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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Thanks to Nancy McDonald for technical assistance. Joseph Lennon, Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press, 2004). For example, Simon James, in The Atlantic Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention? (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999), argues that the claim that the Irish and other peoples of the British Isles are Celtic is not based on archeological evidence but on the desires of nineteenth-century nationalists to claim an ancestry. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1993), 220–38. For a good anthropological analysis of Ireland in the early years of independence, see Conrad M. Arensberg, The Irish Countryman (London: Macmillan, 1937). Emmet J. Larkin, “The Devotional Revolution in Ireland, 1850–1875,” American Historical Review 77 (1972): 625–52. This phrase comes from the title of Thomas F. Inglis’ book, Moral Monopoly: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Modern Ireland (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 1998). Conor Cruise O’Brien, God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988). Ashutosh Varshney, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).