Nationalism and the case of Ireland

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 234, 1999, Pages 44-60

  Eagleton, Terry ^a  

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1. The Firbolgs - 'bagmen' in Irish - were the mythical people who are said to have inhabited the island before the arrival of the Celts. If there were still any of them around today, they could no doubt claim prior and proper possession of the place, in resistance to Celtic colonialism.
2. Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations, Oxford 1986, p. 18.