Download or read book Mere Irish & Fíor-ghael written by Joseph Theodoor Leerssen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how this confrontation resulted in a particular notion, literary as well as political, of Irish nationality.