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This post is about current trends in the study of so-called “national awakening” in East-Central Europe. It’s important to specify, perhaps, because the study of nationalism is not just a complicated problem, but a series of unrelated complicated problems going by the same name. Scholars who “work on nationalism” do not always have overlapping interests.

H-Nationalism is proud to publish here the seventh post of its “Minorities in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives” series, which looks at majority-minority relations from a multi-disciplinary and diachronic angle. Today’s contribution, by Brian Girvin (University of Glasgow), takes a look at a hundred years of majority-minority relations in Northern Ireland.

H-Nationalism’s Weekend Reading series highlights recent and thought-provoking reviews, blog posts, brief articles, and op-eds.  Have something to say about something you read?  Feel free to respond here or contact David Prior (prior@mail.h-net.msu.edu) and Justin Collier (