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This chapter is extracted from a larger ongoing project which examines the political and cultural movements emerging in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Our concerns are with two interconnected issues. First to consider the ways in which the people of these two cultural nations are attempting to explore, in separate and related ways, the meaning of these changes and the new identities they offer. Second we want to open up avenues of debate which we believe have been ignored in the contemporary literature that has attempted to examine the reconstruction of nationalism and unionism in both countries. There are, however, a number of points which must be raised by way of introduction.
Isolation tends towards stagnation, or at least a circumscribed vision, while conversely intercourse and cultural commerce encourage a greater intellectual curiosity and awareness, a greater readiness to adapt old ways and experiment with new ones.
(Proinsias MacCana, ‘Mongán Mac Fiachna and Immram Brain’, Eriu, XXIII, 1972, cited in Adamson, 1994: 6.)
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Craig, P.G., Reid, I.A. (1999). Reconstructing Nationalism on the Celtic Frontier. In: Brehony, K.J., Rassool, N. (eds) Nationalisms Old and New. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27627-1_8
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