It gives one a sense of the endless, rhythmic waves of Kurdish struggles for nationhood. |
But modern nationhood is a complicated business, so you'd expect anomalies. |
Attitudes like that show a distinct lack of maturity when it comes to nationhood. |
To those who lionise him, he is a clear-eyed defender of faith and nationhood, a speaker of truth in a time of deceivers. |
His study of representative contemporary types in Irishmen all purveyed an inclusive notion of Irish nationhood. |
What has made him invulnerable as patron saint, however, is his saltire symbol on our flag, the sign of our nationhood. |