to develop a broader, more inclusive outlook. The puzzle addressed by their book is how Ireland’s nationalism could develop into an internationalism as it embraced European integration and new transnationalisms.
... much of the Irish story in the EU – for nationalism North and South of the border – has to do with diluting economic interdependence with the UK and the liberating experience for elites and citizens alike of overcoming the power, scale and wealth asymmetries of empire Holmes and Simpson say Ireland has not had a clear vision of its preferred future for the EU, but they also note there is no need for a single vision. It should be contested and competed to enrich public debate. The importance of EU membership is better understood, even if it remains highly uneven and often neglected – as in language study, university courses, media and foreign policy debates.
His intention is to humanise what is often described by critics as a remote, faceless institution. His central thesis is that “national leaders stuck to the EU not because they shared an ideological commitment to ever closer union but because they believed that their countries could manage global crises more effectively by working together”. In the EU “power flows from national governments, who co-operated when it was in their interests to do so”, and EU officials have to understand this.
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