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“... Irish. This resembles a disreputable recent claim for cricket as the test of British identity. Pittock’s book, The Invention of Scotland, is also the product of academic study in literature. It suffers from concentration on a particular theme as the key to Scottish identity. Jacobitism, it is claimed, provided the myth by which national identity was ...”

“... of course, is what effect those events had (or might have had) on such later developments. As Murray Pittock has pointed out in The Myth of the Jacobite Clans, as the title suggests a combative study, there was a much stronger Lowland and Episcopalian presence in the Rising than the Unionist tradition allows. This alone does not make the Jacobites ...”

“... there has been work of major significance in the past decade by, for example, William Donaldson, Murray Pittock, Robert Crawford and Andrew Noble. More general studies of emergent nationalism must be relevant to Burns. For while he may not have been a consistent Jacobite or even what in British terms passed for a Jacobin, his attitude to Scotland surely ...”

“... Ulster radicals who wrote about Tipu Sultan of Mysore when he resisted British rule in 1799, or Murray Pittock on Mangan’s ‘The Caramanian Exile’ (which draws parallels between the British and Ottoman empires), or James Quinn on the travel memoirs and historical writing of the militant nationalist John Mitchel after he was transported to ...”