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A type of political patriotism that stresses the needs of one’s country above all others. With respect to Ireland, the Nationalist party is historically anti-England and pro-independence. It was led most memorably by Charles Stewart Parnell. The story’s main characters are employees of a Nationalist candidate, Richard Tierney, although Joyce argues that Tierney’s party has lost its integrity in the decade since Parnell’s death.
Nationalism Quotes in Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The Ivy Day in the Committee Room quotes below are all either spoken by Nationalism or refer to Nationalism. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Ivy Day in the Committee Room
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MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
ROYAL EXCHANGE WARD
Mr Richard J. Tierney, P.L.G., respectfully solicits the favour of your vote and influence at the coming election in the Royal Exchange Ward.
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The working-man, said Mr Hynes, gets all kicks and no halfpence. But it’s labour produces everything. The working-man is not looking for fat jobs for his sons and nephews and cousins. The working-man is not going to drag the honour of Dublin through the mud to please a German monarch.
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Musha, God be with them times! said the old man. There was some life in it then.
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—But after all now, said Mr Lyons argumentatively, King Edward’s life, you know, is not the very…
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—What I mean, said Mr. Lyons, is we have our ideals. Why, now, would we welcome a man like that? Do you think now after what he did Parnell was a fit man to lead us? And why, then, would we do it for Edward the Seventh?
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O, Erin mourn with grief and woe
For he lies dead whom the fell gang
Of modern hypocrites laid low.
He lies slain by the coward hounds
He raised to glory from the mire […]
Shame on the coward caitiff hands
That smote their Lord or with a kiss
Betrayed him to the rabble-rout
Of fawning-priests—no friends of his.
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Nationalism Term Timeline in Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The timeline below shows where the term Nationalism appears in Ivy Day in the Committee Room. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
Old Jack stokes a weak fire in the Committee Room, the headquarters for the Irish Nationalist party. Next to the fire, Mat O’Connor, a young, pimply-faced, prematurely grey-haired man is rolling...
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...visit, which he characterizes as “kowtowing to a foreign king.” O’Connor insists that Tierney, a Nationalist, won’t vote for this, but Hynes doesn’t believe it, noting that the candidate’s nickname is...
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