How selective did Irish nationalists have to be to establish continuity with the national past?

PLAN
Introduction: what is the national past? What was the aim and beliefs of the Irish nationalists?
Discuss Hobsbawm’s, Inventing traditions
What was the Gaelic league? How did this effect the continuity of the national past?
What was the Easter rising? What was the Irish nationalist’s part in this, and how selective did they have to be to ensure continuity of the Irish past?
What do sources suggest? How the Irish past was reinvented?
How did people’s perspective of the Irish national past differ through the years? What was remembered selectively and what was easily forgotten to suit a certain set of beliefs at that time?
What rules, regulations, rituals, practises were used to ensure continuity of the national past?
Conclusion – What have we learned from sources regarding Irish Nationalism and the continuity? Compare evidence, and conclude.

I am going to discuss how selective Irish nationalists had to be to establish continuity. Firstly the Irish Nationalists are a broad group who assert the view that the rule of the London government was the damage of Irish tradition.
One very important factor is the invention of tradition, throughout this essay I will be discussing ways in which Irish nationalists used this to ensure certain parts of past history were remembered by inaccurate telling’s and how these traditions were passed down throughout generations, I will be looking at several sources and analysing ways in which Irish Nationalists were selective in order to get a bias representation on how they wanted the Irish public to view Ireland as a nation, Irish nationalists believed that the only way forward was a completely independent Ireland. From Hobsbawms inventing traditions we can see throughout this text how Irish Nationalists were